| Jennine Townsend | jennine@netcom.com |
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I am a Unix and network systems administrator with over fifteen years' experience.
With Digital Domain, I have been working within a group of sysadmins to maintain and improve the highly heterogeneous network at the site. Host systems include about 200 Silicon Graphics workstations, as well as Digital AlphaServers, Windows NT, Linux Alphas, and Sun Enterprise servers running Oracle.
I am quite familiar with the massive disk and heterogeneous networking requirements for such an environment, and with the rapid changes and stringent deadlines involved.
At Philips Media, I was the sole systems administrator for a medium-sized Unix network in a company doing title development for the consumer multimedia market.
In late 1994, I planned and oversaw the implementation of moving and upgrading the entire network as the company moved into its current location. At that time, we upgraded from a thinnet-based Ethernet to a switched, SNMP-manageable, Category 5 UTP 10BaseT Ethernet.
On contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory, I was the systems administrator and graphics programmer for a much smaller group doing scientific numerical simulations. I was responsible for the five or six Suns within the group, as well as the Celerity 1260 Unix system, and also for administering and programming the Evans and Sutherland PS390 graphics system that we used for displaying the simulation results.
In the Caltech High Energy Physics department, I was the systems administrator for the Unix DEC systems (a VAX-11/780, an 11/750, and a PDP-11/45). These systems were running a Unix System III variant and along with a VMS VAX were the primary general-purpose compute power at Cithep during the period.
I have extensive experience managing all the software and hardware systems involved in a modern Unix and heterogeneous network, from Ethernet switches to sendmail.cf files, Web servers to SCSI device installation to Macintosh networking to firewalls.
I have also dealt extensively with users of widely different experience, and with vendors of everything from network management software to tape drives. I am familiar with the arts of long-term planning and budget estimation.
A partial acronym list is: SunOS/Solaris, IRIX, Linux, SMTP/Sendmail, DNS/BIND, X11, NFS, NIS, Perl/sed/awk/shell scripts, C, Java, TIS firewall toolkit, XML, WWW/HTML/Web servers, inetd/syslogd/services, AppleTalk/netatalk, TCP/IP, POP3/IMAP, DHCP/bootp, INN/Cnews, MBone, CSO qi/ph, GNU software, SNMP/SunNetManager, fsck/dump/restore, Ethernet (10-1000Mbit), Hippi, routing and switching.
I am a member of USENIX, ACM, and the System Administrators Guild (SAGE).
Caltech, 1979-1983, major in physics
References and salary history are available upon request.