Dustin Bagwell
5417 S. Mopac Expressway #112
Austin, TX, 78749
(512) 363 - 5262
Professional Summary
I constantly strive to further problem solving skills and focus on a solution oriented approach to technical problems. I am a true self-starter, committing myself, my energies, and my thirst for knowledge to my success and the success of my team. I excel on documentation of my work with continual updates to the team and manager, thoroughly explaining my efforts, status and roadblocks for transfer of knowledge to all members of the team. I display strong personal commitment and rigid self-discipline to successfully complete all projects assigned to me on or before the given deadline. I learn rapidly and adapt quickly to changing situations, constantly researching new methods for obtaining desired results; often at a significant time and cost savings for my team and company.
Functional Skills and Knowledge
· Operating Systems
Solaris (sparc), Solaris (intel), Freebsd, OpenBSD, RedHat Linux, Rock Linux, Irix, Win2k, Win2k Server, NT 4.0
· Networking
Cisco Pix, Cisco load balancers, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, VPN, CheckPoint FW1, PF, ipf, iptables, ipchains
· Security
Nessus, NMap, Retina, Coroners Tool Kit, Penetration Testing, Event Handling, Host Hardening, NIDS, HIDS, CIS
· Monitoring
SiteScope, NRG, NetSaint, Nagios, Orca, BigBrother, What’s Up
· Scripting
Perl, Shell, SE scripting
· Veritas
Volume Manager, File System, QuickIO, NetBackup
· Misc
Solaris Jumpstart, Bind 8, Bind 9, djbdns (tinydns), ISC DHCP, Apache, Java, Tomcat, MySQL, PHP, Ghost, Amanda, CVS, Visio, Word, Office, Crystal Reports, Accpac, Postfix, DSpam, Spamassassin
Experience
10/2006 – Present RelocationCentral by CORT Austin, TX
Unix Systems Administrator
Relocated to the main IT offices in Texas.
4/2004 – 10/2006 RelocationCentral by CORT Santa Clara, Ca
Unix Systems Administrator
As the Unix administrator in the IT department I am responsible with building and maintaining various FreeBSD based infrastructure. This includes mail, database, and web servers that our corporate and customer applications run on. Responsibilities also include backup and recovery, monitoring, network load balancing our external services, and supporting a small finance department in a windows environment.
§ Migrated a Solaris MySQL server over to FreeBSD and standardized deployment and configuration of server configurations
§ Designed and implemented various FreeBSD based servers for Sendmail, Postfix, and Apache.
§ Implemented network monitoring solution based off of Nagios for all Production and QA related systems and services.
§ Documented existing service and machine configuration, corporate policy, and troubleshooting details by utilizing a wiki.
§ Provide constant and consistent support to all members of my team.
5/2001 - 1/2004 FusionOne Inc San Jose, Ca
Unix Systems Administrator
As a member of the FusionOne Data Center Operations Team it was my responsibility to ensure availability and reliability of production and development environments. It was in this roll that I was able to make the following contributions:
§ By utilizing Solaris Jumpstart technologies and customization, provided an automated deployment process for rapidly deploying Production class application servers (Solaris, Tomcat, Apache, and Java).
§ Designed and implemented HA Oracle servers utilizing various Veritas technologies including: Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster, and QuickIO.
§ Installed statistical collection agents on Production machines providing trending information for DCOps and Engineering
§ Created security policy for production and development environments as well as an implementation guide for managers
§ Created DNS architecture utilizing Bind 9 and CVS for all networked environments
§ Automated numerous aspects of daily system administration
8/2000 - 5/2001 Sinia Mountain View, Ca
Network Administrator
As a network administrator I worked closely with engineering and management to ensure availability and reliability of demo and production systems. Duties included working closely with cross functional team members, system and application upgrades, system maintenance and monitoring, and troubleshooting problems.
§ Rapidly deployed hardened demo and production machines running Solaris, Apache, and Oracle. (ufsdump/ufsrestore + jumpstart)
§ Maintained Production, Qa, and Demo environments running Solaris.
§ Created multiple VPN configurations using CheckPoint Firewall running on hardened Solaris implementations, testing for interoperability with other VPN solutions.
1/2000 - 8/2000 Silicon Graphics / Taos Mountain View, Ca
Unix Systems Administrator
Hired from Texas by Taos, I was placed at SGI in their Operations/IT staff. I was responsible for on site troubleshooting and help desk support. My duties required strong verbal communications skills, sensitivity and patience with others.
§ Provided support for 2000 users in a heterogeneous IRIX/NT environment
§ Helped with all aspects of system administration in the IT environment
§ Helped manage trouble tickets and various support related tasks
7/1999 - 1/2000 BoerneNet Boerne/Texas
Assistant Unix Administrator
Employed as an Assistant Unix Administrator, I primarily managed Support and assisted the senior admin with daily ISP duties.
§ Manage 3 phone technicians with supporting dial up customers
§ Wrote a dial up support database for support engineers to use supporting customers