Andrew Cowell
Knoxville, TN 
Phone: (865) 671-2627
Cell: (865) 804-3082
E-mail: andy@cowell.org

Objective

To utilize my UNIX and networking experience as a independant
contractor solving Internet-related business challenges.

Skills

* Networking: Most Cisco routers, switches and firewalls including
  FWSM, CatOS, IOS; Juniper JUNOS, Netscreen firewalls; Cisco CSS, GSS
  load balancers; F5 Big-IP LTM, GTM load balancers; TCP/IP and
  associated protocols; EIGRP, OSPF; BGP; MPLS, MBGP; SNMP;
  point-to-point ISDN, T1, DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, metro Ethernet; PRI and
  analog dialup; Adtran Opti-3 MUX; Lucent PM2, PM3, Max 4000

* UNIX: Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX; PERL, Python; WWW, apache, HTML,
  CGI; E-mail, sendmail, POP; DNS, bind; C; Bourne shell scripting
  including sed, awk, and so forth; UNIX/Network security; Radius,
  TACACS; Nagios, Cactus, Cricket, MTRG, Statseeker; Wireshark,
  Ethereal, tcpdump; USENET News, INN; NFS; telnet; ftp; ssh.

Experience

E.W. Scripps Company (http://www.scripps.com/), October 2000-June 2008
Scripps Networks (http://www.scrippsnetworks.com/), July 2008-present
Senior Network Administrator/Network Administrator III-IV

* Maintenance and senior network architect of Scripps Web Hosting
  Services data center network, with over 2,000 websites generating
  over 1,000,000 hits a day.

* Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a global
  load balancing architecture for some of the largest consumer sites
  on the Internet, such as FoodNetwork.com and HGTV.com.  This was
  implemented using Cisco Content Services Switch 11503s for local load
  balancing and Cisco Global Site Selector 4480s for global DNS load
  balancing.  The architecture has run successfully for over six years.

* Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the next
  generation load balancing architecture utilizing F5 Big-IP Local
  Traffic Managers for local load balancing and F5 Big-IP Global
  Traffic Managers for global DNS load balancing.  This project is
  currently in the implementation stage.

* Helped design and maintain the Scripps WAN of over 30 remote sites.
  WAN was established as a multi-vendor Frame Relay network,
  transitioned to a multi-vendor ATM network and finally a
  multi-vendor MPLS VPN network.

* Designed and implemented expansion of network to redundant data
  center, including establishing initial BGP configuration to multiple
  DS-3, OC-3 and OC-12 upstream providers.

* Designed and implemented MBGP/MPLS VPN network between facilities to
  segregate traffic of differing security requirements.

* Designed, installed and maintained multiple Juniper Netscreens and
  Cisco PIXs and Firewall Services Modules.

* Assisted other technical groups with server configuration, general
  architecture and protocol issues.  Assisted in high-end and last
  resort troubleshooting of issues across entire company and
  properties.

* Created custom scripts in a variety of languages, usually Perl or
  Bourne Shell, for a variety of purposes.  Expanded and debugged
  existing and third party scripts and compiled software.

* Installed and maintained a variety of monitoring and alerting
  software such as MRTG, Cricket and Nagios.

DURO Communications (http://www.durocom.com/), June 1999-October 2000
Senior Systems Administrator
* Following ICX Online merger with DURO Communications, assumed
  leadership of DURO's Unix group reporting directly to the
  CTO. During that time, DURO controlled over 40 ISPs throughout the
  Southeast US, with over 300,000 subscribers.
* Lead the integration of all UNIX servers into a regional ATM
  network, onto highly-available Solaris clusters in CO quality data
  centers.
* Responsible for the daily administration of existing UNIX servers at
  all acquisitions.  These consisted of Solaris, Linux, BSD, Digital
  UNIX and others.  Directly responsible for well over 100 machines
  inherited in various conditions, typically running sendmail, bind
  and apache.
* Directly managed a staff of 5-9 Unix Administrators, located both
  locally and remotely, including both permanent and contracted
  employees.
* Directed response to incidents related to UNIX servers such as
  service outages or security breaches.
* Permanently oncall for UNIX incidents escalated from oncall
  technician.

ICX Online (http://www.icx.net/), October 1996-June 1999
Senior Network Administrator
* Primary network/Unix administrator for a regional ISP, growing from
  300 to over 8,000 subscribers.
* Responsible for daily administration of several Digital UNIX Alpha
  and some Linux servers running a variety of services.
* Responsible for installing and maintaining Livingston pm2, pm3 and
  Ascend Max dial-up gear.
* Responsible for installing and maintaining Cisco routers, including
  internal OSPF routing on a redundant WAN network, and multiple BGP
  uplinks.
* Initially responsible for customer installs of routed connections,
  both dedicated and dial-up, including ISDN and T-1 connections.
* Helped develop PERL based service provisioning software for
  automated customer addition.

University of Tennessee, CS Department (http://www.cs.utk.edu/), 1993-1996
Graduate Student Administrator
* Responsible for daily administration of a diverse network of over
  170 servers, mostly SunOS but including Solaris, AIX, HPUX, OSF/1,
  and others.
* Administrated and maintained department web servers.  Created
  department pages, CGI software and support scripts.
* Organized backups and backup software, and managed 3 person staff.

Rhodes College (http://www.rhodes.edu/), 1991-1993
Student Administrator
* Maintained and regulated a network of twelve Sun workstations.
* Aided student and faculty users.

Education

BS Math/Computer Science, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN