Background

I work as a private-sector engineering contractor at NIH managing a server and network environment for the High Performance Computing and Informatics Office, which is part of the Center for Information Technology. My primary specialty is the deployment and management of Linux servers, management of high-end storage devices, and ensuring the data security of the development and production systems, which is particularly critical since we work with patient data. The scientists I work with develop powerful and resource-intensive custom software for use by doctors and researchers across NIH, researching bioinformatics developments like gene pattern matching, genetic image reconstruction, and more.

Before my current work I spent several years with ServInt, a commercial Internet services provider based in northern Virginia, where my work as a managing director centered largely on operations and logistical management. Prior to that I worked as a systems administrator and managed a network operations call center.

Content coming soon:

An experiment in building and deploying a blade-based Windows Server 2003 cluster

Deploying WebDAV with PAM and Winbind for AD auth and Apache control: A recipe

Basic, sensible computer practices for home and small office users

A collection and trend analysis of Nigerian scam e-mails

Connecting Tomcat 5 and Apache 2 using mod_jk2 on Red Hat Linux 9

Building Apache 2 to work with Netegrity's Siteminder WebAgent 6.0

A study of a crack into a Solaris system environment

Building a MAME cabinet from scratch (a photojournal of the project)

 

     

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