MATTHEW A. NEWHALL
(516) 987-9410
1750 Yale Court
Wantagh, New York 11793
M.A.Newhall@Warcloud.Net


OCCUPATIONAL GOALS:

Developing and deploying sustainable integrated customizable systems
Expand my personnel management, database administration, and development skills

RELATED SKILLS:

Interpersonal skills; Experience and skill as team leader, designing work flow, supervisory duties, training, creating documentation, diagnosing problems through user interaction
Linux systems; All systems, with a focus on Red Hat, Fedora core, and Debian based systems
Unix systems; OS X server 4, Solaris 5.6-5.10, FreeBSD
Networking; firewall, scanning, SNMP, Ethernet, wireless, NAT, routing, etherchannel, fiber D3, Cisco products, etc...
Unix/Linux services; DNS, routed, Nagios, NDOUtils, NRPE, mon, Apache, Tina(Atempo backups), Backup Exec(Veritas backups), TSM(Tivoli backups), Samba, sshd, Wuftpd and Ncftpd, NFS, Sendmail, Mailman, SquirrelMail, Courier, Postfix, Procmail, Mysql, NTP, NIS, NIS+, lpd and CUPS, syslogd, Linux LVM, slapd, Hylafax, Linux RAID, ipaudit SSL, Package management (rpm, dpkg, pkg, apt, yum, RHN), etc...
Windows; Active Directory, IIS, AD DNS, AD DHCP, Windows 2000 clusters, user management, Windows 2003, Win 2000, Win NT, MS Office, Novel Netware 3 and 4
Hardware; SCSI, SATA arrays, SMART, SAN, Extensive knowledge of PC repair, IBM bladecenters
Scripting/Code; C, PERL, Borne shell, C++, HTML, CSS, Ruby

EMPLOYMENT:

5/07-present Shopwiki Corp;
Shopwiki Corp, 40 W 20th St., 6th Floor New York, NY 10011
Duties include: System Administrator; software installation scripting, configure system monitoring, software maintenance, hardware maintenance
Projects:
Designed and implemented system to generate dynamic Nagios configuration based on wiki data; Written in BASH and Ruby.
Designed and wrote scheduled backup system using wiki variables and encrypted connections; Written in BASH.
Created script to generate dynamic computer use based email notifications from wiki data; Written in BASH.

1/03-5/07 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Information Technology Department;
Information Technology CSHL, 1 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor NY, 11724
Duties include: System Administrator Manager; Backup Administrator; System Administrator; managing personnel and duties of server group, administering all backup systems, administering monitoring and beeper alert systems, Linux and Unix system administrator duties
Accomplishments:
7/06-System Administration Manager
2/06-Server Group Team Leader
7/05-Supervisor, Tape Operator; Designing workflow for and supervising tape operator, Architect unified tape system (IBM 3584, Tivoli Storage Manager)
1/04-System Administrator; Initial setup and population of server class information directory, architecture and configuration of Nagios monitoring system, reorganizing and administering backup exec 8.6 one year past supportable lifespan
1/03-Jr System Administrator; Reserve admin for Windows, Linux, and Solaris Servers, performing all changes to DNS, DHCP, and user logins, administering Time Navigator

4/01-12/02 Siemens Business Services at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Scientific Computing;
Information Technology Division, Building 515, Upton NY 11973-5000
Duties include: Site wide administration and support for Linux and Solaris servers including campus web, email, ftp and print servers, Linux workstation maintenance and support, security configuration, department Redhat and Debian Linux expert, after hours support, and customer service

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

2/99-present President and founder of LILUG (NYS sec 402 not-for-profit), the Long Island Linux Users Group

TRAINING:

Cisco Academy CCNA Curriculum
SANS Track 6: Securing Unix Systems

EDUCATION:

9/96-5/99 SUNY Farmingdale
Received A.S. in Computer Science in fall of 1999