Professional systems experience

Professionally, I work primarily with IP networking systems and security technologies. I also maintain an interest in UNIX/Linux systems and cross-platform integration. Areas of expertise include:

  • TCP/IP networking, network design, switching, routing, security, protocols
  • Cisco routing and switching, IOS, CatOS, PIX/ASA
  • Fortinet, Foundry, HP, Extreme, Netscreen and other network devices
  • Cross-platform integration (samba, SFU)
  • Web servers (apache) and applications, file, media and backup servers
  • VPN (IPSec, SSL, PPTP) and dial-up remote access systems
  • Telecom/VoIP applications
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux and FreeBSD, UNIX networking, BIND, NIS/NFS, MySQL, apache
  • Microsoft Windows servers and clients: 2003, Vista, XP, 2000, NT4, 9x
  • Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec, TrendMicro ServerProtect
  • System monitoring

This site

This site runs WordPress “blog” software, which is written in PHP, on the Apache web server with a MySQL database back-end. This combination allows just a huge amount of flexibility, and it all runs on UNIX-type operating systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux — a set of technologies that I enjoy tinkering with. All of these applications are open-source (except OS X, but this site is not on an OS X box at this time).

WordPress is fully customizable, and many people have created WordPress “themes,” which feature all kinds of graphics, design philosophies and display elements. I use elements from several different themes which are available under open source licenses.

In addition to hacking up the theme files, I’ve implemented some Apache re-write rules to customize the URLs as I see fit, and redirect some older URLs to the current pages.

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