Oliver O. Fross 4104 24th Street #539 San Francisco, CA 94114 (917) 848-0411 http://www.oliverfross.com/ oliver@oliverfross.com Skills & Keywords * Operating Systems: *UNIX*: HP-UX (10,11), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, Solaris, Linux (Redhat, Slackware, etc) * Languages: Shell scripting, C, limited SQL, limited Perl * Software: BEA Weblogic, Jakarta Tomcat, Java, Apache (mod_perl, openssl, mod_rewrite, mod_wl, etc), X-Windows, samba, ssh, sendmail, qmail, postfix, spamassassin, mutt, mailman, zsh,ksh/sh/csh, sed/awk, HTML, HTTP, lvm, oracle, FW-1, bind/named (8&9), analog, webalizer, mysql, /etc * Hardware: 1962 Lincoln, Oxy-Acetylene and arc welding, all PC, HP (C,J,K,N Classes), Sun, Network Appliance, Auspex, EMC * Odd Certifications: HP: HP-UX Systems Administration Foundry Networks: FCNE Auspex File Servers: NetServer & NS7000/NS800 Shells: Random Mention in the Turtle Work Experience: OOF Industries, LLC Unix Consulting 2005 * Formed a consulting company to provide world class solutions for business, small and large alike, from the server-closet to the enterprise. * Unix architecture work for clients, spec'ing & purchasing Open Source based datacenter builds. * Unix system administration: OS builds, Tomcat, MySQL, Apache, security hardening, built redundant monitoring network. Democratic Party / Voter Protection Project Machine Certification Fall 2004 * Verified & Certified electro/mechanical voting machines in a dozen counties throughout the state of New Mexico in preparation for Presidential Election. * Self-taught expert on AVC Advantage and ELECTronic 1242 voting machines * Corporate IT: Desktop support, Exchange Server, Access Server, Network * All around handyman during 16-18 hour days. Sony Music, Inc Web Operations Manager July 2002-Sept 2004 * Led team providing internal & external facing systems exceeding 1,000s of websites and 10s of TB of data * Systems architecture & layout of $20m data center (Sun, EMC, Cisco) * Managed outsourcing of all external systems to Managed Services Provider, controlled costs and interfaced with development teams * Project Planning & Management for major migrations (both cross-data center, and cross-platform) * Weblogic installations, upgrades, sizings, major performance tuning (BEA Weblogic & Sun JVM) * Relaunch & Re-architecture of entire Sony Music Online & Sony Music B2B applications from Kiva (Netscape) to Clustered Weblogic configurations * Administered disparate development environments for 8 concurent projects Senior Unix Sysadmin Oct 2000-June 2002 * Designed system and network topologies for redundant, HA Tier 1 digital music locker service * Decided, designed, and deployed Weblogic 5.1 and Clustered 6.0 application server installations. * Installed/tuned Apache for a litany of uses. * Worked with Internet Storage Vendor Scale 8 for massive distributed storage needs. * Installed, backed-up, and maintained Perforce Source control system * Worked with Checkpoint FW1 firewall software to secure local network * Tweaked Analog & Webalizer for both solid and pretty stats to make Engineering as well as Marketing happy * Setup Windows IIS server to provide DRM services for secure musical distribution * Engineered and performed massive audio encoding (WAV/MP3 to WMA) and packaging job entailing over 6,000 albums of content * Designed system for integrating 250,000 albums of content into database, and local storage systems * Setup Foundry Networks switches, load balancers, NetApp Filers, etc. * Managed complete shutdown of company data centers and integrated assets into Corporate Parent Intel Corporation - Engineering Computing Systems Engineer Sept. 1997 - Sept. 2000 * UNIX System Administrator: managing heterogeneous enterprise production design environment of 2000+ workstations and fileservers, with 4000+ users, including 24x7 support. * Focused on HP support, including Ignite-UX, Series 700 & 800 class machines, troubleshooting, kernel tweaking, scripting, LVM, etc * Performed many Y2K, network, and OS upgrades for all 2000+ machines. * Worked with large scale NFS servers (Auspex,EMC,HP), AFS (clients & servers), created logical network layout, minimal Cisco switches. * Served as solitary site support for Unix Calendaring solutions. * Lead two technical teams with worldwide membership; produced standard OS builds for company-wide deployment (5000+ HPs). * Demonstrated extra effort & ability by receiving 13 individual awards, 2 divisional awards and 2 promotions in 2 years. * Extensive technical management of new acquisitions and integration process. Macquarium Systems Programmer Summer 1996 * Assisted maintaining network of SGI, Macintosh, NT machines, T1 connection, hosting major companies such as Cox Communications. * Authored, designed & programmed web pages using Perl, Javascript, HTML. Clients included BellSouth & MGM. The Premisys Corporation Programming Intern Summer, Winter 1995 * With a team, developed Submittal Generator system for Trane Corp using C/C++ and MS Windows 3.1 API. * Wrote forms based data entry application for Submittal Generator. LaSalle National Bank Network Analyst Summer, Winter 1994 * Managed 400 user token-ring Novell network running Windows 3.1. * Provided Tech support for workstation and network applications. Education Emory University 1993-1997 * BS in Computer Science (Dean's list) University of Chicago High School 1989-1993 Other Work Experience & Projects Bandwagon Feb 2002 - Current * CFO - Managed all finances for 20 person organization with multiple vendors. * Active, contributing (time & computing work) member of bandwidth/hosting co-operative effort. SportService, Inc Summers 1991-1994 * Point-to-Point Sales: Vendor Chicago White Sox / Cubs ______________________________________________ References available from any employer upon request