During my career, I've had the blessing of being able to explore a wide range of areas within the field of Systems Administration. Taking advantage of that, I've gained experience with many areas of computing, and have become quite confident in my ability to pick up new skills and abilities quickly.

This page lists the skill areas and sets I've been able to explore. Within each category, the points in which I have the most ability, most confidence, or most recent experience are listed first.

• Presentational Skills
  • MagicPoint (Open Source competitor to PowerPoint)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Large group presentations
  • Effective management and technical level presentations
  
  
• Documentation
  • SGML
  • TeX / LaTeX
  • HTML
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  
  
• Programming / Scripting
  • PHP
  • Python
  • C / C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Tcl/Tk
  • Shell (sh, ksh, bash, tcsh)
  • SQL (MySQL, PL/SQL)
  • MPI
  
  
• Operating Systems
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.x
  • Solaris 2.6, 2.7
  • HP-UX 10.20, 11.0
  • AIX
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 9x
  
  
• Applications
  • DocBook
  • Sun's Solstice Disk Suite
  • Emacs
  
  
• Environments
  • Linux firewalls (ipchains, iptables)
  • AFS
  • CIPE (Crpytographic IP Encapsulation, VPN solution)
  • Kerberos v5
  • Hesiod
  • System security (portsentry, logwatch)
  
  
• Interpersonal
  • Promoted to Team Lead in Red Hat GSS Production Support after less than one year with the company as a result of technical skills and customer satisfaction feedback
  • Work well with management
  • Work well in both team and individual environments, thought I prefer a team environment
  • Managed a part time student assisitant in the Statistics Department at NCSU