William Yardley
email: wby

* Qualifications

      Over 6 years of experience with Linux and UNIX System
      Administration.  Strong ability to learn quickly and tackle
      new challenges. Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving
      skills.

* Experience:

      California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, California
      Senior Systems Administrator
      [Jan 2008 - present]

      PriceGrabber.com, Los Angeles, California
      Senior Systems Administrator
      [Mar 2005 - Dec 2007]

      Maintain and setup Linux (RHEL) and FreeBSD servers for a large
      comparison shopping website. Ensure high availability. Automate
      repetitive tasks using Perl and shell scripts. Configure
      routers, load balancers, firewalls and other networking
      equipment.

      New Dream Network, LLC (DreamHost) - Los Angeles, California

      System Administrator
      [May 2001 - Feb 2005]

      Helped oversee and maintain aproximately 400 Linux (Debian)
      servers. Was responsible for designing and maintaining DNS and
      electronic mail infrastructure along with several developers.
      Served as primary contact for abuse, spam, and security issues.
      Configured and maintained networking equipment (Cisco routers
      and switches, Extreme switches) in a multihomed environment.
      Significantly reduced bandwidth costs by negotiating new deals
      with network providers and balancing network traffic. Assisted
      in "on-call" and monitoring duties.

      Customer Support
      [Nov, 1999 - May, 2001]

      Responded to inquiries from customers of a busy webhosting
      company (DreamHost), which currently hosts over 100,000 customer
      domains.  Assisted with system administration tasks.  Diagnosed
      and fixed problems with customer websites and email.

      Pitzer College, Sound Engineer - Claremont, California
      [Jan 1997- May 1999]

* Papers / Talks:

      "Data Center Mangement and Best Practices" (with Jason Sydes)
      http://bolthole.com/uuala/past.html

* Education:

      LISA (Large Installation Systems Administration) Conference, Atlanta, GA
      [Oct, 2004]
      "Advanced Shell Programming", "Regular Expression Mastery", "Perl Saves
      the Day" Tutorials

      Pitzer College, Claremont, California [1996-1999]
      Media Studies concentration.

      Institute of Audio Research, New York, New York [1995-1996]
      Diploma in Recording Engineering and Production.	

* Professional Skills:

Expertise in:

      Linux (Debian, RHEL, Fedora), FreeBSD, OpenBSD operating systems
      DNS / BIND 8.x, 9.x, dig, host, other DNS utilities
      Electronic Mail (Postfix, Sendmail, IMAP, POP3, standard GUI and 
         text-based clients)
      Cisco routers and switches, Cisco IOS, BGP4
      UNIX and GNU commands, functions and utilities, text editors
      Apache Web Server
      ARIN Policy, IP address allocation and delegation
      Datacenter operations, rack wiring

Knowledge of:

      Perl scripting
      Shell scripting (Bash, Zsh), awk, sed
      CVS, SVN
      MySQL (server /client)
      Kickstart
      Debian Linux packaging, RPM packaging (building packages, apt, yum)
      RRDTool / MRTG / RTG
      Solaris 8 

Hardware:

      Cisco - 76xx, 72xx routers, Catalyst 65xx, 35xx, 29xx switches, CSS, PIX
      Extreme switches, Foundry ServerIron load balancers
      Network Appliance filers
      Dell, Sun Sparc, generic x86 servers

* References available upon request.