Eric Shalov

Phone: (310) 756-5672

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(U.S. citizen)

Certifications

CompTIA:
FAA:
PP/ASEL
Sun Certified HP Certified RHCE Network+ Security+ ACSE UNIX UNIX Admin Linux ATM LAN/WAN

Work Experience

Media Temple Web Hosting
Sr. Systems Administrator (April 2011-Jan 2012)
Administrated approximately ninety Solaris 10 NFS servers and hundreds of Linux-based computing nodes that drive Media Temple's Solaris and Debian-based Grid Service platform, hosting approximately a million websites in a Puppet-driven automated configuration management environment. Monitored cluster performance using Nagios, Graphite, SNMP, and Expect scripts. Wrote wiki-based technical documentation. Mentored other administrators and provided support to their virtualized computing environment. Managed hardware replacement workflows with product vendors and worked on high-density storage solutions for new products.
Freelance consulting work
(November 2009 — April 2011)
Worked on a variety of small UNIX programming and systems administration projects for several customers.
Vought Aircraft Industries
CAM C Developer (March 2009 — October 2009)
Developed database-driven 3D graphical computer-aided manufacturing applications to control automated robotic fastener installation systems for machining of Boeing 747-8 fuselage panels in CATIA CAD environment
Systems, Training, and Support consulting services for: Banamex (Citibank), Banamex Seguros Insurance, Telcel (América Móvil), Nextel México, Gedas (Deutsche Telekom), U.S. Metropolitan Telecom (Florida), Liverpool Mexico
October 2004 — March 2009
Taught (in Spanish) UNIX security training classes in various large corporate environments in numerous locations around Mexico. Wrote web-based user management application. Provided on-site pre-sales and post-sales product demonstrations/training and support for UNIX-based to security products on AIX, HP/UX, and Solaris platforms.
Symark Software
UNIX Security Engineer (February 2003 — October 2004)
Provided Tier 3 support to a wide array of corporate customer environments deploying PowerBroker UNIX privilege-delegation software on numerous UNIX platforms, including Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Debian and RedHat Linux, IRIX, SCO, NCR UNIX, and QNX. Installed and configured complete Solaris-based networks for testing/development purposes.
Zuma Networks (subsidiary of MRV Communications)
Software Validation Engineer (July 2001 — May 2002)
Served as a hardware/software test engineer for a family of developing network switch/router products. Wrote organized test plans, executed standard test procedures, and developed automated testing software suite based on Spirent test device products, including automated test execution, tracking, and graphical reporting. Developed mechanisms to validate routing performance, QoS, firewall performance, and MPLS behavior. Additionally, served as software developer for UNIX-based network security products.
Alcatel
Network Engineer (January 1999 — July 2001)
Provided network design, maintenance, and escalation support to both internal software and hardware engineering groups as well as hundreds of customers' networks based on ATM (1483 and Lan Emulation), Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI/CDDI, Frame Relay, IPv4, IPv6, IPX, PNNI, SNMP, and Q.2931 signalling using multiple operating environments including Solaris, Linux, BSD, Macintosh, and Windows. Developed network debugging and performance monitoring tools for Solaris, Linux, and VxWorks. Responsibilities also included training of other engineers and interoperability testing with Cisco, Lucent, Fore, Nortel/Bay, Cabletron, and others.
Warner Brothers Feature Animation
System Administrator (November 1998 — January 1999)
My responsibilities varied widely during this temp. position, from end-user support to administration and support of WB's IRIX 6.2 and NeXTStep workstations and heterogeneous ATM/Ethernet network backbone. I assisted in development of scripts and procedures for automated backup and archiving with Legato Networker and proprietary backup software. I worked on a team maintaining their Cisco/Fore Systems network while troubleshooting problems down to the Animo/Maya/Lightwave application environment.
Career Strategies, Inc.
System Administrator (April 1998 — November 1998)
I administrated a network of SGI, HP, and NT workstations and servers running IRIX 6.4, HP/UX 9.01/10.2, NT 4.0, Win95, NIS/YP and NFS. Included in my regular tasks were performing operating system upgrades and patches as needed, supporting users, handling regular data archival/backup using Legato Networker and HP Omniback, and advising management as to systems solutions. I wrote scripts and utility programs to support digital ink & paint and automated in-betweening applications including SoftImage Toonz, USAnimation, and MediaPegs. I also set up and maintained the company's internal network, web site and Internet access/firewall solutions based upon 10/100Mbit Ethernet, FDDI, Linux and Farallon routers.
BlackSun Technologies
UNIX System Administrator (July 1997 — March 1998)
Responsibilities include maintenance of RAID storage arrays on Solaris, SCO, and Linux servers, administration of TCP/IP network design and implementation, including NIS management, and Cisco router configuration, user support. I developed HTML/CGI and Java applications to interface with SQL server and real-time credit processing software.
Real Estate Communications Services
Network Administrator (April 1996 — July 1997)
Responsibilities included management and design/development of internal heterogeneous TCP/IP / Netware/NT T1-voice/data network, development of database applications for information management, development of real-time systems for audio processing/automated voice response applications, and growth of wide-area DS3 network, including telephony hardware/software.
Logix Development Corporation
Programmer (July 1995 — January 1996)
Responsibilities included development of MS-Windows applications, LAN-based TCP/IP installations, large database- oriented program development, Novell Netware protocol interfacing, systems research, hardware installation and configuration, C / Assembler coding.

Languages

Systems Experience

CTI/VOIP with SIP, IAX, SCCP
Asterisk* PBX Admin. & Programming
ATM LAN Emulation w/ UNI3.0/3.1
Cisco router configuration
Oracle 8, 9i, 10g, PL/SQL, Postgres, MySQL
Dialogic PRI Voice Hardware
X11 Window System/Openwin/Tcl
TeX Document Processing System
PHP Programming
Microsoft Visual C++
GCC C/C++ Compiler
GNU development tools: autoconf, gmake, flex
UNIX scripting (bash, awk, sed, tcl, expect)
Javascript / XML / DTDs / AJAX / Node.js
Graphical Visualization: plotting, raytracing
PVM Virtual Machine programming
Revision management: Sun rcs, cvs, svn
DS1 circuit emulation w/ ATM OC-3/OC-12 QoS
Frame Relay / T1 Networks
DEC VAX/VMS
Data mining/data warehousing techniques
GNU Mach/Hurd mk operating environment
Legato Networker
IBM AIX 5L / 4.3.3 Administration
Solaris 10/9/8/7/2.6/2.5.1/2.3
Sun Hardware inst. & maint.
HP/UX 11 / 10.20 Administration
SGI IRIX 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.5 Administration
SCO OpenServer 5
Linux administration/programming
Redhat, Debian, other distros
MacOS/X / OpenDarwin
MS-Windows
Compaq Tru64 UNIX Admin.
Novell Netware 3.11/4.01
Novell Netware NCP API/interfacing
Apache/CERN/NCSA Web server administration
XHTML+CSS development and CGI programming
in PHP, Tcl, C, C++, Perl, awk, csh, ksh
SQL Server maintenance/administration
X.25 PDN Networks
Word Perfect 6.0 for X11
Clarion Professional Developer
Artisoft Lantastic
TTL circuit design
Atmel, PIC (Arduino, Parallax) microcontrollers

Affiliations

ACM Member, Association for Computing Machinery
EFF Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation
AOPA Member, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
CalPilots Member, California Pilots Association
FMRE Member, Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores
FMRE Member, UNIX Users Association of Southern California (UUASC)

Specialities

UNIX C Programming (Advanced experience with: BSD Sockets, libbpf, tcllib, libpgclient, libmysql, Oracle OCI, libX11, ncurses, pthreads, openSSL, libLAME, libPNG, libjpeg, libgd, openGL, openAL, libsndfile), PHP, XHTML

UNIX System Administration (Solaris, Linux, IRIX, HP/UX, AIX, SCO, other UNIX's)

CTI/VOIP, TCP/IP, Network Security, Training, CGI/HTML, SQL, ATM, Aviation

References available upon request.

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