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Jonathan Arehart
P. O. Box 3840, Austin, Texas 78764-3840, 512/565-6793, jonathan@arehart.net or arehartj@io.com
Desired Opportunity
- To work for a small to medium sized company which is involved with
and using open source [1]
and/or free software [2],
where I can learn new skills and technologies and face new challenges, and
that has an open working environment.
Work Experience
- November 3, 2008 - Present: Tier III Data Center Support for
Hostway Corporation [3].
One member of the team running two 24/7 data centers in Austin, Texas. Involved
in customer support via phone and ticket system, as well as server build,
configuration, and installation. Also responsible for installation,
configuration, and suport of firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers. Assist with
support and maintenance of internal systems, and help plan and carry out
infrastructure migrations for key customers. Hardware involved: Dell PowerEdge
servers, Cisco ASA series appliances, and Foundry, HP ProCurve, and Dell
PowerConnect switches. Software involved: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server
2008, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, OpenBSD,
iptables, pf, keepalived, Parallels Plesk, Apache, and MySQL.
- May 25, 2003 - July 27, 2007: Network and Systems
Administrator for International Studies Abroad (ISA) [4]. Duties involved administering and
supporting sixteen remote Linux servers around the world as well as thirteen
more and related network and SAN gear at ISA's headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Also, supported thirty-five or so local users and assisted with support of
users in overseas offices. Software involved is Windows XP and 2000 (in
English and Spanish), a replicated LDAP directory, IPsec VPNs, IMAP and
web-based email, and custom database driven websites on Apache.
- January 22, 2002 - November 15, 2002: Network and Systems
Engineer for Mach 10 Hosting. One of a team of two in charge of about 180
customer machines for Mach 10's hosting and co-location business. Duties
involved Intel-x86 based system builds and installs; network design, buildout,
and maintenance; e-mail and DNS setup and maintenance; Apache web server
configuration; custom software installation; MySQL database configuration; all
manner of troubleshooting software and hardware; and direct customer
support.
- October 2, 2000 - May 11, 2001: Test Technician for Dell
[5] in the
Linux Systems Group. Employed through Spherion [6] to test Red Hat
[7] Linux
[8] on Dell's PowerEdge server hardware.
Ran various system and stress tests on shipping hardware and software as well
as on pre-production hardware and pre-release software. Assisted other groups
within Dell with Linux questions and issues. Found and documented problems
and assisted engineers with development of solutions and/or workarounds.
Testing and other work covered Dell's complete server line - one to eight CPUs
and 128 MB to 64 GB of RAM on Intel IA-32 (x86) and IA-64 (Itanium)
architectures. Also covered were 3Com and Intel 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet
NICs in their fiber and copper varieties.
- June 1, 2000 - September 29, 2000: Network Systems
Administrator at Travis High School (Austin ISD) [9].
Responsibilities include maintaining the Netware 5 server and NDS tree;
maintaining Windows based workstations and network-delivered images of said
workstations (via Altiris' ImageBlaster product); maintaining the Linux based
firewall/router/web-cache server; and maintaining Ethernet network
infrastructure. Also add and modify software that is delivered to workstations
using Novell's Z.E.N.Works product. Work with an Apple engineer to develop a
desktop security, system restoration, and software delivery model for Travis'
Mac OS based machines.
- July 1999 - May 2003: Senior Network Analyst for Texas
Information Services (TxIS) [10]. Duties include
maintaining Linux based web, mail, ftp, and DNS servers; registering domains;
adding domains to said servers; doing customer support. Wrote curriculum for
and taught Linux firewall training class, and did client site support,
maintenance, and setup of Linux servers. Built, upgraded, and maintained Intel
and AMD based computers both for TxIS itself and for clients. Also configured
and maintained Cisco and Pipeline (T1 and ISDN) routers for Internet access
and for WAN/MAN connectivity. This varied over time from full time consulting
(originally) to occasional weekend work (currently).
- September 1996 - May 1999: Technology Assistant at Austin
High School (Austin ISD) [11].
Installed and maintained hardware, software
configurations, and networks. Assisted in administration of networks.
Responsible for training users and troubleshooting software, hardware, and
networks. Helped design Austin High's technology plan. Member Austin High
Technology Committee. Co-designer and former Webmaster of Austin High's web
site. Also wrote documentation for various tasks such as image scanning and
presentation setup.
- 1993 - September 2000: Self employed computer consultant.
Duties include setting up computers, software, networks, and peripherals;
modifying and establishing configurations; troubleshooting problems with
software, hardware, and networks; teaching/training in the use of systems once
set up or fixed; advising clients on software and hardware purchases; and
designing and maintaining web sites.
Skills
- Operating a variety of software packages including: Microsoft Office,
OpenOffice, the GIMP, Netscape, OmniWeb, Mozilla, Firefox, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Word Perfect, AutoCAD, Photoshop, GraphicConverter, PageMaker, e-mail
client software, file compression utilities, ftp, telnet, and ssh clients,
VMWare, Parallels Plesk, BBEdit, ClarisWorks (now AppleWorks), PageMill, and
HyperStudio.
- Repairing, installing, building, upgrading, and maintaining many kinds
of hardware such as: Macintosh systems and clones thereof, x86/x64-based PCs
(Intel, AMD, etc.), and Apple IIs.
- Installing, configuring, and maintaining operating systems
(environments) including: Linux (kernel versions 2.0.x - 2.6.x; distributions
such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, and Slackware), Mac OS
(versions 6 - 9), Mac OS X (10.3.x - 10.5.x), Mac OS X Server, MS-DOS, Windows
3.x, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT 4, Windows NT Terminal Server Edition, Citrix
MetaFrame, Windows 2000/XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, OpenStep,
and X-Windows.
- Using operating systems such as: Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, and
all those included above.
- Setting up and/or using network related hardware and software such as:
Apache, BIND (DNS), Samba, Netatalk, nfs, ntpd, dhcpd, sshd, rsync, ipchains,
iptables, OpenBSD pf, keepalived, tcpdump, Ethereal/Wireshark, MRTG, Squid,
BackupPC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FreeS/WAN, OpenLDAP, Analog, Webalizer, Wusage,
AWstats, Postfix, Sendmail, qmail, Cyrus IMAP, SquirrelMail, Ethernet hubs and
switches, modems, Cisco and Ascend (now Lucent) routers, Cisco ASA series
appliances, Novell Netware, LANtastic, entry level Hewlett Packard SAN gear,
and various TCP/IP implementations.
- Extensive experience with HTML and basic experience with CSS for the
creation and maintenance of web sites.
- Basic programming experience in C, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Bourne Shell, and
Python.
Education
- University of Texas at Austin [12],
Fall 1996 - Spring 1998
- Graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School [13],
Austin, Texas, May 1996
Activities
- Photography as a personal hobby [14], 2002 -
Present
- Periodic volunteer work for Equality Texas (then LGRL) [15], Summer 2003 - Fall 2004
- Volunteer technical support for CTTC Linux class, Fall 2000 and Summer
2001
- Volunteer for Out Youth Austin [16]: computer support
work and co-webmaster Summer 1996 - Fall 1997
- Volunteer for PFLAG/Austin: Webmaster, December 1996 - December 2003 [17]
Awards
- Out Youth Austin, Youth Volunteer of the Year, Fall 1996
- National Honor Society, inducted Spring 1995, member 1995 - 96
- National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Student, Fall 1994
- Japan - U.S. Senate Scholarship Recipient [18]
from Texas for Youth For Understanding [19] Exchange Program to
Japan, Summer 1995
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