Joseph (Shih-Chao) Lin: MCSE for NT 4.0, CCNA, A+

e-mail: joseph.lin@comcast.net

Objective

Seeking a position that requires extensive IT skill working cross-functionally throughout an organization with emphasis on technical operations planning, architecture, and implementation.

Skills

· Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/98/2000/XP, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris 8/9.

· Network Elements: Juniper M/T/E-series routers and Netscreen Firewall, Cisco router, catalyst switches, Content Server Switch and PIX firewall, Extreme Summit/Alpine , Foundry BigIron, Riverstone RS-family, ATI switches.

· Software: MS Office 97/2000/XP, Veritas BackupExec, Bakbone NetVault, Hummingbird’s eXceed, Exchange 5.5, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000, VNC, PCAnywhere, Partition Magic, Norton Ghost, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, FreeRadius, MRTG, Perforce, PVCS Tracker, IIS 4/5.

· Skilled in troubleshooting hardware, software, and networks.

· Good administrative skills - able to organize and work systematically.

· Expert in Windows NT Server 3.51/4.0/2000, and Internet network security.

Significant Experience

Bakbone Software, Inc.

Sr. Support Engineer, April 2006 – Current

Provide global support onsite at Yahoo HQ! Responsible for making sure the BakBone product line is running optimally in protecting Yahoo’s critical data globally. Work with internal development and other vendors in scalability, reproducing bugs and Yahoo-specific requirements. Mentor Yahoos with scripts, best practices and tips in a multi-vendor environment. Consult in backup infrastructure for scalability, and optimize with growth and performance. Document lesson learned at Yahoo into internal knowledge base. Provide insight to sales for opportunities and product positioning at other opportunities. Provide gap analysis and backup architecture redesign as Yahoo transition from Veritas Netbackup to BakBone Netvault.

MAXIMUS, Inc.

Systems Engineer, August 2004 – March 2006

Provide 24x7 data center hosting services to corporate projects. Based on business requirements, implemented server monitoring with Nagios or Concord. Pioneered Oracle 10g development based on RedHat AS 3.0. Provide consulting services in areas of capacity planning, documentation, disaster recovery planning, network design and troubleshooting, automation, security, government compliance, validation, and a point of escalation. Lead vendors and project staff in resolving performance issues that was jeopardizing future contracts to be awarded. Work closely with development in designing a linux/solaris-based environment with EMC CLARiioN CX-series storage to support multiple projects concurrently. Work with corporate networking team in design, implementation and troubleshooting of networks in California. Configure and maintain networking equipment including F5, Cisco load balancer, router, and switches. Mentor, explain, and empower project managers and peers of best practices.

Dorado Software, Inc.

Senior Systems Engineer, June 2002 – July 2004

Responded to RFPs with account managers to ensure successful customer engagements. Designed and managed implementations at large telecoms in Asia-Pacific both onsite and remotely. Assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion Project which led to a 5 million dollar contract. Worked with security auditors in the government compliance of Dorado’s Redcell software suite. Designed, managed, automated and optimized development, QA and production IT environments consists of Windows NT/2000 and Solaris 8/9. Provided domain expertise in product development of Dorado’s IP-VPN, IPSec and Policy provisioning products.

Senior Network Engineer, June 2001 – June 2002

Worked in a consulting capacity with all facets of the organization in providing product guidance and software implementation for the entire product suite. Architect and maintained a multi-vendor test lab consisted of RADIUS, TACACS+, DNS and terminal server services, varying family Cisco switches/routers, Juniper M/T/E-series routers, ATI, Riverstone, and Extreme Summit/Alpine switches to support ongoing engineering and sales efforts. Provided IT support for production networks, NT, Solaris, various software packages, and Meridian phone system. Document Best-Known-Methods and network procedures.

Part of Device Driver teams in modeling and designing vendor-specific device drivers with generic GUI framework to provide device specific interaction with Dorado’s suite of products. Lead network engineer interacting with the vendors and engineering creation of use cases and templates configurations for Juniper, Cisco, Riverstone, and ATI. Worked with vendors to find and document best practices to interact with their network elements via both SNMP and CLI. Generate bug/enhancement requests to vendors regarding network management. Represented Dorado Software in Juniper Network’s beta cycles with focus on providing inputs for configuration management allowing rapid adaptation of new JunOS releases.

Nortel Networks

Senior Field Technician, November 2000 – June 2001

Implemented Nortel DMS-500 phone switches per engineering specification, including physical installation, testing, commissioning and customer hand-over. Led contractors in proper Nortel and customer-specific guidelines. Worked with customers on out-of-spec changes. Mentored junior staff in the field in Nortel field operations processes and procedures.

Electronic Freight Exchange, Inc

Network Engineer, October 1999 – November 2000

Transformed the disorganized environment to a scalable enterprise class environment by consolidating and migrating domains to Dell PowerEdge servers, developing standard conventions and policies, streamlined core-services by automation and cleaned up the network topology. Designed, built and managed several development, QA, production, and in-house environments, including the source code repository. Engineered a standard suite of tools for complete remote management of production and demo web sites. Worked extensively with Cisco 1605R, Netscreen-100 Firewall, Intel SSL Accelerator, WSD-PRO+ Load Balancer, Compaq Proliant 5500R, IIS4, ColdFusion 4.5, SQL 7, and Cybercash Merchant Kit.

Intel Corporation: Folsom Engineering Computing

Systems Programmer, June 1997 – October 1999

Responsible for 1.8TB of NFS based disk storage for Engineering Computing. Migrated data from non-supported servers onto reliable IBM Netfinity 7000 with EMC backend. Consulted on stability, performance, and security issues with NT, Samba, and Unix. Provided dual protocol disk sharing solution to Unix and NT clients using Samba 2.0.5a. Planned and built the Engineering Computing NT Infrastructure in Folsom. Provided primary day-to-day level 2 support of over 700 PCs under a multi-master domain model running Windows NT 3.51/4.0. With a team, engineered, migrated, stabilized, and optimized as the environment migrated from NT 3.51 to NT 4.0. Resolved issues as users migrated from low-end RS/6000 boxes to Intel architecture using eXceed for chip design. Trained internal staffs regarding to support issues, and provided quicker and more straightforward resolutions.

IBM Global Services (Contract)

System Management Lead, July 1996 – October 1997

Engineered the migration of the environment from OS/2 Warp to Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. Planned and executed mail services migration from Lotus Notes 3.2 to Notes 4.1, then to 4.5. Refined update processes by remotely updating PCs on site using IBM NetView DM/2 to install a standard software stack onto new ones. Redesigned the site by expanding the network to include developers in another building using a point-to-point T1 link with Larscom Access-T routers, IBM 8229 bridges, IBM TokenRing CAUs and LAMs. Provided desktop and server support for OS/2, Windows NT, Lotus Notes in both environments as the effort transitioned from Sacramento to New Zealand. Linked two development sites by setting up a 128kb link to New Zealand via SNA over TCP/IP through AnyNet both as a DDCS gateway for DB2/2 and a link for Lotus Notes between New Zealand and Sacramento.

VIP Ltd, Inc.

Hardware/Network Support, September 1995 - July 1996

Administered multiple environments using Windows NT Server 3.51, OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 and Lotus Notes 4.0.Managed a multi-protocol LAN consisting of Token Ring and Ethernet using NetBEUI, and TCP/IP. Architect and executed a desktop standardization from Windows 3.11/DOS/OS/2 to Windows 95. Set up a test facility for the UPS project consisted of Windows NT Server, VisualInfo Servers under OS/2 Warp, B+H Scanner using Kofax KF-9250 card, FaxRouter/2 using a 4 port Gammalink fax card, and four NT clients.

California Energy Commission: Siting Division

Student Assistant, December 1994 - September 1995

Provided technical support and hardware upgrades for the staff. Developed usage policies and backup solutions for networked and standalone PCs.

Education

California State University, Sacramento

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 98 units completed.

Cisco Certification

CCNA v2: Cisco Certified Network Associate.

Juniper Networks:

EDU-JUN-AJNR: Advanced Juniper Networks Routing.

References

Furnished upon request.