Jordan Sissel Upon Request jls at semi complete dot com San Jose CA Research, education, cooperation, and experimentation. I have no interest in maintaining status quo, but instead I'd rather automate and improve systems, so we can move on and work on harder problems. I'm a systems administrator and a programmer and enjoy tearing apart difficult problems. Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Science Economics Graduation in May 2006 Perl, C, Java, Python, C++ (X)HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, HTML::Mason, CGI, AJAX, Comet (and more) Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, Digital Unix Bourne, awk, sed, m4 OpenLDAP, Kerberos, NIS Oracle 8 and 9, mySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, PL/SQL IOS, TCP/IP, Cisco and Extreme routers and switches pf, ipf, Cisco FWSM and PIX, snort, nmap XSLT, XPath, DOM, SAX, XMLRPC, XSLFO, XUL Amazon EC2 and S3, Dynamic DNS, etc Site Reliability Engineer Google, Inc 06/06-Current Cluster and scalable systems administrator for systems with multiple clients and usage patterns. Network and software troubleshooting and monitoring. Automation via shell/python scripts for myself and coworkers and via web interfaces for customers. Responsible for maintaining critical backend systems which power many Google products. Skills used: Python, network diagnostics, shell scripting, perl, scaling services. Unix Systems Analyst Computer Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology 10/05-05/06 Computer Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology Configuration and deployment of Solaris-based servers with open source and commercial software. Troubleshoot software bugs and inconsistencies. Assist with faculty and student technical support. Skills used: Solaris, shell scripting, perl. Cluster Engineer College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology 06/05-09/05 Administrative support for parallel computation research on a 24-node Fedora/ Linux cluster. Instructed co-workers on use of revision control, use of community documentation, development with MPI, and working with Unix environments. Developed faster algorithms for existing software applications to meet research project needs. Skills used: Linux, C, MPICH, Subversion, software debugging. Systems Programmer ITS at Rochester Institute of Technology 09/04-03/05 Development and maintenance of user and network management systems. Improved existing account management systems for campus-wide deployment of LDAP, Active Directory, DCE, and VMS services. Debugged and improved network management system integrating dhcp and dns with computer registration. Skills used: C, PHP, m4, make, cvs, Oracle, Pro*C Unix Systems Analyst Computer Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology 07/04-08/04 Design and deployment of GNOME-based Solaris desktop environment. Focused on security and ease of use. Supported faculty and students on Solaris 9 technical issues. Business Systems Developer OnlySecure.com (Livingston, MT) 12/02-09/05 Developed an online store sales reporting and automation system from the ground up with an evolutionary development model. Provided service maintenance and support for mission critical systems across multiple systems. Skills used: Perl, C, PHP, mySQL C The FreeBSD ps/2 mouse driver and userland mouse drivers both support a number of specific mice in a nonmodular way. I rewrote the userland mouse tool completely from scratch and turned the kernel ps/2 driver into a simpler userland-device middleman. The userland mouse tool is capable of support any kind of mouse through a driver loadable at runtime. It also has ps/2 and other protocol libraries useful for talking to mouse devices from the userland. XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript My lack of familiarity with presentation software such as PowerPoint led to the creation of an XML/XHTML-oriented slide show project. It uses technologies with which I am very familiar to create slideshows. Individual slides are XHTML subdocuments of a simple XML envelope. Presentations can be viewed with any modern web browser, eliminating the need for a proprietary slideshow viewing tool. Perl and C++ Having grown tired of reading authentication and system logs looking for problems, I decided to make the process easier. If an event is predictable, then we can make a script handle it. This tool is a very configurable Expert-like system that allows you to define predicted patterns in log or program output aswell as reactions to those patterns. It will also process text and generate patterns which match that text. Later versions of this are in C++. C, libpcap, libnet, networking In an effort to be able to play Halo 2 with some out of state friends, I wrote an xbox system link proxy that would essentially bridge only xbox network (broadcast) traffic across across layer 3 networks using UDP. Written in C and uses libpcap and libnet. A later update added multicast support so Apple's Rendezvous (mdns) protocol could span networks segments. javascript, xul, css To date I have written 2 firefox extensions. One, to allow you to search your open tabs for keywords, and another to allow you to trivially edit query parameters in the url bar. These extensions required the use of XUL (mozilla's toolkit language) and JavaScript. C, i2c, networking This project made use of a small embedded device called an Ethernut. It was needed for an I2C (TWI) network controller by RIT'S DARPA Grand Challenge Autonomous Racing Team. The software is written in C and supports autodiscovery and an ethernet-to-i2c gateway so the master computer can talk to the i2c devices over ethernet without needing to have an i2c interface. At RIT's Computer Science House I setup and maintain a computing lab of Sun Ultra1 systems using JumpStart. I also help maintain the servers of many different architectures including Sparc, x86, Alpha, and Mips. In my spare time I work on various web-based applications using perl's HTML::Mason, mod_perl, shell scripts, PHP, mySQL, and other tools. I also maintain several apache web servers which run varying services. I'm very familiar with developing of web-based applications and have been doing so professionally for over a year designing and maintaining a web-based business portal for OnlySecure.com. I am also very familiar with system administration of both Internet-end systems and intranet systems including web and database servers, firewalls, email systems, and network maintenance. I'm currently looking for an internship or co-op for this summer involving Internet system administration. I'm extremely interested in system administration, from system security, user management, implementing automated administration, etc. I try to find new ways to attack problems by using my own personal knowledge combined with researching existing solutions. Recently, I've been focusing on automation, trying to minimize the time spent interacting with a system and maximizing the amount of work actually done. active-directory ajax autoconf automake bridging cvs darcs dhcp dhtml dns dtrace ethernut freebsd glimpse gtk2 html html::mason ipf javascript ksh libnet libpcap linux m4 make mh mysql ncurses network oracle perforce perl pf postgres pro*c rcs rdf rrdtool rss security shell snort solaris subversion unix vi vim vmware vpn web-spidering xapply xlib xml xul xpath xslt zsh