My Resume

Commencing in 2002 as a UNIX (Linux, Solaris, AIX) Administrator with a secondary role as the Security Point of Contact for the Newcastle UNIX
support team. My role in both the Australian and Global UNIX Security teams lead onto software development work on the in-house Security Audi
ting Tool.

The Security Auditing Tool is a Policy driven UNIX Security Auditing/Correction and Reporting system developed in perl and fully supported on:

• Linux
• AIX
• HP-UX
• Sun Solaris
• SCO OpenServer
• Compaq Tru64

Harden incorporates a client side system for each of the above UNIX variants and a server based component (also developed in Perl) to provide
web based reporting and exemptions of security policy breaches across a global environment of UNIX servers.

Development and support of Harden has been the primary focus of my position for the majority of my time with CSC. This role also included larg
e contributions to the Patch Tracking Tool and Auto Deployment tool projects that the CSC Global UNIX ADE team were also undertaking at the ti
me.

Other Milestones:

• Consulting to various organisations on Active Directory/UNIX Integration using LDAP.
• Migration of a 40 server web environment between data centres with zero downtime.

This position was created to assess new technologies and their application to the aging character terminal software currently being develop
ed and supported by the company.

A focus on web based technology was adopted and I was responsible for the development of web based front ends to this software, including a
purchasing approvals and invoice variation approval system, using Progress WebSpeed, HTML and JavaScript.

The role of network/unix administrator is responsible for the maintenance, day-to-day management and problem solving on unix (SCO OpenServe
r, Solaris, Linux) servers on approx 25 client sites along with database administration duties for the Progress RDBMS databases running on the
se servers. Management and maintenance of the local area and wide area network used to connect most of our clients to us for support and inte
rnet access.

Some of my major achievements include:

• Development of a Web front end to an aging software product.
• Development of a Document scanning system to reduce paper flow within our clients operations.
• Unix and database support for multiple clients runing 24 hour /7 day mining operations.
• Development of custom backup solutions under both SCO OpenServer and Solaris operating systems.
• Proactively putting together a disaster recovery solution to offer clients fast turn around during hardware or software failures, success
  fully applied twice during my employment.
• Continual improvement of the software release procedures used to deliver updates to clients, resulting in faster and more reliable softwar
  e updates.
• Implementation of a more secure environment by better applying continual security auditing practices to the network, both internal and ext
  ernal.
• Development of a set of network reporting utilities to assist the better management of the networks supported.
• Achieving less downtime for both internal and clients internet services by implementing monitoring systems and more stable operating envir
  onments.

During this time I performed unix/network administration for multiple Internet Service Providers in the Newcastle Area. All of these ISPs hav
e now either closed or purchased by larger organisations.

These Included:

• NRU Internet
• Aljan.Net (1 year full time contract)
• BMR.NET Internet Services
• AFS/Enterprise Internet
• Ourimbah Village Computers Internet

My duties for these clients included: 24 hour support of all services, configuration and administration of various networking hardware (Ci
sco - Access Servers, WAN routers, Ascend Routers, various HP hardware), Linux and BSD servers running on i386 hardware.

Planning and performing service outages for upgrades and maintenance with minimal interruption to the services provided to customers.

Software development for an custom built user/account management system for Aljan.Net, written in Perl and using PostgreSQL database.

Services maintained included: TACACS, Radius, Sendmail, Apache, BIND, various FTP servers, various POP and IMAP servers.

An emphasis on security was required, due to the mostly open nature of the networks that an ISP must run.

Hardware Repairs, Software Installations and some sales work in a consumer focused computer store.

Management of inventory stock and quality control procedures, along with the training and management of technical staff.