Eric Shalov

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.

Worked on a variety of small UNIX programming and systems administration projects for several customers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.