JEFFREY GOLDBERG

Dennis Drive
Burlington, MA. 01803
781-229-1530 ext. 2
jg75d462@westpost.net
SUMMARY OBJECTIVE:
Seasoned senior systems architect, UNIX/Linux/Solaris, VMware and data-center ad
ministrator, software programmer, project leader and educator, with a proven tra
ck record of applying years of experience and good practices to the specificatio
n, architecture, design, implementation and maintenance of communications inform
ation technology systems. Well-versed in the latest computer languages, operatin
g systems, network and system administration techniques, seeking a position wher
e my hands-on self-motivating passion with the technology provides me with a uni
que understanding of how to balance conflicting requirements and bring complex e
nterprise level IT projects to a successful completion. Ability to work both ind
ependently and as part of a team, with demonstrated results in leading and contr
ibuting to projects, interfacing with stakeholders, while training and mentoring
junior staff. Also great at troubleshooting complex problems.
LANGUAGES: AWK/SED, C/C++, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Delphi, DHTML, Fortran,
HTML, JavaScript, Java, JSP/Servlets, Pascal, Perl, PHP, LAMP, Regular Expressi
ons, Bourne/Korn/Bash/Csh/Tcsh Shells, Structured Query Language (SQL), Visual B
asic, XHTML, XML, Sendmail MC, some ASP and Python.
TOOLS: Application Servers (Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, Servicemix, WebSphere), Buil
d and Source Control (Ant, Make, CVS, RCS, SCCS), DBMS (Access, DBase III/IV, My
SQL, Oracle, PL-SQL), MS-Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word), MS-P
rojects, MS-Visual Studio, Text Editors (Ex, Teco, Vedit, VI, Vim), UNIX Scripti
ng (all UNIX Shells, AWK, Perl, SED), Security Hardening and Performance (Bastil
le, BMC Patrol, SAR), Ticket Management (Mercury, Remedy); Virtualization (SANS,
NAS, NetApps, VMware ESX VI3/vSphere Server/vCenter, Solaris Containers/Zones/L
DOMs), Word Perfect, X11/XDM, cygwin, chroot OpenSSH, Unit tests, QA testing di
agnostics. [Years ago, I was also proficient in Lotus Notes, Simulation and Syn
thesis (ECAP, SPICE, Verilog, VHDL and others)]
OS+NETWORK: Most UNIX BSD/System-V platforms: (Solaris7-10, HPUX, SCO, Ultrix, s
ome AIX) Linux: (CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat AS / Enterprise 3, 4 and 5 Server, earl
ier Red Hat workstations, SUSE), MS/ Windows: (NT/9x/2000/XP/2003/Terminal.Serve
r), iLO (integrated Lights-Out technology), hpMPE, MS-DOS, NetApp config, Novel,
RTOS: (PSOS, VRTX), UNIX OS Internals, TCP/IP: (DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, LD
AP, NFS, NIS, NTP, POP3, RDP/Remote Desktop, RLP/CUPS, RMI, RSH, SOAP, SMTP, SSH
/SCP/SFTP, SSL, TELNET, VNC), IPX, CIFS/SMB, Samba, TDMA,Ethernet, Token Ring, F
DDI, Fibre channel, iSCSI.
CHRONOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE, STARTING WITH MOST RECENT:
Qualware IT Consulting, Burlington, Ma. (Sept 2009 - Present)
* Network and System Administrator, IT Manager, for a small consulting business:
* Provided daily support for six Servers (Linux, Solaris, NT, voicemail/phone) a
nd windows workstations.
* Maintained company's firewall, security ACLs, wireless access point architectu
re, server virtualization.
* Implemented software to dynamically alter firewall to block spammer dictionary
/ relay email attacks.
* Installed SpamAssassin; Designed, developed and implemented proprietary spam e
mail filter software.
* Currently implementing a SEO (Search engine optimized) Flash based web site wi
thin a CMS context management system framework (Drupal) that supports daily dyna
mic updates. Currently investigating vSphere4 virtualization for future deployme
nts of all new company services. Also investigated Joomla.
* Developed countless dynamic web pages using HTML, CCS, JavaScript, Perl/PHP, a
nd MySQL.
* Programmed proprietary search engine written in Java J2EE technologies for IEE
E CNET.
* Supported services such as DHCP, DNS, HTTP[S], NFS, POP3, RLP/CUPS, SSH, and r
estricted [S]FTP/Telnet.
* Architected network configuration allowing fail-over routing of Internet from
primary and backup ISP.
* Investigated Linux 2.6 Kernel and device driver capabilities for future embedd
ed programming projects.
Intuit , East Coast Division, Waltham, MA (January - July 2009)
* Senior Systems Administrator in Shared Product Components of the Small Busines
s Division
* Working with engineering teams from Intuit's Small Business Division, implemen
ted large scale operating environments for current and emerging business project
s. Projects required the build-out of Dev, QA, Performance test and production e
nvironments based upon Linux and Solaris implementations.
* Specifically responsible for configuration control, maintenance, performance e
nhancements and uptime monitoring of seventy-five production servers running Sol
aris 9/10 and executing real-time customer accessible Java application frontends
for Quickbase/TurboTax configured under Jserv, Tomcat and JBoss.
XIUS-bcgi , Boston Communications Division, Bedford, MA (April 2007 - June 2008)
* Senior Linux Administrator in System Architecture and Operations group
* Responsible for daily monitoring and 99.9% uptime of over 60 production and 10
0 pre-production cellular call processing and real-time billing Linux Servers, w
here 50% were VMware virtual servers.
* Developed company standards for deploying operating system frameworks, guarant
eeing consistent feature sets and security hardening across all operational prod
uct lines from development into production.
* Developed customized automation for deploying, generating reports on and monit
oring all Linux production servers to provide ease of scalability and prevent ou
tages with a goal of maximum uptime.
* Collaborated on the management, troubleshooting and integration of VMware virt
ual Linux servers into the company's 24x7 data-center service bureau. Updated se
rvers to latest releases and patches.
* Set up secure jail SCP/SFTP file transfers between clients and data-center EMC
Celerra/Clariion storage.
* Implemented Sendmail, NTP, SSH, BMC Patrol services across all production Linu
x Servers.
* Investigated company wide single signon LDAP project for Linux/Solaris/Windows
systems.
Openwave Systems Inc., Burlington, Ma. (January - March 2007) - Java Servlets/J
SP/Tomcat Educator
Delivered Java on-site corporate training, covering both client side and server
side Java programming.
Fidelity Investments, Institutional Services Division, Marlborough, MA, (Novembe
r - December 2006)
* Systems Administrator Consultant
* Provided operational, administrative, QA and developer support across multiple
environments.
* Performed installation, configuration and upgrades of system software and Webs
phere applications.
* Designed and programmed an inventory reporting facility capable of polling all
Fidelity servers for current configuration information and consolidating retrie
ved information into a single summary report.
* Programmed a distributed prototype "web mail system" using web PHP Hypertext P
reprocessor, Java and network remote execution technologies, while maintaining n
etwork security.
* Supported day-to-day system and application inquiries by developers and QA tea
m.
Harvard University, Dept of Psychology, FAS Consultant, Cambridge, Ma. (June - N
ov 2006, January 2007)
* Linux RAID Fileserver Storage and UNIX IT Software Consultant
* Stabilized and secured Linux RAID fileservers supporting Samba pc mapped file
access.
* Modified firewall and security model to improve network and data security.
* Wrote numerous UNIX shell scripts to automate daily maintenance and security o
f terabyte server farm.
* Fixed major failures in automated file backup system and investigating replace
ment systems.
* Maintained desktop and computational computer systems while architecting plans
for future growth.
* Investigated implementing LinuxCluster to support 4 TB of high availability st
orage for WJH professors.
Qualware IT Instructional Services, Burlington, Ma. (Ongoing 1999 - Dec 2008)
* Course Developer and Lead Technical Educator:
* Development and deployment of adult education and fun accelerated-learning cur
riculums.
* Delivery of customized corporate training to companies like EMC, MIT, NMS, Ope
nwave, Unica.
* Development of technical training materials for Worcester Polytechnic Institut
e, Boston University, Northeastern University. Supervised and trained many of t
he instructors and support staff at WPI.
* Sampling of Qualware course deliveries to both public and corporate clients:
* Server Virtualization: Mastering VMware Infrastructure III (ESX 3.0/3.5) for I
EEE/corp-clients.
* Linux(/Solaris) System Administration, Networking and UNIX Web Certificate Pro
gram for WPI.
* Introduction to Perl and Object Oriented Programming customized for an ASIC co
mpany.
* 'C'/C++ Programming and Pascal/Delphi Programming for EMC Symetrics Support te
am.
LSI Logic Corporation, Southboro, Ma. ( 2004) - Fibre HBA/SANs Product Verificat
ion Engineer:
* Independently, designed, executed and documented test plan.
* Installed and configured various Windows, UNIX/Linux and Netware servers.
* Wired and configured direct attached and fabric switched SANs. Constructed tes
t beds.
* Designed and validated numerous stress testing applications.
* Validated Fibre Channel firmware and drivers.
* Assisted with Microsoft Cluster Server Certification of LSI's Fibre Channel (H
BA) host bus adapters.
Boston University Corporate Training, Tyngsboro/Waltham/Boston, Ma. (Part-time
1999 - 2005)
* Contract Instructor, ITS and CCP Adult Education Certificate Program
* UNIX Fundamentals, Shell Scripting, Perl, Visual Basic
* UNIX/Linux System Administration and TCP/IP Networking
* UNIX/Linux Internals and System Programming, Network Socket Programming
* Java 5 Programming and J2EE Enterprise Developer, Servlets and JSPs (Java Serv
er Pages).
Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. (2000)
* Contract Instructor, Solaris 7/8 System Administration Expert
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Waltham/Southboro, Ma. (Ongoing half-time 1996
- 2005)
* Lead Technology Consultant overseeing IT infrastructure growth at Waltham educ
ation center.
* Responsible for the introduction of Solaris and Linux to WPI educational cente
r facility.
* Responsible for acquisition and deployment in all equipment targeted for the U
NIX classrooms and labs.
* Set up, configured and customized all UNIX services for educational support.
* Trained and provided support to all WPI education center system administrators
.
* Actively involved in resolving all major UNIX host or network security intrusi
ons.
* Lead Educator in Technical Education Masters Certificate programs.
* Responsible for program and courseware development and training of over 1500 c
lass attendees.
* C/C++ and UNIX Certificate, Java Certificate and Web Technologies Certificate
Programs.
* Curriculum included Visual Basic, C/C++ programming, SCO, Linux and Solaris tr
aining, shell scripting, UNIX system administration, TCP-IP networking, server a
nd LAN security, HTML, Perl, PHP, Java programming, JavaScript, SQL programming,
and various Web Technologies ASP, RMI, Oracle.
Support Lab, Hingham/Plymouth, Ma. (1998)
* Communications and Graphical User Interface Software Programmer
* Contributed to Cellemetry Data Server using cellular phone protocols.
* Programmed graphical user interface (GUI) front end written in C, Visual C++ a
nd Visual Basic 6.
* Implemented proprietary DES encrypted TCP/IP communications socket layer commu
nications.
Summit Vision Center, Waltham, Ma. (1997)
* Senior System Administrator and Interim IT Director, POS Systems
* Managed IT department of 10 individuals.
* Set department objectives, resolved critical business issues, authorized equip
ment purchases, staffing.
* Maintained and enhanced HP-UX Sybase point-of-sales system (server) and suppor
ting workstations.

Various contract positions, some overlapping, in reverse chronological order (19

90 -1996):
* AES Corporation, Peabody, Ma. (2.5 year project) - Hardware/Software Architect
, Wireless packet radio
* Shiva Corporation, Burlington, Ma. (1 year project) - Remote Access Plug-In P
roject Leader
* Chipcom, Southboro, Ma. (1.5 year project) - Token Ring Repeater Module Desig
ner and Project Leader
* Picturetel, Peabody, Ma. (1 year project) - Project Lead, Video Conference Pro
tected Mode Diagnostics
* Exos Federal Tech, Westford, Ma - Engineering Manager, LAN Development
* Siemens Medical Electronics Inc., Danvers, Ma. - Quality Assurance Specialist
and Software Developer
* Tufts University, Electrical Engineering, Medford, Ma. - VLSI Tools, System an
d Network Administrator
PERMANENT POSITIONS HELD:
Applitek, Major Governmental LAN Supplier, Wakefield, Ma. (1984-1989)
* Principal Design Engineer and Project Manager of IBM 327X LAN Product
* Baseband, broadband and fiber Ethernet product based on 68000 processor and bi
t-slice technology.
* Compiler development for proprietary bitslice.
* Netlist extractor application development using C.
Hewlett Packard, Medical Instrumentation Division, Waltham, Ma. (PRE-1984)
* Team leader and senior technical software contributor, architecture and design
* Real-time physiological monitoring software using Pascal and assembly language
.
* Quality Assurance leader and test automation designer.
* Senior design engineer / hardware electronics and software development
EDUCATION:
Tufts University, B.S.E.E. cum laude with honors. Concentration on digital circu
itry, microprocessor design and modular structured programming design, with a mi
nor in Human Factors Engineering.

POST GRADUATE STUDIES ABRIDGED:

Operating System Fundamentals (MIT & Stanford); Data Structures (MIT)
Microprocessor Tradeoffs (Solotest); Structured Design (Yourdon)
Conway/Mead VLSI Design and Fabrication (Northeastern - Fall 83)
Robotic Computer Vision, Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence (Stanford)
Financial, Cost and Managerial Accounting (Stanford)
CMOS Gate Array LDS Design Class (LSI Logic - Fall 84)
VLSI/ASIC Logic Design and Simulations (Northeastern, MMC - Spring 88)
CMOS Designs, VHDL Designs/Simulations (MA Microelectronics Center - Fall 88)
Digital Design with Verilog HDL (Self-taught - Spring 94)
Advanced Visual Basic Programming and Database Access (IEEE - Spring 96 & 99)
Advanced Solaris System Administration (Sun Microsystems - Dec 99, Fall 00)
Fast-Track Windows NT MCSC Certificate Program (WPI - Spring 00)
JavaScript Programming and SQL (WPI - Spring 01, Fall 01)
Programming in Java (IEEE- Summer 97, WPI- Fall 01 - Spring 02, BU- Fall 05)
Linux/UNIX Internals, System and Network Programming (BU - Fall 01)
Perl Fundamentals and CGI Database Connections (BU - Spring 02)
Delphi Fundamentals (Self-taught - Fall 04)
Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (IEEE - Spring 05)
Advanced Java5 Programming, J2EE Enterprise Development) (BU - Fall 05)
Introduction to Eclipse Development Platform Application Framework (IEEE - Sprin
g 06)
Developing for Embedded Linux 2.6 (IEEE - Spring 06)
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
* Webmaster/programmer/junior-DBA for numerous database enabled non-profit web s
ites.
* Current officer of the Boston Section Executive Committee of IEEE.*
*IEEE is a technical professional association of more than 365,000 members wor
ld wide.
* Past Chair, IEEE Boston Consultants' Network; former board member of Alliance
of IEEE Consultants.
* Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
* Co-Founder of the IEEE Consultants' Network, Boston Chapter.
* Private Pilot since 1985. Side interest in aviation and air traffic control.
* Author of Distributed Self-Test Diagnostics article in HP Medical Journal.
* Manager of Undergraduate Student Computer Services at Tufts University.