Charles Nathaniel Wyble

1350 Victoria Ave Suite 116 Oxnard CA 93035

818-280-7059 805-984-9983 charles@thewybles.com http://www.thewybles.com/~charles

To obtain a Linux system administration position with your organization. A Linux system administrator with a detailed knowledge of Linux in a wide variety of industries and environments. A superb communicator who will thoroughly and efficiently handle any situation requiring communication with clarity and conciseness. A frequent speaker/writer on a wide variety of I.T and open source matters, as well as a frequent contributer to open source projects. Debian (stable/testing/unstable) Mandrake SUSE Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3/4) Shell scripting/automation (bash/python/tcl/php/awk/sed) Apache 1/2 Postfix/Qmail And Cyrus/Courier OpenLdap/Samba IpTables/Snort/Nessus/Nmap Webmin Courier/Cyrus Proftpd EMC Clarion (cx400 and cx700) Equal Logic Promise ISCSI Dell 26/28/6850 Hp NetServer Custom built/whitebox Cabling (backbone/serial/desktop/fiber) Routers (Cisco/Linksys/Dlink) Load balancing (Cisco/Webmux) Switches (Cisco Catalyst/Linksys) I have founded two open source projects, and participated in many more by writing code/documentation and providing user/developer support. This project produced code and documentation to assist developers working with the Microsoft excel and compound document/structured storage file formats on non Microsoft platforms. I am the project manager and lead developer for this project which is now in maintenance mode. (http://chicago.sourceforge.net) The goal of this project is to produce code and documentation that will provide a fully open source drop in replacement for Microsoft Exchange. I am the project manager, and founder. I work closely with the lead developer and a worldwide team of programmers, documenters, and beta testers. (http://www.thewybles.com/~charles/oser) Senior Linux System Administrator Electronic Clearing House (http://www.echo-inc.com) October2006 June2006 Senior Linux administrator for a 24x7 transaction processing/ecommerce/ financial services environment. Responsibilities include: Working closely with the network administration and infrastructure design teams. Ensuring continuous uptime of multiple high visibility/high impact/high value envrironments including: A 1TB MySQL database. A 300 GB Oracle database. A 1.5 GB Oracle Data warehouse. A 4,000 store LAMP based ecommerce system. Designed/tested/documented/deployed an enterprise wide Linux backup system. All data stored on a central server with ISCSI attached network storage. Uses GNUPG and tar over ssh. Backups/Restores tested on a weekly basis. Deployed 2 Oracle RAC clusters, each consisting of 3 Dell 6850's. They are equipped with Qual Dual Core Xeon's and 32 Gb of RAM, running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 64bit edition. One environment is for staging and one is for production. EMC attached. This environment is used for our Data Warehouse, our Transaction Processing Software and our Credit Card Clearing application. It is a fundamental infrastructure component. The hardware and software was deployed in 3 business days. Deployment of file integrity checking across 100 UNIX servers using fully open source software. Used integrit http://integrit.sf.net and some custom shell scripts which were submitted back upstream for inclusion. Consultant February2005 September2005 LAMP Deployment: Deployed a Debian Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP system and educated the System Administration and Development staff on configuration and use for an insurance company located in Burbank CA. Corporate Linux Deployment/Migration: Providing on going assistance to a medium sized business with a 100% conversion to Linux on the Desktop as well as server. Utilizing SUSE Professional 6.5 for desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for multiple production mission critical servers (Email/File Server/DNS/DHCP). This is for a manufacturing company in Sylmar CA. Linux Deployment/Migration: Providing on going assistance to a small software development firm with a 100% conversion to Linux. Utilizing Ubuntu Linux for desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for servers (Email/File/LDAP/DNS/DHCP). February 2004-Present Junior System Administrator Newroads http://www.newroads.com March2002 February2005 Assisted in the design/testing/and execution of a disaster recovery in real time (on-the-fly). Wrote and documented the use of several utilities that cut down the amount of time to recovery by 30 percent. Streamlined the system configuration and new account creation process for ProFTPD on a mission critical FTP server. This allowed faster turn around times and freed up I.T. resources. (1 month project) Deplopyed/Secured/Optimized/Maintained UltraVNC remote control software. This allowed the Infrastructure Support team to more rapidly respond to users support requests, and by doing so increase compliance with Service Level Agreements and increase end-user satisfaction. (2 month project) Upgraded the network from hubs to Linksys managed switches to increase network performance and usability/reliability. No network downtime occurred in the process of the upgrade (1 week project) Wrote a custom software/hardware monitoring/reporting system to ensure compliance with software licensing and obtain an accurate overview of company assets for inventory and disaster recovery purposes. (2 month project) Learning Tree International May 2004 This course showed the entire process of developing clear concise effective technical writing in less time, that meets the needs of the audience. Learning Tree International October2004 This workshop presented a conceptual overview of networking fundemntals and technology.