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Barney Desmond                                  (mobile) +61-413-476-139
                                                 barneydesmond@gmail.com
                                                       Sydney, Australia

Creatively pragmatic
Analytical problem solving
Fast learner


EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

 o Anchor (web hosting provider)
   Senior systems administrator                      April 2007 - Present

    - Core tasks of system maintenance, responding to customer requests,
      building and upgrading servers, datacentre work, etc.
    - Developed automation tools to allow L1 support staff to safely and
      efficiently perform L2 tasks
    - Wrote and maintained a large number of heavily-used internal and
      customer-facing articles covering guides, advice, etc.
    - Upgraded internal monitoring systems to implement escalation of
      alerts, sending of SMSes via a GSM connection
    - Forensic analysis and reporting following security breaches
    - Mentoring of new staff
    - Developed processes for rapid virtualisation of existing physical servers
    - Upgrade of core mail systems from Sendmail to Postfix
    - PR writing
 
 o Australian Customs Service
   Immigration officer                        August 2005 - February 2007

    - Passenger processing
    - Providing legal compliance advice and assistance to the public
    - PROTECTED security clearance

 o University of New South Wales Library
   Desktop support technician                   July 2005 - December 2005

    - Face to face support for approximately 500 staff and student
      workstations
    - Large-scale automated rollout of new workstations
    - Assisted in design and deployment of a new Active Directory
      infrastructure


EDUCATION:

 o Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), 2006
   University of New South Wales

    - Focused on networking and security


KEYWORDS

 - Operating Systems: Linux (Debian and Redhat), Windows
 - Languages: Lots of Python, shell, Perl, PHP, C, core unix utilities
 - Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, some MSSQL
 - Networking: architecture, routing, debugging, performance, VPN, IPv6,
               firewalls
 - Security: Policy, risk assessment, reporting, auditing, analysis,
             best practice, crypto
 - Automation: puppet, cfengine, automated OS installation
 - Webapps: LAMP stack, nginx, WSGI, Rails, Tomcat
 - People: professional, courteous, amicable, rational, level-headed


PERSONAL INTERESTS

Japan
Photography
Costuming
Cryptography
Imaging metadata
Custom filesystem index
Software translation and localisation