Brad Marshall's Resume

Personal Details

Address:

PO Box 44
CQU Post Office
North Rockhampton Qld 4701

Phone:

Work: (07) 4930 6564
Mobile: 0400 703 154

Email:
Personal: brad@humbug.org.au
Professional: brad.marshall@member.sage-au.org.au

Qualifications

• B.Sc majoring in Computer Science
  University of Queensland, 1997
• HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 1: Fundamentals for Administrators
  5 day course, 13 March, 2006.
• PeopleTools I/II - Accelerated 8.4
  5 day course, 7 May 2004.
• Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
  3 day course by ProActive Services, 26 June 2004.
• Apple Mac OSX Directory Services
  3 day course, 22 November 2004.

Skills

• Linux/i386 and linux/sparc experience
  • Debian
  • Redhat
• Solaris 9/10 experience
  • Hardware: v100, v210, v240, v440, v480, T2000, 280R
• Installation and administration of common unix servers
  • Email: Sendmail, exim, qpopper, uw-imapd
  • Web: Squid, Apache, Tomcat, Enhydra, Jserv
  • DNS: Bind
  • SQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Firewall: Iptables, Ipchains, IPSec (FreeS/WAN)
  • Version Control: CVS, RCS
  • File sharing: NFS, Samba, quotas
  • Printing: LPRng
  • LDAP: OpenLDAP
  • Sun ONE: Metadirectory, Directory Server, Identity Synch
  • Mailing lists: Mailman, Majordomo
  • Antispam and virus: SpamAssassin, ClamAV, exiscan, sophie
• Exposure to Tru64, AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX
• SnapGear and Orinoco wireless router administration experience
• Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP experience
  • IIS, Exchange, Active Directory and Terminal Server
• Perl, PHP and shell scripting
• HTML and CGI scripting
• Technical documentation and presentations

Employment History

Corporate Systems Administrator

Information Technology Division, Central Queensland University, July 2003 - present

Key responsibilities

• Various project work, including:
  • Migrating webservers
  • Migration from majordomo to mailman
  • Directory services deployment
  • Development of automated subscription process for student mailing list
• Providing technical support to university staff / students
• Configuring monitoring of servers via MRTG and BigBrother
• Support of Blackboard, web based learning management system
• Migration to a load balanced solution

Systems Administrator

Plugged In Software, July 1996 - June 2003

Key responsibilities

• Providing technical direction for PI's system administration team
• Operating and expanding PI's internal services, including fileserver, internet access, and intranet
• Providing scripting and sysadmin support for local and remote offices
• Operating and expanding PI's Internet services, including email, web and dns services
• Managing disk usage, internet traffic and backups for development network
• Rapidly deploying systems for product demonstrations
• Implemented and maintained helpdesk for internal and external use
• Migrated production internet services across ISPs
• Recommendations to management for purchasing decisions
• Provided systems administration consulting services to clients

Assistant Network Administrator

AGL Pipelines, April 1996 - June 1996

Key responsibilities

• Technical support for Windows 95 desktops and Microsoft Office
• Assisted systems administration of SunOS 4.1.3 servers

Volunteer Positions

Debian Developer
August 2000 - present
Creation and maintenance of packages
Responding to bug reports by users
Currently maintaining coldsync, libpalm-perl, gnokii, and muffin

HUMBUG Senior Systems Administrator
April 2001 - Present
Installation, upgrades and maintanance of HUMBUG's servers
Migration of mailing lists to mailman
Maintainance of aliases and dns zone

SAGE-AU Queensland Regional Executive
September 2004 - present
Organising Rockhampton chapter meetings
Helping organise speakers for meetings
Liasing with chapters to organise synchronized meetings

Linux Australia Mailing List Co-administrator
September 2004 - present
Assisting with moderating some Linux Australia lists

SAGE-AU National Executive
July 1999 - August 2003
Mailing list administration
Reorganising executive internal website
Organising mentoring scheme

linux.conf.au 2002 committee member
July 2001 - March 2002
Assisted in organising of linux.conf.au 2002

SAGE-AU Queensland Chapter Treasurer
July 1998 - July 1999
Assisting in organising monthly meetings
Responsible for collecting joining fees and organising reimbursement for monies spent

Publication

Published in SAGE Advice, SAGE-AU's quarterly newsletter from 2001 to present

• ``Basic Introduction to Perl''
• ``Perl Command line Options''
• ``Perl and Net::LDAP''
• ``XFree4.0 Introduction''
• ``Xinerama - Multi-headed X''
• ``SSH Port Forwarding and Tunnelling''
• ``SSH Tricks'
• ``Introduction to IPSec''
• ``Debian Kernel Packages and Boot Loaders for i386''
• ``Introduction to MRTG'
• ``Introduction to Using Databases with Perl'
• ``Sending Mail the Net::SMTP Way'
• ``Perl Mailbox Manipulation'

Published in linux.com Sysadmin and Security section during 2000/2001

• ``Introduction to Securing Apache''
• ``Introduction to Squid''
• ``Introduction to LDAP''
• ``Introduction to Firewall Theory''
• ``ACLs and Apache Modules''
• ``ACLs under Squid''
• ``Setting up an Intranet Router - The Beginning''
• ``Basic Intranet Configuration''
• ``Linux Clustering - Advanced Topics''

Presentations

• ``linux in a Commercial Environment'', SAGE-AU 1998
• ``Systems Authentication Using LDAP'', SAGE-AU 2000 and QAUUG Summer Conf 2001
• ``A Case Study in Website Management'', SAGE-AU 2001
• ``Introduction To LDAP'', Full day tutorial for AUUG Tasmania, 2nd October 2000
• ``Introduction to LDAP'', Half day tutorial at SAGE-AU 2001 and SAGE-AU 2002
• ``Virtual Machines Under Linux'', SAGE-AU Qld Chapter, 11^th April 2003
• ``LDAP Theory and Management'', SAGE-AU 2003 Conference
• ``LDAP Servers and Applications'', SAGE-AU 2003 and SAGE-AU 2004 Conferences

All presentations and publications available at http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/.

Referees

Available upon request.