Nicholas P.
Bernstein
Education:
Ubuntu Certified Trainer #19 (2nd in US) 3/09
Ubuntu Certified Professional 3/09
Linux Professional Institute Level 1 certified 2/09
Netapp Certified Technical Instructor
6/08
@stake Application Security Principles
7/03
@stake Cyberattacks & countermeasures
7/03
Sun Admin II Course Certification
3/99
Worchester Polytechnic
Institute 3/99
Sun Enterprise Certified
Reseller
1/99
Sun Workgroup Certified
Reseller
1/99
Marblehead High School 6/97
Programming/
Scripting: Perl, PHP, Shell, c#
Operating
Systems: Linux, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, Mac OS, Windows, Data
Ontap
Apps: postfix,
mysql, apache, bind, sendmail, samba, nfs, nis, tomcat, hylafax,ldap, Active
Directory, Exchange, IIS
Security:
Nessus, Snort, ISS, Antisniff, COPS, Tripwire, ISS/CISCO/Sourefiere IDS
Devices:
Foundry, Netapp, Cisco
Speaking Engagements:
á "Network
Security Audits: Nessus",
Oakley Inc, One Icon, Foothill Ranch, Nov 10, 2003
á "OSS
IDS: Using Snort/Acid/Mysql", Sun Microsystems, El Segundo, Jul 8, 2004
Experience:
Technical Instructor:
One of the top-ranked technical instructors working with Fastlane.Courses
taught include:
á Data
Ontap Fundamentals
á Advanced
SAN
á Advanced
NFS
á Advanced
CIFS
á Data Protection
& Retention
á Netapp
NCDA Bootcamp
á Fundamentals
of (netapp) Performance Analysis.
á Ubuntu
Certified Professional – was chosen by canonical inc. to teach course
pilot.
Microsoft Business Services Operations is the operations and hosted
services wing of Microsoft. We supported Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services
(frontbridge) which provides hosted antivirus/antispam email filtering for corporate
customers.
á One of only
two Unix Admins brought up after acquisition of Frontbridge
á Managed
LA->Redmond Datacenter Migration
á Managed
rollout & Deployed New Server classes across global network
á Built initial
staging environment
á One of
two Operations Members responsible for 24x7 administration & maintenance of
network for six months
á Administered
a global, multi-datacenter network consisting of mailservers(postfix+),
nameservers(bind), database servers(mysql/sql server), netapps, foundry
serverirons
á Wrote
various perl scripts / php scripts like:
o Identifying
& deleting/quarantining spam/virus outbreaks on the fly
o Webpages
showing config file versions/anomalies
o Installations
scripts for daily changes
o Package
Management
o Emergency
feature additions to mitigate high priority customer impacting events
á Acted
as security point person
o Nessus security
audit
o Snort
NIDS/ISS NIDS
o Member
of Frontbridge Attack Team
o NIDS/NIPS
Eval/Rollout
á Worked
with WebRT/Product Studio change management process
á Installed
/ Deployed hundreds of hosts
á Responsible
for responding to high priority customer impacting events
á Responsible
for working with dev to identify bugs & create workarounds
á Point
person for deploying webapps/web related applications
á Setup linux
LDAP authentication
á Wrote
multiple design documents for systems & features
á Contributed
to release specs
á Created
Service troubleshooting guides
á Created
Standard Operating Procedures and automated SOP tasks.
á Wrote
C# Server Iron Configuration tool
o Generated
real & virtual server entires
o Dynamically
created hosts file entries
o Dynamically
created Monitoring configurations
o SQL
inserts for central management database
I was the sole unix administrator at Document Systems, Inc., the
largest loan document production company in the U.S. providing auto-generated
Loan/Mortgage for realeastate agencies & banks.
á Designed
an extensive RedHat kickstart rapid installation system, which duplicates any
system w/ 45 minutes start to finish.
á Tied
down unix systems chrooting applicable services, migrating away from r* tools
to ssh, installing tripwire, local and remote logging tightening down on user
permissions,
á Implemented
a network monitoring system using nagios. The system provides real-time alerts
by email & sms phone messages for any service that goes down. In addition,
it provides statistics regarding service uptime.
á Implemented
a hylafax fax server, and wrote an perl email->fax gateway which received
information regarding destination, subject, etc and inline raw PCL (HP's
printer control language), pdf, gif, jpeg, and postscript converted fax image
to tiff and passed the file to hylafax for faxing.
á Implemented
OpenMosix Linux Cluster (Testing Purposes Only)
á Implemented
Linux High Availability using drbd and heartbeat. The system would monitor
service and respond to them on a virtual ip. In the case that the primary
system went down the secondary system would take over the service and be
started within 10 seconds. (Ran in
test nework)
á Implemented
jakarta-tomcat using apache 2.0 as a front end w/ mod_jk connectors to replace
sun iplanet servers. By replacing iplanet and switching from Sun's Java to IBM
java 's implementation, we were able to reduce average response time to
¼ the original time.
á Implemented
an openbsd based postfix/spamassin email gateway to stand inbetween internal MS
exchange server and outside world.
á Audited
network both internally & externally using nessus and other various
security tools monthly.
á Implemented
a bugzilla bug reporting system.
á Internal
secure jabber server with company wide user lists & conferencing rooms as
well as message logging.
á General
administration of apache, iplanet, postfix, nfs, rsync, backupexec and all of
the standard daily administration tasks including utilities like web-based log
viewers.
á Implemented
chkrootkit on all linux servers.
á Implemented
SNORT/ACID custom IDS system
Torch Concepts is a Software development firm where I worked as the
Systems & Network Admin. The environment consisted of different flavors of
UNIX: Solaris, Linux (RH, SuSE, Debian), and FreeBSD as well as MacOS 9 & X
and Windows 95-2k and NT.
Belenos, Inc.: Systems & Network Engineer,( 7/1999-8/2000
)
At Belenos, I worked as a UNIX Systems and Network Administrator
contracting on many smaller clients.
I was responsible for all level three technical support calls at
Network Plus, a Boston Based Level 2 ISP with several thousand users, and one
of our main clients.