My Resume

Professional Experience:

Systems Engineer; TTM, Inc. (Contractor) -- June 2008 – March 2009
  • Administered Red Hat Linux/Xen and Microsoft servers, workstations, laptops, and tape libraries.
  • Maintained MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and Oracle databases.
  • Introduced AMANDA, OpenNMS, Spiceworks, Webmin, Alfresco.
Systems Administrator; University of Washington -- October 2004 – January 2008
  • Managed networks, Red Hat and Debian Linux and Microsoft servers, workstations, laptops, and tape libraries.
  • Administered MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases; designed asset and icense tracking schemas in MySQL.
  • Made extensive use of CVS to manage systems, process, and procedural ocumentation.
  • Implemented AMANDA, OpenNMS, BIND, CVS, and load-balancing firewalls.
Consultant; Willson Consulting Services -- January 1993 – January 2008
  • Provided technical advice and support on OS, application, and hardware related ssues.
  • Maintained a 99% customer satisfaction rating selling computers and components on eBay.
  • Participated in the formation of King County Waste Management’s “Computer Recovery Project”.
Software Test Engineer; VeriTest/LioNBRIDGE -- October 2003 – April 2004
  • Performed black box testing including; UI localization, XHTML, WML, WAP, and Java applications on over thirty different wireless devices, and a WIFI PCMCIA modem and UI.
  • Improved process flow by developing an identification system for the SIM cards.
QA Engineer, GraphOn Corporation. June 1999 – June 2001
  • Performed black box testing; including regression, build verification, and smoke tests.
  • Administered test lab servers and workstations.
  • Saved over $28,000 in license fees by replacing PVCS Tracker with Bugzilla and MySQL.
Tool Engineering Specialist, The Boeing Company -- April 1988 – May 1999
  • Tool design engineer and tool engineering liaison.
  • Saved over $1,183,000 through redesigned tools and process improvements.

Technologies:

 

Operating Systems:
Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, SuSE, Xen, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, and Microsoft.

Databases:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and Oracle.

Hardware:
SunSparc, RS6000, HP, Intel/AMD rack and standalone servers, workstations, laptops, printers, scanners, tape libraries, switches, routers, hubs.

Applications:
AMANDA, OpenNMS, Spiceworks, Webmin, Alfresco, Pentaho, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Bugzilla, OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Exim, Apache, Bind, CUPS, DHCP.

Security:
SSL, SSH, IPTables, ClamAV, Kaspersky Labs AV, and BitDefender AV, Spamassassin, Amavis, OSSIM, Big Brother, Nagios.

© Bradley J. Willson 2009