Expertise:

Securing networks with Sunscreen and Netscreen firewalls, C and perl programming, configuring Cisco 3000 VPN concentrators, configuring VPN connections between Netscreen firewalls, Unix system administration, configuring sendmail, including SpamAssassin, and Sophos antivirus interface to sendmail using mimedefang and sophie. Familiar with Cisco routers and switches, Radius servers, and the Postini spam filtering service. Familiar with Microsoft Windows and Office.

• LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA 1988 - Present
  • Network Security Engineer 1999 - present
    • Configured Sunscreen and Netscreen firewalls for network serving 5,500 employees worldwide
    • Configured VPN tunnels between our site and remote sites using Netscreen 50 firewalls
    • Created web pages to automate the process of setting up remote access (Radius) accounts for employees, contractors, and business partners, to automatically remove remote access when a user is removed from the LDAP phone book and expire remote access passwords with periodic warnings to users whose password is close to expiration.
    • Converted email to Microsoft Exchange/Active Directory as part of transition team. Wrote perl programs to compare existing LDAP information and email alias file, validate this information against Active Directory, and change AD as necessary.
    • Recognized as the person to go to for tasks that can be solved with a perl program or shell script.
    • Wrote scripts to extract various information from logs to generate web pages with graphs of various statistics -- remote access logins, email spam and virus statistics, etc.
    • Documented remote access procedures and wrote scripts to extract information from system logs, and retrieve firewall configurations and report changes, in support of Sarbanes Oxley audit requirements.
    • Installed Sophos antivirus on Unix mail hubs using sendmail and mimedefang
    • Configured Cisco VPN concentrators
    • Built, installed, and customized SpamAssassin spam filter
    • Installed and administered Postini spam filtering service, including perl scripts to automatically update our user list on Postini's server
  • Email administrator 1996 - 1999
    • Managed Netscape Messaging Server POP/IMAP servers for about 1000 users
    • Managed Control Data Mail*Hub mail routing server serving mail to 7,500 users worldwide
    • Built new mail hub system based on Linux and standard sendmail to replace CDC software
    • Built and administered mail gateway systems exposed to Internet (sendmail)
    • Resolved users' email problems on both Unix and Windows clients
  • Senior System Administrator 1993 - 1996
    • Installed Sun servers and workstations
    • Provided Unix support for engineering staff
• Headland Products Group/Video Seven (LSI subsidiary) 1988 - 1993
  • Senior Software Engineer
    • Developed VGA diagnostics in C for the Sun 386i virtual VGA board
    • Provided Unix support for engineering staff and system administration for a network of Sun workstations and servers used for ASIC CAD
    • Configured and administered uucp email, later converted to SMTP mail

• BS, Chemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
• Network Security I and II, Global Knowledge
• Cisco Network Administration