Dan Rich - San Jose
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DANIEL F. RICH


I am not currently seeking a different position, recruiters please do not call or send me e-mail at this time.

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Seeking a senior level position in systems architecture or systems engineering that will allow me to make full use of my skills in designing application and server infrastructures.
 
WORK EXPERIENCE
October, 2002 - Present
Senior Systems Administrator
PDI/Dreamworks
1800 Seaport Blvd
Redwood City, CA 94063
  • Senior member of the Systems Engineering staff
  • Senior Unix System Administrator
  • Network Administrator
  • Maintainer of infrastructure services such as LDAP, Sendmail, DNS, and Usenet
  • Architect of a Nagios and GroundWork OpenSource based monitoring system. This system was also integrated with Cacti for data collection, Smokeping for network latency testing, and Splunk for log analysis
  • Architect of new monitoring system to migrate the above to Zenoss
  • Lead architect and implementator for the deployment of HP's BTO monitoring suite of software; including OMi, NNMi, OM, SiteScope, and UCMDB.
  • Member of the implementation and support team for the studio-wide puppet configuration management system
  • Developer of various web-based tools for systems management, including a system inventory database and a system locator with dynamic floor maps
  • Backup architect, responsible for a (now retired) Legato Networker installation with 150TB of Network Appliance disk and 40 servers, using LTO2 tapes over a SAN
  • Lead maintainer and instructor of the new employee systems overview class
August, 1999 - October, 2002
Operations Architect
NUASIS Corporation
260 E. Gish Road
San Jose, CA 95112
  • Senior member of the Operations/IS staff
  • Operational infrastructure architect
  • Senior Unix System Administrator
  • Senior Network Administrator
  • Responsible for network and system security
  • Maintainer of infrastructure services such as LDAP, Sendmail, DNS, MRTG, and Usenet at both the corporate and production data center level
  • Architect of our data center and corporate networks and infrastructure systems, including the Cisco router and switch backbone, the DNS and mail services, and the Solaris systems
  • Chief architect of our fault-tolerant network, system, and database design for our 2nd generation data center roll-out
  • Developer of tools for installing, monitoring, and maintaining our production data center and corporate systems
April, 1996 - August, 1999
Technical Lead
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 W. Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
  • Technical Lead for the Information Systems Web Advanced Technology team
  • Architect, Technical Lead, and developer for Cisco's Internet web infrastructure rearchitecture project, including designing the systems architecture, designing the CVS repository structure and tools, implementing software engineering structure, and interfacing with the various development groups
  • Responsible for support and maintenance of Cisco's Secure Transport Architecture
  • Responsible for infrastructure design and support of the Internet and Intranet server environment
  • Involved in various web technology evaluation and pilot projects
  • Author of portions of Cisco's web infrastructure software, including CGI applications, software repository tools, and monitoring and maintenance scripts
January, 1995 - April, 1996
MTS Technical Marketing
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 95135
  • Technical Lead for the Silicon Graphics' World Wide Web server development team
  • Designed and implemented SurfZone user registration and authentication system
  • Designed and implemented electronic store, including multi-lingual support
  • Responsible for daily operations of the Netscape Communications and Commerce Server software
  • Author of the majority of scripts and software used in conjunction with the web server, including CGI and log processing
November, 1993 - January, 1995
System Support Engineer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 95135
  • Responsible for on-site support of hardware and software for customer systems
  • Primary responsibility was 350 Silicon Graphics systems of varying models at NASA Lewis Research Center
June, 1992 - November, 1993
Sr. Systems Engineer
RMS Technologies, Inc.
NASA Lewis Research Center
21000 Brookpark Road, MS 142-4
Cleveland, Ohio 44135
  • Member of the distributed file server team, responsible for five DEC servers, three Suns, and one IBM
  • Involved in the design and implementation of NASA Lewis' mass storage solutions
  • Senior member of the Unix desktop computing team
  • Principle engineer in moving NASA Lewis from Cnews to inn and in maintaining a common news reader configuration
  • Responsible for consolidation and management of floating software licenses
  • Maintainer of GNU software on the SGI platform
  • Member of the central Unix information service team tasked with evaluating and installing gopher, wais, WWW, and CSO
August, 1989 - June, 1992
Unix Systems Administrator
Dialogic Corporation
300 Littleton Road
Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
  • Install and maintain a network of Unix System V/386 and Sun 3 computers, including hardware and software maintenance
  • Install and maintain connectivity between Dialogic's New Jersey and New Zealand offices over modems and X.25
  • Write all Unix scripts needed by the Device Driver group for both production and internal use
  • Research, define, and implement an install process for all DOS, Unix, and OS/2 software packages
  • Install and maintain Unix e-mail systems, and interface with the existing DOS e-mail system
  • Install and maintain Unix Usenet news software
  • Define and supervise software release procedures
  • Research and install software archive system
January, 1988 - May, 1989
Research Assistant
Department of Chemistry
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
  • Develop software for experimental equipment as the need arises
  • Adapt existing software to fit laboratory needs
  • Install and maintain computer equipment and interfaces
 
COMPUTER BACKGROUND
Programming Languages
Perl Python PHP JavaScript
Awk LISP C++ C
Bourne shell Misc. Assembler    
Hardware Systems
Sun SGI
PC (Intel/AMD) Macintosh
Cisco Routers and Switches Foundry Routers and Switches
Operating Systems
Solaris 2.x SunOS 4.x IRIX 4.x, 5.x, 6.x Linux
UNIX System V VMS Windows NT/XP/7 OSX
Cisco IOS
Network Protocols
HTTP SMTP SNTP NNTP
DNS NFS NTP FTP
WMI      
Infrastructure Applications
LDAP Sendmail Web Servers Splunk
Nagios Cacti Smokeping Ganglia
NeDi HP BTO Suite    
 
EDUCATION
January, 1988 - August, 1989
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Computer Science Graduate Student
Data Communications Concentration
Work towards Master of Science
August, 1985 - December, 1987
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Computer Science Major
Microcomputer Systems Specialization
Received Bachelor of Science; December, 1987
August, 1983 - May, 1985
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Major
 
Additional Training
  • HP BTO training in OM, NNMi, UCMDB, BSM, SiteScope, and Service Manager
  • UCSC Extension's Project Management and Project Leadership
  • Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Various USENIX tutorials
 
AWARDS AND SOCIETIES
  Vice President of the LOPSA Board of Directors
Cisco IS Outstanding Team Award
Eagle Scout
USENIX / LISA
LOPSA
Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity
 
REFERENCES
  Available on request
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