Wiley M. Sanders
Lafayette, CA

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Objective: UNIX and TCPIP System and Network Administration,
Architecture, and Technical Support in Contra Costa County,
Oakland, Berkeley, and Thereabouts.

- Extensive experience in all flavors of Unix, TCPIP Internet, LAN, WAN,
  architecture and support; particularly LAMP, Linux, Solaris, Cisco,
  Juniper, and most major Open Source applications and network protocols.
- All experience exclusively in high availability and zero-downtime
- Perl, C, and Shell Programming, some Python and PHP
- Working knowledge of MySql DB administration and development of
  SQL-based business logic. Some Oracle DBA skills.
- Working knowledge of Windows/Microsoft-Related Technologies
- Experience commensurate with Solaris & RedHat Professional, Cisco
  Associate certifications.
- Expert 'shrinkwrapped' system monitoring with Nagios

Sep 2008 - Now:

System and Network Administrator, St. Mary's College of California:
Master of and POC for core network and related services for email,
servers, storage, monitoring, backups, DNS, LDAP/Radius auth, Samba,
etc. We are making a campus-wide transition from Cisco and various oddball
legacy network devices to a mostly-Juniper, mostly-routed network, about
1/4 way through installing 100 Juniper EX series devices.

Nov 2005 - Sep 2008:

System Administrator, Reliance Globalcom Services, formerly Yipes
Enterprise Services: Responsible for all aspects of the internal and
external Unix and some database (MySQL and Oracle) infrastructures.
Improved and expanded the back office server and network monitoring
infrastructure to meet increasing internal and external customer
expectations until the company was acquired. Mostly legacy
Solaris-on-Sun; rolled out LAMP, Linux and Solaris 10 when I could.

Sep 2004 - Nov 2005:

System Administrator, Wells Fargo Internet Services Group (contractor):
99% Solaris, with some RedHat Enterprise Linux; BEA Weblogic
8 deployments and production support - bor-ing! More interesting:
debugging of enterprise TCPIP networking problems with netstat, snoop,
tcpdump, nmap, etc.  Performance analysis and monitoring with Nagios,
sar, rrdtool, etc.

2003 - Aug 2004:

Senior System Administrator at MarkMonitor, formerly Alldomains.Com,
a domain name registrar and internet service provider. Co-lead in team
of two responsible 24x7x365 for a 100% Open Source revenue-producing
infrastructure based on LAMP (and a smidgen of Python.) Major site
upgrade and new cage buildout. Debugged web services to top-level
registries. Authoritative DNS services; mail and web forwarding for
several tens of thousands of domain names.

2001-2003 (contracting):

System Administrator, Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking.  (contractor) Member
of team supporting 20-25 applications using Weblogic and Websphere
application servers.

System Administrator, Chiron (contractor). R&D and corporate environment:
Solaris, IRIX, Linux, TRU64, HPUX. HP, Veritas, Sun-OSA, and
various legacy RAID and volume managers. Installed Nagios monitoring
with custom plugins which outperformed existing Tivoli system. Some
primitive Linux clustering using PVM and PBS.

Senior System Administrator, Buzzsaw.com.  General system administration
in a high-availability Solaris environment.

1995 - 2001: Consultant, Taos Mountain. Contracting onsite with customers
on a wide variety of system and network administration projects.
Assignments at Wave Systems, Catapulse, Synopsys, MarchFIRST/USWeb/CKS,
Globix, Organic, Digital.Daytimer.Com, GTE Internetworking, SGI,
Internex, GlobalCenter, Sun Microsystems.

1994 - Mar 1995: System Administrator, ParcPlace Systems.  Primeval
mixed Unix and PC environment, LAN and WAN architect.

Apr 1992 - Apr 1994: System Administrator, Sun Microsystems. Member of
group responsible for about 500 clients and servers and the internal
SunOS 4 to Solaris 2 transition.

Nov 1990 - Mar 1992: VMS System Administrator, Intel, Santa Clara.
TCP/IP, DECnet, LAT; Unix/VMS interoperability, supporting the very
first Pentium tapeouts.

1988 - 1990: Transportation Systems Analyst, Center for Urban Analysis,
Santa Clara County.  Responsible for computer model of the Bay Area's
transportation system.

1988: Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley.
Researched in-vehicle navigation systems and automated vehicle routing.

1985 - 1987: Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin.
Calibrated a traffic simulation model using digitized time-lapse
photogrammetry. Published thesis.


Education:

Master of Science, University of Texas at Austin.
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Rice University, Houston.