Richard Primus

rprimus@gmail.com

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: OpenBSD, Linux (Debian, Centos, Ubuntu), Solaris
• Network Management: nagios, cacti, puppet, rancid
• Development: Perl, bash, Erlang, C
• Internet Services: smtp (postfix), DNS (bind), httpd (apache, nginx), cache (squid)
• Network Hardware: routers (Cisco, Juniper, Unisphere), switches (Cisco, Extreme)

CAREER HISTORY

• Lle-Ventures Ltd
  Problem Solver
  London UK, Oct 2013 - Present
  • Setup and manage infrastructure on AWS.

• Squiz Ltd
  Unix Systems Admin/Support Tech
  London UK, Apr 2011 - Oct 2013
  • Provide support to clients for the SquizSuite product line.
  • Setup two new Applogic (cloud computing) grids (v3.1.14 + v3.5).
  • Semi-automated process of creating a new cloud appliance with required monitoring/backup infrastructure (racktables, puppet, filtergen, bacula, nagios, cacti) - reducing time from 4 hours to 90 mins per server. Standardised switch configs (logging, ntp, STP, ssh, port labels) and introduced rancid for config management.
  • Setup and configured an HA web site (10 nodes) using HAProxy, squid, lsyncd and PostgreSQL streaming replication.

• lence.net
  Student of Life
  London UK, Jun 2008 - Apr 2011
  • Took time off of work to complete BSc (Hons) Comp Sci degree full time. (Sept 2009 — Jan 2011)
  • Developed a trading methodology for the futures markets. Instruments: US Treasuries, FX Futures (Euro, British Pound) and Crude Oil.
  • Started Erlang and wrote an OTP application to interface with Interactive Brokers’ API to display live 5 second data for selected futures instruments.
  • Developed various studies (in C++) for the Sierra Chart charting/trading platform.
  • Started Scheme and lambda calculus to be more familiar with functional programming and its idioms.

• Logica/Servista Ltd
  UNIX/Linux Systems Admin/Architect
  London UK, Feb 2007 - Jun 2008
  • Responsible for 3 production, 1 development and 1 training environments - 3 Sun Fire V880s, 12 V440s (Solaris 8) and 82 RHEL/Centos servers.
  • Designed and implemented HA radius solution (Radiator w/ MySQL, DRBD, HA) for client
  • Improved/automated in-house processes for monitoring (hobbit) and backups (bacula). Wrote a perl plugin to monitor Radiator on hobbit.

• Cable + Wireless Access/Bulldog Communications
  Team Leader Systems Operations
  London UK, Mar 2005 - Feb 2007
  • Technical team lead of 3 UNIX sysadmins and a developer.
  • Support and administration of distributed user authentication platform - consisting of 8 Sun Fire V440s under Solaris 9 with multi-master replicating Sun One (iPlanet) LDAP backend.
  • Operationally responsible for Juniper SDX platform (30 Sun Fire V440s)
  • Proactively designed, developed and implemented Perl scripts that monitored the SDX platform.

• PacketExchange
  Senior Operations Engineer
  London UK, Nov 2003 - Feb 2004
  • Analysed, planned and implemented effeciency measures to reduce lead time in setting up BGP peers..
  • Developed a perl script to interface with RT trouble ticket systems API to automatically create tickets.

• Atlas Internet
  UNIX Systems/Network Engineer
  London UK, Nov 2002 - Aug 2003
  • UNIX SA for bind 9 (300+ domains), radiator, CGPro under Solaris, and Linux
  • Increased overall effeciency by developing Perl CGI scripts to enable first line support and sales to garner client information (webspace, mail info).

• GlobalCrossing/Frontier/GlobalCenter/VoyagerNet
  Senior IP Network Engineer - Traffic Eng
  London UK, Aug 2000 - Mar 2002
  • Extensive work with WANDL (Wide Area Network Design Lab) for management, grooming and fault analysis of global MPLS TE network consisting of over 700 network devices.

  Senior IP Network Engineer - Router Eng
  London UK, Jan 2000 - Aug 2000
  * Ensured that new network devices being attached to the network conformed to code and configuration standards.

  Senior Technical Account Manager
  London UK, Aug 1998 - Dec 1999
  * Coordinated, set up and managed the infrastructure (installation and configuration of Cisco 75xx routers, Cisco 5500 switches, Nortel PDH mux, FTP, DNS (Solaris) and mail (Linux) servers) for the first Data Centre in Europe, and all technical responsibilities thereafter - both customer and network.

  UNIX Systems Administrator
  New York NY, Mar 1998 - Aug 1998
  * Decreased impact of network outages to all frame relay customers by setting up ISDN backup on Cascade switch which also required a firmware upgrade.

• Bway Net Inc.
  UNIX Systems and Network Administrator
  New York NY, Oct 1997 - Mar 1998
  • Increased customer satisfaction by identifying and solving major chronic problems with news server (innd running on Solaris 2.5).

• El Net Inc.
  UNIX Systems and Network Administrator
  New York, NYMay 1997 - May 1998
  • Designed and engineered new POP for increased capacity and reliability for dial-in and ISDN customers.

• Sense/Net Inc.
  Director Of Technical Operations
  New York NY, May 1996 - Oct 1997
  • Introduced new technology to the company that increased opportunities and market value.

• AT&T Bell Labs
  STA - Software Developer
  N Andover MA, May 1993 - May 1995
  • Developed and documented a software tool (in C++ on UNIX) that aided ASIC hardware designers debug their designs for the first ATM switches, which increased efficiency of development cycle by 75 percent.

• The Cooper Union
  UNIX Systems Administrator
  New York NY, Nov 1992 - May 1995
  • Administered security on a network of approximately 100 workstations and 7 servers - systems included several UNIX favours (SunOS, Solaris, Linux, IRIX, Ultrix, AIX), VMS and DOS.

EDUCATION, CERTS + TRAINING

• City University, School of Informatics, London, GB, BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Distributed Systems
• Erlang Open Telecom Platform (2011)
• Erlang OTP Express: An Introduction to Large-Scale Software design with Erlang (2010)
• ITIL: Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ISEB) (2006)
• EMC/SMARTS InCharge Administrator (2005)
• Juniper: Introduction to the SDX–300 for Residential and WAN Services (2005)
• Juniper: Architecture, Configuration, Routing Policy, Troubleshooting and MPLS Tracc Engineering, (2000)
• The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Albert Nerken School of Engineering, NY, studied Electrical Engineering, 1992 - 1995

PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• The Society of Technical Analysts (STA)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)