PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Mr. Nelson has over seven years of UNIX systems management on a variety of platforms. He has managed large UNIX installations and participated in global client-server UNIX rollouts, supporting Internet and corporate technologies. He has installed and configured high-availability systems serving RDBMS, http, Real Audio, chat, and server-side Java. His work with system and network monitoring tools include leading peer review and BoF sessions, and contributor credit for freely available tools on multiple UNIX platforms.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
1998 – Present ZoneTrader.com / Workstations International
Senior Systems Engineer
1997 - 1998 SHL Systemhouse
Systems Engineer
1996 - 1997 Minnesota Public Radio
Senior Programmer/Analyst
1995 - 1996 Shared Resource Management
UNIX System Administrator
1994 - 1995 Advance/Possis Technical Services
UNIX System Administrator
1994 Computemp
UNIX System Administrator
1994 Alternative Resources Corporation
Help Desk
1991 - 1993 University of Minnesota Duluth
Help Desk / Research Assistant
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota Bachelor of Science work, 1987 - 1993
USENIX LISA ’96 Conference System and Network Performance Tuning,
Selected Topics in System Administration
Best Practices in System UNIX Security: Threats and Solutions,
Administration, Networking UNIX Security Tools: Use and Comparison,
& Security (SANS), 1997 Advanced Topics in Windows/NT Administration
SANS98: System Administration, Firewall Management and Troubleshooting,
Networking & Security Conference DNS and Sendmail for the Enterprise,
Intrusion Detection Using Traffic Analysis
USENIX LISA ’98 Conference System and Network Performance Tuning,
Selected Topics in System Administration
Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 2.6
HP STAR Certified Technical Professional HP-UX 11.0
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS
ZONETRADER.COM/WORKSTATIONS INTERNATIONAL – As a Senior Systems Engineer (1998 – Present), Mr. Nelson installed and configured Sun Solaris and Hewlett Packard servers and workstations, performed consulting services, installed SME tools, and created system test and installation procedures.
ZONETRADER.COM – As a Senior Systems Engineer (2000), Mr. Nelson designed, implemented and configured the creation of a HP/SUN workstation test and configuration center. This included the creation of HP Ignite-UX and Sun Jumpstart servers, design and layout of configuration and installation area, and documentation for thorough hardware testing and system OS installation.
ZONETRADER.COM – As a Senior Systems Engineer (1999), Mr. Nelson designed, implemented and configured the installation of the www.zonetrader.com web site. This included the configuration of the production web servers, with component mirroring and off-site standby servers, hardening the servers for Internet exposure, and the design and implementation of the development sites, with data handling rules and tools for migration of data to the production web sites, and detailed design and operation documentation.
WORKSTATIONS INTERNATIONAL – As a Senior Systems Engineer (1999), Mr. Nelson worked on the system planning, implementation, configuration and testing of the HP 9000 servers used in the Retek Application Ready Environment. This included integration with EMC Symmetrix, Operating System tuning, configuration of OnlineJFS and OmniBack, Oracle integration and management, system testing, detailed configuration documentation and operation training and coaching.
WORKSTATIONS INTERNATIONAL – As a Senior Systems Engineer (1998-1999), Mr. Nelson provided services for Broadcom Corporation. This included the staging and installation of over 200 Sun Ultra 2 compute servers, testing and evaluation of the HP C360 workstations, system performance analysis, system monitoring and data warehouse migration.
WORKSTATIONS INTERNATIONAL – As a Senior Systems Engineer (1998), Mr. Nelson audited Sun Solaris servers and work processes for AAR. Documentation included producing documentation on current configuration, diagrams of systems and cabling. Process analysis included system and work process auditing. System and workplace recommendations were delivered, including procedures for implementing recommendations.
SHL SYSTEMHOUSE. - As a Systems Engineer (1997 - 1998), Mr. Nelson configured, managed, and transitioned Sun Solaris servers and workstations for the WEPEX project. He installed Solaris systems, configured filesystem layout with Sun DiskSuite and VERITAS Volume Manager, configured and managed backups with Sun Solstice Backup, monitored servers and server processes with BMC Patrol, configured and managed Internet firewalls running TIS Gauntlet. Mr. Nelson was the lead in the backup site installation, lead UNIX systems administrator for final six months, and trained and transitioned skills and duties to customer personal.
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO. - As a Senior Programmer/Analyst (1996 - 1997), Mr. Nelson configured and managed SGI IRIX and RedHat Linux servers. He installed and managed Netscape Enterprise secure transaction web servers, Informix Online and Universal Relational Database servers, NetDynamics Java Application server and Progressive Networks RealAudio server. These server processes were integrated into SGI’s FailSafe high-availability product. Mr. Nelson also installed and configured system, network, and SNMP monitoring systems with web, email, and pager reporting interfaces. He lead UNIX training of IT staff, including the development of site-specific documentation of local UNIX configuration and support. Mr. Nelson negotiated hardware and software discounts for MPR, with savings of 30 - 50% from multiple vendors. He also acted as secondary Windows NT administrator, with installation and management of remote sites over WAN. Further duties included maintenance of the DNS tables and Sendmail configuration for several domains.
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO. - As a Senior Programmer/Analyst (1996 - 1997), Mr. Nelson provided support for the Public Radio Music Source Online project. This involved the installation and configuration of the NetDynamics Development Studio and Application Server on Windows NT 4.0 servers. The project originally used a Microsoft SQL Server for the backend RDBMS, which Mr. Nelson converted to Informix Online Server on Silicon Graphics IRIX 6.2 server. He used Informix’s High Performance Loader to load legacy data from multiple sources into the Informix RDBMS, and managed the data with Informix SQL via dbaccess. Mr. Nelson then installed the NetDynamics Application Server on the SGI Servers, developed and implemented the porting procedure from the NT development to the SGI Production environment.
SHARED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC. - As a UNIX Systems Administrator (1995 - 1996), Mr. Nelson supported clients on a variety of small sites running IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HPUX, SUN Solaris, SCO and NCR UNIX. He provided on-call support, system and network configuration, application installation, trouble shooting and scripting.
SHARED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC. - As a UNIX Systems Administrator (1995 - 1996), Mr. Nelson was a Senior Technical Analyst at Cargill Corporate IT, providing support for the Cargill Global Office (CGO) rollout worldwide. The CGO rollout consisted of 130 IBM and HP UNIX servers to be installed worldwide, running HP OpenMail and IBM Time and Place. This provided a constant X400 email service with a dynamic employee directory to all 33,000 Cargill employees, while replacing a variety of legacy systems. Mr. Nelson was initially brought in to assist in the installation of remote servers, which involved local system configuration, installation and configuration of HP OpenMail and integrating the system into Cargill enterprise - wide management and monitoring applications. Mr. Nelson then assumed level two and three UNIX technical support for Cargill Corporate IT, with problem resolution and custom script development. He also developed the Cargill IT College UNIX training material, and training material for level one staff problem identification and resolution.
SHARED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC. - As a UNIX Systems Administrator (1995 - 1996), Mr. Nelson was a Consultant brought in to configure Minnesota Public Radio’s SGI IRIX servers running Netscape Enterprise server. This involved security configuration and patch management. He debugged and approved Perl CGI programs for performance and security goals. Mr. Nelson also developed backup scripts and wrote and implemented a disaster recovery strategy. MPR’s dual Challenge S systems with virtual Netscape servers were configured to minimize down time and balance server load. This involved system configuration and KSH script development to host the production web sites on any of the servers available. Mr. Nelson also developed site configuration documentation and cross-trained IT staff in UNIX support.
ADVANCED POSSIS TECHNICAL SERVICES. As a UNIX Systems Administrator (1994 - 1995), Mr. Nelson provided support at Asset Marketing on their IBM RS/6000 POWERservers. This involved maintaining terminal communications at multiple sites with custom database software. Mr. Nelson configured Linux servers for test applications. He also handled communication issues between remote sites. Mr. Nelson wrote KSH shell scripts to automate backup and other tasks.
COMPUTEMP. As a UNIX Systems Administrator (1994), Mr. Nelson provided support at United Defense on SunOS, Solaris, and SGI IRIX workstations and servers. He upgraded IRIX system software from IRIX 4.x to 5.x for all workstations on site. Mr. Nelson also provided installation and application support for evaluation packages installed on SGI and Solaris servers. He also provided UNIX support for the enterprise, including setting up user accounts and printers and installing hardware for system upgrades. Mr. Nelson worked on the development of corporate-wide computer security standards and advised on Internet connectivity.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Hardware:
Sun Workstations, Servers IBM RS/6000
HP 9000 servers, workstations SGI Challange servers, SGI Indys
NCR UNIX Workstation cisco 2501, 2511, 4000
Software:
Database Management and Systems and Tools
Oracle 7 and 8i, INFORMIX Online and Universal Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Query
Programming Languages
‘C’, Perl, FORTRAN, INFORMIX SQL, KSH, Bourne Shell, Tcl, Expect
Operating Systems
Solaris, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, 4.3 BSD, SCO UNIX, SunOS, VAX/VMS, IBM MSDOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0, MacOS, Linux
Server Processes
Solaris DiskSuite, HP OmniBack, HP Ignite-UX, Solaris Solstice Backup, Netscape Enterprise Secure Web Server, Progressive Networks RealAudio, NetDynamics Application Server, Ichat, HP OpenMail, SGI Failsafe High Availability, Platinum Apriori, Bind, Sendmail
SME Tools
BMC Patrol, HP OpenView, Operations Center, Big Brother, MRTG
Text Processing Tools
MSWord, emacs, vi, VISIO, LaTeX