Resume

Chris Dillon

My email address is:
milk-REMOVE-filk@gmail.com (take out -REMOVE-)

< Skills - Unix >

Solaris (7/8/9/10) Linux (most major distros) Apache Bind (v.8/9)/dig Exim/Postfix/SMTP
NFS Sun Cluster 3.0/3.1 Samba ProFTPd iptables
Volume Manager 3.2/3.5 CVS admin. dhcpd Veritas Cluster Server Snort/ACID
ssh/sshd/sftp Solaris VM/DiskSuite MySQL admin. Nagios Oracle (partial DBA role)
Cacti Sun 280r/420r/E450/V490 Sun 6320/A5200 Sun T1,V100 Linux kernel/module compiling Linux Clustering
Unix Performance Tuning Squid Sun Instant Image 3(iiadm)

< Skills - Development >

Java (JSP,servlets,MVC model etc) Ant Basic XML/DTD SQL (sequences, triggers, FK/PK, Oracle, Mysql, some Sybase) Spring Web MVC (for example handling actions elegantly in a spring multiaction controller)
PHP Perl & Shell Scripting (ksh/bash/sh) Cactus/JUnit JBoss/Tomcat development CVS/Subversion experience
Some JSR-168 work Regex OSX & Xcode Eclipse IDE (and experience with many popular plugins)

< Skills - Other >

awstats Very large exposure to evaluating and judging Wiki systems Blog/CMS systems Basic LDAP Big-IP F5 load balancer
MaxWare Virtual Directory Radiant Logic Virtual Directory Oracle Virtual Directory Simple SQL Schema Design

< Experience >

Systems Integrator - Lockheed Martin, VA

8/2006 - present
System integration for a virtual directory project.
Built lab in vmware, evaluated products, designed selection criteria, lead trade study.
Oracle 10g, LDAP, Oracle Virtual Directory, Maxware Virtual Directory, Radiant Logic Virtual Directory

System Integrator - Northrop Grumman Mclean, VA

8/2005 - 8/2006
Java development, Unix administration.
Built/building workflow implementation using OSWorkflow.
Virtualization with Solaris 10 (some), with vmware.
Setup wiki for developer documentation.
Oracle9/10g, Sybase12.5, Subversion, CVS, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDE, ant, apache commons APIs.
Very matrixed across projects.

Unix Administrator/Tech Lead - TEOCO Corporation Fairfax, VA

11/2001 - 8/2005
StoreEdge 6320, Sun Cluster 3.1 migration from SC3.0/StoreEdge A5200s
Created system backup scripts for production Oracle DB servers, Cisco equipment
Scoped 20-60 Terabyte Oracle environment involving: Sun E15k, Hitachi 9980, Sun 1280
Implemented LAN-free backups of production Oracle servers (iiadm)
Migrated ASP Unix environment from Veritas Cluster Server to Sun Cluster
Migrated Linux mail server from Sendmail to Exim and reduced new user setup time by 25%
Involved with J2EE development project developing Java Beans and Java Server Pages
Doubled hosting service infrastructure capacity, planned for growth, verified backup SLAs
Documented policies and systems in an Enterprise Security Policy and SAS70 certification
Built and managed a CMS/Blog system for system and IT documentation (tikiwiki)
Developed Introduction to Unix training course, trained employees on Unix basics
Assisted Java developers with various bugs and technical hurdles
Built Nagios and Cacti monitoring systems, trained Junior SA’s
Planned and executed corporate IP Cutover with no impact or outages
Administrated a total of 30+ Unix machines, personally built majority
Implemented SQL authentication on proftp for corporate website and wrote php admin frontend

Unix Admin/System Admin - Netdecisions Reston VA

3/2001 - 10/2001
Deployed and administrated Solaris/Oracle 8i DB/9iAS servers
Installed and designed entire office-wide network from scratch
Responsible for all of local IT duties
Bind8 on Linux, Squid, Exim, Apache, Bash, Cisco IOS
Developed on-line purchase form system in PHP with MySQL
Developed Contact Management System using PHP, OOP and relational database concepts

Network Integration Specialist - Network Designs Vienna, VA

4/2000 - 3/2001
Built Linux router and Linux VNC server for President Bush, VP Cheney and staff
Traveled to GSA sites nationwide rolling out Windows 98/2000
Maintained Cisco 6000 routers and assisted with DHCP management
Wrote Perl front-end to assist with user data backup

Technical Specialist Tier 3 - Sony Electronics - Ft. Myers, FL

10/1999 - 4/2000
Provided upper-level support on Sony computers and peripherals
Software issues and hardware troubleshooting
Customer training and relations

Network Administrator - Bruce L. Scheiner, Personal Injury P.A. - Ft. Myers, FL

7/1999 - 10/1999
Managed Novell 4.11 Server and LAN
Designed data entry front end to billable expenses program in Visual Basic
Word Perfect macro and forms programming for Y2K migration

Residential Technology Advisor - Longwood College - Farmville, VA

9/1998 - 5/1999
Paid part time work with college IT helpdesk to support campus users and network
Trained students in formal class setting on local college network services

< Certifications and Education >

7/2003 Sun Cluster 3.x Training - Sun Education
10/2002 Veritas Cluster Server Training - Veritas Education
7/2000 Cisco CCNA Certification
12/1999 MCSE Certification - Gulf Coast University
5/1999 BS in Business Administration - Longwood College

<Associations>

IGDA
SIGGRAPH DC