Tim Skirvin

Current

• Systems Software Developer at Stanford University

Past

• Senior Systems Administrator at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Systems Administrator at Theoretical Biophysics Group
• Systems Administrator at Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University High School

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
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Tim Skirvin’s Summary

Higher education system administration with mid-to-large sized networks, from the perspective of both central administration and the individual research group. Past experiences include being the primary maintainer of a 100-user, 300-machine network, and a co-maintainer of a central campus UNIX network.

Tim Skirvin’s Specialties:

Grant writing, Linux clustering, documentation, purchasing, building and managing a heterogeneous Unix and Windows environment, development of perl-based server tools, managing and developing Usenet tools.

Tim Skirvin’s Experience

• Systems Software Developer

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  Manage Usenet systems, timeshare Unix cluster systems, and terminal servers; client support of high-performance computing systems; develop software to maintain and support centrally maintained UNIX systems; manage documentation efforts and dissemination.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  November 2001 — November 2007 (6 years 1 month)

  SAGE Level IV
  * Design, purchase, and deploy Linux computation clusters and Sun visualization systems and servers.
  * Administrate, maintain, and secure a network of 50 local users and 300 local machines, running primarily Solaris, Linux, and MacOS X.
  * Budget and plan for continuing system and network upgrades of a multi-million dollar compute environment.
  * Lead a team of 7-10 student workers in system troubleshooting and general user support.
  * Write and assist with grant proposals for research and equipment.
  * Write and maintain scripts, ranging from internal backup solutions to web management tools.
  * Write and maintain system and user databases and associated frameworks.
  * Develop and teach a series of workshops on designing and building Linux clusters.

• Systems Administrator

  Theoretical Biophysics Group

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 9 months)

  SAGE Level II-III
  * Administrate, maintain, and secure a network of 50 local users and 150 local machines, running primarily Solaris, Linux, and MacOS 9.
  * Lead a team of 7-10 student workers in system troubleshooting and general user support.
  * Write and maintain scripts, ranging from internal backup solutions to web management tools.
  * Write and maintain system and user databases and associated frameworks.

• Systems Administrator

  Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  News administrator, co-maintained a large Windows and Unix environment.

Tim Skirvin’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  B.S. , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1995 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  College Libertarians, Like Disco... but not Really (Improv Comedy), Allen Hall

• University High School

Additional Information

Tim Skirvin’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Tim Skirvin’s Interests:

Usenet, High-Performance Computing

Tim Skirvin’s Groups:

Big-8 Management Board, LOPSA

•    The League of Professional System Administrators
•    UIUC Networking
•    USENIX Association
•    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
•    Illinois Engineering

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