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Drew Croker
drew@croker.org
150 Vander Road
Wexford, PA 15090-7447


Objective:
To obtain a software engineering or systems administration position with a well-respected company, allowing me to maximize my potential.


Experience:
IBM Pittsburgh Lab

Pittsburgh, PA

Software Engineer

May 2001-Present

  • System Test, Websphere Edge Server.
  • Create and execute test cases.
  • Function Verification Testing of new features
  • Develop performance, reliability and stress tests
  • Develop test automation

IBM Pittsburgh Lab

Pittsburgh, PA

Supplemental Employee

September 2000-May 2001

  • Averaged 35 hours a week while attending school.
  • Created and executed test cases.
  • Function Verification Testing of new features
  • Developed performance, reliability and stress tests

Pittsburgh Business Network Solutions

Pittsburgh, PA

Co-founder/Consultant

January 1999-November 2000

  • Contracted out privately through Sirius Technologies. (Now iServe Technologies).
  • Hardware/Software purchase, installation, and support for small and medium sized business.
  • Intranet, VPN, and Internet configuration, WAN and LAN installation and support
  • Server configuration and administration covering RedHat Linux, FreeBSD, Citrix and NT

Loafer's Bread Company

Pittsburgh, PA

VP Technologies

August 1997-May 2001

  • Web hosting, configuration, administration, email administration
  • Webpage design and creation
  • Office hardware purchase, installation and support
  • Software selection, purchase, installation and support


Education:
University of Pittsburgh

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Information Science course work
  • Computer Science minor
  • Tae Kwon Do and Judo study under Grand Master Kim

Red Hat, Inc.

Durham, NC

Red Hat Certified Engineer

May 2000


IBM

Pittsburgh, PA

WebSphere Multi-Platform Configuration-SW222

April 2-6, 2001

WebSphere Edge Server Administration-SW251

2001



Summary of Qualifications:
Operating Systems Experience
  • RedHat, TurboLinux, SuSE, Debian, Caldera, LinuxPPC, Corel, Slackware, and Stampede, 1.0.x-2.4.x kernels.
  • IBM AIX 4.3.x-5.1
  • Sun OS/Solaris 5-8

Special Systems Experience
  • Distributed file systems: NFS and AFS
  • High availability clusters: WebSphere Edge Server Network Dispatcher
  • Clusterd computing: Mosix
  • Web servers: IBM httpd, Apache, and IIS.

  • Web proxy servers: IBM Web Traffic Express and Squid.
  • Firewalls: Linux kernel firewall (IPTables, IPChains), SecureWay Firewall
  • Web Application servers: WebSphere Application Server, Jakarta - Tomcat
  • Network services: OpenSSH, Bind, DHCP, Samba, Wu-FTPd, VTun, and Squid

Cool stuff I've done
  • Retied a harness on a girl WHILE she was in the Womb Tomb
  • Hung from a 40 foot tree branch for an HOUR AND A HALF while reconnecting the Flying Squirel

Programming Languages
  • C and C++.
  • Some Java.
  • Some SQL experience.
  • Scripting: Perl, Python and Shell (bash, csh, sh).
  • Web design: Perl/CGI, HTML, and Javascripting.
Perl focus areas and module exposure
  • TCP client/sever systems
  • IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET IO::Socket::SSL IO::Poll
  • LWP::UserAgent LWP::Parallel::UserAgent HTTP::[ALL]
  • System Administration including Linux system installation and configuration