To recruiters, please read this: I know you have an interesting offer, but

1. I'm not commuting to San Francisco. Traffic sucks, parking sucks, your car gets keyed or broken into, and if you take a shared bus you end up in "go away richie" protest. Yes, there are some nice restaurants, I go there on occasion for that, but just for that.
2. I'm definitely not moving to San Francisco either or elsewhere.
3. If your company is on the list of those who sue others about patents (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and others), I'm sorry that you have to recruit for them. and understand that I'll never work for them on principle.
4. More money won't really change this, sorry (ok, that's not entirely true, everyone has a price, I do too, but it's probably more than you were hoping to pay).
5. More generally, I just switched to 50% time to enjoy time more and really don't need a full time job elsewhere, sorry.
6. I know you'd like me to refer my friends, but honestly I don't want to bother them and most recruiters would want me to do their job for free and then keep the entire fee for the search even if I found them someone and did the job (a few offered a cut, which was at least appreciated). That said, it's not a money issue, I just have too many other things to do with my time.

OBJECTIVE: None: currently happily employed at Google (recruiters, no need to call)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sept 2002-Present

Employed as Senior Linux Server Admin at Google

July 2002-Sept 2002

Employed as Senior Linux Server and Network Admin at Intransa (two month contract to redesign the engineering network and help the company move)

May 2001-July 2002

Employed as Senior Linux Server Admin and Technical Lead at VA Software: I rebuilt the whole linux infrastructure from the ground up, and designed a centrally maintained and rolled out distribution based on Debian Linux. Among my many other duties (see computer experience), I designed and rebuilt the mail infrastructure for sourceforge.net (1 million emails/day)

Sept 1997-May 2001

Working as a Network administrator/Unix Sysadmin at Taos.
Here are the assignments I've had so far (reverse chronogical order):

• VA Software (aka VA Linux/VA Research). IT support for the engineering group (linux sysadmin/networking).
• Silicon Graphics. Unix sysadmin, Desktop support, Configuration and Maintenance of high end servers
• Datamain (General unix system administration, advanced linux configuration (masquerading and port forwarding with development kernels), networking).
• Network Appliance (redesigned the backend of the Netapp On the Web site, by mirroring a Sybase database behind a firewall in Berkeley NewDB files using OOP Perl). Also did some sysadmin work and Linux tech support.

Jan-June 1997

Worked at Metawire while worked part time while going graduate level studies at USC/ISI in Los Angeles.

June-Dec 1996

Seven month internship in Unix and Network administration at Metawire in Hollywood Center Studios. In short, I installed and configured Unix systems (Solaris, SGI, AIX, AUX, Linux); found, identified, and fixed problems (network jams, old daemons, memory or disk space problems); created custom solutions for clients (mail via UUCP over TCP); configured and installed routers; and did customer support

June-Sept 1995

Three month Internship in Unix administration in Paris: built a Web server from scratch (from building a PC, installation, setting up and administration of Linux, to Perl programming for CGI scripts). Did network administration and built a firewall for the local network.

March-June 1995

Freelance programming for Applix France in the Paris area (an ELF program for a publishing company that generates their weekly ads journal automatically by using data entered on remote terminals over the phone).

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

(what's below was written before 2002, as a result you should notice that most things in there are quite outdated, and I'm just not keeping it up to date, sorry)

• Linux: Inside-out knowledge of Linux (especially Debian and Redhat distributions)
• Unix: From in-depth to some Unix administration experience on Irix 5.x/6.x, AIX 4.1, SunOs 4.1.4, Solaris 2.x.
• Email: Excellent knowledge of Email with Exim 4, Exim 3, and Mailman (all of which I contributed code to)
  In Depth knowledge of mail protocols like SMTP, POP, and IMAP.
• Unix tools: Good knowledge of Unix and its administration (DNS/BIND, SENDMAIL, INN 2.x, Taylor UUCP (UUCP over TCP, mail and news), mailing lists (bidirectional mailing list to news gatewaying), multihoming (non IP intensive http multihosting, sendmail and ftp multihosting), SSH, NIS, NFS, PPP, DHCP, Samba, Socks...)
• Webmaster: Apache, Squid caching, CGI scripts, HTML...
• Networking: Very good knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, firewalling, and overall network security
• Security: Good knowledge of security, from securing against buffer overflows and other attacks with grsecurity, to network monitoring with snort, and log checking with logcheck (wrote 500+ custom rules).
  Setup of SSH/OPIE and SFS for secure remote logins and file sharing.
  Designed and wrote VPN authentication scheme with one time passwords
• Routing: Advanced routing on linux, basic knowledge of Cisco routers, Ascend ISDN routers (from pipeline 25 to Max 4000), Annex terminal adapters, and Retix routers.
• NAS: Good knowledge of Network Appliance filers (NTAP 1 and 2 certified)
• Programming: Good knowledge of RCS/CVS, GNU Makefiles, C, Unix system programming, Unix shell programming (Bash) and advanced knowledge of PERL 4 and PERL 5.
  Basic knowledge of C++, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, ASM 68k & 68HC11.
• Backups: Sitewide backup implementation with amanda (including custom local patches)
• Creation of and participation to many Open Source projects
• Gave linux talks on Unix passwords and DNS/DHCP/YP generation from a single host file
• DOS and Windows 3.1x/9x knowledge (learned at a time when I didn't know any better ). Fairly good understanding of Netbios, Wins, and SMB file sharing
  Basic Macintosh knowledge.

EDUCATION:

1997	A semester of studies for my masters degree at USC
1993-1997	Top graduating student in computer science at EFREI (French school of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science; leading private five-year French engineering school)
1992-1993	Mathématique Supérieure (Mathematics & Physics preparation studies for top students; mandatory for many engineering schools)
1991-1992	Top ten graduating Senior in Pacific High School, Pacific, Missouri, as an exchange student

LANGUAGES

• Native French Speaker
• Bilingual in English
• Some knowledge of Japanese, Dutch, and German.

• Contributor to Linux Journal's best of technical support section
• Vice President and President of the Silicon Valley Linux User Group
• Typing faster than most kung-fu masters, skateboarding better than most hockey players, and programming better than Einstein, my cat, and my mom

2002/07/10 (11:23): Version 6.0: big updates
2002/07/11 (09:55): Version 6.1: minor updates and tweaks
2002/10/25 (08:52): Version 6.2: Added info on Intransa and Google