| location: |
| Columbus, OH, USA
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| site: |
| JPMorgan Chase |
| servers: |
| 10,000+ |
| workstations: |
| No idea; not my area, thousands I would imagine.
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| sysadmins on staff: |
| Hundreds. My immediate team is twelve.
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| site overview: |
|
JPMorgan Chase is a global financial entity with operations
worldwide. My team engineers custom Solaris, AIX, and Linux standard
builds for the Infrastructure, and the supporting Jumpstart, NIM, and
Kickstart infrastructure for deploying the builds. We also certify and
deploy all *nix patches and provide third level engineering support to
the UNIX Engineering teams.
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| job title: |
| Distributed Computing Engineer II |
| time at this job: |
| 2 years on this team, 4 1/2 at the Bank.
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| | |
| years as a sysadmin: |
| Seven, going on eight.
|
| first computer: |
|
Windows 95 machine my roommate provided so I'd quite hogging his to play
Doom. Would come home and find it in pieces and would have to put it back
together in order to play.
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| first OS: |
| Windows 95 |
| favorite OS: |
|
Not sure I have a favorite. I use Solaris, AIX, Linux, and FreeBSD for
various purposes. They all give me various headaches, they all do what I
need.
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| first computer with root/administrator access: |
|
Don't think I should say. It helped getting first systems support job that
I had called the SysAdmin and let him know they were vulnerable to the
old phf exploit.
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| first programming language: |
| C |
| favorite programming language: |
| C |
| most often used programming language: |
| C |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
|
Working for a DoD contractor preping for Y2k. Migrated multiple
Honeywell miniframes to SCO UNIX on ALR racks.
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| ideal sysadmin job: |
|
Somewhere that will let me automate myself out of a job.
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| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| cfengine |
| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| dtrace |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| CVS/Subversion |
| education: |
| High School. Self taught UNIX with lot's of mentoring.
|
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
| A detective or Special Forces operator.
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| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| A detective or Special Forces operator. =]
|
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”, I say: |
|
They pretty much don't. If it's my family, I sigh silently and fix
whatever it is. Most of my friends know my aversion to windows and
don't ask. When they do, I know they really are SOL and fix it.
Usually with lots of mumbled comments regarding their choise of OS.
|
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
“I'm a computer geek.”
|
| system administration is ...: |
|
The implemention, and development if necessary, of standards, policy
and processes to ensure the ongoing integrity, viability, and efficient
operation of the Computing Infrastructure for which one is responsible.
|
| advice to a junior admin: |
- Do the Right Thing.
- Learn the fundementals.
- Write everything down.
- Don't get married to ideas or solutions, there's always a better way.
- Do the Right Thing. ( bears repeating don't you think?)
|
| advice to a senior admin: |
- Mentor Jr. Admins.
- Do the Right Thing.
|
| | |
| favorite food/cuisine: |
|
Italian. Whatever, as long as it's got a cheese sauce, and a lotta
parmigiano reggio.
|
| pizza topping: |
| Pepperoni |
| work music: |
|
Depends, George Acosta/Darude when in a good mood, Louie Prima, Sinatra,
Dean Martin when I'm in the mood to throttle people.
|
| crisis music: |
|
Beatles, Yellow Submarine. When stressed, I find myself humming it.
Yes, that's a little strange.
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| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| Teammates. If they're not around, coffee. |
| hobby/other job: |
|
What exactly is a hobby? =]
But seriously folks, one of these days I hope to get back into rock
climbing and repelling.
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| | |
| my office is: |
A cubicle. In the
middle of a cubicle farm.
|
| co-workers say my desk is: |
A radiation hazard. (See above)
What you can't see is the third display to my right, the Sun e250 and IBM x335 under my desk, and the printer jammed into a filing cabinet drawer.
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| learned the most from: |
| The first Admin I worked for, Dave Kendell-Sperry. Unless of course you mean in general, in which case, my mother. |
| wish list: |
Oh my...
A decent Sun, IBM, RH or CentOS, and XP workstation at work, with
dedicated screens for each, two for the XP box. A laptop for work that
doesn't puke all the time.
At home...
I'm not sure there's room to list. Let's just say I doubt my neigborhood
or wallet could support the electrical demand I'd require to support my
wish list.
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| daily web sites: |
|
|
| Is the Sarbannes-Oxley Act (“SOX”)
good for system administration? |
|
Haven't really been impacted by it, and frankly haven't done the
research to see what it means to me. Being a big believer in standards
and policy, SOX, at a quick glance, seems to facilitate that. However I
really must admit my ignorance in this area. (Guess I know what I'll be
reading up on this weekend)
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| editor: |
| vim |
| mail user agent: |
| Outlook at Home, Lotus Notes at work. |
| web browser: |
| IE at Work, Firefox at home. |
| gui or cli: |
|
cli for Admin/Engineering, GUI for gaming and stuff I can't get in a
cli.
|
| computers at home: |
| Six. Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, Windows... |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
|
A 2.4 Ghz, 1GB RAM running XP. This is going to change in about a
month. New workstation running CentOS for all daily needs, relagating
the XP box for just Counter-Strike (gaming). I've had it with MS, I
won't suffer it on my network much longer.
|
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
|
A KayPro II that I've never touched. Passed on to me from another geeks'
garage clearing attempt.
|
| anything else? |
| Isn't that enough? ;) |
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