Paul Henson
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OBJECTIVES

System/network administration, research/development in areas of networking, software, and WWW.
Continue education in pursuit of Masters degree in Computer Science.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Platforms
Sun SPARC, DEC VAX, DEC Alpha, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, Intel x86, Apple Macintosh

Languages
Ada, Assembly, C, C++, FORTRAN, LISP, Java, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, Unix shell scripts

Operating Systems
Unix (Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Linux, FreeBSD, Digital UNIX), VMS, MacOS, DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT

Networking Hardware/Protocols
Ethernet, ATM, FDDI, ISDN, TCP/IP, PPP, SLIP, Appletalk, repeaters, bridges, switches, routers

Internet Services/Protocols
NFS, NIS/NIS+, OSF DCE/DFS, LPD, DNS, NTP, WWW servers (Apache, NCSA, CERN, Netscape)/ proxies (CERN, Netscape)/ browsers (Mosaic, Netscape, HotJava), HTTP, HTML, FTP servers, CGI/HTML forms, NNTP (Usenet News), SMTP (sendmail), POP/IMAP, MIME

GUI Development
X Window System, Motif, Java AWT, MS Windows

WORK EXPERIENCE

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assistant Systems Software Specialist, Computing Resource Center (5/96-present)
System and network administration / software engineering and development for the Cal Poly Pomona Intranet Project. Installation/configuration/maintenance of Digital UNIX 4.0 on DEC Alpha workstations and Solaris 2.5 on Sun SPARC workstations. Design, implementation, and maintainence of the Cal Poly Pomona DCE/DFS cell. Implementation of a DCE authentication module for the Apache web server to allow secure access to the DFS filesystem including respecting DFS ACL protection. Developed suite of CGI programs to simplify DCE/DFS administration. Integrated DCE authentication into the Columbia Appletalk Server, allowing Macintosh workstations to mount DFS using native protocols and full DCE credentials. Integrated DCE authentication into Qualcom's POP server, allowing delivery and retrieval of mail from DFS.
Assisted in administration of other University servers, including the campus WWW and news server. Closely monitored security issues and retrieved patches and upgrades as needed. Introduced the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to the campus and helped establish three local NTP servers.
Temporary assignment administrating the CS Department SPARC Lab, consisting of 35 Sun SPARC 20 workstations. Installation and configuration of Solaris 2.5 operating system including networked Jumpstart installation procedure, NIS+, NFS/cachefs, secondary DNS server, sendmail (SMTP) configuration, Apache WWW server, and CDE graphical user environment. Developed CGI based interface to user administration allowing easy access without system administrator involvement.

Hughes Aircraft Company
Software Engineer/System Administrator (5/95-10/96)
Administration of research/development lab consisting of Sun SPARC workstations running both SunOS and Solaris, PC compatibles running DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Windows NT, and Macintosh systems. Configuration/maintainence of NIS, NFS, and DNS. Installation/configuration of WWW (HTTP) servers/proxy servers, NNTP (News) servers, FTP servers, SMTP servers, majordomo (listserv) configuration.
Developed CGI interface with database backend for automated proxy registration process.
Installed and configured the Harvest search engine to index documents available via WWW servers.
Provided system administration support for Highway 407 project (automated toll road collection in Canada). Installation/configuration of AIX 3.2.5 and 4.1.4 on IBM RS/6000s. Assisted in configuration of ATM/ethernet/FDDI network.
Supported ECC RAAP (Rapid Application of Air Power) project, which involved porting C code from SunOS to Solaris, utilization of X/Motif toolkits, and configuration of Sybase SQL servers.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Software Engineer/System Administrator (1/94-5/95)
Administration/maintainance of a heterogeneous network of Sun SPARC workstations, IBM PCs, and Macintosh computers. Responsible for configuration of physical ethernet network, distributed NIS, NFS, and DNS. Provided technical support for end user engineers. Installed and configured WWW server for group. Assisted in team development of software simulations of deep space transceiver hardware using C and a SPARC based simulation development tool, SPW. Responsibilities included implementation of transceiver coding algorithms such as Reed-Solomon and Convolutional. Developed graphical user interface for software simulations using C++ and Motif.

EDUCATION

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
M.S. in Computer Science, expected Fall 1998.
GPA: 4.0

B.S. in Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude), August 1995.
Dean's List 91-95 / President's List 93-95
GPA (major, overall): 3.97, 3.65