Ian Johnston
Seattle, Washington
ian at dangerpants dot com

Objective

I am interested in long-term employment in a Unix-heavy environment, developing cool, interesting projects in Perl or C/C++/Java. Stuffy corporations and droning sweatshops need not apply.

Work History

Adobe Systems, Inc, Seattle, WA; 10/2000 to present. Unix systems administrator, Information Services. Primary duties include medium-scale Perl development, focusing on directory integration (AD, NIS, LDAP), as well as NTP administration. Working with all versions of Solaris, as well as Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Adobe Systems, Inc, Seattle, WA; 2/98 to 10/2000. Build engineer, InDesign QE group. Working with NT 4.0 and MacOS 8.6 systems, using Visual C++ 5.0 and MetroWerks CodeWarrior. Extensive Perl scripting. Helped in setup and administration of Perforce version control system. Unix-based webserver implementation and maintenance.

F5 Labs, Seattle, WA; 6/97 to 11/97. Systems Administrator, working with BSDI 2.1 and 3.0 systems, performing all aspects of administration for a small company.

Tektronix, Wilsonville, OR; 7/95 to 9/95 and 6/96 to 9/96. Administrative programmer with Color Printer Engineering Group, specializing in Perl coding and compilation of programs (such as Motif and X) for Solaris, IRIX and SunOS.

Law Offices of Langlie & Goddu, Woodinville, WA; 5/85 to 5/88. Computer file backup technician. Carried out weekly file-system backup onto 5.25" media.

Other Experience

Experience administrating small heterogenous Unix/Windows network environment since 1993. General experience with Unix from 1991.

Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.

Computer languages: Perl 4 and 5 (including CGI), C, C++, and Bourne shell. Please don't ask me to write Perl 4.

Markup: HTML, TeX, MediaWiki and Confluence Wiki

Operating system experience: Linux, Solaris 2.4 - 10, OpenBSD, MacOS 9 and X, and some Windows 98/NT/2000/XP.

Experience with numerous Unix services, including sshd, DNS/bind, NFS, NTP, HTTP, and FTP.

Education

Solaris 8 System Administration II class, 2/01.

Dual Bachelors Degree (BA/BS) in Liberal Arts and Computer Science, June 1997.

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. 1992 to 1995 and 1996 to 1997. Courses included Computer Science, Filmmaking and Liberal Arts.

The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1995 to 1996. Courses: Celtic Civilization, Scottish Gaelic Language and Computer Science.

Gymnasium Tonndorf, Hamburg, Germany. 1991-1992. 12th class instruction, emphasis on German language and music.

High School - Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, OR. Graduated 1991. College preparatory courses. Extracurricular activities included photography and drama.

References available on request.

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This document last updated May 18, 2007