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• Nzone Media, Vancouver, B.C., October 2005 to November 2010
  
  
  Nzone Media, formerly Fiver Media and Riptown Media, is the support and development arm of the Bodog Entertainment Group (bodog.com). The global Linux environment consists of approximately 450 RHEL & Centos servers across six locations on three continents. There is an extensive focus on DNS, email and web services. Roughly half of the Linux installations are running in an Enterprise Vmware environment utilizing Virtual Center which, along with most of the remaining physical boxes, runs on HP Blade and 585/685 series hardware.
• • Linux Administrator, Technical Lead
  • • Technical Lead on a busy team ranging from 1 to 4 members, managing a geographically disperse environment of several hundred servers including large VMware Infrastructures, blades and enterprise servers
    • Primary maintainer of a complex, script assisted, manual DNS environment serving a number of internal and external views from over 4,000 zones files
    • Primarily responsible for the Linux side of our email systems, consisting of several spam firewall appliances as well as about 8 exim, postfix and sendmail servers
    • Create and maintain the majority of our shell scripted tasks such as a set of scripts to create a host/system/hardware specific, fully automated kickstart install (from dhcpd entry to post install tasks like bonnie), based on prompted user input
    • Team remotely maintains about 450 installs consisting mostly of RHEL and Centos with a few AIX, Solaris and Fedora systems
    • Overall team responsibilities include everything from file permissions to creating complex rewrite rules for hundreds of web sites hosted on several dozen Apache servers
      
      
• Open School BC (former div. of Open Learning Agency), Victoria, B.C., December 1999 to October 2005
  
  
  Open School BC is a Provincial Government agency providing on-line and print based courses to both public and private schools throughout British Columbia as well as individual students across Canada and abroad. The environment consisted of about a dozen servers running Sun Solaris and Red Hat.
• • Systems Analyst (Nov. 00 to October 2005)
  • • Planning, installation, administration and maintenance of WebCT online content delivery platform. Provide technical support to both staff and clients. These activities include course migration, technical assistance/advise, support of custom administration tools, and resolution of technical issues often involving working with other staff, client support staff and vendor technical staff. Several instances of the WebCT Server reside on four systems including both Solaris and Red Hat Linux environments.
    • Responsible for Red Hat Linux servers, including planning, installation, day-to-day maintenance etc. Services include WebCT, Apache, NFS, Samba (SMB), VMware test beds.
    • Provide advice and assistance with Linux issues including system/desktop support for several workstations.
    • Responsible for several Sun servers. Server based activities include monitoring system logs, software installations, and maintaining user accounts.
    • Research, analyze and develop recommendations for new technologies, often focusing on Linux integration.
  • LAN Analyst (Dec. 99 to Oct. 00)
  • • Part of a two person team providing local network support including Mac and NT server maintenance, backup, WAN links and assorted network hardware. Also, provide account maintenance support for Unix based email services.
    • Desktop/laptop support includes Mac, NT, Windows 98 and 2000 involving approximately 36 users.
      
      
• Tecnet Canada Inc., Victoria, B.C., May 1998 to December 1999
  
  
  Tecnet Canada provides support services primarily to various areas within the Provincial Government.
• • Technical Representative
  • • NT network & workstation support. Part of a two person team supporting 340 users over 15 LAN's. (BC Parks)
    • Team Lead in B.C. Assessment Project. Rollout new PC's, Pen-Computers, plotters, printers and hubs.
    • NT Workstation installation/configuration, Y2K testing and desktop standardization. (Min. of Health)
    • On site support (tier 2) for Win 95 and NT 4 workstations, network printing & connectivity. (M.C.F.)
    • Help Desk support for Win 3.11 & NT 4 workstations. (BCBC)
    • Upgrades and repairs to servers, PC's, laptops and printers. (on site & at depot)
    • Some other projects included building a Novell 3.12 server, installing OS/2 workstations, file repair on an OS/2 server, hardware repair on a Dell 6300 server, relocating a 24 node LAN and troubleshooting/modifying network cabling.
      
      
• The AMPS Group (Ampsconnect Internet Services and GR Tech College), Victoria, B.C., December 1997 to May 1998
  
  
  Tecnet Canada provides support services primarily to various areas within the Provincial Government.
• • Instructor, Advanced Computer Hardware (9 week course)
  • Teaching Assistant, Network Engineering (9 week course)
  • LAN and phone system expansion project including wiring closet restructuring.
  • Troubleshot and maintained LAN, phone system and modem pool.