Garrett D. Hildebrand's Resume (03-22-1999)

Garrett D. Hildebrand
University of California - UCI
Network and Computing Services (Formerly OAC)
E2130 Engineering Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-2225

Professional E-mail: gdh@uci.edu

Special Interests

Enterprise and Campus Networks
Network and Communications Systems
The Internet, as an internetwork
Security, particularly as applies to networks and internetworking
Internet Information Services (such as the Web)
TCP/IP protocol and related applications
UNIX Systems Administration, UNIX tools
Programming languages and systems
Formal Grammars
Data Compression and Encryption algorithms.
Personal Computing Issues

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

Data Communications (Networking) - Extensive experience in tasks involving user requirements gathering, requirements analysis, design and implementation planning of data networks, intranets and internetworks. Extensive experience designing networks using Cisco Systems routers and Catalyst switches. Project manager for the UCInet Gigabit Backbone implementation, completed on-budget and on-time, 18 May 1999.

Operating Environments - UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, AIX, IRIX) administration and light programming. Microsoft Windows, Windows95, Windows98, and Windows NT use and administration. Pick ROS (a.k.a. Reality) knowledgeable.

Systems-based Networking - UNIX and Windows systems administration and system software, particularly TCP/IP, DNS and BIND, HTTP, SMTP and sendmail. Experience incorporating Microsoft Windows95, Windows98, Windows NT and familiar UNIX platforms into TCP/IP networks.

Significant Internet experience, including Internet connection setup, working with other network providers and ISPs, and providing Internet Information Services to users of the network.

Methodologies - Experienced and formally educated in the software development process: problem domain decomposition, requirements analysis, requirements and design specifications, and software design and implementation

Languages - Open Systems: Hands-on C, Perl, HTML, YACC grammar, sh and ksh shell-script, awk and sed. Some SQL. Proprietary: Pick and REALITY assembler, PQ/PQN Proc, Data/Basic, English/Access and RPL. Academic C++ exposure, at UC Irvine and UCLA.

EXPERIENCE

Manager Network Planning and Security University of California, Irvine: May 17, 2000 - present.
Network and Computing Services (NACS, formerly OAC and ECS).

Driver of strategic planning for the campus network.
Primary point of contact for faculty with special networking requirements.
Facilitater of communication and coordination of campus-wide network-based computer and network security initiatives.
Primary contact for UCI campus to Cisco Systems, Inc.

Network Wrangler (Network Planner) University of California, Irvine: Oct. 10, 1996 - May 16, 2000.
Office of Academic Computing (OAC) - Electronic Communication Services (ECS)

Member of ECS, the networking and communications section of OAC.
Responsible for a variety of network planning duties for ECS.
Primary point of contact in OAC for faculty seeking information or help on large-scale network projects.
Largely responsible for campus network planning: work with ECS Operations and ECS Assistant Director (Don McLaughlin) to develop plans for the continued evolution of UCInet.
Ongoing coordination with Director (Dr. William Parker) and Associate Director (Dana Roode of OAC, Director of ECS (Dave Tomcheck) and Assistant Director of ECS (Don Mclaughlin) for the development and execution of large-scale campus projects involving the UCI data network.
Primary point for campus backbone planning in 1998 and Project Manager for Phase I of the UCInet Gigabit Backbone Project in winter and spring of 1999 (completed 18 May 1999).
Development and acquisition of network metrics capabilities for UCI.

Programmer/Analyst University of California, Irvine: Jan. 22, 1996 - Oct. 10, 1996.

Member of the Academic Applications Group under Allen Schiano, then Dr. Stephen Franklin.
Worked with certain NT, Win95, networking, inter-networking and faculty/networking issues.

Systems Manager Paciolan Systems, Inc.: Long Beach, CA. Aug. 1994 - Jan. 19, 1996

UNIX/AIX and SCO systems administration, MS Windows and Apple MacIntosh administration, TCP/IP network administration, Internet connection and Information Services administration, Postmaster, Domainmaster. Active role consulting with company employees regarding networking, inter-networking and system issues.
Responsible for building, installing and maintaining the httpd Web server software.
Set up and maintained primary master DNS nameserver and domain databases.
Manager of the Technical (Systems) Department.

Sr. Staff Software Engineer/Systems Administrator MDIS: Irvine, CA. Jan. 1991 - Jun. 1994

Support and maintenance of UNIX-based products written in C and YACC grammar (PRO-IV, primarily). Portation of C programs to different UNIX environments. UNIX and PC System and network administration. System administrator duties eventually took up 80% of my time.

Administered UNIX systems (SunOS/Solaris, SCO Open Network Server 3.0 and DEC Alpha OSF/1), PC's (Microsoft WFW and NT 3.1) in a mixed, networked environment. Was Domainmaster, Internet Information Services administrator and Postmaster.
Implemented company-wide heterogeneous email for everyone, including Internet email.

Sr. Staff Software Engineer MDCSC: Irvine, CA Aug. 1988 - Jan. 1991 Development, maintenance and bug-fixing of the REALITY 7.x OS, under Henry Eggers, focusing on file I/O and structures, data integrity, system utilities, PQN Proc, and RPL.

Enhanced Data/Basic and PROC with data encryption, CRC and other intrinsics.
Primary architect of big and binary items and related routines, structures and algorithms.
Performed systems administration for the development group on Mighty Mouse, the development platform.

Programmer/Analyst The Ultimate Corp.: Irvine, CA Oct. 1986 - Aug. 1988

Development, maintenance and bug-fixing of Ultimate's version of the Pick OS, and of RPL.

Staff Software Engineer MDCSC : Irvine, CA Sept. 1983 - Oct. 1986

Development, maintenance and bug-fixing of the REALITY OS and PC-microREALITY.

Jointly developed high-speed PC-to-minicomputer communications software.

Marketing Support Specialist Microdata Corp.: Irvine, CA June. 1982- Sept. 1983

National-level software support of the REALITY OS, Microdata applications and A*L*L 4GL.

Sr. Product Support Specialist Microdata Corp.: Irvine, CA Apr. 1980 - June. 1982

National-level hardware and software support of Microdata computers and training of field support personnel. Extensive travel and inter-personnel skills required of the position.

Sr. Systems Technician Microdata Corp.: Irvine, CA Jan. 1979 - Apr. 1980

System-level diagnosis of problems, followed by to-the-component-level of troubleshooting.

Consultant self-employed: La Canada-Flintridge, CA June 1976 - Jan. 1979

Various contract and part-time work.

Electronics Technician US Marine Corps, 2nd Radio Battalion May 1972 - May 1976
(MOS 2828-Crypto Repair Specialist and Electronics Technician)

Maintained computers, peripherals, cryptographic and path equipment (modems, radios, leased lines) in secure communications centers, both in garrison and in the field.

Three meritorious masts awarded for outstanding performance above and beyond the call of duty. Honorably discharged as a Sergeant, E-5.

EDUCATION

Engineering Certificate : Advanced Software Technologies 3.7 GPA
University of California - Irvine, CA Sept. 1991 - Dec. 1993

Focused on UNIX network programming, object-oriented analysis, design and programming, and relational and distributed database theory. All UNIX and OO classes were taught by Douglas Schmidt, The database courses were taught by Michael Krasowski.

Courses:
UNIX Network Programming Relational Databases

Object Oriented Design Distributed Databases

Object Oriented Programming with C++ Object Oriented Design and Programming

Engineering Certificate : Microcomputer and Digital Systems Engineering 3.8 GPA
University of California - Irvine, CA Jan. 1987 - June 1991

UCI MCDSE Engineering Certificate program in which I focused on microprocessor technology, UNIX, C programming and Software Engineering techniques.

UCLA - Single course on OOA, OOD and OOP, Jan. 1995

Saddleback College - Mission Viejo, CA - General Education Coursework: Jan. 1979 - Dec. 1979

Glendale College - Glendale, CA - General Education Coursework: Jan. 1978 - Dec. 1978

Coursework such as English, Algebra, French, and programming and computer classes.

Military Occupational 2828 Certification (Crypto Repair Specialist/Electronics Technician)
US Marine Corps Electronic Schools Command Sept. 1972 - Nov. 1973
Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Corps Base, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
- and -
US Naval Schools Command, Vallejo Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA Top of class.

Basic and advanced electronics courses, radio communications theory, ground radio repair, digital computing and mathematics theory, hands-on training troubleshooting computers, courses on theory and repair of digital cryptographic computing equipment.

High School Diploma
La Canada High School - La Canada-Flintridge, CA Sept 1966 - July 1970

AFFILIATIONS

ACM - Association of Computing Machinery - full voting member since 1987

The IEEE Computer Society - member since 1987

USENIX and SAGE - member since 1995

Lifetime member of the UCI Alumni Association.

PUBLICATIONS

Wrote a 14,000 word chapter on DNS for a collaborative book edited by John Levine and Carol Baroudi. Called Internet Secrets, the book was first published in April 1995 by IDG World Wide Books. It has come out in a 2nd edition in 2000.

Special Comment: I began my first life as an electronics technician, specializing in radio receivers, transmitters, cryptographic "crypto" encoders/decoders, and teletypes. This work morphed into the support and maintenance of computer hardware, which eventually led to my second life, where I was a systems programmer for a decade. In my third life, I was both a programmer and a Systems Wrangler (what some people call a Systems Administrator, or SysAdmin). This soon changed, as exposure to networks through network programming and administering Internet-based Information Systems led me to grow yet again. So began my fourth life, that of being a Network Wrangler. I don't manage or administer networks so much as distill peoples requirements into a design, then turn the design into a funded project. Sometimes I help existing networks to work better, while others times I am instrumental in getting new ones built. I find being a Network Wrangler the most interesting career of all because everything I've learned in my other lives is brought into play. Isn't this synergy, as Spock would say, "fascinating."

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Garrett Hildebrand -- gdh@uci.edu

Courses:
UNIX Network Programming		Relational Databases
Object Oriented Design		Distributed Databases
Object Oriented Programming with C++		Object Oriented Design and Programming