Thinking about finding a job in the Pacific North-West (Like Seattle)

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If you know any good jobs up that way im qualified for please let me know!



Gregory N Tolar
gregntolar@gmail.com
(678)939-8403

Objective

To find a company where I can challenge my current skills and develop new ones in understanding, architecture, planning, and implementing large and complex systems of computing and networking.

Previous employment

• Secure Computing Corp (www.securecomputing.com) October 2006 - Current
Unix Security Product Engineer (FreeBSD/Redhat Linux)


• Ground up build of cluster hardware and services
• Install and Management of SAN Clariion
• Operational support and administration of global data center installations
• Operational and production builds for all research and development out of Atlanta
• Production Service image/jail creation and management globally


• Production Operating system and hardware certification
• Software certification and management of production images
• Training and lead of systems administrators
• Last point of all technical problems for any customer facing systems



• Google INC (www.google.com) August 2004 - October 2006
Operations Technician II (Quality Assurance) (Generic Linux)


• Deployment of High Availability Linux clusters in multiple locations


• Deployment of High Availability Networks in multiple locations
• Trouble Shooting of Hardware/Software/Network problems
• Handled Problems for many internal customers
• Handled high priority issues to resolution
• Employee training, Mentored new hires, Reviewed/wrote documentation
• Interviewing



• Super Computer Inc 2004
Contract for Game Server Cluster Deployment (Gentoo/FreeBSD)


• Migrated clustered blade servers from Atlanta to Virgina
• Deployed FreeBSD bridged firewalls
• Deployed official servers for Go Americas Army Operations



• GlobalHosting INC (now Needa.com) August 2002 - August 2004
Manager of technical services (RedHat Linux, FreeBSD)


• Developing growing infrastructure to handle new clients


• Redesigned all network and physical infrastructure to allow for redundancy
• Implemented back-up and recovery systems for critical data
• Managed all technical issues to resolve
• On call 24/7/365
• Developed and deployed gameservers.com infrastructure including
• Full back end deployment strategy for new clients
• Built web interface for management of accounts and services from scratch

Technical Skills

Server Level

• Operating Systems
  
• Linux
• Most familiar: Gentoo, Red Hat EL/AS
• Familiar: Legacy Red Hat > 7.0, Debian, Ubuntu
Advanced skills

• System trouble shooting
• Performance tuning


• Software fire walls
• File System ACL, Quota
• Clustering with shared hardware resources (IE: SAN attached disks)
• Kernel level configuration for 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels
• BSD
• Most familiar: FreeBSD 4.x, 6.x, 7.x
• familiar: OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, PCBSD
• Windows


• familiar: All major versions of Window's desktop OS
• MAC
• Most Familiar: OS-X (through 10.4)
• Familiar: OS-9 and below
• System Software
  
• Application Installation, Configuration, and Tweaking


• File Transfer Services: NFS, FTP, SSHFS, RSYNC, SAMBA
• System Services: SYSLOG, NTP, SENDMAIL, CUPS, CRON, DISTCC
• Database Services: MySQL, SYBASE, MSSQL
• External Services: APACHE, TOMCAT, SSH, BIND9, RBLDNSD, TINYDNS
• Monitoring Services: NAGIOS, CACTI, ACID/SNORT, NTOP, MRTG
• Firewall Services: IPTABLES, IPFW, PF

Networking

• Network Hardware
• Certified - Force10 Networks (E-Series, Tera-Scale)
• Moderate - Foundry Networks (Load balancers and Switches)
• Moderate - Juniper Networks (up to T-640 Series)
• Moderate - Cisco Switching (Standard Cisco IOS)
• Moderate - Net-Scaler Load Balancers
• Limited - F5 Load Balancers
• Limited - Adva (Wave devision Multiplexing)


• Network general
• 802.3 (Ethernet) and subset 802.3z (Gigabit Ethernet)
• OSI Model (Mostly layer 1-3)
• TCP/IP Model
• MTU, Jumbo Frames
• Short Distance Fiber Optics (~1450nm)
• Long Distance Fiber Optics (~1100nm)
• Optical circuits (T1 up to OC-192 Sonnet)


• CIDR Notation and conversion to 32bit subnet masking
• VLAN's layer 2 and 3
• Network Protocols
(Good Understanding)

• ARP, STP, ICMP, TCP/IP, SNMP, NAT, BRIDGING
• (open)VPN, DHCP, BOOTP, HSRP, VRRP
• IPHELPERS, IP RELAY AGENT

(Familiar Understanding)

• OSPF, BGP
• Network Layer(s) Diagnostic tools
• Standard Trace route (Unix and Windows), SNMPWALK
• MTR (My/Matt's Trace Route), SNORT, JFFNMS
• NMAP, TCPDUMP, WIRESHARK, ARPING, NC, TELNET, HPING2

Hardware Firewalls

• Netscreen (Juniper)
• SideWinder (7.0)

Programming/Scripting Languages

• Proficient: PHP, BASH (shell scripting)
• Intermediate: AWK, SED, PERL
• Basic: Java, C, Python

Data Centers

(Work ON-Site)

• Equinix - Ashburn VA
• UUNet (MCI WORLDCOM) - Atlanta GA
• Internap - Atlanta GA
• Level3 Communications - Atlanta GA
• Paix (Switch and Data) - Atlanta GA
• ITC Deltacom - Suwannee GA
• Savvis - Chicago IL


• Sungard - Atlanta GA
• Sungard - Alpharetta GA
• Sungard - Portland OR
• Sungard - Wood Dale IL
• NTT - San Jose CA
• PRIVATE - Atlanta, GA
• PRIVATE - Mountain View, CA
• PRIVATE - Portland, OR
• PRIVATE - Seattle, WA

(Work OFF-Site)

• Equinix - London, United Kingdom
• Equinix - Frankfort, Germany
• NTT - Hong Kong
• NTT - Tokyo

Personal Skills

• Oral/Written Communication


• Punctual
• Self Motivated
• Goal Oriented
• Team lead/member
• Able to work in unstructured environments
• Ability to manage projects in a multi-functional role

References available upon request