Resume for Jason (Jay) R. Fink

For reference only.

QUALIFICATIONS & RELEVANT SKILLS

• 14 years experience in BSD/Linux/UNIX administration/programming and 20 years of hardware experience.
• Extensive use of Perl and shell scripting. Good understanding of C/C++ programming and make/build tools.
• Open Source contributor; kernel, utility and library programming.

Languages:C/C++, Perl, GNU tools, Bash and Shell.
OS: Linux(Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat), NetBSD, FreeBSD, HPUX, Solaris, Eucalyptus, EC2 and Vmware.
Hardware: HP dl/blades, Infiniband, 10G, Dell Poweredge/Powervault, Sun, Thinkmate and IBM Blades/X/E Series.
Sysadmin: Legato, IPtables/filter, MySQL, DNS, DHCP, Apache, Tomcat, Nagios, NTP, SSH/SFTP, HA and Samba.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

04-2010 to Present: Dana Farber Cancer Institute Research Computing, Boston, MA - Sr. Systems & Networking Administrator

• Inside of 1 week implemented a full system/network Nagios and Cacti MAPs solution for 50+ systems.
• Built out two vmware clusters with vcenter front end ahead of expected availability date.
• Designed, installed and configured a High Performance Computing system.
• Deployed an internal eucalyptus cloud resulting in seamless interoperability with institute ec2 users.

12-2009 to 03-2010: eWebHealth, North Reading, MA - Sr. Systems Engineer

• Quickly turned around monitoring solutions for large scale log analysis, jboss queues and msmqs.
• Utilizing sniffers and network analyzing tools located and fixed several bottlenecks within the data flow of the network.

05-2008 to 12-2009: Ebscohost, Ipswich, MA - Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer

• Performance tuned new middle tier java based search technology.
• Scripted snmp trap handlers in Perl and Bash enabling alerting of previously unknown traps.
• Configured primary Nagios alert systems to use Linux High Availability.

04-2006 to 05-2008: Sogeti/Procter & Gamble West Chester, OH - HPC UNIX Systems and Network Administrator

• Assumed network architect role; collapsed network from 5 distinct networks into a single high speed core.
• Solely maintained 400 compute/service nodes, power, tcp/ip network, network and Red Hat Linux OS.
• Implemented (first) version control system for HPC customer's development. Charted applications development.

10-2004 to 04-2006: Logicalis, Mason, OH - Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

• Coded a remote monitoring for customers who could not connect to the standard monitoring VPN.
• Designed a network shell like utility minimizing problem resolution times for Operations personnel.

12-1997 to 10-2004: Ipsos-ASI, Cincinnati, OH - UNIX Systems Administrator

• Developed an archive and retrieval system for eliminating the need for an operator to manually retrieve archives.
• Forward ported a Broadcomm driver between Linux kernels mitigating the expense of a new $1000USD card.
• Migrated HP-UX and SCO UNIX systems to Open Source saving $60,000USD/yr in support costs.

08-1995 to 12-1997: Lockheed Martin, Wallops Island, VA - Field Maintenance Analyst

• Owned two networks of approximately fifty HP-UX workstations and servers.
• Reconfigured fiber optic cluster network to meet government stipulated guidelines to meet delivery.

08-1989 to 08-1995: US Navy, Norfolk, VA - Data Systems Technician Second Class

• Performed installation and validation testing of all combat mainframe systems.
• Key role with troubleshooting, installation, integration and maintenance of UNIX systems.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/AFFILIATIONS

Open Source Developer - NetBSD/Nmap/Dnet & misc:

• Co-developed the verified executable NetBSD kernel modification: in-kernel tripwire capability.
• Code swept the NetBSD kernel filesystem source for POSIX conformance. Synchronized and bugfix utilities.
• Tested and merged changes from the network mapper (Nmap) copy of libdnet into the primary source code.

Published Author

Wrote several articles as a Freelance writer throughout 1999 (mostly for Internet.com). Additionally have written the following:

Fink J. (2011). Last Decade of 2600 (Final Title TBD). 2600 Magazine
Fink J. (2010). Building a DarkNet. 2010 Summer Edition of 2600 Magazine.
Fink J. (2009). Network Recon. 2009 Summer Edition of 2600 Magazine.
Fink J, Sherer M. (2001). Linux performance tuning and capacity planning. Sams Publishing.
Schenk T. (2000). Red hat linux system administration unleashed. Sams Publishing.
Schenk T. (2000). Caldera linux system administration unleashed. Sams Publishing.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

2007 AAS Computer and Network Engineering, Cincinnati State Technical College
2006 Certified Systems Administrator (Linux and HP-UX)
1989 Digital Systems Repair and Programming, U.S. Naval Technical School