Dwight A. Ernest

RHCE

101 Great Road #116, Bedford MA 01730 ; Email: dwighternest@gmail.com

Phone: +1.508.532.0650; US Citizen

SUMMARY

20+ years of Internet engineering (network and systems administration), network operations management, training, sales consulting, international business, and project management experience.

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a senior full-time or contract role in operations management, senior systems and/or network administration; or coordination and management of Internet peering and transit interconnections.

SKILLS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment and administration, expert, currently used, certified, 7 years experience.

Administration & deployment of other Unix variants, expert, currently used, 20 years experience

Cisco router configuration & management, intermediate, currently used, 12 years experience.

TCP/IP (fundamentals and advanced), expert, currently used, 14 years experience.

PERL (intermediate, 2 years) and UNIX Shell (expert, 16 years), currently used.

Sendmail, BIND 9 (DNS), SpamAssassin, etc., intermediate-expert, currently used, 4-14 years experience.

Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, etc., intermediate-expert, currently used, 6-10 years experience.

Network Planning and Design, expert, currently used, 9 years experience.

C programming language, intermediate, not currently used, 14 years experience.

EXPERIENCE

RNK Telecom

Director, IP Operations

4/2005 – present

Responsible for operation, design, and development of medium-sized (12 routers, 30+ switches), medium-volume (about 650mbps peak daily exchange with global Internet) multi-homed IP infrastructure in five sites. Cisco GSR 12008, 7609, 6509, 7507, 7206, 5300, 2600, etc. Manage small group of senior engineers and system administrators responsible for customer-facing Linux, BSD, and Windows infrastructure.

Most Significant Bit Consulting (dba)

Sole Proprietor, Linux and Network Engineering, Administration, and Training

2/1984 - present

Provided Internet and systems consulting and managed hosting to a wide variety of non-profits, including the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Dos Pueblos sister city project, and numerous others. Technology Used: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Intel platforms, Apache server 2.x, MySQL, Rsync, PHP 4.x, Cisco routers & IOS, PERL, Bourne/Korn shell, Sendmail, BIND 9.x, Amavisd virus and spam filtering, Squirrelmail, mod_ssl, mod_perl, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, SpamAssassin, etc.

RCN Corporation

Senior Manager, Test, Turn Up and Service Dispatch

9/2002 – 10/2003 South Boston, MA

Managed team of routing engineers responsible for Internet circuit test and turn up, with a secondary responsibility for field dispatch (of last resort, at the top of the escalation chain). Technology Used: Cisco routers (12xxx, 7xxx) & IOS, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint).

Senior Manager, Internet Interconnections

10/2000 - 9/2002 Marlboro, MA

Created new Internet peering relationships, enhanced existing Internet peering relationships, created and implemented plans for peering interconnections at strategically important peering points and through private interconnections. Improved customers' Internet experience and lowered costs by moving Internet traffic exchange from expensive transit. Technology used: Cisco routers (12xxx, 7xxx) & IOS, RedHat Linux, etc.

Director, Internet Implementation

1/1998 - 10/2000 Marlboro, MA

Directed the activities of an extensive staff of network implementation engineers. Built up a new Internet infrastructure. Tied several newly acquired companies together.

Ultranet, Inc.

Engineering Director

4/1997 - 1/1998 Marlboro, MA

Directed all of the engineering and operational activities of a mid-sized Internet service provider, including guiding it through a very complex acquisition by RCN.

Senior Network Manager

3/1996 - 4/1997 Marlboro, MA

Provided system and network administration, troubleshooting, design assistance, sales support, and senior customer support for a growing Internet service provider.

Network Engineer

4/1995 - 3/1996 Marlboro, MA

Provided system and network management in a high-pressure, understaffed startup Internet service provider.

Hyphen, Inc. (USA) and Hyphen plc (UK)

Senior Systems Consultant and Technical Closer

7/1992 - 4/1995 Andover, MA Hyphen, Inc. (USA)

Provided senior consulting sales support to a provider of high-end publishing systems. Customers included USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Des Moines Register, and many other first-class daily newspapers. Trained staff on network concepts and Sun system administration.

Senior Systems Consultant

4/1991 - 7/1992 Diss, Norfolk, England Hyphen, Ltd. (UK)

Provided senior consulting sales support to a provider of high-end publishing systems. Customers included The Economist, The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, and other first-class daily national newspapers. Trained staff on network concepts and Sun systems. Established private internet for The Economist.

The Independent Newspaper

Senior Systems Consultant

4/1989 - 4/1991 London, England

Provided senior level of systems consulting, programming (Sun/C), network planning, design, and implementation (TCP/IP) to a major new national daily newspaper in deadline-oriented environment. Technology used: Sun Microsystems servers and workstations.

Textcomputer Atex GmbH

Publishing Systems Installation and Applications Specialist

1/1987-4/1989 Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Evaluated, planned for, and implemented major publishing system installations at many newspaper properties throughout German-speaking Europe, including the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and at major publishing houses including Axel-Springer Verlag. Technology Used: Sun Microsystems servers and workstations, Atex PDP-11/34-based micros.

Additional work experience detail is available upon request

Substantial references are available upon request.

AFFILIATIONS

9/2001 - 10/2001 American Red Cross Disaster Volunteer, NYC

2/2000 - Present North American Network Operators Group Member

2/1998 - Present United States Internet Industry Association Member

2/1998 - Present Association of Online Professionals Member

2/1993 - Present Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Member

7/1990 - 8/1992 UK Internet Consortium Co-Founder & Director

3/1976 - Present American Radio Relay League Life Member (KA2CNN)

ACADEMIC

Red Hat Global Learning Services, January 2004: series of courses leading to successful completion of Red Hat Certified Engineer status, certificate number 803004293310030.

Amity Flight School, January 1997: Private Pilot, Airplane Single Engine Land (PP-ASEL); approx. 700 hours pilot-in-command.

Kent State University, 1973-1976, two years toward BA in Photojournalism

PRESENTATIONS GIVEN (see http://ernest-doss.org/~dwight/)

Windows Boston Server Users Group, February 2004: “The Internet Behind the Curtain: An Introduction to the Domain Name System”

Boston Network Users Group (BNUG), March 2004: “Advanced Topics in Linux System Administration”