Steven A. Elgersma, B.A.(Hons)
Email: steve@a440.org

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 (0.99-2.6.x), Solaris (2.5-2.10), FreeBSD (3.0-5.0)
Apple OS X, Windows XP, HP-UX (9.01-11.0), IRIX (6.2-6.5.x)
Network Appliance ONTAP
Hardware
SUN, PCs (Dell, SUN, generic), SGI, HPs
Network Appliance Filers
Server Administration
Web: Apache (up to v2.2.x) (mod_php (most extensions), mod_ssl, mod_auth_x)
Database: MySQL (up to v5.1.x), PostgreSQL (7-8.x)
Other:
DHCP, DNS, FTP, (S)IMAP, NFS, SNMP, SSH, SMB,
SMTP (exim, sendmail), Squid (Web cache), Checkpoint Firewall-1/NG, M0n0wall, Smoothwall
Web Development
PHP, HTML, Javascript (XML-HTTP/AJAX), CSS, XML, CGI
Languages
ANSI C, PERL 5, HTML (1.0-4.x), XML, PHP(3,4,5), Javascript (1.0-1.6), SQL, sed, awk, LaTeX
Networking
TCP/IP: 10/100/1000, 802.11a/b/g/n
Foundry, Cisco, Alcatel, 3Com, Intel, Linksys, D-Link

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.
  • Developed user-managed, remote-access CVS server for department use.

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.

University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario)
June, 1996
Instructor
  • Office of Open Learning Certificate Course in Technology and the Animal Breeding Industry
  • Instructed two sessions on the use and benefits of the World Wide Web.

Animal & Poultry Science, University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario)
April-December, 1992; May, 1993-October, 1996
Assistant System Administrator (SAGE Ranking: Junior)
  • A combination of full-time co-op work terms and part-time contracts while an undergraduate student, this job included many aspects of computing in an academic environment.
  • Initially doing PC support and Novell LAN administration, I was made responsible for 6 HP UNIX machines, including support and troubleshooting.
  • Other aspects of the job included programming in C and PERL for system admin tasks, hardware maintenance, updates to the various servers (WWW, FTP, etc), as well as web document creation.
  • As a result of running the first public web server on campus, I was appointed to the University's WWW Steering Committee, was one of the University's first webmasters, and designed the first home page.

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