Claude Tyler McAdams
Education:
Fall 1993
- Fall 1998:
Major:
Economics (BA)
Minor: Art (Fine
Arts and Applied Arts)
Language
concentrations
in Japanese and Spanish.
Some
graduate study
in macroeconomics.
Member of the Delta Chi fraternity
Raleigh,NC
#1 seed of
the varsity
golf team and a co-captain.
#11-#6 seeds
on the varsity
tennis team.
Work Experience:
October 31st 2008 to Present:
355 East Ave.
Bluffton, SC
Tob Title: Project Architect
Job Responsibilities:
Drive development logistics for the LinuxDNA kernel source project
Create and admin VMware and VirtualBox development testbeds for emperical testing
Linux administration on Gentoo Linux, RHEL 5.2, Debian, Ubuntu and Dream Linux
Drive benchmarking, QA and best practises
Advanced kerenl & system performance tuning with GCC & ICC PGO Optimiztion
break
Febuary 19th to October 31st:
208 E Broughton St.
Savannah, GA
Tob Title: UNIX Administartor
space
April
16th 2007 to Febuary 13th 2008:
Bluffton (Hilton
Head Island)
Job Title: Systems Engineer (
Job
Responsibilities:
Bladeframe deployment to Apptis DoD contract
Systems Supported:
Red Hat Linux (REHL 3u6) - Windows Server (2003 & 2000) - VMware Server
Egenera PAN Administration
Hardware
Supported:
Egenera Bladeframes - EMC2 Fibrechannel SAN - Cisco Fibrechannel Switches
x86_64 Xeon and Opteron Architecture Blades
Training:
Egenera PAN Administration
April
19th 2006 to April 16th 2007:
Bluffton (Hilton
Head Island)
Job Title:
IT Consultant (
Job
Responsibilities:
Freelance
computer builds, repair, & service to SOHO and individuals
Software configuration and administration
Systems
Supported:
Mac OS
X, Windows, Linux, VMware (Workstation & Player)
Hardware
Supported:
x86,
x86_64,
PPC
May
2nd 2005 to April 19th 2006:
RTP (Research
Triangle Park)
Job Title:
Associate Software Engineer (
Job
Responsibilities:
xSeries
& pSeries Blade Centre hardware / software configuration and
administration for test case senerios.
Systems
Supported:
AIX,
Windows Server Family, Linux, VMware (GSX
& ESX)
Hardware
Supported:
pSeries, xSeries
(Blade
Centre Architectures - Enterprise, Clancy & Telco Models)
SAN
&
NAS Technologies Supported:
SCSI,
Fibre
Channel, iSCSI, LVM, RAID,
Network
Technologies Supported:
Cisco
&
Nortel switches, Topspin routers, TCP/IP, SSH, Telnet, AD
Focus
Accounts:
Pentagon
Blade Centre Server Farm
RTP (Research
Triangle Park)
Job Title:
e-Business
Operations Webhosting (
Job
Responsibilities:
Level 2,
1
and OSSA system administration for the
IGS e-Business account infrastructure
Call
center
support escalation resolution
Automated
trap handling (BMC, EPP,
ASERT, PCPMM)
New York
Stock Exchange website manual monitoring
Hardware
and
software problem determination,
backup, virus removal, installation & configuration
Systems
Supported:
AIX,
Solaris, HP-UX, Windows Server Family, Linux,
AS/400, RS/6000, VMWARE (GSX
& ESX)
Hardware
Supported:
pSeries,
xSeries,
zSeries, SUN (UltraSparc
Family & x86), HP (x86,
PA-RISC, Itanium), Compaq
(OpenVMS,
Proliant x86)
SAN
Technologies Supported:
SCSI,
Fibre
Channel, SSA, SATA, iSCSI, LVM, RAID,
Tape Archived Resource
Network
Technologies Supported:
Cisco IOS
& NIDS appliances, Nokia firewall, TCP/IP,
FTP, SSH, Telnet, AD
Focus
Accounts:
NYSE, FSG
(Macys.com,
Bloomingdales.com), IRS,
GMAC, FEMA (Homeland
Security),
Server
Room Access:
RTP main
campus Bld 001,
Cert Studio Bld 001 & C302 (Biometric
and
Essential badge access)
Job Title:
Mainframe Analyst
(
Help Desk
Analyst for IGS call center - end user support,
system administration, NT, Exchange & Novell domain administration
Team Lead
and Turnover responsibilities
Systems
Supported:
OS/390,
z/OS, Windows NT, 2000, 2000 Server, XP Pro,
POS equipment & Novell
Network
Technologies Supported:
TCP/IP,
SMB,
SNA, FTP, AD, Telnet
Focus
Accounts:
FSG (Macys,
Bloomingdales), GMAC,
Pathmark, GM Sitel, UNUM, Aventis, Flour
3347
Job Title:
Account Manager
Account
Management Skills:
Concise
communication skills
for both English and Spanish accounts. Customer service skills
for acquired hardware and software, as well as consultation and
direction on future
solutions. Multitasking of several fortune 1000/500 level
customers as well
as focal account: Madix Inc (A
subsidiary
of Ace Hardware)
z/OS, S/390
administration
(+.5 yrs
exp),
UNIX/Linux administration (+5 yrs), NT 4,5,6
& Novell domain administration (+5 yrs), VMWARE (GSX, ESX,
Workstation), Mac
network
administration, Outlook/Exchange user administration, Active Directory
administration, wireless LAN administration,
firewall configuration, NIDS configuration, Tivoli Netview,
CICS, SAP, RACF, ACF, ACF2, Topsecret,
ISPF,
VMCF, JES, VPS,& SDSF
HTML, XML,
DHTML,
CSS, JavaScript, Actionscript, Lingo and a working knowledge of JAVA
for the internet,
Perl scripting, AppleScript & Shell scripting (bash, ksh,tsh
& zsh)
TCP/IP, UDP,
ICMP, FTP, NFS,
IPX, AppleTalk, Samba, Telnet, ssh, X11, SSL, VNC, DNS & Sendmail
OS/390-z/OS,
Windows (NT4, 2000, XP
Pro, CE, Server
2000,2003, Terminal Server), CICS,
SAP, MS Office, Mac OS, Mac OS
XServer, RedHat, SuSE, Linux (Linux x.86and
PPC/RISC), UNIX (AIX, Solaris,
HP-UX, IRIX), BSD (OpenBSD,
FreeBSD), DOS,
Novell, IIS, Apache,
Websphere, Exchange, Active Directory, Citrix/Terminal Services, VMware, Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, Drive
Image,
Diskeeper, Active SMART, Systemworks,
GoBack,
Symantec/McAfee (antivirus/virus
removal tools), Veritas
Backup, ArcServIT,
SNORT, NMAP, DPU, Quark X-press, Director, Freehand, Flash,
Illustrator,
PhotoShop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, & Final Cut Pro (HD &
Express).
Hardware:
Custom
configuration from
scratch with PC workstation, and server platforms (CISC and RISC),SCSI/Fibre
channel, Tape,
SAN/NAS, RAID, Firewall/Router/IDS, flatbed and slide scanners, digital
cameras,
linear/nonlinear video editing equipment & plotters
Security:
Cisco PIX
& IOS - Firewall and NIDS internet appliances
Nokia
firewall appliances
SNORT on
Linux and BSD (Mac OS X)
NMAP port
scanner
Windows
server hardening
Automated
security alert handling (ASERT)
Private
Endeavors:
10 plus years custom
workstation and server configuration for small
business and Individuals.
Specializing
in CAD
and DCC workstation configurations in Linux, IRIX, Windows, & Mac
OSX
hardware and software configurations from scratch on both x86 and RISC
platforms.
Linux
installation & configuration
on certified hardware for SuSE, Red Hat,
&
TurboLinux
Website
design and webhosting
Technical
support
Linux
solutions since 1997