UNIX System Administrator at University of Newcastle
Newcastle Area, Australia
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- UNIX System Administrator at University of Newcastle
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- Senior Web Developer (PHP) at 4Mation Technologies
- Technical Developer at Collections Australia Network
- Election Campaigner at Newcastle Greens
- UNIX Administrator at Computer Sciences Corporation
- UNIX Administrator at Aljan.Net
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- TAFE
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Jared Quinn’s Summary
Web Application Developer, working on large CMS projects and custom development.
UNIX System Administrator with over 10 years experience working in large corporate UNIX environments including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, AIX and storage technologies from Hitachi. Familiar with Veritas storage systems and Linux EVMS/LVM.
Network Security and Auditing including the development of a UNIX security auditing tool rolled out across the CSC UNIX environment globally while working at CSC.
Jared Quinn’s Specialties:
Web Development, PHP, Perl, CSS, XHTML, HTML, Javascript, AJAX, UNIX Administration, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, WordPress Development, Website Design, Website Layout
Jared Quinn’s Experience
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UNIX System Administrator
University of Newcastle
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — Present (2 months)
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Senior Web Developer (PHP)
4Mation Technologies
(Information Services industry)
August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)
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Technical Developer
Collections Australia Network
(Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)
Collections Australia is an online portal designed to provide public access to small and medium sized collecting institutions across Australia. It is entirely government funded and was being managed by the Powerhouse Museum during my time with the project.
My major accomplishments during my contract with CAN include:
• Redevelopment of the Collection Item search for full text indexing, meta data
seperation and images.
• Integration of the above search facilities into an OpenSearch framework
• Enhanced Machine-accessable and parsable content
• Implementation of RSS and Atom News syndication feeds
• Implementation of the hCalendar and hCard Microformats
• Development of XHTML/CSS based on designs supplied by our designer.
• Management of the hosting environment.
The environment consists of PHP, Linux, Apache, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Mailman,
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Election Campaigner
Newcastle Greens
(Non-Profit; Political Organization industry)
October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)
My ongoing involvement with The Greens led to an opportunity to take the first paid
position the Newcastle Greens ever offered. This position was created because of the political climate in Newcastle for the NSW State Election in March 2007. This is also the first campaign the Newcastle Greens have used IT systems, which became a focus of my role.
After Jan 2007, because of budget constraints the position was made part time
however I continued to volunteer additional time to the role.
Duties included:
• Co-ordinating Volunteers
• Training volunteers to use the IT systems in place.
• Assisting with organisation of fundraising and PR events
• Assisting with organisation of media conferences
• Managing Membership Database/Booking System
• Managing the Newcastle Greens web presence
• Assisting NSW Greens with IT -
UNIX Administrator
Computer Sciences Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years)
Commencing in 2002 as a Senior UNIX (Solaris, Linux, AIX) Administrator on the
Newcastle UNIX Support team which is considered CSC's Australian Solaris Centre of Excellence.
In mid 2003 I was appointed a secondary role as the UNIX Security contact for this
support team. This role expanded into active involvement with both the Australian
and Global UNIX Security teams.
These security teams identified a requirement for better security auditing on our UNIX servers globally (CSC manages over 10,000 UNIX servers globally). I was appointed as the main developer for this project (Harden).
Harden incorporates a client side system for each of the UNIX variants supported by CSC and a server based component providing web based reporting and exemptions to security policy. -
UNIX Administrator
Aljan.Net
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
Jared Quinn’s Education
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TAFE
Certificate IV, Computer Programming, 1995 — 1996
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Newcastle Greens
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