Michael W. Olson
<olson@cs.odu.edu>

Chesapeake, VA 23320

Sabre Systems Inc. - Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - Network Administrator, November 1998 - Present

• Provided systems administration and user support for Windows NT/2000, Solaris, HP/UX, FreeBSD, and Linux.
• Designed, set up, and supported the corporate LAN/WAN consisting of a Cisco Catalyst 4908G-L3 and 6000 core switches feeding 14 distribution points using Catalyst 2900/3500/5000 switches and linking together 3 buildings via Cisco 2620 using ATM over DS3. Full redundancy was provided in the form of redundant devices using HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol) and redundant links using OSPF or Per-VLAN spanning tree.
• Supported, planned, and executed the upgrade of the original LAN consisting of a core set of Alcatel OmniSwitches and a variety of chained together unmanaged hubs and switches. Supported monitoring of this network using XyVision and NetScout Manager with a number of NetScout RMON probes and NetScout software server probes.
• Implemented a network management system by customizing the code for the open source tools NetSaint and Cricket to seamlessly integrate into the networks web site. This provided pager and e-mail alerting, a single network overview map with current status updated every 90 seconds and links for each nodes icons to a PHP web page that provided system configuration information, SNMP monitoring graphs, and the historical availability of the node. Set up the system on several Red Hat Linux servers to monitor more than 3000 network ports, and the critical servers/services.
• Set up, installed, and supported a Cisco PIX 520 firewall, and provided support for a pair of Gauntlet firewalls running on Solaris 2.6. Also set up, installed, and supported an Apache on FreeBSD reverse proxy used to improve the security of our IIS Web servers.
• Set up and supported critical network services including Dynamic DNS, DHCP, NAT/PAT, Apache and IIS Web Services, SOCKS 5, Jabber, and DFS.
• Set up, installed, and supported an MS Certificate Server used for individual user authentication on the SPAWAR Intranet and developed certificate administration pages and server back-end code using VB Script and Visual C++.
• Developed MS Site Server search engine control system and administration tools using Visual C++ and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes).
• Designed, developed, and supported a disk quota system for Windows NT 4.0 and associated GUI administration tools using Visual C++, MFC, and ActivePerl scripts.
• Set up and supported MS Proxy Server 2.0 server array and WebSense content filtering server. Hand-coded proxy auto configuration script to route specific traffic through alternate servers or routes to the Internet.
• Set up and supported a pair of Lotus Notes Domino R5 servers on Solaris 2.8 and Windows NT 4.0 for a 15 user, 4 month test run.
• Set up and supported network printers, centralized WinNT 4.0 print server and CUPS (Common Unix Print System) server.
• Customized the X-Windows version 11 Release 5 xdm code to allow Exceed clients to use XDMCP through NAT translating firewalls.
• Developed Web based software distribution system for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 using IIS/ASP for the distribution site and MFC based client tools for preparing packages and localized documentation.
• Developed various custom systems administration tools, scripts, and system management GUI's for the IS group.
• Provided Network training classes covering TCP/IP, Routing, Multi Layer Switching, VTP, VLANs, OSPF, RIP, access-lists, WINS, DNS, DHCP, network diagnostics using packet sniffers, traceroute/ping/tcptrace, Cisco debug/interface commands, and CDP.

Dynamac/SAIC - Naval Medical Center Portsmouth - Network Engineer/Senior LAN Specialist, September 1997 - October 1998

• Performed network management using HP Openview, Ciscoworks, and Optivity monitoring availability and performance for over 3000 nodes and over 450 network devices.
• Planned the migration of a large LAN from a Novell server using dataless DOS clients to Windows NT 4.0 Server. Executed the migration with less than 10 minutes downtime.
• Designed, developed, and implemented network monitoring, statistical analysis, messaging (Remedy-based), and system administration software.
• Built, and supported Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 domains, servers, and clients.
• Supported HP-UX 10.10 server and all services including Netscape Enterprise Web Server, Remedy, Sybase SQL Server, and Oracle SQL Server.
• Upgraded and supported the WAN running on a core of 3 Cisco 7513 routers interconnecting over 70 interfaces using 10BaseT/FL, 100BaseTX/T4 and FDDI, as well as over 40 serial lines ranging from 56K DDS to T1. Supported TCP/IP, IPX, Appletalk, and DEC LAT. Also supported dial-up access and ISDN access via Cisco 760 routers.
• Set up and supported various network services including NTP, DNS, WINS, WWW, FTP, DHCP, TFTP/BOOTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4.1, and SNMP.
• Set up IPX routing using NLSP and IPX RIP for enterprise wide networking; configured Novell servers and clients for the correct IPX network numbers and Ethernet frame types.
• Migrated TCP/IP routing protocol from IGRP and RIP to OSPF, allowing the implementation of VLSM (variable-length subnet masking) and redundant load balanced links between the core routers. In addition to VLSM, the serial links were switched to unnumbered IP for further conservation of dwindling IP address space.
• Planned new site configurations during clinic moves. Set up and supported all networking equipment at new sites during their transition.
• Planned and assisted in the network-wide IP renumbering and the switching all clients to DHCP.
• Built and maintained networking group Intranet IIS WWW server and site content.
• Set up and supported SGI IRIX 5.3 workstations and server.
• Set up and supported dedicated X terminals.
• Assisted the client and server support teams with troubleshooting of operating system, hardware and software problems.

Newport News Shipbuilding - Information Systems Specialist, June 1997 - September 1997

• Support and capacity planning for Solaris servers.
• Migrated application environment from Novell/Windows for Workgroups to Windows NT 4.0.
• Integrated Solaris and Windows NT operating environments by setting up common file and print services, providing PC X-Windows software and setting up XDMCP and X Font Servers, and by configuring e-mail to allow communication between the Solaris sendmail servers and MS Exchange
• Built and maintained Intranet Apache WWW server and site content.
• Developed many CGI Web based programs to provide dynamic content, automate difficult tasks and automate system administration.
• Supported Informix database.

Old Dominion University, Dept. of Computer Science - Research Associate, September 1995 - June 1997

• Participated in research and development of a DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) based distributed management system.
• Developed the Kerberos-based security enforcement system allowing extremely fine grained access based on user ID, machine, time/date, and the data set being operated on.
• Set up and supported the Solaris 2.4-based DCE multi-cell research network.

Old Dominion University, Dept. of Computer Science - Assistant Systems Engineer, May 1994 - June 1997

• Trained and managed the system administrators and consultants.
• Maintained 2000 user, 200 machine primary network and several smaller research project networks. (10BaseT/2)
• Developed standard system configuration, built and supported Unix and Windows NT 3.51/4.0 workstations and servers.
• Integrated Unix and Windows NT administration system by developing custom password and account synchronization software that connected the NT 4.0 Domain and the NIS domain.
• Maintained system security policies.
• Webmaster and software maintainer for the WATERS (Wide Area Technical Report Service) web application.
• Built and supported an ATM network consisting of Fore Systems switches and Solaris nodes, simulating a wide area network for the IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction) project. Also built three Solaris networks to simulate separate sites. Each pseudo-site was completely independent of each other and the core networks.
• Set up and supported NetBlazer PPP RAS services.
• Designed, set up, and supported LAN based on 100BaseTX 3Com SuperStack switches interconnected to a Layer 3 switch. Planned and executed the re-wiring and replacement of the prior network which consisted of small 10BaseT hubs chained together with 10Base2.
• Built and supported Solaris servers. Gathered, compiled, and in some cases ported more than 2000 open source software packages that had been in use on the prior SunOS servers/clients.
• Supported SunOS servers and clients. Planned and implemented the migration to Solaris.

Jackson Hewitt - System Administrator, December 1992 - April 1994

• Supported approximately 70 stand-alone PCs running MS-DOS, distributed over three cities.
• Installed and supported all hardware and software.
• Developed scripts to automate tax uploads, form printing, printer pooling, and software installation.
• Created and implemented system policies.

Education and Certification

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Professional: Internet Specialist

• 70-058: Networking Essentials
• 70-059: Internetworking with Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
• 70-067: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
• 70-068: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 in the Enterprise
• 70-073: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
• 70-077: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 and Microsoft Index Server 1.1

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors in Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Magna Cum Laude

Operating Systems

Solaris 1.1.1 - 2.8, Red Hat Linux 6.2 - 7.3, FreeBSD 1.0 - 4.2, NetBSD 1.0,

HP-UX 9.x, 10.10, IRIX 5.2 - 5.3, IBM OS/2 2.1 - 3.0, MS Windows NT 3.51 - 2000

MS Windows 3.0 - ME , Novell NetWare 3.12, MS-DOS 3.0 - 6.22

IOS 9.0 - 12.3, CatOS 7.x

Publications

"PMS: Privilege Management System for Secure Distributed Resource Sharing" (with K. Maly, A. Gupta, B. Kvande, I.B. Levinstein, R. Mukkamala, R. Chambers, R. Whitney), IFIP 96, Canberra, Australia, Sept. 1996, pp. 348-355; also in Advanced IT Tools, 566p., Chapman & Hall, Sept. 96, Edited by Nobuyoshi Terashima and Edward Altman

"A Privilege Management and Enforcement System for a Secure Network" (with K. Maly, A. Gupta, B. Kvande, I.B. Levinstein, R. Mukkamala), SDNE 96, Macao, China, June 1996, pp. 147-154

"A Privilege Management and Enforcement System for Distributed Resource Sharing" (with K. Maly, A. Gupta, B. Kvande, I.B. Levinstein, R. Mukkamala, S. Nanjangud), WETICE 96, Stanford University, June 1996, pp. 106-112

References

Available upon request.