LINUX ADMINISTRATOR RESUME Name: Yaroslav Klyukin Email: slava@klyukin.com WEB: http://resume.klyukin.

com/ Cellular phone/voice mail: (203)219-9029 ICQ: 1045670 AIM: infiniteparticle MSN: infiniteparticle@hotmail.com Location: Connecticut Available immediately as a full-time employee. Objective Use my skills and knowledge of fault tolerant solutions for daily monitoring and maintenance of mission critical production infrastructure. Summary College degree and over 7 years of progressive IT experience. Competent in deploying secure remote administration, including network and firewall. Self-starter attitude. 24/7 on-call availability and mobility. Keep abreast of current technology. Strong inter-personal skills and technical acumen. Focus on details. Work well under pressure either with minimal supervision or in a team. Key skills include Linux performance tuning, such as patching and building optimized kernel, GNU, open source software under Linux or FreeBSD, such as KDE, Mozilla, XFree86 for Intel, Power PC or Alpha platforms, installation and support of clustered Apache web servers, mail, FTP and database servers of various flavors, DNS, DHCP. Windows to Linux interoperability and migration. Experience [12/2004 present] Senior operational monitoring engineer "Adeptra" - phone or FAX notifications, such as fraud detection, collection, marketing and other. As a senior member of a newly-formed monitoring team participated in setup of monitoring software and recruiting other members. Developed a 24/7 rota and wrote a script to display it. Solely installed, configured and supported customer facing open source ticketing system to migrate from the outsourced one, as well as wrote patches to change its default functionality in conjunction with specific non-standard requirements. Designed centralized syslog setup with an ability to correlate system events from multiple boxes, as well as designed searchable WEB GUI. Reported and tracked customer affecting issues to customer helpdesks. Subsidiary tasks involved remote and on-site systems administration of Linux and Windows boxes, work at the datacenters and other projects. [03/2004 12/2004] Senior systems administrator "NiuTech" - Internet advertisement Proactively monitored and administered production and development servers remotely and at the data center. Provided 24/7 on call availability by means of cell phone, instant messaging and e-mail. Improved system security by limiting users using unjustified root access. Built optimized and patched linux kernels and missioncritical daemons with CPU optimizations to provide functionality not available in stock

kernels and software, performance and reliability. Reconfigured firewall to block SYN flood DoS attacks. Installed monitoring software, which allows performing statistical analysis of the cluster load up to one year long. Designed and implemented backup procedures. Actively participated in disaster planning. Researched new software and evaluated new hardware prior to using it in production mode. Negotiated with vendors in cases of hardware failures or software issues. Besides systems administration, was the point of technical contact for the developers and office PC support technician. [09/2001 - 03/2004] Systems administrator and integrator "Microway inc" - Supplier of high-end clusters, servers and workstations. Configured and troubleshooted hundreds of Linux clusters, servers and workstations. Reviewed software installation procedures. Implemented new procedure for drive copying, dramatically reducing the time to create new system disks. Maintained and supported Linux prototype disks, including security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. Decreased problem solving times by evaluating new Linux kernels and applying necessary patches in advance. Ported applications. Performed onsite installations at client sites including MIT, San Jose University. Developed firewall to allow customers to connect to clusters remotely with full root access in isolation from company's networking. Designed and implemented company intrusion detection system and firewall to monitor and block malicious traffic. [6/2000 - 6/2001] Technical support specialist "ACTOR" - ISP Served as the initial point of contact for resolution of connectivity and interoperability problems for several thousand dialup users and dozens of LAN users in heterogeneous, multi platform environment - mainly FreeBSD, RedHat, Windows. Besides technical support, performed many functioning aspects of a systems administrator. Supported LAN with printing and Internet. Monitored hardware and software functionality 24/7 to ensure their connectivity and availability. Webmastered. Configured workstations and laptops for new employees. Conducted research on proposed system upgrades and identified potential incompatibilities that led to alternative system purchase. [2/1999 6/2000] Technician "KIMOR" - computer vendor Assembled computers, performed upgrades, analyzed and fixed device conflicts. Consulted customers to choose the proper configuration, for their needs. Supported in-house computers and LAN, running Windows. [7/1998 2/1999] Import agent "DHL international" - worldwide parcel service Monitored cargo and parcel arrival and helped recipients to prepare all necessary documents for customs clearance. Actively communicated with foreign DHL's departments abroad. Traced parcels using enterprise network. Education [9/1994 - 7/1998] Degree: Bachelor of Science College: "Saint-Petersburg engineering school of electronics"

Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia Certificates [April 24, 1997] Specialist of power electrostations (diesel). [May 7, 2003] PolyServe technical training. [September 17,2003] Master's Level of Linux Administration with a score of 4.31 (Higher than 97% of participants) http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=4646644 Operating systems: Linux: Gentoo, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, Knoppix, Debian, Slackware etc. Unix flavors: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, Mac OS X, SUN Solaris. Other OS: OS/2, DOS, Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP). Networking and services: Database replication. Scalability planning. Disaster recovery. Load balancing. Diskless boot. Channel bonding, network teaming. CVS, SAN, NAS. NIS/YP, NNTP, NTP, Telnet. Web servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS. Proxy servers: Squid, Wingate, Winproxy. FTP servers: Proftpd, Wu-ftpd, Sftpd, ftpd, BulletProof ftp, TFTP and so on. DNS: bind or named. Firewall configuration: NAT, Masquerade, connection tracking: iptables, ipchains, ipfw. VPN: Freeswan, IP Sec, pptp. Routing: BGP, OSPF. Mail SMTP: Sendmail, Postfix+sasl, Qmail. POP3/IMAP: qpopper, pop3d, courier. Security: Snort, ettercap, Nessus, John The Ripper, PGP, GPG, nmap, superscan, arpwatch, LIDS, SSH, SSL, TLS, TCP Wrappers, Ethereal, dsniff, tcpdump, saint, portsentry, XSpider, Retina, chkrootkit, Tripwire, Antivirus software for mail servers, SPAM filtering by means of DNS blacklists, custom rules, SPF, Spamassassin, domain keys. Rootkit and backdoor identification and removal, DOS and DDoS defense. Batch OS installation, automation: JumpStart / Kick Start. DHCP, LDAP, Software VoIP, Automount. SQL: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle. Network data backups: NFS, Samba, nc. Monitoring and alerting: Nagios, Ganglia, MRTG. FAXes: mgetty+sendfax, lpd, smbprint, WinFax. Networking: TCP/IP, SMB, IPX - novell netware, plip, slip, ppp, pppoe. Languages: Assembler for x86: nasm, as, masm, tasm. C, C++. Web development: HTML, XML, CSS, Java, CGI, SSI, Perl, PHP. Shell scripting: bash, csh, sed, awk, regular expressions. Hardware: IBM PC compatibles (Various vendors, eg: Dell, IBM), Alpha (UP 2000, DP 2000), Apple Macintosh, Opteron, Itanium. Software and hardware RAIDs (Adaptec, 3Ware, Promise).Storcase disk enclosures. Network switches, routers (3com, Cisco, Dlink, HP, Linksys, Netgear). Modems (3com, USR Robotics, DOCSIS). Tape libraries (DLT). UPS (APC, Tripplite), Network Appliance SAN, KVM over IP, IPMI, iSCSI. Cyclades TS3000 Terminal Server, PIX 515E, Foundry load balancers.

PS: References, certificates and diplomas are provided upon request. I am available for a phone, conference call or conference chat interview.