I have recently returned to Calgary from working abroad. I am a long time user of Linux and hail from the Slackware 1.0 days.
My background is Electrical Engineering and I am a network design specialist. In recent years I have further specialized in the design
and implementation of QoS enabled networks specifically supporting voice and video over IP.
I am now the director of Professional Services for Unified Systems Group. At Unified we specialize in the installation of structured cable systems, telephone systems, data networks and electrical contracting. We are the one of the largest cabling companies in Alberta and employ 90 people
in Calgary and Edmonton.
Since joining the company, we have branched heavily into Open Source Solutions and Voice and Video over IP. We see strong growth in all
of these areas and I am now too busy to build Linux boxes at the rate required.
In light of this situation I am looking to employ (on a contract basis to start) an Open Source Specialist (and jack of all trades).
The following skill set is required:
MUST be able to build a kernel from source.
MUST be a Debian distribution specialist or be willing to learn (quickly).
MUST be able to install and configure:
-Samba
-Spamassassin
-IPtables
-DHCPd
-DNS (Bind 8 or 9)
-Exim
-MUST be able to script (Bash AND (Perl OR Sed/Awk/Grep OR "whatever else you'd like to parse log files and email you information"))
-MUST understand IP networking and related utilities
The following skill set would be a bonus
Telephony background - you understand call control, what a PRI is, the difference between ground start and loop start, etc.
VLAN implementation background - or even better, you've worked with voice over IP already.
Mitel, Nortel (Norstar), NEC, Lucent telephone equipment background.
You can build a web site using PHP, Apache and MySQL (I'm not too worried about the DHTML or _javascript_ or whatever else front end stuff, I need a server guy (or girl)).
You have a larger collection of O'Reilly books than I do (around 40) - No, you can't borrow them, I never get the damn things back.
One last thing, we start work early and work 'till late. If you can't be at the office between 7:30a and 8:00a every morning this is not the job for you. If you would like to fully participate in all of the R&D required to build a kick ass OSS division at our company then this is the job for you.
Some things on the horizon:
We do a lot of work for the movie industry - let's build a render farm.
We do a lot of work for the Oil and Gas industry - let's build a compute cluster and help them process all of that seismic data.
We do a lot of WAN design and implementation in support of VoIP - let's get rid of every Cisco router and replace it with a Linux based one.
We do lot's of network management - let's build a solid Snort, Nessus, Nagios, NTop, Ethereal solution in support of that.
Wireless networking is going to take over the world - let's build a lot of NoCatAuth, free portals for everyone to use.
If I haven't mentioned anything here which peaks your interest you are very hard to please, ok, you give me some ideas. If it will help us to offer a better level of service to our customers and make us some money then you can help make it happen.
If this sound appealing to you, send me a copy of your resume (email - text only is fine) and make sure you include a opening letter which describes what you have been doing for the past year or two. I am looking for lot's of experience - not certifications, if you've got experience, prove it to me and give me some examples of your work. If you don't have experience, I'm still interested in talking to you, remember this part of the company is going to grow and if you like to work on Linux until the wee hours of the morning, you're the person I'm looking for.
If you call me on the telephone make sure you use proper telephone etiquette. I've been in the telephone and telecommunications business along time and it amazes me how many people call me and don't introduce themselves, don't ask me if I've got time to talk to them and then start right into their spiel. If you get my voice mail, leave me a detailed message, let me know EXACTLY what you need and the best way to return your call. If you rattle through a return telephone number so fast that I have to rewind more than once, your voice mail goes into the bit bucket.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to meet some of you at the next CLUG meeting.
John
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John McDougald Professional Services Director
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