Daniel Alan Fleming
132 Cottontail Lane
Nederland, CO.  80466-9726
(303)/258-8076 
jobs@dorje.com




Objective:

To remain in challenging technical positions involving management,
network architecture, Internet operations and/or network security.  I'm
looking for casual but highly focused technical environment which
rewards hard work and dedication.


Overview:

  - Four years managing a team of support personnel working on cutting
edge technology in a $8.5 million dollar lab.

  - Fifteen years of Internet experience, including administration of
Internet connections (colocation, self hosted and even old uucp and
leased line), news and mailfeeds, using and administering archive
sites, administering mailing lists, managing web servers and services,
designing firewalls, etc.

  - Seventeen years of experience with the Unix operating system.

  - Fifteen years as a Unix system administrator on many different
platforms, including BSD-based, System V-based and mixed breeds (like
SunOS). Extensive experience with all layers of network equipment from
cabling and infrastructure (routers, bridges, repeaters, load
balancers, firewalls, etc.) up to applications.

  - In-depth experience with the common networking methods and network
design, including client-server, terminal-host, and distributed
networking.

  - Training and experience working with Scientific-Atlanta and
Motorola cable TV headends, as well as common cable industry equipment
like VoD servers (Concurrent, CCOR, Arroyo, Broadbus, Seachange),
billing (ICOMS and CSG), OCAP, SDV, CMTS, statmux and signal
acquisition systems..

  - Eight years of experience as administrator over corporate telephone
systems including managing a PBX, VOIP, managing T-carrier lines,
installing phones, programming voice response systems and managing
messaging systems.



Experience:


January 2002 to current: Time Warner Cable ATG-West: Director Lab
Support:
  Managing a team of engineers supporting a software development lab.
  Additionally responsible for managing all vendor relationships,
  managing a multi-million dollar budget as well as the hiring and
  reviews for the team of eight engineers.  The group is responsible
  for doing the specification, design and building of the development
  lab infrastructure, providing tier IV field support and assisting
  the architecture team with developing next generation solutions.
  Initially, I managed the IT system administrators who handled the
  office network, firewall and servers until that team was split off
  into a separate group.  I have also designed and managed the move
  into two different labs including the build-out of the office space,
  working with the architect, general contractor, subcontractors,
  cabling vendors and leasing company.  I have experience creating
  specifications for both lab including calculating space, power, air
  conditioning and cabling requirements.  Finally, I am responsible for
  specification, vendor selection, pricing and purchase for the lab and
  IT equipment.  The lab includes multiple Scientific Atlanta headends,
  Motorola headends, Video-on-Demand servers, ISA-complaint subsystems,
  Switched Digital Video systems, OCAP infrastructure, Cable modem
  infrastructure, over 100 Sun enterprise servers, over 200 Linux
  servers, a multi-tiered network with more than 30 Foundry, Cisco
  and Riverstone routers and many more pieces of equipment specific to
  the cable TV industry.


March 2001 to August 2001: Infobeat (www.infobeat.com): IS:
  Senior System Administrator.  Responsible for designing and implementing 
  an email/web network including security, network infrastructure, hardware 
  selection, vendor negotiations, system standards, etc.  Also shared
  responsibility for existing Infobeat web site including backups, system
  monitoring, firewall and network security and development environment.


March 2000 to December 2000: Mancala, Inc (www.wordofmouth.com); IS:
  Sr. System Administrator and Operations Manager for the WordofMouth
  web site.  Responsible for support of all office equipment,
  the development environment and the planning/deployment/administration
  of the web site.  Responsible for determining equipment, negotiating
  contracts, network design, developing site setup and maintenance
  standards, procedures and management and security.  If it deals with
  the systems and doesn't fall into the realm of the programmers, I'm
  probably the one that did it.  The site was 100% Sun/Solaris, Foundry
  load balancer and networking equipment, Oracle running on Network 
  Appliance NFS filers, Netscreen Firewall, Cisco routers, Apache 
  web servers and Vignette middleware.


May 1999 to February, 2000: Mindbank/MapQuest (www.mapquest.com); IS:
  Senior Unix System Administrator, Network Administrator and Webmaster
  for the MapQuest web site.  Part of a team of five admins responsible
  for maintaining all the servers, networking equipment and software
  necessary to run the site.  Primary responsibility for the Checkpoint
  Firewall-1 firewall installation, F5 Labs Big/IP and Foundry
  ServerIron load balancer hardware, Sun and Linux server hardware,
  Cisco routers and 3Com switches.


July 1997 to April 1999: TCI/Careertrack; IS:
  Unix System Administrator for Careertrack.  Solely responsible for
  the company's two SparcCenter 1000 database servers, various
  other supporting Sun workstations and an IBM RS6000 running AIX. 
  Created system policy and procedures, put in place a Legato backup
  system, managed a multi-gigabyte storage array and set up an SNMP
  based system monitoring and network management system.  Responsible
  for providing technical consultation and skills to the web site 
  development team.


February 1996 to June 1997: VR1/Online Network Enterprises; MIS:
  Unix/Network Administrator for O.N.E.  Responsible for supporting all
  unix machines, the Internet tools installed on those machines and
  both our customer and backbone network links.  Machines were a
  combination of Suns running Solaris and SGIs running Irix.  Internet
  tools included WWW, anonymous ftp, RealAudio, networked games (xpilot,
  xtrek).  Also responsible for all internal security, our firewalls to
  the Internet and security recommendations to our customers on a
  consulting basis.


May 1995 to February 1996: The Blackstone Group/US West; TSS:
  Contract unix system admimistrator with the Technical Support Staff.
  Part of a 16 person team, responsible for supporting all the unix
  development machines for the US West Denver area development groups.
  Machines supported include HP, Sun Solaris, SunOS, SGI and MIPS.  The
  machines supported were spread over a 6 building area.  All machines
  were networked via ethernet and running network services such as NIS,
  DNS, Sendmail and WWW.


June 1992 to April 1995: AT&T Tridom; Engineering:
  Assistant System Administrator for the Engineering department's network of
  Sun workstations. Responsible for operation and administration of the
  departments 70 workstations, 20 X-terminals, Sun 470 and 330 servers and all
  networking equipment. This ethernet network includes NIS/yellow pages, DNS,
  slip and a 56kb Internet connection with Alternet.  Implemented a
  network wide security policy including an Internet firewall, secure 
  telecomuting, and secure dialups.


April 1992 to June 1992: Qualitec Corporation; MIS:
  System Administrator for the company's voice and data equipment. I also acted
  as Database Administrator of two different Informix databases residing on
  two Unix machines.  During my employment at Qualitec, a telephone switch and
  autodialer were added to the equipment under my administration.


July 1990 to April 1992: Days Inns of America; Data Management:
  Responsible for overseeing all the data for the company's 300 reservation
  agents.  A range of equipment including micro-computers, a computerized time
  clock and the company's AT&T voice and data network are used. Also
  responsible for supporting the company's AT&T computers and communications
  equipment.  All the systems were networked between two remote reservation
  centers and many of the department functions were automated to use this
  network.


June 1989 to June 1990: National Data Corporation; Communication Services
Division:
  Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Division's data systems.
  The system consisted of multiple AT&T 3B series Unix computers, two AT&T
  6386 workstations, an ISDN gateway machine, and an AT&T System 85 phone
  switch.  Software included the Starlan PC network system, the AT&T national
  Starmail system and the EDGE database.


Feb. 1989 to May 1989: Digital Equipment Corporation; System Support Management:
  Responsible for the SSM Helpline, an inter-office helpline, to support the
  software being used by Digital employees and to screen hardware calls.
  Worked closely with the Software development personnel to describe common
  problems encountered by those using the system applications and with
  hardware support in replacing faulty equipment.


Jan. 1988 to Jan. 1989: Olsten/Honeywell-Bull; Customer Service Department:
  Worked as a System Support Call Coordinator, routing customer hardware and
  software problems to hardware engineers and the software support center.
  Required basic knowledge of all Honeywell-Bull and third party equipment
  that was supported, as well as common problems in computer environments.


Nov. 1987 to Jan. 1988: Georgia Institute of Technology; Office of Computing
Services:
  Worked as a computer operator, supporting all the machines on the Georgia
  Tech campus. This was a diverse environment consisting of CDC Cyber
  mainframes, IBM mainframes, AT&T Unix machines, industrial laser printers,
  a network of DEC Microvax, IBM PC clusters and numerous support peripherals.
  The job consisted of basic operation tasks like backups, scheduled in-house
  maintenance and printing reports.


Nov. 1984 - July 1985: Fleming Lumber Company; Computer Administrator:
  Basic high school job working at my father's lumber mill.  I helped migrate
  many of the office functions to a newly purchased computer including accounts
  payable, accounts receivable, word processing, mail labels, etc. I wrote a
  number of utility programs to supplement purchased software, then trained
  the office personnel to use the various packages.



Also numerous non-related jobs to support college costs.





Education:

  1990 - 1994: Georgia State University: Philosophy, Junior.  Most of a
                  degree in Philosophy with an focus on eastern philosophy.
                  Minoring in computer science.



 1985 - 1988: Georgia Institute of Technology: Information and Computer
              Science, Junior.  Most of a Degree Computer Information Science.





Skills:

 System administration; network management; Internet administration;
 System and Network security; some database administration; User support;
 Customer Service experience; Management experience; Extensive use of
 major national and local networks; Installation of voice and data equipment.



Systems:

 Virtually all flavors of unix, including AT&T System V, BSD 4.0 - 4.3,
 Sun OS/Solaris, Linux, Ultrix, AIX, Irix, etc.; CDC Cyber VX/VE, NOS
 and NOS/VE; IBM VM/CMS; MS/DOS; MS/Windows; Macintosh.


Languages:

 8086/8088 assembler; Pascal; Unix Shell languages (sh, ksh, csh); HTML; Cyber
  NOS and NOS/VE Command level programming; limited C and PERL.



Unix Applications:
  UUCP/UUCICO; TCP/IP; Usenet news; mail/sendmail; DNS; NIS/Yellow Pages; AT&T
  Starlan PC network; AT&T PMX Starmail; AT&T Stargroup Administration; ISDN
  Gateway; X windows/Motif; Openwindows; StarOffice; various mail and news 
  interfaces (elm, rn, xvnews); web clients (mosaic, netscape); web servers 
  (NCSA, Netscape, Apache); Legato (Solstice Backup); Veritas Volume 
  Management; Veritas NetBackup; Resonate; SunNet Manager; IRC; Netsaint; 
  Amanda; Samba; limited Oracle administration; SSH.



Machines:

 AT&T 3B2 series; AT&T 6x86 Unix machines; AT&T 3B1/7300; A wide range
  of Sun SPARC products; NCD, NCR and Tektronix X terminals; SGI Indy and
  Challenge; MIPS 3250; IBM 4x81 systems; Digital DECstations; and VAX;
  AT&T Conversant Voice Response Unit; AT&T System 85 Telephone Switch;
  numerous Cyber 8 and 9 series mainframes; Pyramid 90x; Versatec,
  Calcomp and HP plotters; Xerox 9700/8790 laser printers; Printronix 6280
  line printer; various DOS machines; Apple Macintosh; Cayman Gatorbox;
  also knowledge of peripherals including printers, Hayes and AT&T
  protocol modems.


Networking Equipment:

 Cabletron ethernet equipment; Cisco Routers and switches; Telebit
  Routers; F5 Bip/IP load balancers; Extreme Networks switches;
  3Com switches; Foundry ServerIron load balancers; Foundry switches;
  Netscreen Firewall; Checkpoint Firewall-1; Digi serial concentrators;
  Network Appliance NFS filers; Spirent SmartBITS; Marconi ATM switches.


Cable Equipment:

 SA headend; Motorola headend; Big Band Networks BMR; Terayon DM6400;
  Harmonic NSG; Concurrent VoD server; CCOR/nCUBE VoD server; Arroyo
  VoD server; Broadband VoD server; Seachange VoD server; Tandberg/
  N2Broadband catchers, BMS and AMS; Cisco CMTS; Big Band SDV server;
  SA SDV server; Trilithic EAS system; Time Warner Cable MystroTV
  system.