Gwendolyn R Schmidt
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
+1 412 226 6776
gwenix@gmail.com
BS in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, May 2005
- Operating Systems
- Programming Languages for Web Applications
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Software Engineering
- Data Communication and Computer Networks
- Database Applications
November 2008 - January 2009
Systems Administrator, Wellspring Worldwide
Contracted through Command Group, Inc
Installed and maintained Horde Groupware Software. Installed, maintained, and hardened OpenLDAP; helped integrate LDAP into the office applications and administration. Installed and configured RT.
November 2005 - September 2008
Senior Software Engineer/Systems Administrator, Computing Services, Carnegie Mellon University
Installation and maintanence for Solaris,
HP-UX, and Linux platforms. Installation, configuration, and
maintenance of the following software packages: Apache web server,
OpenAFS, Atempo Time Navigator, FWTK, and many other common UNIX
packages to support the above software or other in-house applications.
Perl scripting for various systems administration tasks, including one
in-house application of a few thousand lines written for the purpose of
displaying statistics and information about the backups.
July 2004 - August 2004
Instructor for Carnegie Mellon University HCII Computer Workshop for ASD students
Worked
with students (mostly high school age) on the Autistic spectrum in
teaching web design (with Dreamweaver) and Perl. Additionally, provided
technical support for the Windows XP laptops.
June 2001 - November 2003
System Administrator, Quickserve Department, pair Networks, Inc.
Setting
up dedicated servers for high end clients, maintaining the servers and
installing accounts, software, domains, and databases, and
tuning/configuring Apache, MySQL, PHP, and other software packages at
clients' requests. Additionally, providing support for these and other
customers of pair Networks' 500+ FreeBSD servers.
June 2000 - April 2001
Custom System Administrator, Dedicated Search Clusters, Inktomi Corporation.
Setting
up and maintaining customized search clusters (10+ clusters of 2-35
nodes each) for high-end clients using Inktomi's search software on
Solaris clusters, using Perl for scripting customized options and
automating the maintenance.
September 1999 - June 2000
UNIX Systems and Networks Administrator Consultant, Taos Mountain.
Contracts:
- E-Greetings (November 1999 - June 2000),
Developing a web package in Perl5 for inventory tracking; part of the
team (of 3) to install and jumpstart 50+ Solaris Servers into the
network; and general Ops documentation/maintenance.
- Plexus Software (October 1999), maintaining a cluster of AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris machines and aiding in user support.
April 1997 - August 1999
System Administrator, Upgrade Department, pair Networks, Inc.
Maintaining systems, records, and files for a
Web Presence Provider, including both individual and commercial
accounts; responsibilities include data security maintenance, systems
maintenance (for 150+ server network), server installation (30+ FreeBSD
servers), maintaining and developing system scripts, and customer
support. Responsible for clients' Internet domains, including
registration and updating of DNS records and support for performance
and other issues.
January 1994 - April 1996
Computer Lab Consultant, Computing and Information Services, University of Pittsburgh.
- January 1996: Promoted to Computer Lab Consultant II
- January 1996: MacOS 7.5 Installation Team
- July 1995-April 1996: Lab documentation Developer
- March 1995-April 1996: Computer Maintainance Team (Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Mac OS 7.x)
- February 1995-April 1996: Hillman Lab HTML page Maintainer
- January 1995-April 1996: Disk Repair (PC and Mac) Team
Programming Languages
- Perl, C/C++, Java, PHP, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC.
- SH, CSH, and ZSH Shell scripting.
UNIX Systems
- Experienced with FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux.
- Specific experience: working with the Apache Web
Server, adding domain names to DNS, fixing account errors, adding new
user accounts, mounting devices, installing special software,
maintaining security, monitoring 500+ servers, adding/removing external
disk devices (iSCSI and SAN), setting up backup procedures.
- Provided training and support for the use of basic
UNIX facilities, including: commands, mail readers, web page
development, software usage, domain name additions, and script
development.
General
- Experienced with installation, configuration, and maintenance of the Apache web server.
- Experienced with hosting and maintaining the server side of domain name registration (DNS/BIND).
- Experienced with MySQL and PostgreSQL database administration and manipulation.
- Experienced with qmail, sendmail, and postfix mail administration.
- Experienced with TCP/IP networking concepts.
- Experienced with security packages and techniques, such as tripwire and firewalling.
HTML
- Created and maintained pages for the following organizations:
- Dr Ranjana's Site on her work with the Missionaries
of Charity (web development, back end programming, and systems
administration) (June 2002-2005)
- Geek Girls Coalition (Systems administration, CGI development, some writing, and general administration) (February 2000 - 2002)
- Pittsburgh Goth/Industrial Events page (March 1997 - August 1999)
- Pittsburgh chapter of the Camarilla (March-September, 1997)
- Hillman Computing Labs (1995-1996)
- Experienced with formatting the pages from scratch, using up to HTML 4.0.
- Familiar with Dreamweaver software.