Bill Bradford

Current

• Sr. Systems Administrator at Halliburton
• Founder & Maintainer at SunHELP.org (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• UNIX Systems Administrator at Broadwing
• UNIX Systems Administrator at ConnectSouth
• Sr. Systems Administrator at OnRamp Access, Inc.

• Systems / Network Administrator at Computational Mechanics Company, Inc.
• Sr. Systems Engineer at Texas Networking, Inc (texas.net)
• Tech Support at Jump.Net
• Systems Administrator at Internet Oklahoma

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Education

• University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma

Recommended

9 people have recommended Bill

Connections

206 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Bill Bradford’s Summary

I've been a UNIX systems administrator "for a living" since 1995. I love what I do, and I can't imagine doing anything else as a career.

Bill Bradford’s Specialties:

Solaris and UNIX/Linux system administration, TCP/IP network administration and maintenance, configuration and management of Internet services (HTTP/SMTP/POP/IMAP/etc).

Bill Bradford’s Experience

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  Halliburton

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HAL; Oil & Energy industry)

  December 2002 — Present (5 years 10 months)

  Senior UNIX / Linux Systems Administrator in R&D IT Support for the Landmark Graphics division of Halliburton.

• Founder & Maintainer

  SunHELP.org (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

  July 1997 — Present (11 years 3 months)

  SunHELP is the largest third-party independent web resource for users of Sun Microsystems hardware and software products. I run the site as a not-for-profit hobby.

• UNIX Systems Administrator

  Broadwing

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRW; Computer Networking industry)

  August 2000 — November 2002 (2 years 4 months)

  Systems Administrator in the IT Support department, supporting and managing UNIX systems that provided database, circuit provisioning, network monitoring, management, and customer QoS details for other departments within Broadwing and Cincinnati Bell.

• UNIX Systems Administrator

  ConnectSouth

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)

  Head Systems Administrator in charge of all Operational Support Services systems running on Solaris/SPARC servers.

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  OnRamp Access, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  October 1999 — March 2000 (6 months)

  Responsible for all system administration duties for this mid-sized ISP. I still maintain a friendship and working relationship with the folks at OnRamp and do occasional consulting for them.

• Systems / Network Administrator

  Computational Mechanics Company, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  In charge of all all IT operations (system administration, network maintenance, equipment repair, employee education, disaster recovery) for a staff of 17 other workers and a mixed network of UNIX (IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux) and Windows NT servers.

• Sr. Systems Engineer

  Texas Networking, Inc (texas.net)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 8 months)

  System and network administration for a mid-sized Internet provider.

• Tech Support

  Jump.Net

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

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

  Nighttime shift working tech support for extra money

• Systems Administrator

  Internet Oklahoma

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 6 months)

Bill Bradford’s Education

• University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma

  Partial, Computer Science/MIS, 1993 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Charter member of the Sigma Chapter of the Phi Lambda Chi fraternity, the first national fraternity allowed at USAO, Student Government, Newspaper

Additional Information

Bill Bradford’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Bill Bradford’s Interests:

UNIX and Linux operating systems, IP networking, resurrecting old computer systems, playing electric guitar, making my own audio equipment from kits, amateur radio (callsign K5WCB)

Bill Bradford’s Groups:

Halliburton, Landmark Graphics, OpenSolaris, SunHELP Mailing Lists, #unix, ionet, BOFHnet

•    Obama for America
•    Shortwave Radio Listeners
•    Broadwing Alumni Group

Bill Bradford’s Honors:

2005 Halliburton Employee Of The Year Nominee ("Legal / IT / HR" category)
2006 Halliburton Employee Of The Year Nominee ("Legal / IT / HR" category)

Recipient of four Halliburton "MVP" Awards since 2002

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