Brian Otto
665 Bruce Ave
Windsor, Ontario N9A 4X3
Canada
botto@asmodean.com

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Red Hat Linux Administration, configuration, installation, hardening
SuSE Linux Administration, configuration, installation, hardening
Solaris Administration, configuration, installation, hardening
Checkpoint Firewall-1 Administration
Network Services, DNS, NIS, NFS, Samba, SSH, NAT, RAID
Backup Administration
Security - Audits
Security - VPN
Security - Network Intrusion Detection
Sendmail, procmail
Perl
Shell scripting
Website Administration
Windows Administration


EXPERIENCE
DTE Energy, Detroit, MI
5/2003 - Current
Principle Analyst, Server Engineering
Configured Linux Samba Servers to integrate with a Windows 2000 ADS Domain. Worked on RedHat 9, SuSE 8.2, SuSE 8.0 Enterprise, RedHat 2.1 AS, RedHat 3.0 AS Beta, RedHat 3.0 AS, Samba 3.0 beta and official releases. Installed, configured and managed RedHat 2.1 AS servers (HP Server class hardware with ILO control) in a production environment for web server application. Installed, configured and managed SuSE 8.0 enterprise servers (IBM Server class hardware with RAS control) attached to EMC storage in a production environment for mail server application.
 

Enteka Enterprise Technology Services, San Jose, CA
12/1996 - 5/2003
Consultant, Senior Consultant
Consultant for a small ten person consulting firm. Support clients in contracts ranging from short term troubleshooting contracts to longer term support contracts. Some contracts I have done:


1/2003 - 5/2003
Celera Genomics
Unix Administrator Consultant
Managed Unix Servers and workstations, SAN (EMC), and NAS (Network Appliance). Managed client FTP server.

7/2002 - 8/2002
Packeteer, Inc
Security Consultant
Troubleshot and fixed a multiple firewall global environment (Checkpoint NG). Simplified firewall rulesets. Examined border router access lists for possible conflicts.

6/2000 - 9/2001
Philips Semiconductors
Security Administrator Consultant
Managed a multiple firewall environment (Checkpoint 4.x). Conducted network intrusion detection, host intrusion detection. Installed network servers including new firewalls and high availability DNS Linux servers. Migrated firewall rulesets over to new firewalls, performed firewall cutover. Managed mail servers and proxy http servers.

10/2001 - 2/2002
Kana Software
Security Consultant
Unix Administration, MRTG installation and configuration from various Cisco routers.

6/1998 - 1/2000
Metricom, Inc.
Senior QA Consultant
Set up Solaris and RedHat Linux QA test environment for UNIX-based security product testing. Performed software QA testing. Wrote test procedure documents and product acceptance documents. Worked with Unix server / Cisco router based products.

1/2000 - 8/2000
Metricom, Inc.
Security Consultant
Installed, configured and managed High Availability Checkpoint Firewall installation with hardware encryption. Migrated firewall rulesets over to new firewalls, performed firewall cutover.

5/1997 - 5/1998
Pure-Atria/Rational Software
Unix Administrator Consultant
Worked on UNIX environment merger related project for the Pure-Atria merger, and then the Rational-Pure Atria merger.

1/1996 - 2/1997
Frame/Adobe Systems
Unix Administrator Consultant
Worked on UNIX and windows workstations for software engineering groups. Assisted in merger related projects. Assisted in move related projects. Client site of thousands of clients.

 

Craftworks Solutions, San Jose, CA
1/1996 - 12/1996
System Administrator
Windows and Unix Support at client sites.
 

Expandable Software, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
12/1993 - 12/1995
Systems Administrator
Managed a Novell network of 30 clients. Installed and migrated from a Novell 3.11 server to a Novell 4.0 server. Workstation support. Custom database programming in Dataflex for clients.
 

Infotech Development, Santa Clara, CA
6/1993 - 12/1993
Staff Engineer
Workstation Support, work on Government contracts.
 

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Red Hat, San Jose, CA
Certification,  RHCE #807202739005363
2002
SANS Institute, San Francisco, CA
Certification,  GSEC Security Essentials Certification
2002
Checkpoint Firewall-1, San Jose, CA
Certification,  Certified Security Engineer
2000
Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA
Certification,  Solaris Certified Administrator
1997
Novell, Inc, San Jose, CA
Certification,  Novell Certified Netware Engineer
1995
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Bachelor's Degree,  Bachelors of Science Engineering
1993

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
Volunteer work: Installed and configured a computer lab for a local high school using a Linux Server as a file server, and masquerading as a windows Domain Controller for the classroom. Also used NAT and iptables to filter network traffic from the classroom to the school and from the school/internet to the classroom.