Shawn P. Ferry		E-mail: sferry@obscure.org
Springfield, VA 22153	Telephone: 703.451.8655

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Over seven years of UNIX system administration experience. Specializing in network,
system, storage, security, design, implementation, integration and administration in 
diverse environments from 25 to 700+ systems.

CAREER SKILLS OVERVIEW
Infrastructure Design     Apache/ApacheSSL   NetApp Filers      BIND       Kerberos
System Administration     Veritas NetBackup  Windows            Remedy     Switches
Network Administration    SPARC Hardware     Tape Libraries     Perl       Routers
Performance Monitoring    Intel Hardware     System Automation  Linux      Console Servers
Veritas Foundation Suite  SAN Solutions      Load Balancing     JumpStart  Security Auditing
Resource Accounting       High Availability  Disaster Recovery  Solaris    Shell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior System Architect - YellowBrix Inc. Alexandria, VA June 1999 - December 2001
System architecture design and implementation for a b2b content aggregation company.

Senior Engineer - User Technology Associates, Inc. Ballston, VA 7/1998 - 6/1999
DISA Network Design Group; planned and deployed enterprise-level DNS, backup, PKI, web/DB server consolidation and firewall solutions.

Systems Engineer - AnviCom Inc. Vienna, VA 2/1998 - 7/1998
DISA "web-centric" server consolidation project; infrastructure design and implementation for Network Design Group.

Senior Internet Systems Administrator - DIGEX Inc. Beltsville, MD 10/1995 - 12/1999
Tier 3 systems administration and final point of technical escalation for DIGEX Platinum customers.


AFFILIATIONS
System Administrators Guild (SAGE) December, 98 - Present
Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX) December, 98 - Present
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) March, 01– Present
SUN Local Users Group Founding Member (NOVA SLUG) February, 02 - Present

MISCELLANEOUS
Author ClarIIon-RRD - MRTG-like graphing and historical trending utility for ClarIIon arrays.
Large Installation System Administration (LISA): regular attendee of conference since 1998.
Rider, fundraiser, training leader for Washington DC AIDS Ride. DCAR6 #2062, DCAR7 #585

Full technical resume and references available upon request.