steve mokris: system administration

[ steve mokris ] system administration

experience :: System Administration

Cluster/Lab Administration

softpixel Cluster Westerville, Ohio	1992	–	present	Composition20 Linux, Windows, and Macintosh Boxen AdministrationComplete administrative work (hardware purchase, assembly, and repair; software purchase, installation, and maintenance; system integration including several shared RAID fileservers totaling around 4 terabytes) Cluster PurposeInternet hosting (primarily web and mail), audio/video editing, data archival
The GRID Lab Ohio University<br>Athens, Ohio	2005	–	2006	Composition16 Public-use Alienware 7500 Machines, 24 Contemporary Gaming Consoles, Several Macintosh Operator Stations AdministrationImage design/troubleshooting, system configuration Lab PurposeProgressive public gaming center
Mulberry Intermedia Experimental (MIX) Lab Denison University<br>Granville, Ohio	2003	–	2004	Composition25 Apple Macintosh G4 Machines AdministrationDay-to-day hardware/software maintenance, assistance with image design/troubleshooting Lab PurposeAudio/video editing, general-purpose student work
ICEM-CFD Columbus Worthington, Ohio	1997	–	2002	CompositionAround 15 Unix Workstations (Linux, SGI, HP, Sun, IBM, DEC Alpha) and Windows Machines AdministrationHardware/software maintenance, network administration Cluster PurposeSoftware development
Integrated Physics Lab Hilliard Davidson Highschool<br>Hilliard, Ohio	1998	–	2000	Composition20 Apple Macintosh PowerPC Machines AdministrationDay-to-day hardware/software maintenance, assistance with image design/troubleshooting Lab PurposeAudio/video editing, general-purpose student work

Operating Systems

Linux Many distributions, including Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, and Slackware	1994	–	present	Installation Kernel configuration/compilation Package setup/compilation Hardware configuration/troubleshooting
Mac OS X	2002	–	present	Installation Package setup/compilation Hardware configuration/troubleshooting
Windows All versions, 3.1–XP, excluding the CE and Server variants	1992	–	present	Installation Package setup Hardware configuration/troubleshooting Use of XP repair console to resolve boot issues Dualboot installs with Linux and other operatingsystems System detoxification and registry manipulation
Mac OS Classic System 7–System 9	1996	–	2001	Installation Package setup Hardware configuration/troubleshooting
BeOS 3.0–5.0	1997	–	2001	Installation Package setup/compilation Hardware configuration/troubleshooting

Server Software

NFS Network File System	2000	–	present	Configured NFS to serve about 4 terabytes of RAIDed filesystems to softpixel Cluster
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks	2002	–	present	Set up several RAID arrays for softpixel Cluster
NTP Network Time Protocol	2004	–	present	Configured NTP to sync softpixel Cluster
BIND / DNS Berkeley Internet Name Domain / Domain Name System	1998	–	present	Configured BIND to provide external/public and internal DNS for softpixel Cluster Configured BIND to provide internal DNS for ICEM-CFD Columbus
Apache Web Server	1997	–	present	Configured Apache as public web server for softpixel Cluster. As of 2004 November, this system serves approximately 9,000 pages / 130 megabytes daily.
AWStats Web/File/Mail Server Statistics Analyzer	2001	–	present
LDAP / OpenLDAP Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	2003	–	present	Configured OpenLDAP to manage users for web authentication for various softpixel Cluster services
MySQL Database Server	2001	–	present	Configured MySQL to manage data for various softpixel Cluster services
qmail Mail Transfer Agent	2002	–	present	Configured qmail as public mail transfer agent for softpixel Cluster. As of 2004 November, this system exchanges approximately 39,000 mails daily.
Postfix Mail Transfer Agent	2000	–	2002
Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent	1998	–	present
ProFTPD File Server	1999	–	present
wu-ftpd File Server	1998	–	present