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I share responsibility for engineering our Enterasys network and maintaining the security of network and systems. I also provide backup to our Wintel server administrator. While our core Internet services are managed by our Solaris administrators, I am involved in the team determining the use and maintenance of DNS, DHCP, email, spam-filtering, antivirus, and all the systems that make a network useable and secure. I am a principal respondent on our network abuse hotline.

We use Procera's Packetlogic to manage our Internet bandwidth, and Cisco Clean Access (nee Perfigo) to provide authenticated client access to our network. Those systems are my responsibility, from installation to configuration. Should misbehaving systems appear on our campus network, we use Enterasys’ Netsight Atlas Console and Policy Manager to locate and control their ability to do harm. I am part of the supervisory team planning and overseeing the implementation of wired and wireless networking on campus and negotiating with providers for our WAN access. I supervise student and professional staff in this work.

I have maintained and upgraded Novell servers from version 4.1 through 5.1 to 6.0 and now we run a Netware 6.5 clustered environment. Windows servers are used at the College in an application-specific manner, we do not run Active Directory in any non-trivial manner. Citrix terminal servers provide access to Windows applications to our Macintosh clients where necessary.

I serve on the technology advisory committee for the Oberlin schools, was active in school levy campaigns, and am active elsewhere within the College and within the community.

While I can't really call myself a developer, I have spent many hours building computer applications ranging from complex database designs (using DataEase and similar relational packages) and accounting systems to instructional programs bordering on multimedia presentations. The last few projects have used Visual Basic, but I have also used Asymetrix Toolbook, CA-Realizer, and Visual C++/Quick C for Windows systems. Now I'm expanding into Perl and SQL. In the past, I've had great experience with BASIC and Fortran, and am familiar with several batch and macro languages, a bit of assembler, and even Cobol. I've spent even more time supporting applications, commercial and my own.

My software expertise extends through all the office suites and common applications, i.e. word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc., through graphics editors, publishing, and presentation software to computer-aided drafting and design work. I began writing this series of pages using Notepad, but have graduated to HTML editors of various sorts (I'm using Dreamweaver at the moment). The tricky bits involving frames and cascading style sheets still benefit from tweaking with Notepad! I am equally facile with Windows and Macintosh platforms, with some mainframe and Unix experience.

It's been many miles from my graduate training, but I remain a geologist trained in field and analytical techniques useful in solving paleontological problems. In the technical field, I have operated and interpreted the results from scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, and x-ray diffractometry equipment, in addition to the usual range of mechanical and chemical laboratory techniques. While I don't have many of these instruments in the home laboratory, most paleontological work can be done with a modest microscope and more crude tools, which I still get to play with from time to time.