Alain Kelder

Current

Systems Engineer Contractor at Stanford Law School
Principal Systems Engineer / Founder at BigBrain SMB, Inc.

Past

Client Migration Engineer Contractor at mBlox
Systems Engineer at County of San Mateo Information Services
IT Support Associate at Goodwill Industries of San Francisco

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Education

UC Berkeley, SF State, City College of SF, Skyline College, etc.

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Information Technology and Services

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Alain Kelder’s Summary

OBJECTIVE: Contract based projects implementing new technology or support, migrate or upgrade existing environments

SKILL SUMMARY:
* Hardware: Dell, HP, IBM servers; Dell, HP, 3Com, Netgear managed switches; Dell, HP DAS; Tripp-Lite UPS and PDU; Netgear, Linksys, SonicWALL, SMC, ZyWall SMB firewalls and routers (implementation, troubleshooting)
* OS: Linux (Debian, SUSE, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu), Windows (NT, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista), NetWare (5.1 – OES), Solaris 10, Xen, Vmware, VirtualBox, Solaris Containers (sysadmin, user)
* Protocols: CIFS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, Kerberos, LDAP, LMTP, NFS, NTP, POP3, RSYNC, SMB, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SSL, TCP/IP, Telnet, UDP, WebDAV, WINS (implementation, troubleshooting)
DBMS: MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL (implementation, troubleshooting)
* Languages: Bash, (X)HTML, JS, KixTart, Perl, PHP, Sieve, SQL, Vbscript (writing basic code)
* Software: Amavisd-new, Apache, Bind, ClamAV, CMS (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), Cyrus IMAP, DSPAM, Exchange, GroupWise, Iptables, Kerberos, NFS, OpenLDAP, Policyd, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, SASL, Snort, SpamAssassin, Vyatta (implementation, troubleshooting)

Alain Kelder’s Specialties:

Extensive experience implementing, customizing and supporting Windows, Linux, and NetWare based systems; including Web, Email and other application servers.

Strong background in training, support and documentation. Excellent communication abilities with technical and non-technical staff alike.

Thoughtful, methodical, standards aware approach to new technology implementation and problem resolution.

Alain Kelder’s Experience

Systems Engineer Contractor

Stanford Law School

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

* Managed existing Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) Apache web and MySQL database servers and setup new systems.
* Worked with IT management to reduce complexity and TCO by standardizing on a single Linux distribution (ended up going with Debian as the best fit for the organization)
* Implemented system service availability and trend monitoring using Mon, Munin and Monit.
* Implemented a secondary backup system for Linux hosts using rsnapshot.
* Implemented a storage area network for existing IBM blade chassis using IBM direct attached storage for high availability, reasonably high performance and very moderate cost (compared to traditional FC or iSCSI SANs).
* Implemented a virtualization infrastructure using open source Xen, later converting over to the free Citrix XenServer (for a nice GUI, easier provisioning of Windows VMs, live migration with shared storage, etc).
* Setup systems to provide revision control functionality using Subversion + Apache, as of this writing, adding redundancy to the setup.
* Setup systems for video streaming (Darwin, Wowza).
Principal Systems Engineer / Founder

BigBrain SMB, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

* Configured and managed LAMP servers to host a wide variety of web applications. Familiar with MySQL replication architectures, various Apache / MySQL load balancing and high availability techniques.
* Configured and managed fully featured and standards compliant email servers using Open Source technology (Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, SpamAssassin, etc)
* Configured and managed primary and secondary internal and external DNS servers using Bind9
* Setup and managed MIT Kerberos authentication servers for multiple realms
* Configured and managed edge and host based *nix firewalls and routers (Iptables, Ipcop, Vyatta, m0n0wall, SmoothWall, Untangle, DD-WRT). Wrote firewall and NAT rules, bandwidth management rules and implemented bandwidth monitoring tools
* Performed system security assessments
* Performed standard system administration tasks
* Setup and managed IT infrastructure elements
Client Migration Engineer Contractor

mBlox

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — February 2008 (8 months)

Leveraging a variety of Linux tools, assisted the company with testing, certification and migration of clients to a new SMS (short message service) application platform. Technologies leveraged included Linux and PostgreSQL.
Systems Engineer

County of San Mateo Information Services

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 8 months)

- Provided 2nd and 3rd tier support and served as escalation point for local administrators of various County departments for Windows/Netware/Linux desktops/servers, Directory (eDirectory, Active Directory), Email (GroupWise) and other application related issues.
- Managed desktops running NT4, Win2K, WinXP, built new desktop images, deployed using various imaging techniques such as Ghost, Zenworks, etc.
- Customized application packages using InstallShield and delivered to desktops using VBscript, KixTart, Zenworks.
- Wrote Windows and Novell login scripts, and a variety of custom scripts (such as inventory scripts to extract various information via WMI calls).
- Built, deployed, managed Windows NT4-2003, Linux (SLES and openSuSE), Netware 5.1-6.5, OES servers.
- Evaluated, tested, deployed various vendor supported systems (Handheld email synchronization, Fax Broadcasting, SPAM/Virus scanning, etc).
- Produced various support and project management documentation and procedures.
IT Support Associate

Goodwill Industries of San Francisco

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 8 months)

Under the general supervision of the IT Director, provided desktop and network support for approximately 200 users in four networked offices and 16 retail locations in three counties in a mixed Novell NetWare 5 and Windows 2000 environment.

- Provided 1st, 2nd, 3rd tier support with escalation to the IT Director.
- Installed and maintained Windows, NetWare, Linux servers.
- Monitored 3Com managed network switches and routers.
- Performed system backups, restores using Veritas BackupExec.
- Administered and troubleshot NetWare Directory Services.
- Managed 150 desktops, software/hardware/patch deployments.

Alain Kelder’s Education

UC Berkeley, SF State, City College of SF, Skyline College, etc.

none , History, Philosophy, Japanese, International Relations, Economics , 1990 — 1998

Years of education in Estonian and US academic institutions without a degree!