Miles Nordin

email: carton@Ivy.NET
cel: +1 212 810-6283
fax (jfax): +1 419 715-0217

Address:
114 Forrest St Apt 3A
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Objective

I wish to find a permanent position that develops my diverse skills as a network administrator.

Experience

Employer Date Current title
Job description
Transcore
920 Line St.
Easton, PA
present
2002-09-15
Networking consultant
  • Propose, purchase, install, and support production road-warrior VPN based on PIX and the OpenSCEP certificate authority package that I maintain. Build this into a standard kit that can quickly install at customer sites.
  • Thought leadership role in migration of 30+ site switched microwave WAN in Philippines to a routed, leased line system
  • Reconfigure 24/7 call center's production network PIX for B2B leased line to JPM Chase. Add TACACS+ control of outside web access. Set up routing and static mappings for VoIP system.
  • Practice good configuration management to effectively support this 24/7 call center with extremely tight maintenance windows.
  • Install ISDN WAN link to customer site
  • Design switched network for a real-time digital video system that requires zero-packet-loss
Internet Area Networks
Red Hook, Brooklyn
2005-01-12 Consultant
  • Fix site-to-site VPN based on PIX and Netopias in hub-and-spoke configuration used by a VoIP system.
Transcore
Manila, Philippines
2001-04-30
2000-08-28
Consultant
  • support high-stakes contract acceptance test during the popular overthrow of President Estrada.
  • diagnose arp problems with an HA cluster
Evolving Systems
DTC
Denver, CO
1997-08-20
1997-04-01
System Administrator II
  • HPUX and Solaris sysadmin for two telco infrastructure developer teams.
Willows Software
Saratoga, CA
1997-02-26
1996-08-01
Sysadmin
  • Support Unix, PeeCee, Mac, embedded developers with a unified sccs repository. Centralized file and printer sharing for Unix, PeeCee, Mac software developers over IP and Appletalk. Centralized backups. Maintain access lists on Livingson router.
PSU Office of
Telecommunication

Univ. Park, PA
1995-12-15
1995-01-01
Assistant Hostmaster
  • maintain psu.edu zone files. support and educate other sysadmins about the DNS.

Skill

Skill Summary
Details
VPN Cisco VPNs with certificates
  • BSD package maintainer of OpenSCEP: free software that lets Cisco PIX and IOS devices interoperate with an OpenSSL certificate authority.
  • Road warriors: PIX and Unity client. NAT traversal. In my system, I make individual certificates for each road warrior.
  • site-to-site: PIX interoperating with Netopia
Firewall PIX and IOS
  • PIX with three or more interfaces, static mappings and access-groups. AAA with TACACS+.
  • IOS extended access lists
Routing Set up a small production AS
  • OSPFv2 (IPv4) and OSPFv3 (IPv6) over physical links and GRE tunnels
  • Experimental OSPF configuration for a specific mobility application on a laptop
  • BGP initial configuration and route-map setup for a small private AS (BGPv4 IPv4 and IPv6)
  • IOS dial-on-demand
Switching Standard Cisco managed switch skills
  • 802.1q VLANs.
  • I spoke at a technical conference on RSTP 802.1w/d
  • Implemented an arp-free forwarding plane with BSD for a conference to make arp poisoning more difficult.
  • Interoperability between Cisco, Lucent, Foundry, SMC managed switches and BSD
  • Track down and fix duplex mismatch problems
WAN All phases of WAN deployment
  • shopping, provisioning, troubleshooting T1 and ISDN
  • Both as B2B leased line and as Internet access (business-to-ISP)
DNS DNS admin since 1995
  • BIND 9 with IPv4 and IPv6 zones
  • use the two clients 'nsupdate' and 'dhcpd' to perform TSIG BIND 9 dymaic updates
non-Cisco experimental systems and understanding of wire protocols
  • I reviewed pre-publication copy of Fernando Gont's ICMP attacks against TCP Internet-Draft and suggested the ``Initial PMTU Discovery'' phase and corresponding maxsizeacked variable.
  • PF and ipfilter firewalls. Write and maintain complicated systems with several hundred rules.
  • Quagga, an OSPF and BGP routing daemon for BSD. IPv4 and IPv6. Quagga interoperating with Cisco. Quagga bug-fixing.
  • ALTQ QoS
  • Appletalk routing using netatalk

Affiliations and certifications

CCNA (valid)

UNIGROUP member. OCCAID member since 2004

Industry mailing lists (Quagga, Son-of-IKE, FreeBSD, NetBSD, pkgsrc-wip)

Speaker at Metarheinmain Chaosdays 101b conference in Darmstadt, Germany (September 2006). Topic: Comparison of WAN Interior Gateway Protocols.

Education

Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1994 - 1996.

Computer Science and MCD Biology, University of Colorado, 1997 - 2000.

Interests, References

Contact me for the telephone numbers of references. Other resume formats are at http://web.Ivy.NET/carton/cisco/resume/