Robert Bernstein M.A.

  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

Experience:

Fairly Recent

    * 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 at:
        http://about.ruptured-duck.com

Less Recent

    * 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: http://about.ruptured-duck.com/writings.html

Distant Past

   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.

Skillsets:

Compucentric

     * 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.

  Generalist

     * 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.

  Credentials

     * 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

Education

  Schools Attended

     * Worcester Polytechnic Institute
     * Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     * Boston University
     * Northeastern University
     * Rhode Island College
     * Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

  Degrees

     * Rhode Island College BA, MA
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