Jo Rhett
1742 Newcomb Ave · San Francisco, CA 94124
415-647-2489

Redesign the network topology to provide greater redundancy and more flexibility in peering options. Redesign the BGP routing to support additional colocation facilities and enhanced peering support for customers. Upgrade the network switching platform to Force10.

Upgrade network management to use distributed monitoring servers. Write new Nagios plugins for specialized tests and old-world facilities management gear.

Design, code, test and implement from the ground up a consistent database of all internal systems, customers and resources. Create and upgrade over time the customer's control interface to their colocation services.

Plan, create and manage a high-capicity, high-uptime managed co-location facility. Create automation tools to minimize repetitive system administration tasks. Implement and enhance Mon and Cricket to provide a unified network management infrstracture.

Theorize, create and test components of an integrated e-commerce & e-service application suite. Develop the code prototypes, implement the design in C++ or Perl, then work with Q/A to assure code quality. Coordinate operations efforts to provide maximum uptime.

Rebuild a badly designed IPsec VPN network. Create a policy routing structure to take maximum advantage of leased lines. Redesign and upgrade the network switching platform. Support all network systems worldwide, including 3 european and 4 asia-pacific sites.

Stabilize the Cisco AVVID VoIP system, and implement Cisco router and vg200-based voice modules to expand services and improve voice quality in each location.

Design and implement firewalls for corporations, using context-based filtering routers and transparent proxy services. Maintain a multi-organization firewall segregating external and internal resources, including internally distinct security domains.

Test performance characteristics and reliability of new technologies in laboratory and site-specific configurations. From the information provided, generate requirements, implementation schedules, and life-expectancy of the expected implementation.

Design and implement WAN services to maximize business objectives while minimizing cost. Manage Cisco, Nortel Networks, 3Com, Proteon, ACC and many other router platforms.

Install and secure public access Internet web sites, e-mail, news and other Internet services. Design and maintain a high-access Internet Web Hosting provider (later named ISite Services).

Provide advanced system administration, network configuration, and host security management for Linux, Solaris, HP/UX, Irix, SCO Unix V and UnixWare systems.

Install, configure, and maintain Novell and Windows NT servers and clients. Design the network systems to provide single logon and seamless operation between Unix, Windows, and NetWare environments. Migrate bindery-based NetWare to NetWare Directory Services (NDS).

Use SunNet Manager and HP OpenView to monitor, configure, test, and maintain SNMP-accessible network resources. Implement alert systems to improve response time.

Created high-security, limited access WAN links between Pentagon City units (SEA91/PMS312 & SASP/PMS377) and their shipyard offices in Virginia, Florida and Mississippi. As large backbones already existed in these offices, I implemented advanced IP and IPX protocol filters to block conflicting names and IDs, and to control link utilization.

All work for TMA was performed on the NAVSEA/SEA05 Metropolitan Area Network. This involved cooperative efforts with the SEA04 Administration in the each deployment.

Implemented mail transfer and directory synchronization between the Florida and Pentagon City ccMail systems, which created the largest unified ccMail system in the world at that time.