About scottyallen
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Areas Of Expertise:
Networking & Systems:
Linux (Redhat & Debian), Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Solaris, DNS
(BIND 8), IIS 4, Postgresql, Mysql, MS Exchange 5.5, Communigate Mail Server,
Cisco IOS, SNMP, DHCP, NAT, PPTP, IPsec, Netsaint, Apache web server,
Samba, RAID
Coding:
Perl, CGI, PHP, C, SQL, HTML, Javascript, CSS, CVS, make & configure
Software:
MS Office 2000, VI, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, 3d Studio Max 3.0, Visio
2000
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Resume:
- March 2003-Present
Freelance Consultant
- Performed remote system administration of linux servers including server setup, hardening, maintenance, troubleshoting, and migration. Wrote various perl scripts to automate routine administration tasks. Coordinated with clients via email, instant messenger, and phone to ensure maximum server availibility.
- Designed and implemented migration of large membership-based website to multiple webservers. Wrote shell and perl scripts to aid in migration and to synchronize new content between servers. Coordinated with multiple other administrators and developers to ensure a smooth migration.
- Designed and implemented large scale distributed custom data mining application in perl and mysql, with the capacity to process millions of queries per day.
- Customized perl-based search engine script for ispy.co.nz to use a variety of different data sources to provide search results.
- Wrote and installed various CGI and PHP applications per client specifications, often integrating with existing site designs.
- November 1999-July 2001
HQ Global Workplaces
New York City, NY
Lead System Administrator
- Promoted to Lead System Administrator, was ultimately responsible
for the resolution of all problems on a 400+ location WAN, serving
10,000+ client machines, and 2500 employees, as well as client email
and web services, and corporate email, web, and data center
infrastructure.
- Responsible for project management and served as a technical
mentor for several other administrators.
- Managed the New York data center including 30 Linux, NT, and Cisco
systems. Systems included primary and secondary DNS servers, web
services, email servers (MS Exchange and others), internal file
servers, routers, switches, and NT domain controllers.
- Planned, implemented, and maintained a Lotus Notes 4.6 to
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Connector routing both internal and internet
mail between two existing email systems from two halves of a
corporate merger. The implementation included the development of
workarounds and the writing of perl scripts to solve undocumented
software bugs.
- Served as a member of a 24/7 on-duty team that was an escalation
point for all WAN and server outages. Worked with
network-monitoring personnel, field personnel, and telecommunications
vendors to resolve T-1 outages, routing issues, and LAN and cabling
discrepancies.
- Served as a technical escalation point for helpdesk, field
personnel, and other administrators for client, staff and
infrastructure issues.
- Designed and wrote a web-enabled database to store all relevant
WAN information, for use by engineers, field technicians, vendors, and
helpdesk staff.
- Designed and implemented a customized network
monitoring solution based around the network monitoring package
Netsaint, to provide coordinated network outage alerts to 5 different
sets of engineering and management teams, with alerts customized to
each groups needs and skill levels. Integrated network
monitoring platform with existing WAN information and trouble ticket
systems.
- Designed a packet-filtering firewall for the New York City data
center using existing Cisco hardware.
- Designed and deployed an MS PPTP VPN, to provide secure access to
the corporate network to system administrators and specific employees.
- March 1999-November 1999
Intelligenesis Corporation
New York City, NY
System and Network
Administrator
- Promoted to System and Network Administrator. Was responsible for
the development and support of all central IT infrastructure, including
email, web (internal and external), DNS, code repository, and
development server farm. All systems were protected using strong
encryption, and were accessible by employees telecommuting from around
the world, as well as remote offices, all using a wide variety of
operating systems.
- Supervised the movement of all IT infrastructure during the move
of the New York office (the corporate headquarters) to a larger space.
- Designed and supervised the assembly of the New York server room
to house 25 quad-processor development servers and 10 infrastructure
servers. Interacted with building engineers, air conditioning
contractors, cabling contractors, and equipment vendors.
- Supervised the technical aspects of transitioning DNS, mail, and
web services from outside providers to internal servers.
- Worked with developers to solve problems encountered during system
testing, including researching memory and filesystems limits in
Windows NT and Sun JVM.
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Top Coder Competition Raw Score
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Raw Score Total: 7,400
* Penalty rule enacted on 10/8/2001 and applies only to warnings sent after that date.
Note: all top coder competition stats are only updated once a day between midnight and 1:00 EDT.
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Rent A Coder Work History
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All ratings and comments are the opinion of the poster and do not reflect the official view of Rent A Coder.
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Rated By |
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Bid Amount |
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perl decryption needed |
soliver |
10
(Excellent)
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$75.00 |
July 8, 2003 4:24:03 PM EDT |
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In short words: Excellent - will use him again! |
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Leaves of Learning |
momhuey |
10
(Excellent)
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$25.00 |
July 2, 2003 12:11:24 PM EDT |
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Very talented and professional coder. As long as this coder is available, we will likely be using him exclusively. |
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Bonus for scottyallen on 7/1/2003 8:44:28 PM |
momhuey |
None Given
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$100.00 |
July 1, 2003 8:46:50 PM EDT |
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Price Quote Process |
momhuey |
10
(Excellent)
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$300.00 |
July 1, 2003 8:43:11 PM EDT |
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The programmer exceeded our expectations in terms of deliverables; we didn't expect the functionality we received for the price we paid. He was calm and professional in the face of rampant idiocity and daily scope changes. The work he completed was accurate and clean. We recommend him highly. |
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Mail Pre-processor |
jeff_schwartz |
None Given
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$125.00 |
May 1, 2003 11:30:52 AM EDT |
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Web Server Configuration |
bhosting |
10
(Excellent)
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$100.00 |
March 22, 2003 5:58:42 PM EDT |
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Quick, knowledgeable and friendly. I really could not ask for anything else.
Took a job with a tight deadline and got it done. |
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Sort my PHP driven menu |
mightycpa |
10
(Excellent)
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$15.00 |
March 1, 2003 12:51:24 AM EDT |
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Scotty took my requirements and ran with them. Once the bid was accepted, he cranked out the work in one day, working diligently throughout to fix the little doodads that cropped up unexpectedly.
We had a few problems, mainly because he was modifying a script that was similar to, but not exactly like, the one that I transferred his new code into. As a result, he could not possibly foresee the problems that arose, nor could he possibly diagnose them directly. I did it this way to reduce my cost, and my choice created a significant challenge for any coder. Scotty proved himself very worthy.
You won't go wrong with Scotty, so don't be afraid to accept his bids. |
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