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Career Ambitions

I would like to work in a challenging and rewarding software development or system administration environment where I can learn from other highly skilled people.

Employment History

July 2011—present	Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering Google, Mountain View, USA
Jun 2010—Mar 2011	Student, Master of Information Technology (withdrawn to pursue employment) University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Learned Java, Python, and Haskell Revised Algorithms and Networking High Distinction (H1) for all subjects
2007—May 2010	Linux Systems Administrator/Systems Engineer Aconex, Melbourne, Australia Administration of Java-based Web application Administration of Linux and Windows production servers System monitoring and alerting Automation of Windows and Linux system builds Development of in-house tools Documentation and development of processes On-call work
2003—2007	Systems Administrator/Software Developer Leigh Mardon Australasia, Highett, Australia Development of UNIX server and Windows client software in C++ Development of license capture Web site in PHP Porting of legacy license processing system to Linux Administration of license processing system on AIX Administration of AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows servers Telephone support and staff training
2000—2003	Trainee Software Engineer/Systems Administrator Adacel Technologies, Wodonga, Australia Development of FailSafe network diagnostics in Perl on UNIX Maintenance of SGI FAM file monitor in C++ on IRIX and Linux Administration of Red Hat Linux development and communications servers
2000	Systems Engineer/Network Designer Celvin Technologies, Bairnsdale, Australia Planning and rollout of 13 site ISDN WAN Installation and maintenance of Windows servers On-site technical support and user training

Qualifications

2006, 2008, 2011	Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
2011	Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)
2010—2011	Postgraduate Certificate of Information Technology University of Melbourne
2004—2007	Bachelor of Computer Science Monash University
2002	Certificate of Software Engineering Melbourne University Private

Skills

• Linux (Debian, Red Hat, etc.)
• Unix (AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, etc.)
• Windows (95, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008)
• Programming (C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Scripting (Bash, KornShell, etc.)
• Networking (TCP/IP, firewalls, etc.)
• Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, etc.)
• Services (Apache, DNS, FTP, mail, NFS, SSH, etc.)
• Monitoring (PCP, Nagios)

Awards

• Perfect score, UNIX Tools, Monash University
• Perfect score, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Learning Services

Other

Active contributor on the Stack Exchange network:

• Unix & Linux
• Superuser
• Stackoverflow

Referees

Please contact me for details of my referees.

Download

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