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System Administration can mean many things to many people -
and in some aspects has merged with Information Technology. I've spent
my carreer in Software Development environments, and I am well
versed in the special requirements of software development teams.
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While I have never served in a role where my primary responsibility
was "system administrator", I have been intimately involved with
this discipline for almost 20 years. Most of my time has been
spent dealing with different flavors of Unix, but I also
have experience with Windows variants (mostly 98 and NT). I
am quite comfortable with most aspects of Unix administration.
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My client had a product which had been ported from a legacy
operating system to Unix. The porting engineers, with no prior
experience, had set up the UNIX environment. Each of 20 Unix
systems (Sun, IBM, and HP) were completely independent, even
though engineers regularly used many different machines during the
course of a day. I analyzed the usage and purpose of each
machine. I then implemented NIS and re-organized the data
and functionality of each machine to produce a coherent
environment. In doing so, I freed up enough wasted capacity that
plans to purchase 5 additional machines were canceled.
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Many times in my career, I've been the backup to a single Unix
Administrator. When he or she was out (vacation, sick, overloaded,
etc), I performed all of the tasks. I have also done plenty of
Unix Systems programming, so my knowledge of the operating system
is good. Finally, I have installed enough GNU packages to be
quite familiar with the configure/make/make test/make install
routine that GNU uses.
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