August Schwer

Current

Senior System Administrator at Sonic.net

Past

Vice President at NBLUG
Student Intern at Sonoma County Water Agency

Education

Sonoma State University

Recommended

8 people have recommended August

Connections

98 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

August Schwer’s Summary

My resume can be found on-line at:

http://schwer.us/documents/AugustSchwerResume.pdf

Driven and tenacious when problem solving; I work well with all people, and can often be found leading projects, and implementing brand new solutions to difficult old problems.

I enjoy working in and leading teams, but my favorite thing to do is to own a new project form the ground up, so that I can learn all the intricacies in great detail.

I am an excellent communicator and leader; I enjoy learning new things and meeting new challenges, and I hope to find some new challenges here.

August Schwer’s Specialties:

* HTML, CSS, Perl, CGI, JavaScript, PHP, mod_ssl.
* SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SUPRA, RPG.
* C/C++, Assembly Language, Make, GCC, GDB.
* TCP/IP, Wireless, VPN, IPSEC, DNS, BIND, PowerDNS, Sendmail.
* SquirrelMail, Mailman, Subversion, NTP, mon, MySQL, Apache, rsync.
* Linux, BSD, and Solaris.
* NetApp Filer administration with both F740s and FAS3020s.

August Schwer’s Experience

Senior System Administrator

Sonic.net

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

Leading project to implement PHP Web DNS domain editor for customer use.
Lead project to migrate BIND DNS implementation to PowerDNS with MySQL replication.
Created Perl based Server to interact with internal client tools via TCP/IP network.
Implemented PostgreSQL Database Management System for customer use.
Implemented Subversion the Code Version Control System for internal use.
Maintains RPM builds for internal Package Management.
Maintains Mailman; email list software and server.
Implemented mod_security with Apache to block malicious requests on customer web servers.
Migrated internal MySQL databases on customer DBMS server onto internal server and updated dependent code.
Maintains Leased Linux Server hardware inventory database and deployment code.
Managed the training of newly hired System Administrators.
Deployed new monitoring software (mon) to provide reliable network and systems monitoring.
Joined the mon (http://mon.sf.net) development team.
Vice President

NBLUG

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Assisted the President in keeping meetings on task and organized.
Helped form bylaws and guidelines for the group.
Presented to the group about Database Administration of the MySQL Database Management System.
Presented to the group about the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG).
Student Intern

Sonoma County Water Agency

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

July 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 3 months)

Created web page front ends (HTML, PHP) to open source database back ends (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Maintained and developed report generation/automation, and data migration tools using RPG and Perl.
Administered and configured the Apache web server.
Administered both the MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMSs.
Direct tutorial sessions on new programming developments to Senior Programmers and IT staff.