Bryan McLellan

Current

• Systems Administrator at Webtrends
• Network Operations/Shmoocon Labs at ShmooCon

Past

• Systems Administrator at Widemile
• Systems Administrator at Haydrian Corporation
• Technical Manager at Strategy Computers

• Part-time Technican at Fullblast Technologies
• Project Leader at Crow International, Inc.
• Network Engineer at Panax Communications, Inc
• Technician at Strong's Electronic Sales
• Systems Administrator at Pctech Computers

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Industry

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Bryan McLellan’s Summary

Systems engineer with focus on open collaborative designs that leverage technology in useful ways.

Bryan McLellan’s Specialties:

GNU Linux/BSD, open source software, networking, security, wireless and telephony.

Bryan McLellan’s Experience

• Systems Administrator

  Webtrends

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Operations!

• Network Operations/Shmoocon Labs

  ShmooCon

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Oversee infrastructure and build out of security conference network each year.
  
  Troubleshoot and resolve network and server problems as they occur.
  
  Assist in the deployment of wireless and security appliances.

• Systems Administrator

  Widemile

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  Startup, so everything from the ground to the sky. ( http://loftninjas.org/blog/ )
  
  Design and administer network (routers, firewalls, load balancers, switches: F5 BigIP, Cisco 2800 PIX515E ASA5520 6500, Dell)
  
  Engineer and administer servers (windows, debian, ubuntu)
  
  Virtualization, configuration management, automation (kvm, vmware, qemu, libvirt, chef, puppet, iclassify, capistrano)
  
  Monitoring and trending (nagios, ganglia, cacti, munin)
  
  Maintain data center (hvac, power, network cabling)
  
  Manage email infrastructure (exchange 2007, LCS/communicator, postfix, spamassassin)
  
  Troubleshoot production issues (jboss, apache, openldap)
  
  Support end users desktops and phones (windows, ubuntu, asterisk)

• Systems Administrator

  Haydrian Corporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year )

  Responsible for all IT needs (systems, networks, security and support) for the corporate headquarters and international sales offices.
  
  Solely responsible for IT and support for 75+ employees across multiple international locations
  
  Reduced IT hardware needs through consolidation and virtualization using VMware Server
  
  Re-architected Active directory/LDAP infrastructure to facilitate multiple AD sites
  
  Assisted engineering with SuSE and Ubuntu Linux systems and bash, python scripting
  
  Planned and implemented data center UPS backup with Liebert NX series equipment
  
  Automated hardware and software inventory using OCS and GLPI open source projects

• Technical Manager

  Strategy Computers

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)

  Managed consulting division and built new customer relationships
  
  Supervised and mentored technical employees and projects
  
  Instructed Microsoft, Cisco and CompTIA courses

• Part-time Technican

  Fullblast Technologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  September 2005 — December 2005 (4 months)

  Part-time position while I took Microsoft certification classes
  
  Designed and built custom surveillance solutions
  
  Managed company network and systems

• Project Leader

  Crow International, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  January 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 8 months)

  Directly managed multiple electronics recovery crews across the US.
  
  Maintained relationships with contract customers and worked with overseas operations to arrange transportation of over 200,000lbs of scrap per year.
  
  Performed large scale telecommunications battery recycling operations.
  
  Operated commercial truck and other heavy equipment.

• Network Engineer

  Panax Communications, Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — December 2002 (3 years )

  Technical lead for open source and Cisco based ISP.
  
  Managed network growth from Cisco 2500s through to 7200VXR platform and Catalyst switches
  
  Administered internet backbones from single T1 to multi-homed network with multiple T1s and a fractional T3 using BGP. Handled VPN backbone growth from frame relay T1s to ATM T3
  
  Maintained internal web interfaces and scripting for customer management using perl, php and shell scripting languages and mysql database
  
  Directly managed part-time System Administrators and oversaw Technical Support team

• Technician

  Strong's Electronic Sales

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  Removed used electronics and telephone switches at customer sites
  
  Disassembled electronics for recycling in warehouse
  
  Sorted and tested electronics for reuse and resale
  
  Managed company email, web and backup servers using Linux and FreeBSD
  
  Handled all telephony and data networks for office building

• Systems Administrator

  Pctech Computers

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — June 1998 (6 months)

  Designed small ISP on Livingston infrastructure
  
  Maintained Windows NT mail and web server
  
  Managed growth to USR digital communications equipment and Linux/FreeBSD servers

Additional Information

Bryan McLellan’s Groups:

SeattleWireless

•    SeattleWireless
•    The Greater Seattle Linux User's Group
•    ShmooCon
•    CompTIA Certified Professionals Group
•    ShmooCon Labs

Bryan McLellan’s Honors:

LPIC-2, CCNA, MCSE 2003, MCDBA, A+, Network+, Security+