Farhad Saberi, B.Sc.

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1 Vancouver, B.C. Farhad Saberi, B.Sc. (604) Cell SUMMARY Farhad has been involved in the Systems Technology since He has Educational, Gaming, Governmental and Financial experience. Farhad has expertise in Unix Fundamentals and Administration of FreeBSD, Solaris and AIX. He is a skilled system s programmer in C, Perl and BASH/KSH. He has indepth knowledge of Internet/Intranet infrastructure with HTTP, JMV, LDAP and Proxy technologies. Farhad has completed his study of Solaris 8 Administrator s Certification. He has strong communications skills, fluent in English, French and Persian, and he is dedicated to bringing high quality results. Industries IT, Financial, Gaming, Government and Educational Services Functional Areas System s Analysis, Methodology/Performance Improvement, Facilitating, Configuration, Server Design/Configuration, support Methodologies Infrastructure Design, Web Architecture, Configuration Management, Disaster Recovery SKILLS PROFILE Operating Systems Network Software Communications Programming Languages Networking Utilities Databases Application Package Development tools Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, Linux Internet/Intranet LAN Administration, Network Security, NFS, SNMP, TCP/IP, DNS, SAMBA, NIS, NIS+, RADIUS, HTTP C, Object Oriented Perl, Python, Unix Scripting in SH, BASH, CGI, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, DOM, HTML Cisco CSS 11000, Cisco CSM, Alteon ACE Director 3, FreeBSD NAT with IPFW, NetScreen, SNMP Vi Editor, Shell Scripts, RegEx Sed, Awk, GNU Sybase, LDAP, mysql iplanet, Apache, Tomcat, ServletExec, Siteminder Security, Websence, Netscape IMAP, IIS GCC, CC, GDB PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Cisco Systems Inc. Telecommunications Equipment Company Software Engineer 04/ /2013 Vancouver, Canada Develop Software to automate the testing of Cisco's D9036 Modular Video Encoding/Decoding platform. 3 Month contract. Perl, Python, XML, Linux Zynga Internet Gaming Company Sr. Cloud Engineer, Software Integrator, Perl/PHP developer Install Zynga games on a private cloud and integrate with Facebook Software package management and creation of installation scripts Debugging of PHP code and Perl development of cloud tools. Assist developers in supporting, maintaining and enhancing software. PHP, Perl, Apache, Linux Yahoo! Inc. Internet Company 07/ /2013 San Francisco, 04/ /2012 Santa Clara,

2 Perl developer, Release Manager, Applications Support Eng. Senior Applications support Engineer and Release Manager at a major internet company. Support and enhancement of Yahoo's guaranteed ad delivery infrastructure globally. Hardware management, allocation and provisioning Java and C++ Applications release manager OO Perl programming of many monitoring, automations, management and data gathering tools. Assist developers in supporting, maintaining and enhancing software. Provided 7 day on-call support rotation Perl, Unix, Java, LAMP QuinStreet Inc. Internet Vertical marketing and Lead Generation Company Perl developer, LAMP architect, Applications Support Eng. 09/ /2011 Foster City, Senior Applications support Engineer at a major internet vertical marketing company. Implemented the architecture of QuinStreet's LAMP environment. Supporting the company's LAMP and JAVA platforms as well as being the release manager for Java and PHP applications. Architect, support and enhancement of QuinStreet's LAMP infrastructure Java and PHP Applications release management. Support, maintain and enhance softwares. OO Perl programming of many monitoring, automations, management and data gathering tools. Provided 24x7 on-call support rotation Perl, Jboss, LAMP, mysql-proxy, BASH, Linux GOT corporation Senior Consultant - Internet marketing company Perl developer/ Unix administrator and applications support 01/ /2008 Senior Consultant to a major internet marketing company, I program monitoring and application deployment scripts in Perl and BASH, provide application support and troubleshooting to customer support personnel 24x7, manage the servers security and backups. Programmed in Object Oriented Perl a user simulation that navigates through the application and verifies its functionality, eliminating the need to manually performing sanity checks by support personnel and substantially increasing productivity and the application s availability. No commercially available software is capable of doing this. Perl, BASH, Linux, Solaris, Java BNP Paribas Senior Consultant - Perl Developer at a major bank 09/ /2007 Senior Consultant to a major bank, I designed and programmed various perl software with korn shell frond ends for the bank's internal accounting software on AIX. Mainly for report processing and managing. Using a greedy algorithm, I enhanced the bank's current report comparison program. The client has seen a 90% (ninety percent!) increase in its report processing, eliminating Out Of Memory errors for large files. Perl, AIX, Korn Shell IBM Senior Consultant Client: National Bank Of Canada Systems Administrator. Internet Web applications Engineer. 08/ /2007 Senior Consultant to IBM for a very important client, The National Bank Of Canada. Internet/Intranet applications and infrastructure support engineer. Perform typical user support, production support,

3 maintenance, enhancement and development on Solaris and AIX platforms. Developing advanced administrative tools in OO Perl and also using KSH. Implementing parallel processing for simultaneous application restarts and checks. Creating my own custom Binary Search algorithm for fast http log search and extraction need for security (Phishing) parsing. Object Oriented Perl application for Syslog activity watch and monitoring. Programmed an OO Perl utility for managing the DMZ s Cisco CSM 6513 load balancer using XML POST. Administering over eighty mission critical Solaris and AIX servers for the Bank s e-commerce infrastructure. Also responsible for server e-commerce applications processes: java, http, MQ... Provided scheduled 24/7 pager support on a regular basis. Production deployment and integration of new versions of e-commerce applications. Supporting developers regarding UNIX fundamentals, performance, capacity, UNIX security features, network troubleshooting and investigation of application outages, data gathering and problem reporting. Unix Owner of many projects for IBM and also the Bank. Participated in the design and implementation to completion of new applications and environments. Perl, AIX, Solaris, KSH, JVM, Cisco CSM 6513, IBM HTTP server, WebSphere Application Server. Keane, Inc. MORGAN STANLEY F100 Investment Bank -Financial Systems Administrator. Intranet/Web applications Engineer. 08/ /2005 Halifax Nova-Scotia Internet/Intranet applications and infrastructure support engineer. Senior Consultant reporting directly to the client technical managers, perform typical user support, production support, maintenance, enhancement and development on a variety of platforms, working in London England and Halifax Canada offices. Developing administrative tools in Perl/CGI, JavaScript DOM with Sybase Database for the firm s many business units. Developing API s, implementing parallel and recursive processing and efficiency studies. Developing monitoring scripts for HTTP, JVM crash and network traffic health status using SNMP. Supporting the firm s client facing infrastructure - Client Link. Installing and Administering over four thousand Apache and Iplanet webservers with Tomcat and ServletExec JVM s for Morgan Stanley s many business unit applications across the globe on Linux and Solaris, including Inktomi Proxy plant and Cisco CSS load balancer switches, and IIS 5 on win 2k. Supporting developers regarding web servers, network troubleshooting, CGI and Java applications, network setups and JVM thread dump analysis. Support for the firm s Single Sign On with Siteminder. Investigating the cause of application outages, quick resolution of problems for minimal client impact and effectively communicating issues to the application owners AFS, NFS, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000, Perl, CGI, JVM, Cisco CSS 11000, SNMP, Inktomi Proxy with Websence. Apache with Siteminder security. LAVAL Municipal City Systems Administrator. Intranet applications Support 09/ /2003 Laval, Quebec One of two members of Unix Specialists, I programmed and administered 36 Networked Sun Servers for Quebec s second largest city. Reporting directly to the IT department s director, I was responsible for maintaining the Server side of the city s 2200 clients working closely with Developers and DBA s. My work spanned as well across all aspects of the cities Intranet applications, working closely with the city s employees, including the city s police and justice departments, prison, city evaluation, city engineers, all city libraries and the Mayor s office. Administered 36 Networked Sun Servers for Quebec s third largest city. Installed and worked with SUN hardware such as Netra T1 to Enterprise 450 with A1000 StoreEdge up to Enterprise 4000 with SSA114 fiber channel StorEdge, running Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8. Also Administered HP-UX 11 on HP9000. My clients were all city employees, including the city s police and justice departments,

4 prison, city evaluation, city engineers, DBA s, all city libraries and the Mayor s office. Provided a robust Internet and Intranet infrastructure. Installed iplanet Directory server, Apache web server, iplanet Web Proxy server, Netscape IMAP and POP messaging server and Bind (DNS) Installed and Upgraded Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8 servers in production environments. Installed with a consultant the Alteon ACE Director 3 Load Balancing Switch for http web servers; responsible for the switch s further modifications for balancing LDAP and Proxy requests. Installed RADIUS authentication server on LDAP for user access via VPN, and NTP peers, and performed TCP/IP troubleshooting (snoop and tcpdump). Programmed a utility in C which fixes an error in the Oracle Report Generator software. My program saved the city considerable expenses in software upgrades. Programmed in PHP a web utility for modification of all user aspects of the Intranet. Programmed Bourne Shell scripts for printer resets, search utilities, mass LDAP modifications and backup automations, among others. Secured environment by establishing stricter file and directory access for users, implementing the newly introduced ACL mode in Solaris 8 and installing SUDO. Installation of NetScreen Firewalls, configuring routing tables and implementing firewall rules. Also upgraded NetScreen OS. Protected server integrity by establishing regularly scheduled backups; installation of SUN SRS NetConnect utility for 24/7 remote monitoring of systems and regular verification of system logs. Volume Manager Firmware upgrades, changed defected disks under Veritas Volume Manager control. Supported 1800 NIS+ users on the Solaris systems, , iplanet Calendaring, Netscape browser issues such as server address book and profile setups, web and FTP access to internet by iplanet web proxy and Unix printing trouble shooting for corporate applications. Documented all aspects of my work. Installations, configurations, network settings and all relations of programs and scripts I wrote for automation purposes. Solaris with NFS and NIS+. C, Perl, PHP and HTML. Sun Sparc, StoreEdge and VXVM. iplanet LDAP, IMAP and PROXY. Customizing Netscape browser, NTP and DNS. NetScreen and SUDO security. VPN and RADIUS accessibility. McGill University School Of Computer Science Education Services Systems Administrator 04/ /2000 One of five members of the school s Operations Core, I was responsible for maintaining the FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT user and server environments. Reported directly to the team s manager, I engaged in daily maintenance and preventive tasks, including client and server upgrades and Operating Systems migrations. Assisted teachers with Unix questions and helped the environment s Intranet Applications. Installed FreeBSD servers for the Department of computer Science s website and for its students. FreeBSD router and firewall (NAT with IPFW). Installed client windows NT and client Linux Debian for the university s computer Labs. Configured SAMBA and performed daily server backups. Programmed Perl modules for an online user account settings modification Educated professors and students with Unix commands and fundamental and helped with general computer issues such as troubleshooting hardware failures, and providing technical phone support. FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, SAMBA, NFS, Perl, C, Apache, NAT, IPFW Education McGill University Bachelors Of Science - Major in Computer Science Marianopolis College Diplome d Etude Collegiales - Pure and applied Sciences Member of the Engineering Team representing Marianopolis at the 1996 Canada First Robotics Competition Leader of the Engineering Team representing College at the 1997 Canada First Robotics Competition. Team won President s Trophy for 2001, Canada 1997, Canada

5 highest overall placement in the various categories Certifications Sun Certified Administrator for the Solaris 8 Operating 08/01/04