Clifford W Fulford - Solaris Projects

QIIS/ntl - Birmingham UK.

Solaris Administrator, responsible for:

• designing, building and administering development and test environments for a bespoke community intra-net / meta-net portal for ntl.
• technical communications with ntl.
• Solaris systems integration with Windows 2000 and NT4 servers and Windows 9x/ME on the desktop.
• systems security and the installation and configuration of SunScreen Firewall.
• the configuration and management of ISDN router including PAT (port address translation) configuration.

Environment Solaris 2.8, Solaris 2.8 for i386, Windows 2000, Windows NT4, Windows 9x/ME. Hardware: Enterprise E450, Netra T1, Fijitsui (i386), Ultra 5s.

Sun MicroSystems - McLean VA & Cairo Egypt.

Senior Solaris administrator responsible for:

• building and testing a new Egyptian ISP.
• evaluating proposed software solutions in McLean.
• test builds in Cairo.
• the successful configuration and testing of the data center in Cairo.
• building and testing help desk center in Cairo.
• the design and build of SunRay pods for Government ministry and University access to data center.
• SunScreen Firewall configuration and testing in the Cairo data center.
• the configuration of iPlanet web server, messaging server, proxy, and reverse proxy server and LDAP server in Cairo.
• the installation and configuration of SunRay servers together with SEAM (kerberos V) user authentication and smart cards.
• the integration of Solaris with Windows 2000 using Citrix Metaframe.
• DNS configuration.
• the installation and configuration of Solaris video conferencing using SunForum.
• the installation of Netscape Communicator and StarOffice.
• providing technical support for the installation of Oracle 8 and Remedy.
• the installation and configuration of DiskSuite.
• creating a web based administration server which integrated local and vendor documentation and provided interfaces to Solaris administration tools.

Environment Solaris 2.7, Windows 2000. Hardware: Enterprise E4500, E450s, E250s, A3500 fibre channel controllers, A1000 disk arrays, SunRay.

WS Atkins - Epsom, Surrey UK.

Project: Solaris migration (from VAX) and year 2K project.
Solaris Systems Administor responsible for:

• specification and building of Sun E4000/E250/E450 hosts.
• installation, configuration and testing of StorEdge software raid and hardware raid on SRC/P controllers.
• installation and configuration of Veritas VxFS, and UFS file systems.
• vulnerability assessment.
• installation and assessment of Kerberos 5 servers.
• assessment of password strength for Solaris and Windows.
• setting DNS procedures and management.
• the introduction of Solaris NIS+.
• building an administration web site.
• Solaris technical support for Oracle database environment architect.
• support for Ingres, Sun accounts and OASIS.

Environment:Solaris 2.6/7, Windows NT4, Windows 95/98 and VAX. Hardware: Enterprise E4000, E450s, E250s.

ALCATEL - Antwerp. BE.

Systems administrator responsible for:

• implementation of restricted access scheme for WIPRO developers in India.
• periodic checking for weak passwords on Sun (Solaris) and HP networks.
• systems administration and support for international telecoms development engineers.
• NT, Windows 95, HPUX, and Solaris integration.
• review, correction and testing of sendmail configuration.

Environment: HPUX 10.20/9.7, Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1.x, Windows NT4, Windows 95, Windows 3.11. Hardware: HP 9000 K series server, 49xB132L+, 16xB180L, 4xC100, 3x100, 5x60 21 Sun sparc stations and 44 PCs.

TOKYO MITSUBISHI - City of London. UK.

Solaris, network services and security administrator responsible for:

• configuration and management of Checkpoint's Firewall-1 on Solaris, NT and SunOS.
• configuration and management of US Robotics dial up hub (ISDN and analogue), radius server and ACE server, with secure ID.
• installation of Tripwire intrusion detection.
• configuration and auditing of secure servers accessible via the internet.
• periodic reviews of T-MI security and the production of vulnerability analysis reports.
• designing and building the e-mail architecture with extra-net connections to Tokyo Securities, Belgium, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and the Bank of Tokyo Euromail network.
• integration of Netscape, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Sendmail.
• configuration and management of ATM management module with level 3 routing, running under SunOS 5.5.
• upgrading of LDAP server including migration of ACLs, user defined objects and attributes.
• internal and external DNS.
• building of Apache based web site running on Solaris to provide comprehensive documentation library services, statistics and continuously updated server logs.
• writing of extensive documentation on change procedures.
• building a configuration and administration system to manage the end user environment across heterogenous desktop and server platforms.
• the provision of a uniform X-Windows environment for both NT and Solaris desktop boxes.
• rebuilding of SunOS 4 kernels to incorporate FDDI.
• correction of nightly dump scripts and automated transfers of mission critical data, including databases, to remote disaster recovery site.

Environment: Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1.x, Windows NT. Hardware: FDDI server farms, ATM backbone to 10/100 Base T on the desk top. Wellfleet and Cisco Routers, Agile 125s. WAN lease line, ISDN and analogue dial-up connections to Frankfurt, Brussels and Tokyo. Secure dial-up via USR hub passing through radius server to ACE server using Secure ID. Feeds from Bloomberg, Reuters and 4cast. 1,400 hosts including PCs, Starfire (Enterprise 10000) Enterprise 5000, Ultrasparcs, Sparc 20s, 10s and 2s. Over 500 users.

Applications software supported: FICAD, GLOSS, OASIS, OPUS, MUREX, CATS, SUNGL, SYBASE, Netscape, Netscape SuiteSpot (Mail Server), Open Bloomberg, Reuters 3000, Tripwire, Firewall-1, TCP Wrappers.

CLMS - UNIVERSITY of NORTH LONDON

Solaris systems management & e-mail development responsible for:

• Solaris systems network management and security at the School of Mathematics and Computing.
• network architecture and management.
• hardware procurement, performance specification, drafting of tender documents and contract negotiation.
• devising a scheme to provide network and host based security which would provide an appropriate security level for students, academic staff, the academic registry, accounts and administration.
• evaluation of available X.500 servers and clients for Solaris and WINDOWS machines.
• writing a suite of system administration tools, employing NIS+.
• writing full and complete man page documentation using troff for all the utilities created.
• assisting AUSCERT in understanding NIS+ scripting and configuration problems.
• Designing and presenting training courses for front-line support staff, academic staff and students.
• Solaris system upgrades from Solaris 2.2 to 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5.
• reviewing Sun's monthly Solaris patch lists and installing all necessary patches.
• installing and supporting over 30 applications.
• chairing the School of Computing's UNIX users group.

Environment: Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1.x, VAX VMS, DOS 6, Windows 3.1, Novell 3.x. Hardware:Sparc 20s, Sparc 10, dataless IPCs, discless ELCs, Texktronix and NCD X-terminals, Sun 3s, dataless Classics. Gateway to VAX cluster and sub-networks of 400 PCs over 4 sites.