ROBERT W. STARKEY
falcon@falconware.com
CRITICAL SKILLS
Unix and NT System Administrator with extensive large and high availablity site installation experience.
Experienced in the administration of most Internet related services, including
E-Mail, DNS, WWW, USENET, and FTP. Strong knowledge of network administration,
with extensive experience working with TCP/IP, IPX, ATM, Ethernet, Fast
Ethernet, FDDI, routing protocals suchs as BGP4, RIP(2), and OSPF, and a
variety of other network and network management protocols, topologies
and hardware.
Extensive knowlegde and experience with physical plant aspects of DataComm.
Extensive user support experience. Good programming skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NEXTRON COMMUNCATIONS INC.
Supervisor of Server and Network Operations, 10/97 to Present
Headed IS management in capacity planning, resource allocation, purchasing, and deployment of all server and network hardware and software enterprise wide.
Provided 24x7 on-call response for all server and network operations.
Designed, installed, and administered high traffic web servers using Apache and Netscape server software.
Designed, installed, and maintained a firewall using Checkpoint Firewall-1 and router based filter policies.
Provided backline desktop support to the helpdesk.
Performed regualr network and security security audits.
Designed, installed, and administered e-mail servers using Post.Office, sendmail, and WU's IMAP. Wrote custom scripts to deal with post.office shortcommings. Also acted as postmaster.
Installed and maintained a CVS server for the software production side of the
shop, as well as utililzing CVS for my own projects.
Installed and maintained multiple instances of Excite and MS Index Server
search engins.
Performed presales SE support aiding the sales and marketing divisions.
Developed and assisted in the development of a multipule web based system
administartion tools. These utilites simplelfied dealing with DNS
administation, site monitering, user administion and accounting, security,
mail adminitation, log cleanup, web site statistics, and bandwidth calculation,
just to name a few.
All of these utilites were written in Perl, and C, utilizing Oracle, Mysql, and
MSSQL in the backend for data access.
Performed Oracle, Mysql, and MSSQL DBA tasks, including installion and setup
of database servers and software, creation of databases, maintenace of
databases, and removel.
Also wrote custom scripts to automate the creation of instances and tablespace
management.
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Maintained all Internet connectivity mutipule DS3s and upstram providers. Installed second DS3 for redundance and
Acted as primary site contact for all network issues. Configured and installed a multi-homed roters connecting via DS3 to many different NSPs.
Bay Network jive. Switches, BLN2...
Maintained network, routers, BGP4, got ASN numbers from Arin, OSPF...
Ip allocation and DNS managemant.
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Devcom info here.
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SSL using verisign, stronghold, and netscape, cybercash.
Acted as primary contact for all SSL digital certifictes registred via Verisign.
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Samba stuff goes here.
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Primary contact for buying and leasing servers. Quotes and buying.
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Backup solution using Amanda, legato, and Seagate backup exec.
SILICON GRAPHICS INC.
Technical Support Engineer III, 4/97 to 10/97
Assisted customers in the resolution of their technical service requests.
Replicated, documented, reported hardware and software bugs and when
applicable, devised "workarounds" for system hardware, software and
documentation defects/enhancements. Interacted with many other groups within
the company to resolve customer's issues. Worked hands on with all Silicon
Graphics products. Provided back line support assistance for fellow engineers.
ALBUQUERQUE TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE
Network Support Specialist, 5/95 to 4/97
Designed, installed, administered, and maintained 3,000+ node 4 campus
metropolitan data network utilitizing such technologies as FDDI, FastEthernet, and ATM.
Headed IS management in capacity planning, resource allocation, purchasing, and deployment of all system and network hardware and software campus-wide.
Installed, administered, and maintained dozens of Unix servers,
workstations, and numerous Novell and Windows NT servers providing mail, news,
compute, testing, development, and other Internet services. Developed dynamic
account creation utility and a user accounting system tools in C, Perl and SQL
to administer and maintain over 4,000 user accounts. Provided hardware and
software technical support for escalated help desk problem tickets. Installed,
maintained, and administered remote dialup access server for staff and
faculty. Acted as technical reference for a Internet Services handbook.
Installed, administered, and maintained multiple high traffic web servers.
Installed and maintained high traffic firewall servers using Firewall-1 on the Solaris platforms and filtering 3Com routers. Acted as postmaster for
campus-wide e-mail system.
Configured and maintained USENET news server with 25,000+ news
groups. Developed and implemented an IP number allocation scheme.
TWR COMMUNICATIONS
System Administrator, 2/96 to Present
Designed, implemented, and maintained this ISP from ground up including the
web server, mail server, news server, DNS server, router configuration, IP
allocation scheme.
Installed, maintained and supported users on a Novell 4.1 file server for a
150+ line WorldGroup BBS.
LOS LUNAS REALTY
System Administrator, 3/92 to Present
Designed, installed and maintained a WinNT/Win95 inter-office
network, as well as troubleshot hardware and software problems, developed
custom software, and provided end-user and administrative training of the
network and many applications including day-to-day use of Win95, MS Office,
and RealBase (custom application).
EDUCATION
LOS LUNAS HIGH SCHOOL
1989-1992
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Computer Science, 1992-1994
ALBUQUERQUE TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE
Computer Science, 1993-1994
References, Source Code, and Publications available on request.
Last update : 08/10/1998