Avleen Vig

Personal Summary, Accomplishments and Objective:

An experienced Systems Administrator with over 10 years demonstrated Unix and Windows support and administration experience including network communications and Unix/Windows cross-platform integration.
Versed in the development, installation, maintenance and growth of large-scale ISP infrastructures for Internet services.
I have a considerable amount of security knowledge and am well known in security circles for the S.A.F.E project, which I run. This is located at http://www.silverwraith.com/smurf (now retired).
In 2 months, the SAFE Website became the de-facto source of information on Smurf Denial of Service attack prevention for SuSe Linux and has earned noted recommendations from FreeBSD.

I have also had several technical papers published on O'Reilly ONLamp, Slashdot, and Freebsd.org. They are all available from http://silverwraith.com/.

I am seeking a challenging role in the Systems Administration field, where I can actively deal with system related matters, and contribute to the development of the infrastructure and the organization.

Professional skills:

Well versed in the installation, configuration and administration of:

• UNIX: Solaris, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, some AIX 4.x
• Linux: Redhat, Gentoo, Debian, some S.u.S.e and Slackware
• Microsoft: Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access)
• Sun specific hardware: E3xxx, E4xxx, E6500, V100, V120, V200, V210,
  220r/240r/280r, 440r/480r, Ultra2, Ultra5, T1, 1405.
• Sun clone hardware: Fujitsu Primepower 450 and 650, Axil
• Dell specific hardware: 1600 and 1700 series 1U servers, 2600 and 2800 series 2U servers
• Authentication: Kerberos, NIS and Radius authentication mechanisms
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, some Oracle
• DNS: BIND 8 and 9, tinydns and dnscache
• IP communication protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP, FTP, DNS, NetBIOS
• Mass Storage: Network Appliance Filer and Webcache product setup, deployment and maintenance
  5xx, 7xx, 8xx (single and dual CPU) and VFiler 9xx series Filers, Sun T3 storage arrays
• Mail: SMTP over Exim, Qmail and some Sendmail, IMAP and POP over Courier Imap
• Security: IPF, IPFW, SNORT, Cisco ACL, some CheckPoint FW-1 maintenance
• Web: Apache 1.3 and IIS webservers

Languages and scripting:

• Fluent: Python, Perl, Unix Shell, Sed, Awk, PHP, HTML
• Debugging: ASP, VB, C, C++

Education:

UK based education:

• 10 GCSE's including English, Mathematics, Sciences and Technology (equiv. High School)
• National Certificate in Information Technology (equiv. pre-college higher education)

Employment History:

Systems Engineer
Started a small business, offering consulting and engineering services to businesses in the US and Europe, with the goal of hiring 4 full time consultants within 1 year.
Recent clients:

• Deutsche Bank, London
  Migrating an internal critical web hosting platform from Linux to Solaris 10, and consolidating two seperate platforms into a single unified entity.

Systems Administrator
Responsible for creating and maintaining software used by data centre techs worldwide. Developed and implemented the Hardware Operations group's first release engineering procedures based on ITIL/ISO20000 specifications.
This was presented at the LISA conference in 2007.
Mentored and helped 10 juniors systems administrators grow to promotion. Wrote several python web applications for various purposes, from improving team wide communication, to re-writing the monitoring system front end to help meet team goals.

Technical Team Lead (March 2005 - July 2005)
Promoted to Technical Team Lead in 2005. Responsible for overseeing all technical decisions regarding EarthLink's production systems. This includes new deployments, escalations of problems, providing third-tier support along side senior systems administrators. Also responsible for the development of new technical policies within the production operations team. As part of their work, the Technical Team Leads worked with management to restructure the production systems operations group to provide better support of systems.

Unix Systems Administrator (April 2002 - March 2005)
Unix Systems Administrator on the Graveyard (night/3rd) shift. Responsible for the daily maintenance of high-availability customer-visible systems. Regularly performing hardware maintenance on equipment from a variety of vendors. All hardware maintenance is performed by Systems Admins, with vendors rarely called for assistance, building up a thorough understanding of software and hardware components. Most scheduled outages are performed on this shift, and so exposure to software and hardware for maintenance is very high. Also responsible for end-to-end start, planning and completion of outages of all scales and visibilities. Completely managing medium-scale projects of systems configuration updates, new software deployments, and infrastructure planning with customer visibility up to 5 million accounts, and over 10 million individual users. Created and maintained a technical documentation library based around DocBook XML to centralize the department's technical information.

Information Security Officer, Systems Administrator
The primary contact for security related, both internal to the company and from clients. Developed and maintained security policies and procedures for the company. Stayed abreast of developments in Information Security to ensure stability of internal servers as well as providing consultancy to clients. Acted as the Single Point Of Contact for the Systems department, meeting with management daily to report on the status of the department and discuss the company's requirements upon it. Managed a farm of over 30 Unix based servers as a general Systems Administrator for the company and clients. Audited all client servers prior to deployment into a live environment.
Trained with RIPE (www.ripe.net) to act as part of a Local Internet Registrar, with the responsibility of assigning large IP blocks to customers.

IT Support Technician, Security Lead
Acted as the first point of contact for all computer-related problems both hardware and software related. Lead security efforts on Network, Server, and workstation fronts.
Maintained router security between 3 corporate sites over a private WAN, monitored and maintained the IDS. Frequently communicated with and worked with major ISP's to trace security threats.

Security Officer, Producer, UK Computing Forum.
Responsibilities included managing a Microsoft Chat Server on a technical level, managing email accounts, writing new articles for UKChat's Website. Also installed and configured Windows NT4.0 Server and Workstation. Maintained these along with a small LAN running MS Exchange 5.5. Provided 1st and 2nd line support to all end users including the general public on problems with their systems, programs, networks and Internet connectivity and mostly, network security. Dealt with all matters on computer and Internet security.

Personal Interests:
I enjoy reading literature, listening to music from around the world. I take a keen interest in new technologies and keep myself apprised of new problems and solutions in the IT industry.

Personal Details:

I am currently not seeking employment

References available upon request