Experienced Systems Administrator seeking challenges

klavs klavsen
Hædersdalvej 7
2650 Hvidovre
Denmark

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Klavs Klavsen
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I have worked with System Administration and IT-coordination for more than 8 years.Mostly with Linux and FreeBSD, but also with HP-UX, Solaris and Windows.I have been responsible for running some of the biggest websites in Denmark in this time, and has set up Metropol Online's entire network incl. DNS, Mail, Firewall, IDS, System Surveilance incl. Measurement of Uptime Percentages etc.
After 3 years of good experience at Metropol Online, I went on to become a self-employed Open Source & Security (also on windows :) Consultant. This position, has allowed me to do short critical help jobs for several companies, and also to do longer lasting contract work for several companies.

I have a degree in Informatics and in Advanced Computer Studies, which means that I know C++/C with emphasis on object-oriented Development.For Metropol Online's sites I have setup and administered webservers with mod_perl, mod_php and apache and apache-ssl and for databases I've mainly used Mysql and Oracle but also PostGreSQL to some extent. At Metropol Online I mainly worked with Open Source software, as I have had the best experience with this.I also have experience with Nortel and Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco VPN Concentrator and Cisco LocalDirector.

In my spare time, I work out (more running than weights now a days), Play soccer and train a chinese martial arts called WingTsun and spend time with my wife and daughter. I am also passionate about programming. Besides the perl/shell scripting I do a lot of in System Administration, I have aquired quite a lot of PHP and Perl knowledge, by writing scripts that tie my accounting and shop (Linuxpusher.dk) together and I maintain a few and bugfix other peoples assorted PostNuke modules. I have previously been a board member in SSLUG, but my time for such activities have vanished, with the purchase of a "fix-it-yourself"-house and a child :).
Personality
Responsible, Analytical, Committed, Quick Perception, Stable

Education From To Supplemental information

Advanced Computer Studies
EDB/IT, programmerseducation
2 < 3 year education
(Niels Brock)

Informatics (Informatikassistent)
Administrative Office education
3 < 4 års education
(Niels Brock)

1996




1994
1998




1996
for details, see:
www.brock.dk/nbenglish/study_programmes/computer_studies/ComputerInfo.asp
Former jobs (Position, Company, Line of business) From To Supplemental information
Founder,
EnableIT www.EnableIT.dk,
Open Source solutions and Consulting company

2002 This is my own company, I started January 1. 2002. I do consulting work. You can see more details on www.EnableIT.dk.
System-Administrator,
Telmore A/S www.Telmore.dk,
Telecommunications company - Internet based.

2005 2006 I started at Telmore as a consultant and got pursuaded into taking a part-time position as a Systems Administrator due to excellent co-workers, a challenging workload and a great work environment. I left after more than a 1½, as I had been busy in my consulting company the entire time and with the birth of my dauther, needed to cut down on my way too long work hours.
I, as a part of the Systemsadministrator team, was responsible for maintaining and securing the Unix platforms, incl. Mainly FreeBSD but also Linux and HP-UX hosts, HP EVA SANs, a secondary location, ipfw2 and pf firewalls and a Linux Virtual Director setup.
Mentor,
The SANS Institute www.SANS.org,
A worldwide, research and education organization.

2002 2002 I worked for SANS as a part of the Local Mentor program, where I meet in a classroom, with the people who take the GSEC certification over the Internet, and help them with what ever troubles or questions they have with the certification material.see Details on GSEC here. Unfortunately the Local Mentor program never took off in Denmark.
Security Consultant,
Defcom Security A/S www.defcom.dk,
Internet Security company

2002 2002 I was contracted as a part-time consultant, and did penetration tests and did security and system consulting.
IT-Coordinator,
Metropol Online A/S (formerly. Berlingske Online) www.metropol-online.dk,
Internetbased company
1998 2001 I was there from, before Metropol Online launched the first site developed and hosted by Metropol Online, until 2001 where Metropol Online hosted 20+ sites (incl. cnn.dk, bt.dk, berlingske.dk - see www.metropol-online.dk for the rest). Has among other experiences also implemented the company's LAN incl. mailservers, firewall, NT Domain servers, webservers for all 20+ sites, development and test servers etc. Job consisted of System Administration, Security Administration and IT-purchasing decisions(mainly server HW).

Substitute,
Premair A/S www.premiair.com,
Aerospace company

1994 1998 Worked here while studying. Pre-seated people on the planes, pre-seated people with special needs and some times entered tax-free orders into the computer.
Courses/Certifications Year Duration Supplemental information
HP-UX Systemsadministration course. 2006 3 day course. Course arranged by Kerfi
Linux firewall workshop. 1999 3 day course. Course arranged by DDE
DKUUG Security Course by Rik Farrow. 2000 2 day course. for details see:
http://www.spirit.com/bio.html
SANS GIAC Security Essentials Certification 2001 4 day course and afterwards certification over the internet. for details see:
here.
Hackers Insight & Techniques 2001 3 day course. Course arranged by Defcom DK.
Professional Experience Level at the time it was last used (low/high/expert) Last used Supplemental information
Antivirus programs Expert 2007 Implemented Norton Antivirus solution for email (Notes/Exchange) and User pc's. Have setup Clam-av and commercial Email-Virus scanning solutions for customers.
Apache Expert 2007 Incl. mod-perl/mod-php/mod-ssl/mod-ldap/mod-kerberos/mod-rewrite.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) Expert 2007 Has administered 150+ domains and 50 of them active. Also used Bind for many customer solutions.
Backup Expert 2007 Setup backup in several programs, incl. Veritas BackupExec for windows, Bacula(incl. Offsite backup to disk), and setup many TSM Clients and written surveilance scripts for these programs backupstatus.
Switch Technology High 2007 Configured Cisco and bay switches as part of server/company LAN. Maintained and expanded network with HP Procurve swithces.
C / C++ Low 2004 Learned while doing Advanced Computer Studies.
Cfengine High 2007 Have administered a Unix environment, with configurations handled by Cfengine and also worked extensively on the Cfengine ruleset.
CVS Server High 2001 Have administered one with pserver and ssh access.
Ethernet (TCP/UDP - IP) Expert 2006 Learned while doing Advanced Computer Studies,and have a lot of work experience. I have worked mostly with IPv4 - but have also done projects with IPv6.
Encryption High 2007 experience with hashes(in ids,passwd etc),gnupg, win-pgp and in regards to security concerns.
Firewall Expert 2007 Evaluated several firewalls and has administered Linux (ipchains/iptables), FreeBSD(ipfw2/pf) and router(Nortel/Cisco/Fortigate) firewalls.
FreeBSD High 2007 Have setup and administered many FreeBSD servers at Telmore.
Hardware High 2007 Have worked with IBM Intel servers, HP Proliant Servers and HP Blade Servers.
HP-UX High 2006 Have setup and administered several HP-UX servers at Telmore.
Imap server High 2006 Read my personal mail via Courier-imap, and have installed it for several costumers.
INN News server Low 2003 Ran my own newsserver for a closed group of individuals.
LAN / WAN / Network High 2007 Designed and implemented company LAN (with several network segments) and have administered,Optimized and found errors in ethernet LAN environments.
Linux Expert 2007 70% of my sysadmin experience is with Linux. I have expert experience with the Gentoo, Red Hat, SuSE/Novell and Debian distros.
Linux VPN-network High 2007 Has setup 2 Devil-linux/freeswan boxes in a VPN-tunnel as an ISDN-replacement and administered a box with VPN-tunnels to many different kinds of other VPN hardware.
Lotus Notes/Domino Low 2000 Has administered a single R4 and R5 server.
Mailservers Expert 2007 Mainly Postfix but also Sendmail and a little bit of qmail.
Microsoft IIS High 2007 Have experience with securing and security testing IIS servers.
see SANS GIAC Security Essentials certification.
MySQL High 2007 Used at several customers and use it privately.
Object Orientered Programming (OOP/OOAD) High 2004 learned this while doing advanced computer studies, and use it for my own PHP/Perl programs.
Oracle High 2007 worked with Oracle DBA and have done consultant jobs, where I converted PHP+MySQL specific code and SQL to PHP+Oracle 8i.
Pascal Low 1996 Learned while studying Informatics (Informatikassistent).
PHP High 2006 I use PHP primarily when maintaining or bugfixing assorted PostNuke modules.
PostGreSQL Low 2007 Use it for a few programs, incl. SQL-Ledger, to run my business.
Programming High 2007 Perl/PHP/Pascal/C/C++/Shell.
Rapid Prototyping Low 1998 Learned while doing advanced computer studies.
Routers Low 2007 Have administered Cisco 2600/Nortel AD3/Linux/FreeBSD/Fortigate.
Shell Scripts Expert 2007 Has written a lot of sysadmin scripts.
Perl High 2007 Has written several sysadmin scripts and integration between accounting and a shopsystem in perl.
Security Expert 2007 Experience with security on Linux/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Windows/Solaris servers, also see SANS GIAC Security Essentials Certification.
Software Development High 2004 Has learned this while doing Advanced Computer Studies,and has sparred with developers, for program stability and scalability in a production environment.
SUN Solaris Low 2001 Have administered in cooperation with skilled Solaris admin.
System administration Expert 2007 Has administered Several of Denmarks biggest sites,and company LANs.
System Monitoring Expert 2007 Has used Big Brother for many years and Nagios extensively at Telmore.
Squid High 2001 Have set up Squid as a reverse proxy for several sites.
Snort High 2002 Have designed and implemented a NIDS consisting of several snort sensors, with acid as the frontend.
Video/Audio Streaming Low 2001 Have setup and administered a Darwin RTSP (Quicktime) and a Miscosoft Windows Media MMS streaming server.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) Expert 2006 Implemented Cisco Concentrator 3005, Linux and FreeBSD based VPNs.
Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 High 2006 Have setup and administered NT and AD domains.
also see SANS GIAC Security Essentials certification.
XML and derivatives High 2007 Have experience with stresstesting and functionality assurance/testing of WSDL (SOAP) services.
End of Curriculum Vitae