me at work-RNL
While still studying to graduate, I applied to an opening at college for system administration back in February 2003 and I got the job!
- Start date
- Applied in February 2003, started working in April 2003 but officially only in June 2003.
- Job
- System Administrator, public and private account management with personal user interaction on fixed work hours, software and hardware maintenance for about 100 workstations and general help desk
- Place
- Rede das Novas Licenciaturas was the name of some kind of joint venture that once appeared between different college departments. The goal was to create some kind of common infrastructure between those departments for some new graduations on different engineering fields, across the different departments.
With time some of that joint venture faded but the name remained in what is today the core and services of the computer network for the department of computer engineering (DEI) at Instituto Superior Técnico. - Acomplishments
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- Management/maintenance/deployment of MS Windows on dual-boot public workstations
- About 100 MS windows 2000 Professional workstations when I started
- Replacement of operating system to windows XP
- Installation of requested software in windows workstations every semester
- System administration and account management on a Sun Enterprise 5500 server running SunOS solaris 7
- System administration and account management on a Sun Fire 280R server running SunOS solaris 9
- System administration for several services including DNS, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, NTP, WWW, SAMBA, FTP, NTP.
- Installation of several servers:
- secondary DNS server
- mirror LDAP server
- redundant public NTP service (stratum >=2)
- new authoritative SMTP server and corresponding tranfer of the SMTP service from the old server
- new IMAP server with accounts transfered from the old server
- local Certificate Authority signing server (not networked, of course)
- investigation and deployment of networked virtual machines using the XEN virtualization framework
- Management/maintenance/deployment of MS Windows on dual-boot public workstations
- Comments
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- Excelent place to work, great working team.
- Unmeasurable help into getting closer to less academic-more professional work.
- Great time and place to learn about professional responsability.
- System and network administration experience earned here really helped a lot when looking for a job in the area.
- Stopped working there in
- July 2005. Only students can work there, and I was ending my engineering graduation, so I had to leave.
