UNIX Users Association of Southern California
President's résumé
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UUASC President
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The funniest Sun Microsystems-certified rabbi to lead a major computer user group.
QUALIFICATIONS:
UUASC = 10 years
Solaris = 9 years
UNIX = 9 years
Sun Certified Network Administrator and Sun Certified Solaris Administrator. President and program director of 300-member SAGE-recognized UNIX Users Association of Southern California, with monthly chapter meetings in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Proven track record for increasing membership and coordinating technical programs due to outstanding leadership abilities. Recognized at workplace for accomplishments -- both for expertise and customer service -- in managing networks for major corporations. Considered by management as a valued team player with tremendous leadership qualities, people skills, and a Solaris expert.
EXPERIENCE:
- 1998 - 2006
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION, El Segundo - CA
Senior Solaris administrator for one of the world's largest IT outsource
firms. Recognized by senior management as a valued team player with
tremendous leadership qualities, people skills, and great work ethic.
Fiscal asset
ˇ Reduced maintenance support costs by the millions corporate-wide by serving as technical expert leading multi-account project team in deploying Sun Microsystems remote management software (Net Connect, CST, Explorer) on all CSC-supported Solaris servers.
ˇ Saved CSC thousands of dollars by completing high profile projects ahead of schedule.
ˇ Lowered a client's operating fees by consolidating servers and migrating terabytes of data.
Leader of an account's multi-platform team
ˇ Representatives from each of the various technical frameworks unanimously chose me as the group leader for our weekly site meetings. Under my leadership, all decisions were reached by consensus, and acted upon as a team. Praised by management for my work as team leader.
ˇ Selected to exclusive project team that installed, configured, monitored, and remedied Veritas NetBackup on more than 3,500 Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux servers worldwide.
UNIX admins enjoy greater uptime
ˇ Servers averaged 99.99% availability from March 1998 to May 2003, when I alone ran all Solaris, SunOS, and IRIX server/workstations in NIS/NIS+ domains at a client site.
ˇ Never missed an SLA.
1997 - 1998
CONTRACTING
Beckman
Instruments, Brea - CA
Alternative Resources, El Segundo - CA
Virtual Research Corp, Westlake Village - CA
UNIX systems administrator. Converted 65-host network from SunOS 4.x to Solaris 2.6. Responsible for network performance, hardware and software maintenance, user support, interfacing with vendors and management. Configured DNS, sendmail, NFS, NIS, and license servers.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
1996 - present
UNIX USERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Listed by USENIX and recognized amongst the area's most prestigious
technical societies, with monthly chapter meetings held in both Los Angeles
and Orange Counties.
President and Program Director
Voted unanimously to serve in the lifetime position as president. As program chairperson, responsible for booking, coordinating, and advertising all monthly presentations designed to educate our members on topics relevant to UNIX. Under my leadership:
ˇ Membership doubled in size.
ˇ Established Los Angeles chapter in January 2000.
ˇ Average attendance tripled in LA since 2000, in large part due to my popularity as master of ceremonies.
ˇ Secured locations for monthly meetings.
ˇ Established strong partner in high-tech giant Sun Microsystems which now hosts both the LA and OC chapter meetings.
ˇ In first year of presidency, Orange County chapter average meeting attendance more than doubled.
ˇ Speakers for both chapters, 24 per year in all, now booked six months in advance.
ˇ Speakers all top-notch, making UUASC popular attraction among area techies, and respected by all local user groups.
ˇ Serve as a constant source of assistance for members with Unix questions and problems on the email list designated for technical issues.
ˇ Responsible for moderating the email list dedicated to UNIX employment opportunities, which distributes ads from technical recruiters to our members.
ˇ Part of three-speaker panel at the group's February 1999 program on Unix Shell Tricks.
2005
USENIX
International organization for engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians.
Member and Organizer
Tapped by USENIX officials to help organize and promote USENIX '05 conference held in Southern California. The USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems.
ˇ Helping to organize and lead two Birds of a Feather get together sessions to be held at the conference.
EDUCATION:
Sun Microsystems Corporation Education Services - El Segundo, CA
Certified: SCNA, SCSA
Computer Learning Center - Los Angeles, CA
Honors: 4.0 GPA and Perfect Attendance
University of California, Los Angeles
Degree: B.A.
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