David Allan West

P.O. Box 14821
Gainesville, FL
32604-4821
allan@cookie.org
(352) 373-7946

Career Goals:

I enjoy technical management in a medium to large academic IT shop. I would like to work more with change management, infrastructure and facilities development.

Expertise:

Organizational Administration:

managing projects and contractors, coordinating with other units, supervising staff, purchasing goods and services

Unix Administration:

configuring systems, installing and updating software, automating procedures, training administrators

System Migration:

merging independent departmental computing systems into the college computing environment, including requisite policy and technical changes

User Assistance:

troubleshooting OS and applications, training users, enforcing policies, information security management

Education & Certification:

Current: University of Florida

Masters in Building Construction graduate program since 2003

2002: SAGE, The System Administrators Guild

"cSAGE" System Administration Certification

1994: University of Florida

B.S. Business Administration with High Honors
Major: Economics

Experience:

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (2001-present)
"Systems Programmer" -- Senior unix administrator for college-wide servers & services, personnel and support functions.

• Sun Solaris multi-server unix system administration
• Active Directory management and migration
• College-level Information Security Manager (ISM)
• Computer staff supervision
• Capacity planning for hardware and software
• Computer-system merger planning, management and implementation
• Disaster recovery planning and implementation
• Facilities management including network planning and deployment
• Administrative functions related to asset management, classroom scheduling, fiscal and personnel issues
• Unix administrator training
• Unix administration assistance for CLAS departments
• Script writing and management and tool creation
• Network services administration
• Backup software and hardware administration
• Server, workstation and terminal configuration and support
• End-user support for 5000-user system including semi-autonomous units

Department of Statistics (1997-2001)
"Systems Programmer" -- Sole administrator for departmental unix, Windows, and MacOS systems, and supporting equipment.

• Sun Solaris multi-server unix system administration
• Unix and PC security administration
• Capacity planning for machines and network
• NFS dedicated server and dataless client administration
• Backup software & hardware administration
• Netscape and Apache web server administration
• DNS, DHCP, and NIS administration
• Windows95 and MacOS microcomputer administration
• Perl CGI and system tool scripting
• Workstation and printer repair
• Software site license administration
• Unix administrator training
• Unix administration assistance for CLAS departments
• Help desk for 300-user system
• Hardware Asset management

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (1995-1997)
"Computer Support Analyst" -- Assistant administrator for classroom unix servers, xterminals, and supporting equipment.

• IBM AIX multi-server unix system administration
• Backup software & hardware administration
• Apache web server administration
• Perl CGI and system tool scripting
• DNS and bootp administration
• Printer and X-terminal repair
• Help desk for 2500-user system

Student Financial Affairs (1991-1995)
"Student Assistant" -- Assistant administrator for office MacOS systems, unix server and supporting equipment.

• Macintosh hardware and software installation
• Macintosh hardware upgrades and repair
• Apple A/UX unix server administration
• Ethernet network design and installation
• File server and electronic mail server administration
• Subnet router administration
• Network dial-in server administration
• World wide web and gopher publishing
• Staff training and support

Emergency Response (2006-present)
Volunteer -- Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, emergency operations center (EOC) coordination training, and radio communications training and operation.

• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member since 05/2006
• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) coordinator since 08/2006
• Amateur radio licensee since 11/2006
• Amateur Radio Emergency Service & Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (ARES/RACES) member since 12/2006
• Amateur Extra class licensee since 04/2007