Ethan Benson
P.O. Box 770525
Eagle River, AK 99577
phone: (907) 694-8015
email: erbenson@alaska.net
OBJECTIVE
My goal is a challenging position as a GNU/Linux System Administrator
where skills in troubleshooting and problem solving, researching
and applying information and learning new things quickly would be
assets.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Easily learned and mastered different computer operating
systems including GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, Digital Unix.
- Analyzed, recompiled and maintained new software services
including e-mail (SMTP/POP3), Secure Shell (SSH), Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP),
and File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
- Successfully researched, evaluated and implemented
solutions to computer hardware and software problems.
- Effectively maintained system security and solved problems
with special attention to details.
- Performed System Administration duties for a community maintained web site.
- Administered user login accounts, disk quotas, resource limits, and permissions.
- Maintained and monitored server access logs on a continuing basis.
- Monitored and installed software and security updates.
- Reconfigured and recompiled the Linux kernel to improve speed
and efficiency.
- Implemented effective and automated data backup procedures.
- Wrote and debugged shell scripts to increase efficiency of PC
operations.
- Successfully modified and improved existing software.
- Tested Macintosh software and provided quality assurance for
Highware (a Belgian software company) and wrote "bug" reports.
- Assist in development and maintenance of a community web site.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
System Administrator, PenguinPPC (Linux developers), Freemont, California 2001 - present
System Administrator, Spectrum Wireless, Anchorage, Alaska 2000
Quality Assurance, Highware, Brussels, Belgium 1995 - 2000
Intern, Polaris School, Anchorage, Alaska 1995 - 1998
EDUCATION
University of Alaska Anchorage, computer course work 1999
High School Diploma, Polaris School, Anchorage, Alaska 1998