Resume for Allan R. Books

Allan R. Books
3336 Bahama Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32311
(904)878-0493 Evenings EST
(904)921-0729 Daytime
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Objective
Seeking a position as a Unix System Administrator and/or an Intrusion Detection Analyst. While I have extensive WAN experience I am not interested in a position as a WAN engineer. Currently I am interested in positions in the southeast. Particularly Tallahassee, the Research Triangle in North Carolina, and Atlanta. I would not rule out an international position. I am not interested in a position in California or the northeast.

Experienced with System Administration and security on the following operating systems
- Sun Solaris 2.X, in particular clustering and the E10000 (Starfire)
- SunOS 4.1.X
- AIX
- Linux, Redhat and Suse.
- OSF-1/DEC Unix on the DEC Alpha
- DEC Ultrix on DECstations
Experienced with MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, inluding Windows 95
Experienced with ACE SecureID cards

Networking

Experienced with the following:
- Cisco Routers, everything from 2500 line to the AS5200 access servers to the 7000 series in a WAN environment
- OSPF/RIP routing protocols, in addition I have experience with policy based routing, all running on the Florida WAN
- Firewalls, specifically packet filtering firewalls based on Cisco routers
- TCP/IP networking on all listed platforms, including Multinet for VMS and several TCP/IP packages for MS-DOS/Windows 3.1X
- DECnet
- SLIP/PPP for Internet access over phone lines
- All aspects of the Internet, including SMTP/POP/IMAP, UseNet news, list servers, and the World Wide Web
- Setting up and managing web servers
- Unix security, including TCP wrappers, SSH, Satan, Tripwire, COPS, SYN attacks, and denial of service attacks among others
- Resonate Central Dispatch
Experienced with the Shadow Intrusion Detection software
Some experience with Novell and Windows NT networking
Some experience with Resonate Commander

Programming Languages

Experienced with the following languages:
- C under Unix, VMS, and MS-DOS operating systems
- Assembly under MS-DOS
- Java for both WWW interfaces and direct interfaces
- HTML for use on the World Wide Web
- Perl for various system administration functions
- TCL/TK/Scotty scripting implementing X interfaces and SNMP router control
- Unix shell scripting in csh/tcsh/sh/bash
- Clipper (A D-Base III compiler) under MS-DOS and multi-user Novell
Limited programming in Fortran, C++, and SmallTalk

Specific Programming Areas

Experienced with the following:
- Software design and implementation of data acquisition systems under MS-DOS
- X11 programming
- TCP-IP/UDP programming under Unix, VMS, and MS-DOS using C, Java, Assembly, and TCL/Scotty
- SNMP programming using TCL/Scotty

Specific Experience

State of Florida, DivCom, Unix Group November 1998-Present

Responsible for all System Administration functions for the State of Florida's main web servers and Oracle servers. This includes backing up with Legato and using Veritas to implement RAID. The Unix servers maintained are largely Sun equipment, with about 50 servers including 3 domains in an E10000 and a few Linux servers. Setup Resonate Commander for use on 3 clusters of machines.
Also personally responsible for the main sendmail based e-mail server and running two Real G2 servers, one on Solaris, one on Linux.

Hayes Computer Systems, Subcontracted to Florida Dept. of Management Systems, Division of Communications, Data Network Engineering and Development group October 1995-November 1998

Responsible for implementation of Florida's Router Transport Dial Access Program, including System Administration of multiple Solaris and Linux machines. Also responsible for managing Cisco dial servers (AS-5200's) using SNMP, Tacacs, and ACE SecurID cards.
Responsible for managing Cisco Routers connected to the Tallahassee MAN. Also responsible for managing Cisco Routers which implement the State of Florida's WAN using SNMP and direct logins.
Responsible for a mail server used by approximately 5000 customers
Set up Florida's main DNS servers running bind 8.1.1.

Apogee Systems Inc., Tallahassee, FL September 1994-September 1995

Installation of Solaris/SunOS operating systems at the customer's site.
Phone support for Solaris and SunOS
Creation and maintenance of World Wide Web homepages and a Web Server
Implementation and maintenance of the in house network and the PPP link
Creation and maintenance of Fail-Over software allowing transfer of jobs from a failed Solaris machine to a peer

FSU Nuclear Research Group, Tallahassee, FL May 1991 - September 1994

System Administration of OSF-1, Ultrix, VMS, and Linux operating systems
Creation and Maintenance of data acquisition system software, which included and MS-DOS based C/Assembly program for taking data, a TCP/IP connection to a VMS machine for on-line display of the data, and an X11 based control programming
Creation and Maintenance of a large variety of support programs using C and Fortran
Initiated and implemented the Nuclear Research Group's changover to networked PC's using Windows and Linux

Sage Computing Inc., Tallahassee, FL June 1990 - May 1991

Founder, President, Programmer and Support Staff
Programmed Clipper predominantly, including multi-user support for Novell
Maintained Novell Systems for several Tallahassee based companies and Florida agencies

Up and Running Computers, Tallahassee, FL May 1989 - June 1990

Installed and maintained Novell networks
PC repair technician, dealing with both hardware and software problems

U.S. Navy, primarily stationed aboard the USS America April 1983 - April 1989

Attained rank of Data Systems Technician, Second Class (E-5)
SBI security investigation
Programmer for the Operational Electronics Division

Education

Sun training

E10000 training (ES-400A), August 2001
Sun Clustering (ES-330), 1999

Digital Equipment Corporation

Ultrix School, 1992
VMS school aboard the USS America, November 1988

US Navy

Data Systems Technician "A" School, September 1983 - February 1984
Naval Intelligence Processing System "C" school, March 1984 - March 1985

Florida State University

Attended Florida State University from 1991 to 1993 with a major of interdisciplinary computer science-physics, did not complete degree because of work conflicts

Salary requirements For permanent positions in the Tallahassee area my minimum salary would be in the $60K range. In North Carolina or Atlanta it would start at $70K. A contract position or position for a company that would require significant travel would increase this by $10K. The salary is negotiable but decreases are going to require benefits significantly above normal or an exceedingly interesting position.

Hobbies

Large format photography (4x5) including developing and printing
Listening to Jazz, Rock, and occasionally classical music with my cats
Playing role playing games (D&D type) with my friends
Cooking, although I am still an amateur

References

References are available for all civilian employment. U.S. Navy final evaluation and good conduct discharge available.