Danny Howard | Sunnyvale, CA |
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Unix Systems Administration | dannyman@toldme.com |
Nutshell
Coupling my length and breadth of experience with a personal ethic of service, I will develop, maintain, and support your Unix-based infrastructure and tools, to ensure maximum organizational awesomeness.
Technology Background and Skills
Operating Systems: | FreeBSD, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu |
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Software Development:
(Tool Smithing) |
Python, Django, shell, Jython, web RPC, Perl, Makefiles, SQL, PHP, C
Extend existing tools, build "glue" between tools, build new tools when needed |
Documentation: | Bachelor of Arts: English Rhetoric
Proficiency in HTML and CSS, learning JavaScript Extensive experience with blog, wiki, knowledgebase software |
Issue Tracking: | JIRA: workflows, dashboards, plugins,
notifications, SOAP, Jython magic Wrote e-mail interface for ancient Bugzilla |
E-mail Infrastructure: | Postfix, Cisco IronPort ESAs, Courier, Qmail, Sendmail, Cyrus
Virus scanning, content filtering, anti-spam, e-mail list administration, archiving |
Disaster Recovery: | AMANDA, Bacula, off-site storage, dump, tar, gzip, tape robots |
Certifications | KCS
Practices v5 Certification -- how to build a strong
support organization by facilitating knowledge sharing
ITIL Foundation Certification -- how to efectively organize and manage an IT organization |
Employment History
Education
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