MIKE PLUNKETT - UNIX SYSTEMS and NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
Southern California



PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have over 20 years of progressive experience including:
- Over 10 years of UNIX system administration and programming in various
  environments, including Linux, HP, SUN, SGI, DG, Sequent, NCR, and NT/2000.
- Network administration & engineering for both WAN and LAN environments.
- Unix/Linux/Windows integration, especially for Dynamic DNS & DHCP.
- Security & firewall administration.
- Red Hat Certified Engineer #807302778506012

HARDWARE

- Servers:      HP9000/800 H, K, T & V series, Sun E450, DG AViiON AV5500/2, 
                Sequent S5000/SE20, SGI Origin 2000, NCR Tower.
- Other:        HP9000/7xx & Sun Sparc workstations, 
                PCs, minis and mainframes.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

- Servers:      HP-UX v9/10/11, Sun Solaris 6/7/8, Linux Redhat 6/7
                IRIX-64, DG/UX, Dynix/ptx, Windows 2000/NT
- Workstations: HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Redhat Linux, 
                Windows 2000/NT/95/3.11, DOS.

DATABASES & FILESYSTEMS

- Relational Databases: Informix 5/7, some Oracle & Sybase.
- HP Logical Volume Manager, Sequent Volume Manager.
- Basic & advanced mirroring: RAID 1, 5, 0+1, HP AutoRaid.
- Raw and cooked file systems: JFS, VFS, HFS, UFS.
- Networked File Systems: NFS, SMB/CIFS (NT, Samba), Netware.

WIDE AREA NETWORKING (WAN)

- Operate and troubleshoot T1, Frame Relay and ATM networks.
- Case/Datatel/Cray T1 CSU/DSU, DACS multiplexor, mixed data & voice.
- Cisco 25xx routers and commservers, Codex and Micom statmuxes, 
  Retix and Dlink bridges, HP DTCs, Xyplex termservers.
- Worked with MFS Datanet, Compuserve, AT&T Megacom, PacBell Hi-Cap.
- Administration with OpenView, Optivity and scripting.

LOCAL AREA NETWORKING (LAN)

- Windows SMB (CIFS), Novell Netware, Netware for Unix, NFS, LPD.
- 10/100/1000baseT Ethernet; Sniffer, Fluke, OpenView, Optivity.

INTRANET / INTERNET

- Web Administration: Netscape & Apache Web servers.
- Web Programming: HTML, CGI, frames, styles.

PROTOCOLS

- TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, NFS, NIS, FTP, NTP, SNMP, SMTP, ODBC, telnet, ssh, 
  rlogin, remsh/rsh, rcp, uucp.

DEVELOPMENT & PROGRAMMING

- Unix Shell scripting (sh, ksh, csh, perl).
- Windows NT cmd scripting.
- Compiled languages: C, C++, COBOL (out-of-date).


EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

I am able to perform the following typical intermediate and advanced 
duties, projects and responsibilities for mission critical resources:

System Administration and Programming:
System installs and upgrades, performance monitoring, kernel tuning.
Perform system recoveries using various recovery tools such as fsck and 
restore.  Maintain security, user and resource access; install & maintain 
local, network and remote printers, file systems, terminal emulators, 
applications.  Design and develop system backups and offsite rotations, 
change management systems.  Custom and off-the-shelf software & operating 
system integration.

Database Administration:
Install and upgrade database software, performance monitoring and
tuning, design and maintain logical and physical database structures.
Setup and maintain 2 and 3 tier client/server architectures.  Database
backup and reliability checking, perform database recoveries using
recovery tools such as ontape and oncheck, recover corrupted database
restores.  Multiple instances, database consolidation.
(Primarily Informix, some Oracle & Sybase)

Network Administration and Engineering:
Use various networking tools such as ssh, telnet, rlogin, remsh, rcp, 
ftp and ping to monitor and maintain networked systems.  Use snoop, tcpdump 
and other network analysis tools to troubleshoot problems, especially with 
DNS, SMTP and FTP.  Design, implement and maintain DNS, NIS, NFS and NTP 
architectures.  Network node administration accomplished with appropriate 
applications; commercial programs such as OpenView and Optivity, and custom 
applications written in C++ or shell scripts.  Design, implement and maintain 
DNS, NFS, FTP and Web servers.  Setup and maintain enterprise network switches, 
routers, and firewalls.  Physical infrastructure maintenance.


EXPERIENCE

06/00 - present  Trust Company of the West, Los Angeles, Ca.
                 Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

Systems and network administration of a medium sized internetwork of Unix 
& Windows 2000 servers for one of the largest investment management firms 
in Los Angeles. Maintained twenty HP & Sun Unix servers providing network, 
firewall, database, application & file services.

Performed typical intermediate and advanced system and network
administration duties, supporting a 500+ user community.

Systems administered include eleven HP9000/800 series computers, ranging 
from D class through K class, and nine Suns, ranging from Ultra 2's 
through E450's, and various Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux servers involved
with my duties.

Additional projects & responsibilities:
- Use network analysis tools such as snoop, tcpdump, Ethereal & Openview to 
  troubleshoot network problems, especially with firewalls, DNS, FTP, & SMTP.
- Setup & maintain Nortel LAN/WAN networking equipment: Passport 8600 switches, 
  Baystack switches (BPS's, 450's), ARN/ASN/BCN routers; Optivity & Omniview.
- Troubleshoot & fix LAN connectivity problems.
- Setup & maintain Checkpoint Firewalls & DMZ's on Nokias, Suns & HP's.
- Set routes and proxy arps for NAT source hide.
- Research, analyze & evaluate Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and 
  Managed Security providers. IDS's included Real Secure, Manhunt & Snort.
- Run internal security audits.
- Design, setup & maintain intranet, extranet & internet DNS.  
- Design BIND 9 split DNS, views, & security for international extranet.
- Troubleshoot & configure Windows Dynamic DNS (DDNS) & DHCP problems.
- Unix/Linux BIND & Windows 2000 DDNS integration.


06/98 - 06/00  Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Los Angeles, Ca.
               Unix Systems Consultant (TekSystems)

Systems, database, and network administration of a small international
network of Unix and NT servers for one of the largest law firms in
Los Angeles.  Eighteen NT and Netware servers exchanged data with three
Unix servers, including one of HP's larger machines, a 16 cpu V2200 with
16gb of memory supporting 128gb of Informix databases.

Performed typical intermediate and advanced system, database and network
administration duties, supporting a 150+ user community.

Systems administered include two HP9000/800 series computers, a V2200
and an H70, running HP-UX v11 and v10.20, respectively; and a Data
General Aviion AV/5500.  Also developed for and administered NT v4 on
standard PC's.

Primary projects were 
- Site survey and installation of the V2200 system.  Software
  installation included HPUX v11, Informix v7.30, and Elite v7.2 and
  Elite for Windows, Word Perfect for Unix, Reflection X-windows, 
- Implemented HP Omniback backups with a DLT library.  File and database
  restore tests.  Disk crash failover tests.
- Conversion of a nationwide network of Equitrac DOS PC's to Windows 
  NT servers, which included installing the Samba SMB file server to
  share files between Unix and NT.
- Three-way share of Unix file systems using NFS, Samba and Netware for Unix.
- Extensive script development for Unix ksh and NT cmd shells.
- and, of course, Y2K upgrades and fixes.

Also: Tuned and monitored applications with Glance, sar, vmstat & netstat.
Parallel applications testing.  Root disk rebuilds.  Netscape Web server
setup & administration.  Database consolidation.


11/97 - 05/98  Aera Energy, Bakersfield, Ca.
               Unix Systems Consultant (TekSystems)

Systems, database and network administration of a large Wide Area 
Network of Unix servers for a startup venture between Shell & Mobil 
Oil Co's.  Supported over 18 servers and 200 workstations at the company 
headquarters and in the oil fields of the San Joaquin Valley.

Performed typical intermediate and advanced system and network 
administration duties, supporting a 200+ user community.

Systems administered include HP9000 K460 and G70 servers, various 
HP/700 series servers and workstations, SGI Oxygen and Sun workstations, 
and some work with SGI's Origin 2000 servers, Sun's Enterprise servers, 
and IBM AIX servers.

Primary projects were 
- Run and maintain HP, Sun, and SGI database, appl. and net servers.  
- Troubleshoot workstations.  Performance analysis.
- Support geophysical applications: Landmark, Open Works, EarthVision.
- Design and implement NFS automounter datastore.  
- DNS and NIS domain consolidation.
- HP Omniback backup stabilization.  Added DLT tape backup systems.
- Oracle database installs, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
- Created RAID 5 striped mirrors using HP's Autoraid system.

Also:  Ksh administrative scripts.  Tuned and monitored applications 
with Glance and sar.  Root disk rebuilds.


11/96 - 10/97  Strategic Mortgage Services, Irvine, Ca.
               Unix Systems Consultant (Source Consulting)

Systems, database, and network administration of a nationwide network
of Sequent, NCR & Sun machines.  Over forty hosts provided real
estate, mortgage, title, and appraisal services.  

Performed typical intermediate and advanced system, database and network 
administration duties.  Supported a 200+ user community.

Systems administered included Sequent S5000/SE20's using DYNIX/ptx,
NCR 68k systems using Unix SVR3, and PC workstations using Sun
Solaris, Linux and Windows NT.

Additional projects & responsibilities:
- Informix Dynamic Server Architecture v7 database setup and
  administration, performance monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting.
- Network troubleshooting of SMS's nationwide frame-relay network of 
  Cisco routers, Cabletron hubs and Xyplex terminal servers.
- Setup mirrors using Sequent's Volume Manager.  
  Root disk rebuilds.
- Intranet Web server and Web page design and maintenance using HTML &
  CGI shell scripting.


09/96 - 11/96  Cox Communications, Irvine, Ca.
               Unix Systems Consultant (Source Consulting)


11/90 - 07/96  Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Los Angeles, Ca.
               Unix Systems Administrator

Systems, database, and network administration of a small nationwide 
network of Unix and Netware servers for one of the largest law firms in
Los Angeles.  Eight Netware servers exchanged data with two Unix 
servers running Informix databases and legal accounting applications.

Performed typical intermediate system, database and network 
administration duties, supporting a 100+ user community.

Systems administered include an HP9000/800 H70 computer, running 
HP-UX v10.20, and a Data General Aviion AV/5500.

Duties included:
- Network Administration: Administer, maintain and troubleshoot the 
  firm's interstate Wide Area Network.  Maintain and troubleshoot multiplexed 
  T1 voice and data network.  LAN troubleshooting and protocol analysis.
- Software Development: C, C++, 4gl.  Optical storage integration.  


10/84 - 11/90  AVCO Financial Services, Irvine, Ca.
               Systems Programmer

12/81 - 09/84  Trail-Rite, Inc., Santa Ana, Ca.
               Programmer/Analyst

06/80 - 10/81  Jorgensen Steel Company, South Gate, Ca.
               Programmer


EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

00's            Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE #807302778506012)
                Sun Systems Administration

90's            Microsoft: NT Workstation
                Hewlett Packard: Unix Systems Administration
                Informix: Database Administration, 4GL & SQL programming
                Data General: Unix Systems Administration, TCP/IP admin
                Cray Communications: T1, ATM, Internetworking devices

80's            IBM: JCL, SPF, CLIST, DB2, COBOL II
                Data General: System Mgmt, System Performance, DB Design

70's            Long Beach City College:  Business Data Processing
                U.S. Air Force: Russian translator, reconnaisance aircrew


Member of SAGE        - Systems Administrators Guild
Member of USENIX      - Advanced Computing Systems Association
Member of UUASC       - Unix Users Association of Southern California


Revised 02/01/2003 mp