Fabrice Guérini, IT Consultant 842 Portwalk Place, Redwood City, CA 94065-1818 Tel: (650) 280-6823, Fax: (650) 592-0200 E-mail: fabrice@ieee.org (Online resume available at http://life.net/fabrice) As a consultant, I have been specializing in providing the following services to my clients: * Architect and build UNIX-based infrastructures from the ground up * Setup of LAN/WAN and configuration of firewalls * Maximum automation of monitoring and routine tasks, with extensive use of scripting (Bourne, Perl, SQL, CGI) * Seamless integration of Windows and UNIX domains (single sign-on, file sharing, etc.) * Multi-platform systems administration, operating system tuning, upgrades, patch applications; backup recovery planning and execu-tion; system event monitoring; space management & capacity planning * Determine and implement backup requirements * Setup of naming services setup (LDAP, AD, DNS, NIS) * Draft and edit systems documentation and policies CORE SKILLS - UNIX systems administration expertise, managing Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc. since 1989 - Heterogeneous networks integration (multiple UNIX flavors with Windows & MacOS) - Strong knowledge of Internet protocols (LDAP, DNS, NFS, NIS, FTP, Sendmail/SMTP, DHCP, Samba/CIFS, etc...) - Proficiency in multiple languages (Perl, JavaScript, HTML, Shell, C) - Web design and CGI programming experience since 1994 - M.S. degree in Computer Science CONSULTING PROJECTS (The following assignments were performed on a consulting basis) Weidlinger Associates, Los Altos, CA (www.wai.com), June 1996 - present: Multi-platform system administration (including Solaris, Linux, IRIX, HP-UX, & Windows); Study, proposal, installation & configura-tion of new Linux server infrastructure rollout (migration from Solaris); Integration of UNIX and Windows domains (Active Directory to LDAP translation, DNS replication, single sign-on); Software and operating system installation (automatic SuSE install via Auto-YAST); Configuration of subsystems (NIS, DNS, LDAP, Sendmail, NFS, Samba, NTP); Backup policy configuration, implementation, and monitoring (Veritas NetBackup, BackupExec, Retrospect, and standard ufsdump); Network and systems monitoring (Big Brother, Ganglia, MRTG, SNMP); Administration task automation (shell & Perl scripting); Creation of central CVS repository for net-work-wide configuration files (using Cfengine); Firewall & proxy server installation and configuration; Installation of OpenPBS cluster batch queueing system; Writing of IT documentation. Catapult Communications, Mountain View, CA (www.catapult.com), April 2001 - October 2002: Installation and configuration of an international, multi-site virtual private network based on Netscreen VPN equipment; Collaborated with IT managers at each site to synchronize the configuration and company-wide usernames/userids, and to propagate and repli-cate a distributed naming service (NIS, LDAP); Installation of a 1/2 TB Sun fileserver; Sendmail configuration for a multi-domain mail server. Globalpress Connection, San Jose, CA (www.globalpresspr.com), October 1999 - October 2002 Redesigned existing web site, adding new sections and menus, inserting new graphics and generally cleaning up the look of the site; Created registration forms using CGI, Perl and MySQL; Trained in-house staff on web site maintenance using Dreamweaver. OTHER CLIENT WORK Unity Church, Palo Alto (www.unitypaloalto.org), Oct. 1997 - Oct 2000 Aurigin, Cupertino (www.aurigin.com), Sept. 1997 - June 2000 Centerpoint, San Jose (www.centerpoint.com), Aug. 1999 - January 2000 Silicon Valley Shelving, San Jose (www.svseq.com), Nov 1996 - January 2000 Quantum Corporation, Milpitas (www.quantum.com), Aug. 1998 - Sept. 1999 Whole Tomato Software, Capitola (www.wholetomato.com), Oct. 1997 - Apr. 1999 CANEC, San Carlos (www.canec.org), Sept. 1997 - March 1998 Parallax Graphics, Santa Clara, May 1996 - June 1996 Whistle Communications, Foster City, May 1996 - July 1996 Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, Sept. 1995 - Apr. 1996 EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Martini Software, San Mateo, CA Senior Operations Engineer, Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2002 * Responsible for the AIX infrastructure, network installation management, configuration and troubleshooting * Improved the automation of the IT processes using Perl scripts for system status monitoring, quota checking, log file processing, etc. * Configured and customized the Big Brother monitoring system * Managed the Solaris JumpStart infrastructure for unattended installs * Reconfigured and customized Sendmail 8.11 to be more secure and pass messages to virus filtering software * Built a graphical user-locating system using building maps, CGI forms and LDAP queries * Managed Veritas NetBackup UNIX backup system * Trained junior system administrators on a weekly basis iSharp, Redwood City, CA UNIX Technical Lead / IT Architect, Apr. 2000 - Feb. 2001 * Provided leadership for a 3-person team of UNIX system administrators * Built the UNIX server infrastructure for the company from the ground up * Maintained a WAN composed of 3 sites and multiple remote offices * Installed and managed a network of 6 co-location sites around the country, using 2 providers for redundancy; defined standard pro-cesses to allow hands-off installation * Created the initial corporate-wide intranet structure * Installed and configured core services such as DNS, NIS, NFS and Sendmail * Automated replication and change tracking of network databases company-wide using Perl scripts and CGI forms Pure Software, Sunnyvale, CA Webmaster & Corporate Networks Manager, 1994 - 1995 * Built a world wide web server to disseminate information throughout the company, providing a consistent interface across all plat-forms. (This was an intranet before the word intranet was invented) * Developed sophisticated scripts to search data files and provide a user-friendly interface to the data (employee directory, request status, e-mail aliases, newsletters, etc.) * Managed the router configuration for the whole company, and maintained the e-mail, DNS, NIS, NFS, SLIP and FTP configurations for remote offices * Implemented switched Ethernet for increased bandwidth in R&D * Added FDDI backbone as inter-building link Senior System Administrator, 1992 - 1994 * Grew the company infrastructure from a 16-SPARCstation Ethernet to a 200+ node worldwide operation, backing up 100+ GB of data, over 5 hardware platforms and 8 different operating systems * Supervised a team of 3 sysadmins to provide quality user support * Developed a trouble-ticket system available to all users over e-mail and later via web * Connected the site to the Internet, configuring SMTP, DNS and FTP access * Installed European office and provided networking to corporate HQ over a leased line * Provided ISDN solution for connection of telecommuting individuals * Managed the installation, maintenance and administration of UNIX systems and third-party software * Developed system administration policies and tools for more efficient UNIX management (system resources and disk onitoring, net-work load monitoring, etc.) * Interfaced with vendors to evaluate, procure and implement new software and hardware products Schlumberger, ATE Division, San Jose, CA Systems & Network Administrator, 1989 - 1992 * Operated a heterogeneous subnet of 60 computers within a network of 400+ nodes (Suns, Windows, Macintoshes, VAXens) * Managed and documented TCP/IP network running NFS, NIS, DNS, UUCP and Usenet * Installed operating systems and third-party software packages; Provided support to and trained SunOS users * Maintained user accounts and backed up mass storage; Automated routine tasks with Bourne Shell scripts * Database administration (INGRES RDBMS) and SQL programming * Created application software releases, oversaw source control and defined installation procedures Software Engineer 1988 - 1989 * Maintained and enhanced current software products (in the domain of automated test equipment) * Assisted with administration and maintenance of computer systems * Resolved software change requests, worked with customers, application engineers and customer support engineers to identify and fix known software problems * Developed and automated regression test cases * Promoted portability of programs between VAX/VMS and Sun/UNIX EDUCATION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UCSC Extension: Graphic Design Stanford University: Honors-Coop Graduate Program E.N.S.I.M.A.G. (France): M.S. Computer Science