TimRightnour 23827 N. 79th Ave. Peoria, AZ 85383 (623)561-8330

Objective Acareer in troubleshooting, maintaining and designing of UNIX based servers and services in a department that requires a high levelofUNIX understanding and skills.

Operating Systems Expert in Solaris, AIX, RedHat Linux and BSD. Familiar with Digital Unix and HPUX.

Programming Languages PowerPC Assembler,SPARC v7/v8 Assembler,,Perl, sh and adb macro programming.

HardwareArchitectureExperience Strong knowledge of PCI, MCA, ISA, ISAPNP,i386 and SPARC. Expert in PowerPC based systems.

UNIX Skills: •Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9 on SPARC hardware. Expert in installation and troubleshooting. •Hardware diagnostics and problem determination on Sun SPARC servers. •AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.3, expert in installation, upgrades and troubleshooting. •Hardware diagnostics and problem determination on IBM RS/6000 servers. •RedHat Linux AS2.1, EL3.0 and EL4.0 expert in upgrades and troubleshooting. •Hardware diagnostics and problem determination on AMD Opteron x86-64 hardware and Compaq servers. •Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster server expert on installation, troubleshooting and recovery. •IBM HACMP expert on installation, troubleshooting and recovery. •Solaris DiskSuite expert on setup, troubleshooting and recovery. •IBM ADSM/Tiv oli Storage Manager. •IBM SP2 expert on installation, troubleshooting and administration. •Security vulnerability detection and remedation. •Kernel programming for NetBSD and AIX v4.3. •Expert in NIS/YP,NFS, VAS, Kerberos v4/v5 and AFS. •Expert in Apache, iPlanet/Sun One and IBM IHS Web servers. •Expert in IBM MQSeries setup and troubleshooting. -2-

Published Works Sushi - an extensible human interface for NetBSD Presented at BSDCon 2002

Training •IBM SP2 System Administration •IBM ASDM Version 3 Implementation •AIX Version 4 Performance Management •AIX Version 4 Internals •AIX Version 4 Device DriverProgramming •Veritas Cluster Server 1.0 •Sun Enterprise 10000 Administration •Sun Enterprise Cluster Administration •Sun Enterprise 6800 Administration •Technical Intro to MQSeries

Open Source SoftwareExperience •Author and primary maintainer for ClusterIt, a collection of utilities to provide remote parallel command execution and systems administration (dsh/pcp/dvt). •NetBSD Developer •Portmaster for port-prep, a port of NetBSD to the IBM RS/6000 PowerPC Reference Platform. Portmaster for port-ofppc, which is the port to OpenFirmWare-based PowerPC machines. •Ported NetBSD to the IBM 7024-E20, IBM 7025-F40, Motorola Powerstack E1, Motorola MTX604, IBM 7006-41T,Genesi Pegasos II, IBM 7044-270 and the IBM 7046-B50. •Designed and implemented the ENVSYS API, a kernel API for communicating with and monitoring environmental sensors on a computer. •Author and primary maintainer for gchore, a gtk application for maintaining personal todo lists. •Mentor for the Google Summer of Code 2008. Mentored a project to split the NetBSD system installer into a separate front and back end.

Experience

Senior UNIX Systems Engineer (August 1998 - Present) Charles Schwab Part of a team responsible for the maintenance of approximately 4000 UNIX-based servers running a mixture of Solaris, AIX, and RedHat Linux.

Current duties include: •Security vulnerability monitoring, detection, and remediation. •Applying regular Operating System maintenance and patches to all systems, as well as upgrading the OS on those systems. -3-

•Upgrading installed applications such as Veritas, Covalent Apache, IBM IHS, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, IBM MQSeries and TSM.

Past duties included: •Installation and system buildout for AIX, Solaris and RedHat servers. •Third tier support for all systems and applications. •Hardware problem determination and diagnosis. •Large scale automation of system administration tasks across the environment.

Systems Analyst (October 1997 - August 1998) American Express TravelRelated Services UNIX/NT Operations Provide 24 hour monitoring and administration of AIX and Solaris servers in a production environment. Diagnose problems on running machines and applications and implement changes when required.

Assistant System Administrator and Webmaster (April 1997 to October 1997) FutureOne Inc. General UNIX systems administration tasks for ISP.Configured and maintained Apache webserver and wrote Perl CGI scripts for customer web sites.

Network Administrator and Purchaser (May 1994 - March 1997) Communications Integrators, Inc. Administration of Novell and UNIX based LAN as well as workstations for approximately 30 users. Purchasing of manufacturing supplies and equipment for production floor.

References References available upon request.