Julie S. Lin
93 Windward Way
Richmond, CA
94804-7498
(510) 236-6632 or (510) 326-2651
jsl@cryptic.com
Technical
Profile:
Operations
Lead/Director/Manager/senior Unix system administrator with an extensive
background. Experienced with Solaris, Irix, FreeBSD, and Linux. Skilled in
shell, perl and HTML scripting; familiar with network services such
as DNS,
NFS, NIS(+), and HTTP. Compiled, installed, and configured system functions
such as SendMail, Oracle, and Apache. Installed and administered, Veritas Volume
Manager, Arkeia, F5 Big IP, NetApp and TotalNet Advanced Server package. Strong
background in technical support, Sun hardware, CISCO routers/switches, and NT
administration. Excellent communication and organizational skills.
Education:
BA in
Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, May 1997
MBA,
University of Phoenix, June 2003
Experience:
Open
Enterprises
IT
Manager (9/2004 – 6/2005)
Responsible
for IT staff and infrastructure of high volume online retail store, call
center, and 3 brick and
Mortar
stores. IT in-house data center
consisted of apache/linux, front end and Ecometry backend.
Supervised
staff of 2 in challenging co-op business environment. Highlights included
building up on technology, CISP
Compliance
security audit, and network redesign. Built systems from a start-up environment
to increase annual revenue by 30% without increasing costs, improving site
uptime by 20% as well as significant reduction in operational overhead in terms
of salary and expenditure to support 60% of company revenue stream
Covad.COM/GoBeam
(contract)
System
Administrator (6/2004 –7/2004)
Solaris
8, Redhat 6.2, Oracle 9i/8i
ScottHyver.COM
IT
Contractor/Project Manager (4/2003 – 6/2004)
Specified
and designed computer network for second office. Work included managing software programmers,
implementing Active Directory over Linksys VPN in Windows 2000/2000 server
environment, purchase and installation of New desktops, Linksys firewall
installation and configuration, email server and account configuration, ongoing
remote user and network support, and Veritas (stomp) backup configuration and
maintenance.
Arzoo
Customer
Quality Assurance Manager (3/2001 - 4/2001)
Evaluated
bids and hired contractors on retainer for specific customer project requests
and approved work before payment. Dealt with all customer service issues and
assisted with technical aspects of the project request as appropriate
or
needed. Developed plans for synchronizing contractor work with remote customers
across time zones and ranked/rated contractors on their work for re-hiring
purposes.
SpringStreet/HomeStore
Acting
Director of WebSite Operations/Lead (7/2000 - 2/2001)
Promoted
to lead/director. Major projects include 2001 AOP budgeting, hiring, and
integration of SpringStreet colocation facility to accommodate other subsidiary
sites/projects such as HomeFair.com and major site redesign. Daily
tasks
include managing and leading Webops team consisting of system administrators,
network engineers, and contractors, resource allocation and capacity planning,
developing and implementing more mature operational
standards,
and interaction with all levels of upper management to direct operational
growth.
SpringStreet/HomeStore
Senior
System Administrator (12/99 - 7/2000)
Planned,
organized, and maintained all aspects of website operations within the website
operations team. Special tasks include working closely with developers to
migrate from NetDynamics to Dynamo on both secure Apache (OpenSSL + verisign)
and Netscape Enterprise Servers under Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Veritas Volume
Manager installation and implementation for additional logging as compared to
Sun DiskSuite, installing Dynamo on OS 8, implementing Interwoven for website
development, proposing and implementing plan to triple web site traffic
capacity, and maintaining the routers in the San Francisco and Scottsdale AZ
offices. Daily tasks include releases to staging/production, server hardware
upgrades and maintenance, documenting webop policy and procedures, statistics,
metrics,
and log monitoring with Cricket and Mon, security maintenance and pager duty.
Maas
Intek (contract)
Senior
System Administrator (10/99 - 12/99)
Planned
and implemented network architecture and expansion for new web site launch
(included mail, web services, and firewall security) Other tasks: designed
corporate backup strategy, organized corporate owned domain names,
designed
corporate trouble ticket system, and organized cross-platform environment of
OSX, imacs, and Solaris machines.
Knox
Software
Technical
Support Lead (7/99 - 10/99)
As
single tech support person, provided support for Arkeia 4.0 and 4.2 for US and
European customers. Did extensive training with developers in US and in France.
Established framework for support department and wrote support
documentation.
Pacific
Bell Internet Services/SBC (contract)
System
Administrator (4/99 - 7/99)
Provided
system hardware and OS support for all PBI/SBC. Duties include installation and
configuration of hardware (E3500, E450, E250, routers, and (ultra)sparc
workstations), jumpstarting machines, troubleshooting hardware issues,
coordinating with engineering and network operations for routine hardware
maintenance and upgrades, assist in maintaining backups on ADIC jukeboxes, and
server/desktop administration. Special projects include: y2k
compliance
check on all desktops, hardware inventory, learning Veritas file systems,
terminal server inventory, and assisting with project planning.
Socialnet
Inc
System
Administrator (11/98 - 4/99)
Provided
systems and application support for internal test and development environments.
Duties include supporting Solaris 2.6 & 7 servers running our corporate web
site, and other production machines, deployment of the new web
site
running Oracle 8, Java Web Server 1.1.2, Netscape Enterprise Server, and custom
software using rdist scripts. Special projects include: total responsibility
for company while other administrator was on vacation, getting
DSL
connectivity for all engineers, setting up 3rd party software (Netmosphere),
assisted with LDAP server install, and installing new routers and hubs for
office network. Other duties include: adding new users in NIS+ environment,
adding printers to network, maintaining TAS (total net advanced server),
maintaining DNS and firewall (FireWall 1), installation of Big IP boxes,
rotations and maintenance of backups, file restores, and implementing office
policy.
IBM
Global Services (contract)
System
Administrator (8/98-10/98)
Provided
systems and application support for research and development on Solaris 2.5.1 -
2.6, and Irix 6.2, 6.3, & 6.4 platforms at Chiron Corporation. Upgraded
patches on machines, supported molecular drawing applications (macromodel,
tripost, and etc), cleaned up file systems using NFS indirect maps, added users
(NIS and NIS+ environment), installed TotalNet server package (and other
packages like gcc, and rcs upon request), upgraded hardware, answered user
questions, supported Unix printing and did file restores for users.
Silicon
Graphics (contract)
Technical
Service Engineer (2/98 - 7/98)
Supported
customers over phone on entire range of SGI hardware and software. Familiarized
self with specifics of IRIX flavor of UNIX through trouble shooting Unix
problems on the Unix team. Of special note is experience with fiber channel
raids, Irix 6.5, logical volumes and SGI graphical interface tools.
OnlineFocus
System
Administration (8/97 - 1/98)
As the
initial system administrator, organized and stabilized internal system by
configuring DNS, enabling internal web hosting, standardizing client accounts,
automated backups with Legato and setting up the mail server. Supported
SunOS/Solaris,
NT, Win95, and Macintosh. Other projects include router wiring and
configuration of T1, installation and purchase of various software and hardware
as needed, maintenance of user accounts and files, monitoring systems
and
technical support for all users.
WindRiver
Systems (contract)
Technical
Service Engineer (5/97 - 7/97)
Contracted
to support realtime embedded software such as the Topic search engine, VxWorks,
and Tornado. Duties included answering technical support e-mail/phone calls,
preliminary research on customer questions and training
other
technical support staff members.
Autobahn
Intern
(8/96 - 5/97)
Performed
System administration for RedHat Linux: adding users, technical support, basic
hardware and software maintenance and designing web pages using HTML.
Responsible for the design and creation of the Flojos' website, a leading
sporting shoes manufacturer.
CSUA -
Computer Science Undergraduate Association
Member
(8/95 - present)
This
organization provides computing resources and a forum for more advanced users
to further their programming and UNIX knowledge. Activities included organizing
annual BBQ and presiding over weekly club and general meetings. Held and
contributed to technical discussions in an electronic forum. Assisted new users
by teaching help sessions. Served as president in 1996.
OCF -
Open Computer Facility
Volunteer
(11/94 - 8/95)
Provided
critical UNIX systems and technical user support for campus based internet
access provider for Berkeley students, which was supported only through
donations and volunteers. The facility is especially geared for new users and
adds approximately 5000 new accounts each yr. As root I created accounts, wrote
documentation and monitored system performance. In addition, I answered user
questions, held office hours, taught students to use UNIX systems and
maintained hardware. I helped create policy as a member of the Board of Directors.
References
Available Upon Request