Andrew E. B. Cowell
8627 Kingsridge Drive
Knoxville, TN  37923
Phone: (865) 693-2627
E-mail: andy@cowell.org

Objective

To excel as an independant contractor solving Internet-related
business challenges.

Skills

* UNIX: Solaris, Digital UNIX, Linux; PERL; WWW, apache, HTML, CGI;
  E-mail, sendmail, POP; DNS, bind 4.x and 8.x; C; Bourne shell
  scripting including sed, awk, and so forth; UNIX/Network security;
  Radius; USENET News, INN; SNMP; NFS; telnet; ftp; ssh.

* Networking: Cisco 1003-7500 and Cisco IOS; Juniper JUNOS; Lucent
  PM2, PM3, Max 4000; TCP/IP; OSPF; BGP; point-to-point ISDN, T1,
  DS-3 and OC-3; PRI and analog dialup.

Experience

E.W. Scripps Company (http://www.scripps.com/), October 2000-present
Senior Network Administrator
* Maintenance of E.W. Scripps Web Hosting Services data center
  network, with over 2,000 websites generating over 1,000,000 hits a
  day.
* Design and implement extension of current network to redundant data
  center, including establishing initial BGP configuration to multiple
  DS-3 and OC-3 upstream providers.

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
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