Unixcentric Structured Document Writing, Editing and Content Management
Culturally literate, street savvy, user friendly Generalist and Unix Sysadmin.
rs at bernstein dot providence dot ri dot us
401-231-5502
- Integrated Statistics, Woods Hole, MA
- August, 2004 - March, 2005 Unix/Linux system administration for NOAA Coastwatch. Upgrade principal server to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Maintain SGI Irix server.
- NOAA Coastwatch, Narragansett, RI
- March - November, 2003 Unix/Linux system administration, website authoring. Update and maintain Red Hat Linux and SGI Irix servers.
- A brief description of this work for NOAA is on my home page.
- BSDtoday.com
- May, 2001 - January, 2002 Contributed articles about the BSD scene.
- EarthWeb.com
- December, 2000 - January, 2001 Authored a series of articles on SQL-base MUA's (mail user agents).
- Caldera Systems Inc. (now SCO Group Inc.)
- May, 2000 - September, 2000 Authored several 'Solution Guides' for Caldera's eBusiness Marketing Division.
- MacMillan Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN
- August-November, 1999 Technical editor for two KDE books.
- Details of the writing and editing work listed above are on my web site.
- Bugbee & Niles Co. Inc., Providence, RI
- November, 1993 - October, 1998 Office systems programmer/administrator.
- Authored and implemented Order Entry, Bills of Materials, Inventory Control & Purchasing system in AlphaFour dBase III DBMS.
- Implemented transition to SCO Unix-based proprietary (Progress 4GL) accounting and manufacturing DBMS. Responsible for maintenance and daily operations of all computing machinery, including MS-based Windows PC's.
- Operating systems
- Fluent in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of these operating systems:
- Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian)
- Unix (NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)
- OS/2
- Familiar with the operation and maintenance of these operating systems:
- Solaris
- SCO Unix
- SGI Irix
- Structured Document Systems
- Fluent in the use of these structured document systems:
- DocBook: SGML, XML, Website
- DebianDoc
- LaTex: AucTex, LaTex2HTML, Lyx
- AFT (example: this document)
- Zope BackTalk
- Emacs/PSGML
- Content Management Systems
- Experienced in the configuration and use of these Content Management Systems (``CMS''):
- Zope CMF
- Plone
- Scoop
- Drupal
- WeBlogs:
- Movable Type
- Blosxom
- Pyblosxom
- NanoBlogger
- Newsbruiser
- General Networking and Security
- Adept at the installation and configuration of most common TCP/IP network services and daemons, including mail, news, time (ntp), http (Apache), ftp and SSH.
- Experienced in the use of several basic firewalling techniques, including the IPFilter package found on most BSD systems, and the Netfilter implementation found in the Linux kernel.
- Set up and use the Snort IDS (intrusion detection system), and the Shorewall Linux firewall utility.
- Can tunnel via SSH such services as POP and VNC.
- Know the Juniper Networks NetScreen-25 firewall appliance, and the GnatBox firewall package.
- System Administration
- Experienced user of the C language tool-chains used by Unix and Linux. I can test builds and debug C and C++ programs.
- Shell scripting, cron jobs, other routine admin chores.
- Can tailor the English language for particular situations and audiences. I have experience fine-tuning communications in diverse work settings, including technological, academic, and social services contexts.
- Background in dealing with people from all facets of the community, including people who merit to varying degrees the label ``difficult.''
- Have spent a good deal of time in ordinary business settings, and I know how people in business ought to comport themselves.
- Paid Google Researcher
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MA Lic. #389 (expired)
- Certified Addiction Specialist (``CAS'') (expired)
- Certified Land Survey Chief of Party, MA Dept. of Public Works
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Boston University
- Northeastern University
- Rhode Island College
- Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
- Rhode Island College BA, MA
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