http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/WHOAMI/whoami.html#resume David Alexander Ranch 5050 Tiberan Way, San Jose, CA 95130 E-Mail: dranch@trinnet.net WWW: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch Accomplishments: ---------------- - Demonstrated the fastest, most scalable networks to the most demanding customers in the world - Author of multiple popular Linux books and documents - Sole administrator of four Internet domains and several 100+ user Linux servers Security and Authoring Experience: ---------------------------------- - Co-author of the "Securing Linux" book from SANS Institute - Author and maintainer of the Linux "TrinityOS" security and performance documentation - Author and maintainer of the Linux "IP Masquerade HOWTO" - Contributor to the French O'Reilly and Associates "IPv6; Theory and Practice" book Operating System Experience: ---------------------------- - Linux 2.4/2.2/2.0 (RH/MDK/SuSe/Slackware) - FreeBSD 4.x : Sun Solaris v2.x : Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 : HP-UX 9/10.x Networking / UNIX / Security Experience: ---------------------------------------- BGP, ISIS, OSPF v2/3, RIP, RIPng, EIGRP, MSDP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP SONET, ATM, Ethernet (F/GE, 10GE), T1/T3, Frame Relay, PPP, ISDN, DSL, a. modems MPLS (RSVP, LDP), 2547bis L3VPNs, Martini and Kompella L2VPNs, IPv4, IPv6, IPSEC, GRE, PPTP, L2TP, PPPoE Juniper Networks M (5/10/20/40/160), T (320/640), and G-series ? Cisco 2/3/5/7x00 and 12x00 (GSR) Cisco Catalyst 5/6/760x switches ? Extreme Summit and BlackDiamond switches? Foundry Net/BigIron UNIX expertise: ? OS hardening ? kernel compiling ? ch.r.DNS ? SSH ? DHCP ? Samba ? NFS ? Sendmail ? NAT (1:1 and Masquerade) ? IPTABLES / IPCHAINS ? IPSEC ? NTP ? LPR / CUPS ? RAID 0/1/3/5? PCMCIA ? PPP ? PPTP ? OpenOffice Security Dynamics SecurID and Axent Defender token authentication ? Livingston, Shiva, Merit, and USR RADIUS ? Cisco Secure TACACS/RADIUS ? Cisco TACACS+ server Netscreen 5//100 firewalls ? CheckPoint / Nokia Firewall-1 firewalls and VPNs Agilent RouterTester (SONET/GE) ?Adtech AX4000 (SONET/GE) ? Smartbits 6000 (SONET/GE) ? Ixia 1600 (FE/GE) Shiva AccessSwitches ? Lucent Portmasters ?Ascend MAX ?Gandalf Xpressway ?ISDN T/As Programming Experience: ----------------------- ?Borne, Ksh, Bash shell scripting ? Perl scripting ?Borland and GNU C/C++ ?Intel and Motorola Assembly Education and Certifications: ----------------------------- BS in Computer Engineering, California State University, Chico : May, 1996 Juniper Networks JNCIS; September, 2002 Near completion of the Juniper JNCIE and Cisco CCIE certifications Employment: ----------- - Proof of Concept (POCLab) Lead Engineer: Juniper Networks (September 99 to Present) Demonstrate the most powerful core, access, and edge routers to the most demanding networking customers in the world. Customers include UUNet, France Telecom, Level3, UCAID, etc. Common tasks include the creation and configuration of large heterogeneous IP and MPLS networks involving almost every aspect of modern networking. Also responsible for all POCLab infrastructure (Linux servers [DHCP/SMB/FTP/NFS], Windows workstations, etc. - Networking Consultant: International Network Services (INS) (June 96' to August 99') Completed major router, switching, and remote access (RAS) installations. Lead projects such as corporate wide network deployements, TCP/IP re-addressing, and routing protocol conversion for clients such as Kaiser Permanente, Visa International, Bank of America, Cisco Corporation, E*trade, Federal Home Loan Bank, Encanto Networks, and HMSA - Networking Engineer : Computing Services, CSU Chico (February 95' to June 96') Completed city wide ISDN and cablemodem network developments and on-going administration. Directly involved in DS3 microwave and DS1 spread spectrum wireless data connectivity projects. - Operations Support : Syntex Corporation (May-Aug 93', Dec-Jan 94', May-Aug 94') Maintained and supported several hundred productional networked computers of various different platforms and operating systems running both TCP/IP and DECNet - Collegiate Sales Representative : IBM International Corporation (Aug 90'-Jan 93') PS/2 computer sales and technical support representative for the CSU, Chico campus. - Research and Development : Orchid Technology Corporation (May 90'-Sept 90') Worked with other engineers to test and evaluate new developing video application products References: ----------- Available upon request 10/30/02