Hello, My current position as a system administrator, consultant and instructor is starting to lose some of its initial charm, and hence this email. I have been working with BSD systems since about 2001, and am self taught as far as my skills in this field are concerned. My current responsibilities include managing file&print, web, email, DNS and other subsystems hosted on FreeBSD, and a few workstations running GNU/Linux. I am looking for a new job that builds on the above skills and am willing to relocate for the right position. My resume is available as the text attachment. Should you require one in postscript/pdf or other formats, please let me know. regards, Varoun P 25 Dec 2004 -------------- next part -------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Varoun P A25, Parameswaran Vihar, 28 Arcot Road, Saligramam, Chennai, TN, INDIA 600093 tel: +919884207330 email: varoun@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMPLOYMENT Executive - Technical Dec2003-present Software Technology Group International G3, Prince Center, 709-710 Anna Salai, Chennai, INDIA. Unix System Administrator May2003-Nov2003 Dynasource Webware Pvt Ltd 9A, First Street, AVM Avenue, Virugambakkam, Chennai, INDIA Freelance FreeBSD/UNIX/Linux consultant. May2001-Apr2003 EXPERIENCE System Administration . Managing sites comprising of about 20 hosts running FreeBSD and GNU/Linux. . Setting up and managing user and group accounts, including setting up of disk quotas. . Managing disks and file systems, adding new disks. . Planning and implementing backups using tools like dump/restore and tar. . Analyzing and managing log files, customizing syslog. . Designing TCP/IP networks, setting up static routes, configuring ISC-DHCP, the Squid Internet Object Cache and NAT. . Setting up and managing NFS, SAMBA(CIFS) and ftp - some of these hosts transfer over a 100GB of data per day. . Setting up and managing print services using LPD and CUPS, including network printing. . Installing, configuring and managing Apache along with modules like mod_ssl and mod_perl, setting up virtual hosts. . Planning, implementing, and managing a site's email infrastructure using sendmail, pop/imap, SSL, webmail, antispam software(spamassasin), and antivirus software(ClamAV). . Setting up and managing DNS(BIND8,BIND9) for multiple zones, configuring round robin load balancing of servers using BIND, using TSIG and DNSSEC, setting up dynamic updates. . Configuring and managing NIS(Sun Yellow Pages) for network wide user authentication, working with PAM to customize the login process. . Analyzing system performance issues, tuning the kernel, file system, and kernel parameters for improving performance and stability. . Setting up a demilitarized zone(DMZ) for securing small networks, writing firewall rule sets for IPF, IPFW, PF, and NetFilter. . Using TCP wrappers to secure network services. . Setting up an Intrusion Detection System using SNORT, ACID, and MySQL. . Using SSLeay/OpenSSL to create RSA/DSA key pairs, certificate signing requests, and self signed certificates(X.509). . Using Perl and sh to write scripts. . Writing programs in the Scheme dialect of LISP. . Writing user, sysadmin, and security policy documents. Consulting . Setting up a network of thin clients(diskless workstations) using software from the Linux Terminal Server Project. . Planning and deploying a VPN using IPSec and racoon running on FreeBSD gateways. . Deploying an enterprise wide email system using Qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, courier-imap, spamassasin, and ClamAV with RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 as the underlying OS. . Migrating a FoxPro database running on SCO UnixWare to SuSE Linux. EDUCATION . University of Madras, Chennai, INDIA. 1999-2003 B.E in Instrumentation and Control Average - 73.8% . Vikaasa School , Madurai, INDIA. 1997-1999 ISC Year 12 Examinations - 89.6% Ranked first in graduating class. ADDITIONAL . President, Interact Club of Vikaasa. 1997 . Vice President, Interact Club of Vikaasa 1996 . Awarded the Gold and Silver standard The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. PERSONAL . Date of birth - 17'th August 1981 . Nationality - Indian . Single, good health. INTERESTS . Amateur guitarist, reading books, swimming and tennis.