Jeff Wasilko
38A Yale Ave
Wakefield, MA 01880
Phone: +1 781 820 0882
Email: jeffw-resume@smoe.org
MS Word version available at http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/resume

Skills Summary
o  Unix systems administration, with a focus on developing and using
   system administration tools to simplify management of large-scale
   environments
o  Management of application and service lifecycles, including  
   migration paths and upgrades
o  Application-level and system-level performance tuning and  
   capacity planning
o  Design of distributed, scalable systems supporting
   mission-critical services
o  Strong written and oral communication skills
o  Self-management/self-starter with the ability to work independently or  
   as part of a team
o  Strong technical leadership skills

Technical Skills
o  Unix administration and performance tuning, with strong knowledge of 
   Solaris internals
o  Databases (LDAP, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
o  Sun/Netscape Messaging and Directory servers
o  Name Services (LDAP, NIS/Yellow Pages, NIS+)
o  Scripting (perl, sh, csh and sql)
o  Veritas Volume Manager, File System and Cluster Server, Sun
   DiskSuite/Logical Volume Manager and RM6
o  Storage hardware including Sun A1000, D1000, A3x00,A5x00, 
   EMC Symmetrix (with TimeFinder and SRDF), CLARiiON and SAN JBOD
o  Core Internet applications and services including SMTP (sendmail), SSH,
   POP, IMAP, NNTP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP (Apache), Samba
o  Commercial and public domain network and systems monitoring
   tools (mrtg, orca, netsaint, Netcool OMNIbus/Internet Service
   Monitors, Concord Network Health/SystemEdge SNMP Agents,
   Veritas NerveCenter)
o  System and network security, with an emphasis on building systems 
   with minimal exposure.
o  LAN and WAN equipment (Cisco 2600, 3600, 7000 series routers, 
   Cisco Catalyst 1900, 2900, 3500, 5000 series switches, Extreme 
   Networks Summit 24/48 and 7i switches)

Work Experience

August 2004--Present
Senior Systems Administrator, Wellington Management

Responsibilities primarily included support of Unix production systems
as well as guiding infrastructure improvements.

Significant accomplishments at Wellington Management include:
o  Day to day support of large Veritas clusters running on
   Fujitsu 2000 and 2500 servers with EMC storage.
o  Deployed cfengine to manage system configuration across 3 sites
   and more than 100 systems.
o  Primary owner of development/test/stage environment and 
   corporate systems secure network.
o  Secondary owner of EMC TimeFinder/SRDF environment.
o  Migrated systems to use DiskSuite for mirroring boot disk to 
   ease OS upgrades. Provided DiskSuite training to department.
o  Deployed LiveUpgrade to ease OS upgrades and patch installation.
o  Deployed wiki to provide central repository for system & standards
   documentation. Developed templates for standards documents.
o  Deployed console servers to enable remote access to all systems.
o  Wrote "Infrastructure Analysis Report" to provide guidance for 
   infrastructure improvements in 2005.


May 2004--August 2004
Consultant/Architect, Gryphon Networks

Responsibilities primarily included system architecture design for 
Email Advisor product.

Significant accomplishments at Gryphon Networks included:
o  Re-architected system to satisfy requirement for one trackable
   message per recipient for bounce and opt-out processing.
o  Led whiteboard sessions to educate development team on mail standards and
   message flow in Email Advisor system.
o  Assisted sendmail milter developer with performance tuning and RFC
   compliance issues.
o  Provided guidance for server platform selection (both Sparc/Solaris and
   x86/Linux) and storage platform for production system.
o  Tuned sendmail for optimum performance.


March 2003--May 2004
Senior Unix Administrator, TVGuide OnScreen

Responsibilities primarily included operation of Information Broadcasting 
and IT systems.

Significant accomplishments at TVGuide included:
o  Upgraded Solaris 7 & 8 systems to Solaris 9 with minimal downtime	        
   using a variety of tools including LiveUpgrade and rsync.	
o  Migrated name services from NIS+ to LDAP with no downtime. New
   LDAP environment included replicated servers and automated nightly
   backups. Documented new account management procedures.
o  Troubleshooting and day-to-day operational issues involving NIS+,	        
   NFS, DNS, DHCP, mail and samba.
o  Deployed cfengine to manage system configuration across 3 sites.	        
o  Designed CVS-based change management utility for cfengine to support         
   requirement for 5-stage rollout of configuration changes.
o  Deployed standardized software distribution across all servers.	        
o  Upgraded sendmail-based mail system to include the use of RBLs and
   SpamAssassin to reduce the impact of spam.				
o  Deployed standardized SAN configuration across all hosts.		        
o  Applied patches and upgraded applications as needed to track security        
   issues and new software versions.					        
o  Administered Red Hat Linux development systems. 
o  Renumbered office and production network from public address space	        
   into RFC1918 space with minimal impact on operations.		        
o  Consulted with other departments to help specify hardware for various        
   projects.								        


March 2001--Dec 2002
Senior Developer, RouteScience Technologies

Responsibilities primarily included building and supporting perl-based
customer support tools and engineering research projects.

Significant accomplishments at RouteScience included:
o  Designed and built LDAP-backed, web-based Customer Information 
   System. Provided ongoing enhancements with bi-weekly releases.
o  Designed LDAP-backed distributed Customer Authentication System 
   for customer-facing Web and FTP servers.
o  Designed and built MySQL database for route performance data-
   warehouse. Wrote perl database driver library for other developers to 
   use to interface with the data warehouse. Designed and built 
   RRDtool-based graphing of data from the data warehouse.
o  Designed and built modular Endpoint Collection System to
   provide data feed to route optimization system. System included
   modular perl libraries to ease creation of new endpoint filters,
   as well as support for BerkeleyDB and SQL databases.
o  Administered Solaris and Red Hat Linux development systems. 
o  Supported Systems Administration group by acting as a technical 
   resource on Solaris systems.


June 2000--March 2001
Principal Member of Technical Staff/
Senior Unix Administrator, Gemini Networks

Responsibilities primarily included building and supporting 
infrastructure to support launch of new open-access CLEC.

Significant accomplishments at Gemini Networks included:
o  Designed, built and managed 40+ server datacenter, including basic
   systems and network architecture, rack placement, structured wiring and
   fibre management systems.
o  Designed Jumpstart install environment that supported 100% hands-off 
   installation of multiple versions of Solaris, all core software and 
   patches. Veritas Volume Manager/File System and DiskSuite installation
   included automatic configuration of boot disk mirrors and SAN disks.
o  Built Oracle and Sun/Netscape LDAP Veritas Cluster Servers and
   cluster-aware backup tools.
o  Deployed Sun/Netscape Messaging server.
o  Designed and built LDAP-based mail-to-pager gateway.
o  Assisted with design of centralized software distribution and
   configuration maintenance system for Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8 servers,
   utilizing cfengine, ssh, and rsync, with the goal of identical system
   installations and installation reproducibility.
o  Designed multiple-ISP log distribution system to support open-access 
   environment.
o  Worked with storage services provider (StorageNetworks) to design and 
   implement SAN, NFS and backup service. Packaged SAN drivers for 
   hands-free installation and configuration via Jumpstart.
o  Provided technical support to NOC group on NOC applications 
   (Netcool OMNIbus and Internet Service Monitors, Concord Network 
   Health/SystemEdge SNMP Agents and Veritas NerveCenter).
o  Acted as part of initial IT group and built internal infrastructure to 
   support office, including internet connectivity, phone system, mail, 
   LDAP, NIS, NFS, Jumpstart and SMB servers.
o  Created "Datacenter Standards" document that described standard 
   practices for machine and cable labeling, PCI slot usage, ethernet port 
   usage, structured cabling and disk layout standards.
  
   
January 2000--June 2000
Director, Systems Engineering, RoadRunner
June 1999--January 2000
Principal Engineer -- Distributed Computing, RoadRunner

Responsibilities primarily included supporting RoadRunner's cable-based 
broadband internet service and managing a group of 2 Principal Engineers.

Significant accomplishments at RoadRunner included:
o  Led engineering, testing and deployment of mail system upgrade 
   supporting 350,000 mail accounts from Netscape/Sun Messaging version 3.x 
   to 4.1, on time and with no unscheduled downtime.
o  Designed software to allow 'roaming' customers to securely access 
   RoadRunner's SMTP servers while using dialup modems.
o  Participated in National Data Center design and managed Consolidated 
   Messaging RFP process to design mail system that would scale to 
   support 10 million mailboxes at broadband access rates.
o  Developed standards for OS and Application health/performance 
   monitoring for Mail and News servers and managed monitoring 
   application development.
o  Supported MediaOne's legacy server environment, including 
   provisioning interfaces, TFTP/BOOTP/DHCP and mail (sendmail,
   Netscape/Sun Messaging and LDAP).
o  Acted as back-line Solaris systems administration support for all
   Solaris systems in RoadRunner.


June 1997--June 1999
Senior Project Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Responsibilities primarily included support of MediaOne 
Express/RoadRunner cable-based broadband internet service.

Significant accomplishments at MediaOne/RoadRunner included:
o  Successfully deployed cable modem ISP architecture in Amsterdam in 
   less than six weeks from start of project to completion of alpha-test 
   phase. 
o  Designed, implemented and deployed a second-level e-mail 
   infrastructure to augment existing Netscape Messaging system. Planned 
   unsolicited e-mail blocking and abuse prevention mechanisms. 
o  Examined and documented the architecture and performance issues of 
   Netscape Messaging 3.x and LDAP system, and designed next-generation 
   architecture to allow mail infrastructure to scale to 500,000+ accounts 
   per region.
o  Designed, implemented and deployed software to allow 'roaming' 
   customers to securely access MediaOne's SMTP servers while using 
   dialup modems.
o  Designed, implemented and deployed tools to monitor Netscape/Sun 
   Messaging performance for use in scalability planning.
o  Consulted with other team members on application/system performance 
   and scaling issues.
o  Acted as back-line Solaris systems administration support for all
   Solaris systems in MediaOne.
o  Worked as part of team that performed numerous mail system 
   migrations and upgrades, as well as 24x7 support of national
   mail infrastructure.


June 1996--May 1997
Systems Support Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Responsibilities included account management and total system support 
(including hardware, software, applications and networking).

Significant accomplishments included:
o  Technical account management for major customers including 
   MediaOne, Putnam Investments, Bell Atlantic and Sun Microsystems 
   Production Data Center.
o  Managed high-profile escalations to successful completion while 
   meeting customer expectations.
o  Supported other Systems Support Engineers and Service Partner staff by 
   acting as a technical resource.
o  Design & implementation of an application to generate service call 
   follow-up letters on a scheduled basis from an existing Sybase database.


May 1993--June 1996
Senior Systems Representative, Autologic Information International

Responsibilities included project management, product integration, system 
installation & documentation, back-line technical support, technical sales 
support, and in-house & customer training.

Significant accomplishments included:
o  Configuration, project management and installation of a 7-site, 150+ 
   user Solaris-based display advertising creation and tracking system in a 
   complex multi-vendor environment.
o  Configuration, project management and installation of a 200-user, 2 
   newsroom newspaper editorial system.
o  Configuration and installation of a 40-user classified ad system 
   supporting over 50 daily and weekly newspapers.
o  Troubleshooting highly complex multi-vendor application 
   environments.
o  Migration of products from Solaris 1.x to Solaris 2.x.

Education	
o  Rochester Institute of Technology, Newspaper Operations Management 
   (2 years completed towards BS degree)
o  Northeastern University, C Programming (working on BS in
   Computer Science)
o  EMC Symmetrix Business Continuity & SRDF Automated Replication 
o  Sun Microsystems, Solaris 2.X Internals
o  Sun Microsystems, Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop
o  Sun Microsystems, Sun Enterprise Cluster PDB/Oracle Administration
o  Sun Microsystems, Sun Enterprise Cluster HA Administration
o  Sun Microsystems, Technical Symposium (1997, 1998, 1999)
o  Veritas, Volume Manager Operations
o  Veritas, Cluster Server 4.0