Operational Systems Administrator at Canonical USA, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
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- Operational Systems Administrator at Canonical USA, Inc.
- Past
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- Übergeek at Pepper Computer, Inc.
- Systems Architect at Aether Systems, Inc.
- Systems Architect at Active IQ Technologies
- Support Technician at Lucent Technologies
- Senior Network Analyst at Network Support Technologies, Inc.
- Systems Administrator at Replica Corporation
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Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Summary
Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Specialties:
Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, RHEL, CentOS, Apache, BIND, DHCP, iptables, Joomla, MySQL, Squid, WordPress
Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Experience
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Operational Systems Administrator
Canonical USA, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Operational Systems Administrator for the Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device team in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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Übergeek
Pepper Computer, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 7 months)
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Systems Architect
Aether Systems, Inc.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — October 2001 (4 months)
Temporary contractor for the Aether Mobile Government Division. Designed and implemented Linux network appliances based on RedHat Linux 7.1. Created custom CD and network product distributions with automated kickstart installation, latest errata and security patches, additional third party tools, and proprietary company packages.
Also created automated packaging process to distribute Aether's Java-based applications in RPM format for Linux network appliances. Wrote RPM SPEC files and supporting pre- and post-installation scripts for both proprietary and open source packages.
Linux systems administration and development skills were also used to maintain and secure both build servers and testbed workstations. Perl, PHP and Shellscript were used to create various modules of Aether's PocketRescue appliance product. -
Systems Architect
Active IQ Technologies
(Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)
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Support Technician
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)
April 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 9 months)
UNIX systems administrator and customer support representative for the Lucent Technologies Microelectronics division in Allentown, PA. First tier telephone support and second tier troubleshooting and systems administration was provided for Solaris and Windows NT developers.
Tasks ranged from day to day maintenance and patch management to advanced Windows NT and Solaris systems administration, operating system deployment, system maintenance and database administration. Trouble tickets were handled using McAfee Helpdesk DPU Client.
I also provided Solaris and Windows NT training for all new employees and contractors coming through the UNIX support center and maintained a comprehensive SQL database of documentation and procedures. -
Senior Network Analyst
Network Support Technologies, Inc.
(Computer Networking industry)
September 1994 — April 1998 (3 years 8 months)
Boston-area technical contractor assigned to dozens of short-term and long-term projects for core group of fifteen clients. Projects included disaster recovery, security consultation and penetration testing, password recovery, performance tuning, helpdesk support, secure commerce application design, and systems/network administration for Linux, NOVELL, UNIX and Windows servers and desktops.
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Systems Administrator
Replica Corporation
(Computer Games industry)
March 1995 — July 1995 (5 months)
Developer, Solaris Netra Webmaster, and Solaris/Linux systems administrator for Replica Corporation's online fantasy football and fantasy stock market game divisions. Helped to design and implement the Web's first large-scale interactive game which was subsequently taken over by ESPN Sportszone. Duties included Perl and CGI development, Web design, security audits and penetration testing, patch management, systems upgrades, and day to day troubleshooting for all Solaris/Linux servers and desktop Linux and Windows PCs.
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Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Interests:
Photography
Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Groups:
New Hack City, Transient Systems, Trunkmonkey Racing
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Ubuntu Users ( 9000+ members ) Official Group
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