Brian Charles Hill
228 Diamond Street
San Francisco, CA 94114-2450
+1 415-577-3279
fax: +1 415-255-6493
bchill@bch.net


CLIENT REFERENCES:

IGT, Inc., San Francisco, CA - 2005/9 to present
  • Deployed centralized system management services for over 100 existing CentOS 4 & 5, and SunOS 5.8 systems (installed with kickstart), using CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4.
  • Integrated configuration for NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL, OpenLDAP, iptables, cvs, subversion, login shell environment, OS patches & updates, yum, mrepo, nagios, tomcat, Netbackup, and kickstart & jumpstart.
Panasonic Research, San Jose, CA - 2006/11 to present
  • Deployed centralized system management services for over 60 existing RHEL 3 & 4, and (installed with kickstart), using CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4.
  • Integrated configuration for NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL, OpenLDAP, iptables, cvs, subversion, login shell environment, OS patches & updates, yum, mrepo, nagios, tomcat, Legato Backup, and kickstart & jumpstart.
VMware, Inc , Palo Alto, CA - 2005/10 to 2006/05
  • Research, tested and proposed a deployment strategy for CFEengine in the engineering and QA groups on RHEL 3 and ESX 2 systems. Deployment included use of rsync, perl, ksh and m4.
  • Provided oversight and coordination for systems asset database project.
Rowe International, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI - 2004/3 to 2005/4
  • Deployed scalable, distributed system management services for 30 Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 (installed with kickstart), jboss, mysql, perl, java, apache and various connectors, cricket, and nagios.
  • Provided on-going system management using rdist, ksh, m4 perl, and above mentioned tools.
  • Architected Rowe software release process.
Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor, Zafman, LLP, Sunnyvale, CA - 2004/7 to present
  • Installed Red Hat Enterprise ES 3.0 on IBM 2 e-server 335 systems.
  • Revamped front-end mail system with spam/virus blocking infrastructure and MUA services using Sendmail (mta), real-time blacklists (via DNS in Sendmail), OpenSSL (encryption), mimedefang (milter), spamassassin (anti-spam), perl module File::Scan (anti-virus), an ClamAV (anti-virus), and Razor (anti-spam check-sum DB).
  • Setup 2 DNS servers for internal & external use with views plus TSIG keys to achieve correct zone transfer operation, coordinated necessary registrar and secondary DNS service provider changes.
  • Documentation and post-installation support also provided.
ZettaCom, Inc, Santa Clara, CA - 2004/2 to 2004/3
  • Revamped front-end mail system with spam/virus blocking infrastructure and MUA services using Sendmail (mta), real-time blacklists (via DNS in Sendmail), SASL (authenticaion), OpenSSL (encryption), Qpopper (POP MUA server), UW imapd (IAP MUA server), mimedefang (milter), spamassassin (anti-spam), perl module File::Scan (anti-virus), an ClamAV (anti-virus).
  • Documentation and post-installation support also provided.
Vircon, San Francisco, CA - 2004/1 to 2004/2
  • client: Restoration Hardware
  • Provided security consulting and hands-on services to recover from a substanitial breakin by hackers from Brazil.
  • Set up 6 new Linux Red Hat Enterprise ES 3.0, Apache with the ATG-Dynamo DSO module.
Zone Labs, Inc. (a Check Point company), San Francisco, CA - 2002/7
  • deploy scalable, distributed system management services
  • Sun Solaris Jumpstart configuration using customized procedures
  • On-going system management using rdist, ksh, m4 perl
CAT Technology, San Francisco, CA - 2002/1 to 2003/02 Neuropace, Sunnyvale, CA - 2001/7 to present
  • Complete system management of several x86 systems running SunOS 5.8 (Solaris 8)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve various prolems
  • Assist developers with integration issues concerning Covalent Apache and Jakarta Tomcat.
Tropian, Cupertino, CA - 2001/8 to 2002/02
  • Setup and on-going management of sendmail with LDAP lookups to backend MS Exchange system
  • Configure log management using BCH log management tools
  • Configure license manager FlexLM for use with. Matlab
  • Troubleshoot and resolve problem with Sony tape robot, Sun E450 and Legao backup software
Verisign, Inc, Mountain View, CA - 1996/9 to present
  • Complete sendmail v8 configuration including special handling for aliases on firewall.
  • Short term system Unix system management services.
Rioport, San Jose, CA - 2000/7 to 2000/8
  • Complete sendmail v8 configuration for several systems
  • Build and integrate GNU GCC, Apache, Jakarta Ant and Jakarta Tomcat
FairAir, San Francisco, CA - 2000/5 to 2000/7
  • Complete system management of several Sun Sparc systems running SunOS 5.8 (Solaris 8)
  • Configure initial Oracle 8i Databases
Scient, San Francisco, CA - 2000/4 to 2000/5
  • Configure jumpstart to assist with installation and configuration of several and Sun UE-class and Netra-class systems
  • Assistance with installation of Weblogic software across multiple systems
  • Configuration of several Vertias disk volumes
Upshot, Mountain View, CA - 1999/7 to 1999/8
  • Install/Configure Sun A1000 RAID disk storage device
  • Configure Veritas Mirrored Volume
AVCOM, San Francisco, CA - 1999/7 to 1999/8
  • client: Phoenix Pop, San Francisco, CA
  • Configure Veritas Volumes
  • client: Scient, San Francisco, CA
  • Install and Configure SunOS 5.6 on 14 Sun UE250 and Sun UE450 systems
LookSmart, Ltd, San Francisco, CA - 1998/1 - 1999/2
  • Complete system management of 50+ Sun UltraSPARC workstation/server systems
Integrated Geomatics, Davis, CA - 1996/10 - 1998/6
  • Complete system management of SunOS 5.5.1 on an Sun Ultra 1
  • Extensive equipment peripheral configuration on above system, including Tektronix Phaser (color printer), Apple Laserwriter, 2 cdrom drives, 2 DAT tape drives, 1 floppy drive, zip drive, 2 graphics cards (one 8-bit and one 24 bit, second SCSI card, UPS, 24 GB of external hard disk space and a 56Kbps modem.
  • Software and license configuration for a plethora of GIS applications including ERDAS, ENVI, ARC/INFO and more.
Ultraserv, San Jose, CA - 1997/5 - 1998/6 Bonsai Software, Inc., Emeryville, CA - 1998/4
  • Assisted in configuration specification for the purchase of a new Sun UltraSPARC Enterprise 450
Hayes Medical, Inc., Sacramento, CA - 1997/9
  • Configured virtual printers on AIX 3.2 and configure terminals and terminal types in Impact software package.
Bozeman-Legg, Davis, CA - 1997/1
  • Troubleshoot problem with external tape storage device on HP-UX 9.X
Netsource, San Francisco, CA - 1996/4 - 1997/2
  • Complete system SunOS 5.X (Solaris 2.X) installation, configuration, management & troubleshooting on several systems.
  • Install and extensively configure Radius RAS (remote authentication server).
Madge Networks, San Jose, CA - 1996/1
  • Troubleshoot routing problem with SCO Unix.
Lloyd Internetworking, Cameron Park, CA - 1993/10 to 1994/06
  • Contract with Lloyd to install and manage routers, UNIX servers, mail and DNS.
  • Provide post-installation support to Lloyd clients - DNS updates, troubleshooting, etc.
Northville Industries, Melville, NY - 1993/03 to 1994/06
  • Provide full Unix system and network services administration and design on nation-wide enterprise network mostly via modem with routine on-site work.
  • Provide system and application consulting and trouble-shooting to application programmers.
Paul Griffin, Winters, CA - 1990/6 - 1994/6
  • Extensive C programming to read very large data files and perform calculations.
Steve Greco, Davis, CA - 1991/6
  • Data extraction from tapes with a variety of formats.
Don McCubbin, San Diego, CA - 1991/6
  • Data extraction from tapes with a variety of formats.
Peter Moyle, Davis, CA - 1991/6
  • Configure Eudora for use with a modem.
  • Fix problem with corrupt Eudora mail folder on Windows 95

EMPLOYER REFERENCES:

LookSmart, Ltd, San Francisco, CA - 1999/3 - 2002/3
  • Complete system management of 150+ Sun UltraSPARC workstation/server systems
  • Various other activities concerning Looksmart products - HTML coding, perl scripting.
Sunday & Associates, Petaluma, CA - 1995/2 to 1998/2
  • clients: MDL Information Systems, San Leandro CA..
  • Full range of Unix System and TCP/IP network services configuration, management and troubleshooting provided to various contract
University of California, Davis, Campus Events and Visitor Services - 1998/1 to 1999/8
  • Emergency beeper-based management of several Unix systems.
University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management - 1995/12 to 1998/10
  • Small-scale Unix and Network services configuration, management and troubleshooting.
University of California, Davis, GIS Research Lab - 1996/4 to 1998/7
  • Small-scale Unix and Network services configuration, management and troubleshooting.
University of California, Davis, Institute of Governmental Affairs - 1996/5 to 1996/6
  • Emergency beeper-based management of several Unix systems.
University of California, Davis, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project - 1995/9 to 1996/3
  • Small-scale Unix and Network services configuration, management and troubleshooting.
University of California, Davis, Information Resources Department - 1987/10 to 1995/10
  • Unix/VMS/DOS/MAC consulting - provide programming, etc. help to staff, faculty and students.
  • Unix/VMS Instruction - routinely teach introductory and intermediate classes to students, staff and faculty with varying levels of ability.
  • Daily management and long term design of 45 Unix systems serving a 30,000 user community.
  • Manage campus sendmail hub, sendmail.cf's for many campus departments and DNS.
  • Large and small programming projects including `chfn' for VMS and a Unix command privilege utility that checks user privilege rights and allowed command *arguments* against a policy.
University of California, Davis, Computer Science Department - 1992/3 to 1993/10
  • Trouble shoot day-to-day problems in a 200 workstation, 5 OS and 500+ user system environment.
  • Provide end user support and consulting.
  • Long term system management programming and design - system utilities in C and ksh.