Dylan Djos Martin

Technical Expertise

Network Administration, Systems Administration, Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, Windows, Security, Perl Scripting, C Programming, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Cisco, Firewalls, Packet Filter, IP Tables, Apache Web Servers (PHP, SSI, SSL, MySQL, CGI, CGIWrap), MySQL, DHCP, DNS, NTP, SSH/SFTP/SCP, Cyrus IMAP, Qmail, CVS, Rsync, CVSup, Make, M4, PGP, GPG, RPM, Yum, HTML, DocBook XML

Professional Experience

Seattle Central Community College Network Administrator
(Sept '99 to present)

• Maintain systems around four "9"s uptime (approx an hour a year of downtime)
• Run SCCC Apache web servers with SSL, SSI, mod_perl, PHP and MySQL access
• Run MySQL servers
• Run DHCP, DNS, NTP and ssh/scp/sftp
• Perform security code review for co-workers
• Monitor mailing lists and web pages for security vulnerability information
• Manage student account creation, deletion, activation and deactivation for over 8,000 students
• Work with instructors to provide server for classes with special unix needs
• Build, troubleshoot and maintain desktop and server pc hardware
• Set up, monitor and maintain several different hardware and software RAID systems
• Created system for redundant DHCP servers that allowed Windows Network admins to maintain DHCP config securely from Windows machines using CVS and PGP
• Coordinated 4 campuses and the state Center for Information Services to set up fall-back web presence in case of catastrophic connectivity loss
• Created web-based systems health monitor using Perl
• Created world-class redundant bridging firewall using two OpenBSD servers and two Cisco switches
• Wrote popular guide to setting up a redundant bridging firewall ( http://www.seattlecentral.edu/~dmartin/docs/bridge.html)
• Configured IP Tables firewalls on multiple Linux hosts
• Set up Snort for network intrusion detection
• Set up TripWire for host-based intrusion detection
• Created many re-usable, fully-packaged perl libraries for internal use, including documentation and test suites.
• Used CGIWrap to make user CGI run as user's UID rather than as server's UID
• Made special CGIWrap that allows user PHP scripts to run as users UID rather than as the server's UID
• Wrote documentation that allowed my boss (who is not a unix admin) to watch over my systems during my one month honeymoon
• Wrote documentation in Docbook XML, POD, and HTML
• Developed and tested simple reliable backup regime
• Use a mixture of Perl for Windows, Visual Basic and Windows batch files, to gather and process enrollment data for account maintenance
• Reduced student account complaints from several per week to only a few per year
• Built student email server using Qmail, Cyrus IMAP and TWIG web mail interface.
• Ran Chilisoft ASP with Apache and PostgreSQL
• Set up Squid web proxy
• Wrote Linux PAM module in C for database search based username translation and authentication against Active Directory LDAP service
• Wrote perl script to maintain database of username translations
• Wrote secure setuid-root program in C to let students and instructors check disk quotas
• Set up CVS repository for my scripts, programs and other files
• Used CVSup to keep a backup of CVS repository on another server
• Set up Rsync to keep a backup web server ready in case of problems
• Wrote test plans to assure system health
• Set up Yum to update Fedora Linux machines
• Built custom RPM packages for customized software
• Set up Yum server to distribute custom RPM packages
• Set up Kickstart system to automate generation of new systems
• Created efficient system to erase and re-image student lab OSX machines by netbooting to a small PPC Linux image and using that to install the OSX image that it received over UDP broadcast
• Set up LDAP server on Linux and OpenBSD using OpenLDAP for use with OSX
• Helped write job requirements for new hires
• Interviewed job candidates
• Helped select job candidates for hiring
• Taught "Intro to Unix" college credit course for three quarters
• Students rated my teaching as "Very Good" or "Excellent"

Software Tester/Unix Admin - RealNetworks, Seattle WA
(April '99 to Sept '99 - Contract through RHI)

• Tested for bugs in RealNetworks server and server administration tool
• Wrote test plans for web-based server administration tool
• Worked with Linux, Solaris, SCO, AIX, WinNT, Win95, Mac
• Promoted to unix administration group in first 3 months of 6 month contract
• Administered Linux (Redhat, Debian, Slackware) and Solaris (5.6, 5.7)

Desktop Publisher - WASSER Studios, Seattle WA
(April '98 to June '98 - Contract through WASSER)

• Performed hundreds of meticulous searches and corrections to client documents per week
• Used MS Word and MS Visual Source Safe
• Adapted to changing goals, duties and deadlines

Internship - Aspen Technology, Bothell WA
(Summer and Spring of '94 and Summer of '96)

• Maintained HP-UX, IBM/AIX, WinNT, Win95, Win 3.1 systems for use by sales team
• Wrote short technical documents
• Wrote SQL scripts for sales demonstration of database
• Built and maintained department intranet
• Installed & configured department web server on WinNT system
• Computer hardware installation/maintenance and trouble shooting
• Worked in teams and for numerous supervisors

Academic Projects - Western Washington University
(Fall '95 - Spring '98)

• Partner with professor in development of web-based administrative tool using CGI
  programmed in C
• Led 3 person team in development of web page for Bellingham realty business

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, March 1998,
  Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
• Graduated with 3.62 GPA
• Member PsiChi - Psychology Honor Society