Dan Peterson danp@danp.net

2548 West 12th Place
Yuma, Arizona  85364
Home: 928.783.8032


Employment History

Yuma Educational Consortium
System Administrator
Sep 2002 to Present
Yuma, AZ

This is the best job I've ever had.

Digitaldune Networks
Network Consultant
Apr 2001 to Sep 2002
Yuma, AZ

Responsible for providing network consulting services on behalf of Digitaldune. Visited customer sites and planned, implemented, and repaired networks and built, installed, and repaired required and existing machines and devices. Also responsible for many in-house networking operations as described in previous Digitaldune Networks entry. In addition to those listed below, in-house responsibilities included implementing ISP-wide web-caching services (Squid), Internet firewalls (OpenBSD/FreeBSD and IPFilter/ipfw), and replacing previously static routing setup with a dynamic system (OSPF). Also rebuilt all server machines to use FreeBSD (4.x), replacing the previous Linux (2.2.x) installations.

Verza, Inc.
Senior System Administrator
Jun 2000 to Jan 2001
San Francisco, CA

Responsible for Verza's systems and networks. Administered and monitored systems and networks in San Francisco and Amsterdam. System administration duties included installing and maintaining Linux (SuSE 6.x and 7.0) machines, FreeBSD (4.x) machines, OpenBSD (2.7/2.8) machines, and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation machines. Network administration duties included insuring nominal connectivity between machines at each location, machines between locations, and from each location to the Internet. Also responsible for configuring and maintaining Internet firewalls (OpenBSD 2.7/2.8 and IPFilter), Oracle servers, fail-safe data storage (Integrix RAID products), web servers (Apache) serving dynamic content (mod_perl), manipulating and exporting data from Oracle databases (Perl, DBI, C), providing Internet mail services (Postfix, Cyrus IMAP), and Internet name resolution services (djbdns, BIND).

EarthLink, Inc.
Senior Developer
Nov 1999 to May 2000
Phoenix, AZ

Responsible for developing highly dynamic and complex web-based applications using PHP 3/4, Perl, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Extensive administration of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, as well as database development, programming, and implementation. Also responsible for FreeBSD systems administration, as well as installation and configuration of development machines. Administration duties include maintaining systems, using Perl and DBI to manipulate data in databases for export to other developing applications, configuring and troubleshooting Apache (along with Apache-SSL, mod_ssl, mod_php 3/4, and mod_perl), and general system monitoring tasks.

Digitaldune Networks
Network Administrator
Oct 1997 to Oct 1999
Yuma, AZ

Responsible for Digitaldune's systems and network. Duties included technical support, customer service, sales, marketing, systems administration (UNIX-based and NT systems), programming (C/C++, Perl, Python, Shell), web design/development (PHP 3/4), database design/programming (MySQL and PostgreSQL with PHP, Perl, and C), providing network-based authentication (NIS, RADIUS), network-based filesystems (NFS, Samba) and electronic mail services (qmail, Sendmail). Also planned and implemented area's first high-speed wireless data network (BreezeCOM BreezeNET Products).

PCR Computers
Computer Repair Technician
Jun 1998 to Jul 1998
Yuma, AZ

Worked with Windows-based PC's. Duties included building and upgrading machines and configuring for customer needs, diagnosing and fixing software problems with customer machines, and diagnosing and fixing hardware problems with customer machines. Extensive use of the Ghost disk archiving/imaging system.


Skills

System Administration
  • FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
  • Linux 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.)
  • Mac OS 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, OS X Server
  • OpenBSD 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.x
  • Windows 3.1, 95, 98
  • Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 (Workstation/Server/Terminal Server)
  • Windows 2000 (Professional/Server)
  • Windows XP (Professional)
Network Services
  • TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, AppleTalk
  • IP Routing (Static, OSPF, EIGRP)
  • Internet Mail (qmail, Postfix, Sendmail, IMAP, POP3)
  • Web (Apache, publicfile, thttpd)
  • Web Caching (Squid)
  • Web Content Filtering (Dan's Guardian)
  • Name Resolution (DNS) (djbdns, BIND)
  • Firewalling (OpenBSD pf, IPFilter, FreeBSD ipfw)
  • Network Information Services (NIS)
  • Windows Filesharing (Windows, SAMBA)
  • Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) (Livingston RADIUS, Cistron RADIUS)
  • Network Debugging Tools (ping, traceroute, tcpdump, etc.)
Networking Hardware
  • Hewlett-Packard ProCurve Layer 2 and 3 Switches
  • Enterasys/Cabletron Layer 2 and 3 Switches
  • 3com Network Cards and Hubs/Switches
  • Bay Networks Hubs/Switches
  • BreezeCOM BreezeNET PRO.11 Wireless Network Products
  • Cisco Routers and Switches
  • Ethernet 10base2, 10BaseT, 100BaseT Hardware and Cabling
  • Netgear Hubs/Switches
Software Development and Scripting
  • Ruby
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • C/C++ (UNIX-based)
  • Pascal
  • Python, TCL/Tk, and other scripting languages
  • UNIX shell (sh, sed, awk, etc.)
  • HTML and XML
  • Javascript
Database Development/Administration
  • mSQL
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (OpenLDAP)
  • Oracle8i and 9i Database
  • Oracle Internet Application Server
  • MS-SQL
  • Perl DBI
  • PHP Database Functions
  • Python Database Functions
  • Ruby Database Functions