W. Earl Allen
(303) 410-9468
[wea@allmax.com]
Experience Summary
Network Engineer, Systems
Administrator, and IT Manager, with over 20 years of SysAdmin and IT management
experience.
Hardware/Software/ Protocol Experience
NOS: Solaris 8,9,10; AIX 5.2, 5.3; Macintosh OS 9, 10.x;
Red Hat Enterprise 3,4 (Centos 4.x); SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10;
Mandriva/Mandrake 9, 10 (2006.x); Windows Server NT, 2000, 2003 (AD); Citrix
MetaFrame; MS Office
IP Network Infrastructure:
DNS (ISC BIND, DHCP), OpenLDAP, NTP,
NIS, NFS, Samba, rsync, SSH, Ethereal
Grid/Clustering: Sun Grid Engine 6
Security: IP filter firewalls (ferm, Shorewall)-NAT; Cisco PIX 6/
VPN/ TCP-IP/ SSH
Routers/Switches: Cisco Catalyst 5000 and 1900; Netgear; Dlink
Message Collaboration: Bynari Insight Server 4.x, Postfix, Cyrus IMAP,
Remedy, Jabber, MS Outlook, MS Word
Databases: MySQL 4,5, Postgresql 7,8, Oracle 8,9, MS Excel
Web Server: IIS5, Apache 1.3, 2.x, Zope
Scripting: csh, bash, ksh, Perl, Python, tcsh, Ruby
Backup: Symantec (Veritas) Netbackup; Tivoli (ADSM)
Education: M.A.
English Lit., Andrews University, 1979/ B.A. English Lit., Pacific Union
College, 1975
Employment Experience
TEKsystems/Sun
Microsystems, Broomfield Colorado [April 2007-Present]
Solaris
Systems Administrator, x64 Hardware Support
Summary: Administer Solaris
10, Remote support for entire range of Sun x64 computers running Solaris 10,
RHEL 4, and SLES9
- Installed and administered Solaris 10 on Sparc
Ultra 10, including zfs filesystem, containers and zones
- Advised Sun customers regarding hardware issues
on all of Sun's x64 computers, including BIOS upgrades, hardware
diagnostics, ILOM and ALOM remote management, and OS issues for Sol10,
RHEL and SLES
- As part of a team stretching across the country,
supervised cases and their resolution through Radiance and IBIS.
CDI/IBM/Xcel
Energy, Golden Colorado [November 2006-March 2007]
Unix
Systems Administrator
Summary: Administered Solaris
9 and 10, SuSE Linux Enterprise System 9, and AIX 5.x, servers in an extreme
High Availability environment using Remedy as the change-management tool and a
16TB IBM SAN for storage
- Installed and implemented network install server
for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- Built, tested, and implemented three large SLES
9/Oracle servers with IBM SAN storage
- As part of a team that included members in India,
helped administer ~150 servers for a public utility requiring 24/7
availability
Everest
College, Thornton Colorado [October 2006-Present]
Adjunct
Instructor
Summary: Teach classes in
Networking Fundamentals, Windows 2003 Server and Infrastructure, American
Literature, and English Composition
- Used innovative teaching methods like games to
engage and educate
- Incorporated computers and the Internet in
teaching both literature and composition
Cornice,
Inc., Longmont Colorado [September 2003-August 2006]
IT
Manager, Engineering IT Manager
Summary: Managed entire IT
infrastructure and three colleagues, responsible for network, OS, and hardware
for entire organization
- Installed and implemented Sun Grid Engine 6 on 12
CentOS 4.2 computers for ASIC simulation
- Installed and implemented Bynari Insight Server
Email/Collaboration server
- Installed and implemented Cisco PIX 6.x
firewall/VPN
- Installed and implemented dozens of RHEL 4,
Centos 4, Mandriva 9,10 servers and desktops
- Designed, installed and managed IT infrastructure
for factory in China using open source tools
- Responsible for secure WAN communications with
factory and office in China using VPN/SSH
DeVry University,
Denver, Colorado [July 2003-October 2003]
Summary: College level
instruction in Network and Web architecture
- Taught intermediate college classes
in Networking Connectivity and Web Architecture
- Prepared, tested, and administered
lab exercises using Red Hat Linux 8.0-9.0, Apache 2.0.47, MySQL 4.0.14,
PHP 4.3.2, Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0, Zope 2.6.1, and Squishdot 1.5.0
- Created PowerPoint presentations,
lesson plans, quizzes, tests, and projects
OAO Services, IBM Plant, Boulder, Colorado [April 2002-March 2003]
AIX
Systems Administrator
Summary: Team management of
all services on numerous AIX systems
- As part of a team, administered over
400 AIX boxes at the Printing Systems Division of IBM
- Created complete installation system for OpenSSH
on pristine AIX; modified insecure rsh administration system to use
OpenSSH
- Used Tivoli Storage Manager administration tools
to help back up about 100 AIX boxes at IBM PSD
- Aided in migration of AIX systems from Token Ring
to Ethernet networking at IBM PSD
TEKsystems, Lakewood,
Colorado [June 1998-October 2001]
Summary: Systems and Network
Engineer for large bureaucracy
- Wrote specifications for procurement of NAS
servers and standard Windows desktops, notebooks, and servers for large
bureaucratic computer buy
- Compiled on AIX 4.3.3, installed, tested, and
deployed Zope 2.x as a searchable front end to a Technical Reference Model
and a large set of Information Bulletins in HTML format
- Installed, tested, and deployed Citrix MetaFrame
1.8 on Windows 2000 Server as a front end to an Oracle 8.1.7 client-server
procurement system used nationwide over WAN
- Installed, tested, and deployed IBM HTTPServer
powered by Apache at national website of large bureaucracy
- Compiled, installed, tested, and created ksh
scripts for tarfile installation deployment of Samba 2.07 on AIX 4.3.3 in
Windows NT 4.0 environment. Also compiled, installed, tested and deployed
Samba 2.2.1a for heterogeneous test lab environment.
- Wrote the Platform chapter of the Information
Technology Architecture's Technical Reference Model for a large
bureaucracy
- Installed and administered a large Informix 7.x
GIS database hosted on AIX 4.2.1
- Installed complete NIS system across multiple
subnetwork boundaries
- Updated DNS to BIND 8.2.1, compiled with GCC
2.95; wrote install scripts to update both AIX 4.2.1 and 4.3.2
- Installed and tested 3000+ feet of Category 5 UTP
cabling and patchbays
- Cleaned up complex user privileges on diverse
computers without the aid of NIS
- Helped implement complex 3-domain DNS system
Scitex America Corporation, Denver, Colorado [May 1993-February 1998]
Remote
Support Specialist
Summary: Telephone support
for high-end color prepress system based on AIX
- Solved production-stopping problems in
networking, hardware and software for customers all over the Western
hemisphere in highend color prepress environments
- Wrote, edited, compiled and published electronic
documentation and software for integrating Windows into highend-color
prepress
- Assembled, installed and integrated 12 node
10BaseT/10Base2 network
- Assembled, installed and integrated RS/6000,
Macintosh and IBM PS/2 and PC Compatible hardware and software with
emphasis on SCSI troubleshooting and integration
Altsys Corporation, Plano, Texas [February 1988-January 1993]
Technical
Support Manager
Summary: Telephone support
for diverse software
- Solved font-related problems for worldwide
customers of Altsys Fontographer on both MacOS and Win 3.1
- Coached team of three phone support technicians
- Installed and administered 10Base2 and 10BaseT
network
Data Tailor, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas [March 1986-February 1988]
Technical
Support Manager
Summary: Telephone support
for cutting-edge Macintosh spreadsheet software
- Solved spreadsheet problems for customers of
Trapeze, the visual spreadsheet on MacOS
- Designed, wrote, edited, desktop published and
Linotyped manual for Trapeze
Computerized
Business Systems, Fort Worth, Texas
[May 1983-March 1986]
Summary: Wrote, debugged,
installed, and implemented accounting and database programs
- Designed, wrote, maintained and supported a wide
range of accounting and database programs written in AlphaBasic
- Assembled and troubleshot problems with PC Clones
Southwestern Adventist College, Keene, Texas [June 1980-May 1983]
Computer/English
Instructor
Summary: Designed and
implemented CIS curriculum
- Taught classes in Basic, Assembler, Database, and
Intro to Computing
- Taught ESL and Freshman Composition