Jason Qualkenbush

Current

• Unix Administrator at ISO New England

Past

• Systems Administrator at Watchguard
• Systems Administrator at Qiave
• Systems Administrator at Mak

• Systems Administrator at Office of Naval Intelligence

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Jason Qualkenbush’s Summary

Unix/Linux administrator, Automation enthusiast, and PHP/Perl/Shell programmer. Particularly interested in high availability, clusters, and grid computing. Always interested in creating tools and methods for easing administration.

Jason Qualkenbush’s Specialties:

Unix, Linux, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Nagios, Cacti, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, EMail, Active Directory, Exchange, 3DNS, Load Balancing, Postfix, Firewalls, SNMP, Clusters, SAN, Virtualization, CFEngine

Jason Qualkenbush’s Experience

• Unix Administrator

  ISO New England

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Responsible for all Unix/Linux servers and services. Built and deployed the systems monitoring and metrics gathering systems. Manage 60 Linux-HA clusters. Setup and manage CFEngine. Created internal tools to manage assets, DHCP/DNS, and VPN Accounts. Automated Cisco switch and router backups into a subversion repository for change tracking.

• Systems Administrator

  Watchguard

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; WGRD; Internet industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

  Responsible for all Unix/Linux servers and services, DNS, and email. Monitor, gather metrics, graph server usage and availability, and present to management. Create, develop, and implement internal tools and applications.

• Systems Administrator

  Qiave

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Responsible for all aspects of IT. This includes the phone system, security system (proximity cards), production servers, QA lab, workstations, backups, and wiring. This also extends to documentation, writing security policies, tracking assets, negotiating contracts with ISP’s and vendors, and purchasing.

• Systems Administrator

  Mak

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Responsible for all aspects of IT. This includes the production servers, QA lab, workstations, backups, and wiring. This also extends to documentation, writing security policies, tracking assets, negotiating contracts with ISP’s and vendors, and purchasing.

• Systems Administrator

  Office of Naval Intelligence

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Military industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years )

  Maintain ONI’s web servers, DNS, Sendmail, and firewalls. Responsible for monitoring and performing backups on multiple VAX, UNIX, IBM Mainframe, Novell 3.12, AOS/VS, and Silicon Graphics Systems. Train coworkers on procedures, and web developers on publishing.

Additional Information

Jason Qualkenbush’s Groups:

Geocaching, Sage

•    PHP
•    Linux Expert
•    USENIX Association
•    Nagios Users
•    Gentoo Linux Users