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 (name services), routed (routing), Nagios (network monitoring), NDOUtils (Nagios and mysql), NRPE (Nagios component), mon (network monitoring), Apache, Tina (Atempo backups), Backup Exec (Veritas backups), TSM (Tivoli backups), Samba (workgroup and domain), sshd (encrypted telnet), Wuftpd and Ncftpd (FTP servers), NFS (Network File System), Sendmail (mail transport agent), Mailman (mailing list manager), SquirrelMail (webmail client), Courier (mail delivery agent), Postfix (mail transport agent), Procmail (mail filtering), Mysql (SQL server), NTP, NIS, NIS+, lpd and CUPS (printing), syslogd (logging/remote logging), Linux LVM, slapd (LDAP), Hylafax (fax bridging), Linux RAID, ipaudit (connection based traffic monitoring), SSL (Secure Socket Layer), 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.

About Shopwiki: Shopwiki.com is a competitive shopping search engine with 130 Linux and OS X servers housed in collocation facilities. I am their first system administrator.

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

About CSHL ITD: CSHL ITD is responsible for 850 pieces of server class equipment including 200 custom servers, 4 computational clusters, across 3 partially redundant locations connected with dark fiber

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

About Shared Services and Scientific Computing: Shared Services is responsible for over 1000 Linux and Unix servers and workstations, from standard Red Hat Linux workstations to clusters and embedded control systems

9/00-8/02 SUNY Farmingdale, Continuing Education;

Continuing Education, Lupton Hall, SUNY Farmingdale, Route 110

Duties include: Teaching and designing curriculum for Intro to Secure Linux Administration, and teaching and designing curriculum for Intro to UNIX

About Continuing Education: Continuing education provides accessible expert training in many subjects from AS400 to Cisco certifications

6/00-2/01 Taos Mountain Inc, New York Office;

405 Lexington Avenue, 63rd Floor, New York NY 10174

Duties include: Consulting in the areas of Network and System Administration, deployed a php front end for DNS and upgraded live DNS server cross platform to bind version 8, maintained in a Mysql database, assisted with configuration of Cisco switches, routers, and vlans

About Taos: Taos Mountain provides premium consultants for a variety of administration positions

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

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

About LILUG:LILUG has over 350 members online with between 40 and 60 attending monthly meetings, in addition it also hosts the LILUG Development Special Interest Group and the LILUG Security and Infrastructure Special Interest 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

EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Planning to work toward my bachelor's degree in computer science and my master's in business administration relating to information technology