302 Belleville Ave
Bloomfield NJ 07003-3651
NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING -- NO RECRUITERS PLEASE
+1 908 377 2480
SKILLS:
· A keen eye for how web/internet technology can (and can’t) solve business problems.
· In-depth knowledge of networking, Unix and Windows computing.
· 15 years of Internet technology (early innovator/adopter): Email/Groupware technology, Perl/CGI/Web/HTML, architecture and design, ISP and business networks.
· In-depth knowledge of Internet/Intranet security (issues, technologies, policy and procedure)
· Technical/Internet Applications: Email service, Web service (small and large), Web Content Management, Firewalls & Information Protection, Database-driven web sites, IP Telephony
· Operating systems: Unix (FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux), Mac OS X, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Cisco IOS 7.x-12.x, plus experience with AIX, HP-UX, OpenVMS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc. and others.
· Network Products: Cisco Routers/Switches/PIX Firewalls and Cisco IP Telephony equipment (ICS7750); Checkpoint FW-1; Linux/Unix/FreeBSD firewalls (IPFilter, IPFW); Avaya Cajun products; Network General Sniffer, tcpdump, Ethereal, Snort.
· Programming Languages: Perl/mod_perl, C/C++, HTML, Unix shells and tools, awk/sed, SQL, Python, Pascal, BASIC.
· Network Technologies: FastEthernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, OSPF, BGP, ATM.
EDUCATION:
BA in Computer Science, Drew University, Madison, NJ
August 1987 - May 1991
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
System Administrator Jan 2006 - current
Top secret, but really fun, stuff.
Director, IT Services April 2004 - Feb 2005
Cibernet Corp
Re-engineered entire corporate IT infrastructure in New Jersey, Maryland, and London. Rebuilt IT team. Managed deployment of new generation of corporate application which drives 90% of revenue.
IT/Web Team (full-time volunteer) Dec 2003 - Feb 2004
Dean For America, Burlington, VT
Re-engineered email correspondence system to handle 3,000 emails per day (previously only 25% could be processed). Built IT trouble/request tracking system. Debugged network issues. Advised e-strategy team and data-security team. Planned IT/network strategy for (potential) post-convention roll-out. Participated in shutdown and cleanup of IT for New Hampshire office and HQ shutdown.
Director of Network Operations July 2000 - Dec 2003
Lumeta Corp, Somerset, NJ
Designed, built, and ran corporate IT infrastructure plus production service architecture for 25-person startup, provided technical advice to marketing, sales, product development. Built datacenter, LAN/WAN, VPN (SSH), firewall (PIX, Checkpoint, FreeBSD IPFILTER), fileservice (NFS, SMB, SAMBA), print service, backups (Amanda), compute servers (FreeBSD UNIX, Solaris, Linux) and web services (Apache HTTP server). Deployed Cisco AVVID IP Telephony solution (7750 with 7960 phones). Created simple web content management system. Designed architecture for use in Lumeta intranet security products as a service (ASP) including security analysis, data storage architecture, scheduling and backups. Designed (and often implemented) new features for Lumeta intranet security products. Consulted to customers via sales, engagement, and post-engagement presentations. Managed 2 direct reports. Created customer support department and supervised RMA and upgrade issues.
Senior Network Architect (MTS) Sept 1996 - July 2000
Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Lead networking team. Assisted UNIX and PC architects. Collaborated with Researchers on the networking aspect of projects. Acting manager when manager absent. Facilitated technical and non-technical issues in the group. Major projects: Designed and implemented upgrades/redesigns to the following sub-systems: ISDN dial-in pool, firewall, VLAN/LAN, upgraded backbone network to 100M FastEthernet + Gigabit Ethernet. Collaborated with CIO to develop new global LAN architecture, evaluate vendors, design logistics for deployment. Advised new product developers. Published 6 papers at system administration technical conferences.
Acting Manager of Computing Facilities May 1998 - Oct 1998
Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Managed 23 system administrators at 2 locations during absence of department head.
Lead Network/System Administrator (MTS-1) Dec 1995 - Sept 1996
AT&T (then Lucent) Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Designed, planned, and coordinated split of all computing and network resources for Research in Holmdel during AT&T/Lucent split. Cleaned and reorganized as we split the network.
Computer/Network System Manager (STA) Aug 1994 - Dec 1995
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Lead team of Sysadmins's maintaining a chaotic network for 300 researchers using mostly Sun, Unix, and some Mac/PCs. Replaced broken processes. Designed and began roll-out of plan to re-invent network with goal of high security, capacity, reliability. Designed paperless Quality Survey using WWW. Set up Personal Effectiveness training program for other Sysadmins.
UNIX System Administrator June 1991 - July 1994
Mentor Graphics, Warren, NJ
Maintained network of 150 workstations, file-servers, and compute-servers. SunOS/Solaris, Auspex/HP/Digital/IBM. sendmail, INN/NetNews/Usenet, web. High-end, highly-technical software development and CAD environment. Automated services, increased user satisfaction. Co-developed trouble-ticket tracking system. Ran internal users' group. Kept users very happy.
Student Intern / UNIX SysAdmin May 1990 - Sept 1990
AT&T, Basking Ridge, NJ
Ran network of three 3B2 Unix machines and approximately 30 MS-DOS machines.
Student System Manager Aug 1988 - May 1991
Drew University, Madison, NJ
Managed student-run computer assistance station. Trained employees. Answered phones. Taught intro classes. Developed core software for the university's highly recognized network. VAX/VMS, MS-DOS.
CONFERENCE ENGAGEMENTS:
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26-Jul-2004 |
OSCON2004 |
Tutorial |
Time Management for System Administrators |
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31-Oct-2003 |
LISA 2003 |
Invited Talk |
How to Get Your Papers Accepted at LISA |
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28-Oct-2003 |
LISA 2003 |
Tutorial |
Time Management for System Administrators |
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28-Oct-2003 |
LISA 2003 |
Tutorial |
Introduction to Massive Upgrades and Changes |
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11-Feb-2003 |
NordU |
Tutorial |
Tools for Creating Happy Users |
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8-Nov-2002 |
LISA 2002 |
Invited Talk |
How to Write a Book with Someone You Don't Know |
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5-Nov-2002 |
LISA 2002 |
Tutorial |
Introduction to Massive Upgrades and Changes |
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5-Nov-2002 |
LISA 2002 |
Tutorial |
Tools for Creating Happy Users |
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9-Aug-2002 |
SAGE-AU 2002 |
Invited Talk |
(Ab)using sysadmin tools for Internet collaboration |
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8-Aug-2002 |
SAGE-AU 2002 |
Keynote |
Deconstructing User Requests |
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5-Aug-2002 |
SAGE-AU 2002 |
Tutorial |
Tools for Creating Happy Users |
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7-Dec-2001 |
LISA 2001 |
Invited Talk |
Written any good books lately? |
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6-Dec-2001 |
LISA 2001 |
Guru |
Writing Papers for Usenix Refereed Track |
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12-Nov-1999 |
LISA 1999 |
Invited Talk |
Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT |
TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Practice of System and Network Administration
Limoncelli & Hogan, 776 pages, Addison-Wesley, Aug 2001. http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com
Articles:
Just Quit!
Limoncelli, “Login”, the newsletter of Usenix, Fall, 1998
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
Deconstructing User Requests
Limoncelli, Proceedings of the 13th Systems Administartion Conference (LISA '99), Usenix, Dec 1999
Ringel, Limoncelli, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '99), Usenix, December 1999
Limoncelli, Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Network Administration (NETA '99), Usenix, April 1999
Limoncelli, Fulmer, Reingold, Levine, Loura, Proceedings of the Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT Conference (LISA NT '98), Usenix, August 1998
Limoncelli, Reingold, Narayan, Loura, Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), Usenix, October 1997
Limoncelli, Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), Usenix, Oct 1997
Internal (Bell Labs/Lucent) Publications:
presented to the Reliability Information Forum (RIF), an internal Lucent
conference, March 2000
Dilman, Ginalski, Griffeth, Lieuwen, Limoncelli, Siner, Lucent Network Management Symposium, June 1998
What is Ethernet Implosion Syndrome?, published internally. May 1997
External Professional Activities:
· Founder and President (1993-2003) of $GROUPNAME, a users' group for Unix system administrators in New Jersey. Finds speakers for monthly meetings.
· Berkeley Heights: Mayor's Ad-Hoc Committee on Computerization, Member ‘97-‘00
· LISA 1999 Program Committee Member
· LISA 2000 Invited Talks Track Co-Chair and Program Committee Member
· LISA 2001 Invited Talks Track Co-Chair and Program Committee Member
· LISA 2002 Program Committee Member
· LISA 2003 Reader for the Program Committee
· Member SAGE, Usenix, and ACM
REFERENCES
References are available upon request.