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Nicolas Simonds
152 S. Sycamore Ave. Apt. #506
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: 651.208.1601
E-mail: resume @ submedia.net


Objective:

Employment in UNIX Systems Programming and/or Administration, preferably in an enterprise computing environment.

Summary:

Over ten years experience with setup and support of UNIX and UNIX-like systems, and over seven years experience with software design and development. Strengths include large installation system administration, revision control, release management and process automation.

System Administration:

Operating Systems:
RedHat Enterprise Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, SuSE Linux, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, Apple MacOS X, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Excellent ability to learn new System V or BSD-based operating systems, and a solid knowledge of UNIX at the administration level
Software products:
Apache, BIND, sendmail, Exim, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, CVS, Rational ClearCase, Subversion, Samba, netatalk, NIS/yp, NFS, Veritas LVM, FTP, rsync, DHCP, VNC, SSH, NTP, RT Request Tracker, Bugzilla, Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti, VMware, Xen
Technology/Vendors:
Network Appliance, Cisco, IBM, Sun, TCP/IP, terminal servers, layer-3 network switches, fibre channel, SAN, NAS, 802.11b/g wireless networking

Software Development:

Programming/scripting languages:
Perl, PHP, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, Tcl/Tk, Expect, sh, csh, sed, awk, AppleScript, JavaScript
Miscellaneous languages:
SQL, make, ant, HTML4, XHTML, CSS1, CSS2

Recent Employment History:

Ticketmaster Corporation
West Hollywood, California
Systems Administrator - Core Systems
June 2005 - February 2008

Linux systems administration of around 750 systems in 10 data centers worldwide, providing infrastructure support for inventory database servers with 99.999% availability requirements.

Constant Data, Inc.
Hopkins, Minnesota
Director of Information Services
November 2002 - May 2005

Systems administration, resource planning, software development, quality assurance, release management, technical support and webmaster for a small software company.

Tricord Systems, Inc.
Plymouth, Minnesota
Programmer - Software Integration
December 2000 - August 2002

Systems programming for Linux and Win32 platforms, release management, and systems administration of around 900 systems.

Bridge Information Systems, Inc.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Software Engineer
May 1999 - November 2000

Systems programming for Solaris and Win32 platforms, Technical support, and release management.

WAM!NET, Inc.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Systems Engineer
May 1997 - May 1999

IRIX systems administration on a wide-area network of over 2,000 systems.