Steven A. Elgersma, B.A.(Hons)
Email: [email protected]

Address
16 Hamilton Lakes Drive,
Hamilton, New Jersey, USA 08619
Home: (609) 439-4556

Education History

University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario)
1990-1995
Bachelor of Arts Specialized Honours (Co-op) in Computing and Information Science.
Graduated with honours.

Technical Proficiencies

Operating Systems
Linux (Slackware, CentOS, Ubuntu), Solaris, FreeBSD
Apple OS X, Windows XP
Network Appliance ONTAP
Hardware
SUN, PCs (Dell, SUN, generic), Macs
NetApp Filers
Server Administration
Web: Apache (up to v2.2.x) (mod_php (most extensions), mod_ssl, mod_auth_x)
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other:
DHCP, DNS, FTP, (S)IMAP, NFS, SNMP, SSH, SMB,
SMTP (exim, sendmail) Checkpoint Firewall-1/NG, M0n0wall
Web Development
PHP, HTML, Javascript (XML-HTTP/AJAX), CSS, XML, CGI
Languages
ANSI C, PERL, XML, PHP, Javascript, SQL, sed, awk, LaTeX
Networking
TCP/IP: 10/100/1000, 802.11a/b/g/n
Foundry, Cisco, Alcatel, 3Com, Intel, Linksys, D-Link, Apple

Experience

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
January, 1999 - Present
System Administrator (Infrastructure Operations Analyst/Manager I)
  • Maintain day-to-day operation of entire infrastructure (networks, services, operating systems, software packages).
  • Principle architect of web and database services for the department, as well as deployment and maintenance of software and servers.
  • Primary developer of web-based administration and automation tools.
  • Implemented database solution for web services back-ends, and for general faculty and student use.
    Notable Projects:
    • Developed user-managed, remote-access CVS server and repository manager for department use.
    • schema design of first phase of data warehouse project
    • web-based virtual webserver log analyser

ACC TelEnterprises (Toronto, Ontario)
January, 1997 - December, 1998
System Administrator, Internet Operations (SAGE Ranking: Intermediate)
  • Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the various servers which comprised the ISP, including 24x7 on-call support.
  • Primary areas of responsibility were WWW, FTP and caching-related services, as well as databases and backups.
  • Responsible for the evaluation of new products.
  • Received President's Award, 1st Quarter, 1997 for outstanding work related to restoring service after a catastrophic outage.
  • From Aug to Dec 1998, shifted gears to become a consultant to the Internet Operations group. This entailed less day-to-day administration and more review, design and implementation, with an emphasis on system design.

ButtonDown Digital (Guelph, Ontario)
August, 1995 - January, 1997
New Technologies Research
  • A start-up specializing in organizing and presenting client information tailored to specific needs, usually web-based.
  • Primarily concerned with researching new technologies, web and database design, I was one of three principles which founded the company.
  • Work focused on the then-fledgling World Wide Web, educational multimedia, custom programming, and database design for clients, including Bell Canada and Northern Telecom.

Associations/Memberships

  • The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Member since 1998)
  • IEEE Computer Society (Member since 1998)
  • The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) (Member since 1998)
  • The USENIX Association (Member since 1998)

References

Available Upon Request

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveelgersma