Resume
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Jason Boxman / - / - / jasonb@edseek.com Core Skills Secondary Skills Linux Systems Administration Ruby on Rails Apache Mongrel Cluster DNS Perl PostgreSQL Platforms * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, 3.1, 4.0 / Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06, 6.10 on x86 * RedHat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9 / Fedora Core 1, 5 on x86 * Sun Solaris 8 on Sparc * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on x86 Work History Rails Developer ELC Technologies – Santa Barbara, California (telecommute) [Mar 2007 – Jul 2007] - Manage client AWS hosts under RightScale - Ruby on Rails development Systems Administrator Networked Knowledge Systems - Tampa, Florida [Jan 2006 - Nov 2006] - Development using Ruby on Rails - Created process for backporting Debian packages to internal Debian fork - Work with in-house centralized management tool managing farm of several thousand systems - Responsible for handling trouble tickets for mail systems and IDS Perl Programmer Shimberg Ctr for Affordable Housing - Gainesville, Florida [Oct 2003 - Sep 2005] - Perl programming for Web rollout and Web traffic analysis - Managing Apache and PostgreSQL - Deploying security updates and software upgrades on Debian Sarge and Sun Solaris 8 - Suggest, research, and deploy systems and hardware Network Assistant Gleim Publications, Inc. - Gainesville, Florida [Nov 2002 - Sep 2003] - Deployed Nagios for service health monitoring and paging - Deployed UPS monitoring solution to cleanly shutdown systems - Perl programming for data migration to MySQL - Tuned SpamAsssassin spam solution to reduce false positives - Assembled and upgraded servers running RedHat 7.2, 8, and 9 - Account creation and deletion Consulting Linux Administration and Windows support Executive & Group Benefits - Orlando, Florida [Dec 2003 - Present] - Deploy and manage mail server with Exim4/Courier IMAP with TLS/SSL - Deploy and manage Samba solution for data centralization and backups - Deploy and manage internal and external facing DNS - Manage Windows XP Home and Windows 98 systems Linux Administration TrekWeb.com - Los Angeles, CA [Jun 1999 - Present] - Manage Apache 2.0 and MySQL - Migrated install from RedHat Linux 7.3 to Fedora Core 1 - Deployed dspam bayesian spam filter and Sendmail milters to restrict connections Network Quality of Serivce (QoS) Implementation Sovereign Technologies, LLC. - Tampa, Florida [Sep 2005] - Developed Perl based QoS tool to apply QoS policy based on IP Live Rails Sample gohideaway.com – Ruby on Rails based vacation rental inventory Publications Centralized System Backup using Dirvish, rsync, and OpenSSH http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/dirvish_backup/ Network Quality of Service (QoS) with Linux kernel http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/ Mail Server Deployment using Exim4 and Courier IMAP on Debian GNU/Linux http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/ Education University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida [Aug 2000 - Jul 2002] Associate Arts Degree, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida [Jun 1998 - Aug 2000] SANS Institute Intrusion Detection Course, Blacksburg, VA [Mar 2005]