Jeremy Andrews
7475 NW 44th St. #808
Lauderhill, FL 33319
jeremy at kerneltrap.org
(954)578-6877

Objective:
   To be challenged while offering my UNIX development skills to a hard 
 working team.

Experience:
Convergent Networks,  October 1999 - June 2002,  Ft. Lauderdale, FL;
Software Engineer / UNIX System Administrator
   Received the February 2000 Employee of the Month award.  Designed and
 engineered distributed logger and multi-threaded statistical collection
 libraries and API in C.  Maintained softswitch dynamic configuration C 
 code, utilizing the MySQL API,  SNMP and proprietary memory structures.  
 Helped to design and implement High Availability into our softswitch.  
 Created Solaris packages customer installation of our software.  
 Automated product and development tasks with shell scripts.  Developed 
 platform control shell script which is the primary operational interface
 between our software and our customers.  Responsible for researching,
 recommending and designing future platforms for customer deployment.   
 Responsible for integration testing of software builds.  Wrote 
 documentation, explaining our proprietary software to the documentation 
 team, SQA and fellow engineers.  
   Managed 50+ UNIX computers located worldwide.  System administrator for
 development labs running Solaris 2.8.  Maintained development and production
 environment on three major flavors of UNIX:  Solaris, Linux, and Tru64. 
 Configured and maintained Bugzilla bug reporting system.  Managed source
 configuration with PVCS, CVS and Clear Case.  Built and maintained highly
 available real time database servers on Tru64 UNIX with TruCluster, LSM, 
 AdvFS, NetRAIN and Oracle. Built and maintained development database 
 servers on Solaris with MySQL, TimesTen and Oracle.  Responsible for 
 performing routine backups of data to tape by writing scripts utilizing 
 tar, dump and vdump;  recovery when necessary and routinely to verify the
 process.  Helped troubleshoot networking issues, occasionally maintaining 
 Cisco Routers, Switches and Hubs.  Provided 24/7 support for  production
 platforms.

BC Consulting,  May 1994 - October 1999, Haines, AK;
Owner/Computer Consultant
   Supported the city of Haines and the surrounding area, a several hundred 
 mile radius.  Troubleshooting a wide variety of applications and operating
 systems (including Linux, MacOS and Windows).  Contracted out to schools
 tutoring students one-on-one and in classroom situations.  Technology grant
 writing.  Documenting procedures for teachers, city workers and local 
 business owners.  Responsible for installation of networks, utilizing 
 TCP/IP, AppleTalk, PPP and SLIP.  Minor hardware repairs.  Web design and
 hosting, including the development of online databases.  Voluntarily 
 supported local public library ISP.

Operating Systems:
   Linux, Sun Solaris, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, IOS, MacOS, Windows (3/95/98/NT),
 BeOS, AmigaOS, DOS.

Programming Languages:
   I have a solid background in C, shell scripting and HTML.  I am comfortable 
 with the fundamentals of PHP, C++, Pascal, Perl, Expect, and BASIC.

Applications:
   MySQL, Oracle, TimesTen, gcc, gdb, gmake, Compaq TruCluster, Logical 
 Storage Manager, NetRAIN, Apache, PVCS, ClearCase, CVS, Sendmail, BIND, 
 Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXpress, FileMaker Pro, MS Word, MS Excel, AppleWorks,
 Metrowerks Codewarrior, BBEdit, PGP/GPG.

Activities:
   http://kerneltrap.org/ - My personal web page, devoted to kernel 
 programming.  Site utilizes PHP and MySQL.  An interview series I’ve 
 initiated has a readership of 50,000 per interview.  Maintaining this 
 page keeps me up to date with numerous operating systems and their 
 kernels (primarily focused on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and GNU/Hurd). 
 
Education/Certifications:
   Rational University, Rational ClearCase Administration, February 2002
   Merant University, PVCS Version Manager for Administrators, February 2001
   CompuMaster, Supporting Windows NT, July 2000
   Cisco Systems, Inc, VCO4K Configuration & Management, June 2000
   Global Knowledge, AdvFS, LSM and RAID, June 2000
   Global Knowledge, Compaq Tru64 UNIX System Administration, May 2000
   University of Idaho (August 1992 - May 1994) - Moscow, Idaho 83843
        Major:  Computer Engineering
   Haines High School (August 1988 - May 1992) - Haines, Alaska 99827
        Major emphases:  Computer science and mathematics.  Network admin 
                         for school Mac network.

References:
   Available upon request.