Technical Background - Doug Maxwell
I started professionally consulting in 1998, several years after getting my BS in Computer Science from UMASS, Amherst. I've worked with many different technologies over the years, below is a list to give you an idea of the breadth I can offer. I can provide customer references on request.
Operating Systems
- Linux - Debian, Slackware, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE/Novell
- BSD - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Nokia IPSO
- Unix - Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 9
- DOS/Windows - Pretty much all of them
Languages and Development
- Perl, including DBI, Mason, mod_perl, CGI::Application and threads
- C/C++
- PHP
- Javascript, CSS, XML, AJAX
- Bourne, Korn and C-shells
- CVS, SVN
- Request tracker
Server Technologies
- Mail - Exim, Postfix, Sendmail, spamassassin, amavis, ClamAV, Dovecot
- Web - Apache, Squid, Tomcat
- Database - MySQL, PostgreSQL
- DNS - Bind
- File - Samba, NFS
- Print - CUPS, lpr
- Directory - NIS
- Backup - Amanda, Arkeia
- Installation/Imaging - Kickstart, jumpstart, preseeding, FAI, PXE, g4u
- Monitoring - Nagios, Zenoss, SNMP, IPMI
- Logs - Syslog, Syslog-ng
- Remote Access - VNC, SSH, RDP
- Control panels - cPanel, Webmin, Usermin, phpMyAdmin
Networking & Security
- Firewalling - Ipfwadm through iptables, PF, m0n0wall, Soekris, Check Point 3.0b through NGX, fwbuilder
- Serial - Sangoma WAN cards
- IDS/IDP - Snort, Proventia, ISS, Tenable
- High-availability - LinuxHA, heartbeat, CARP, pfsync, Check Point HA, Nokia VRRP, Nokia clustering
- VPN/Tunneling - OpenVPN, SSH, stunnel, PPTP, many IPSec implementations
