Robert Bernstein M.A.

Culturally literate, street savvy, user-friendly generalist (and unix sysadmin).

Our Lady Of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, RI: July, 2008 - December, 2011 Observational Assistant. Observed high risk patients for safety, with extensive time spent on med-surg floors as well as in the Emergency Room. A per diem position.

Integrated Statistics, Woods Hole, MA: August, 2004 - March, 2005 Unix/Linux system administration for NOAA Coastwatch. Upgrade principal server to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Maintain SGI Irix server.
NOAA Coastwatch, Narragansett, RI: March - November, 2003 Unix/Linux system administration, website authoring. Update and maintain Red Hat Linux and SGI Irix servers.

BSDtoday.com: May, 2001 - January, 2002 Contributed articles about the BSD scene.
EarthWeb.com: December, 2000 - January, 2001 Authored a series of articles on SQL-base MUA's (mail user agents).
Caldera Systems Inc. (now SCO Group Inc.): May, 2000 - September, 2000 Authored several 'Solution Guides' for Caldera's eBusiness Marketing Division.
MacMillan Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN: August-November, 1999 Technical editor for two KDE books.

Bugbee & Niles Co. Inc., Providence, RI

November, 1993 - October, 1998 Office systems programmer/administrator.

Authored and implemented Order Entry, Bills of Materials, Inventory Control & Purchasing system in AlphaFour dBase III DBMS.
Implemented transition to SCO Unix-based proprietary (Progress 4GL) accounting and manufacturing DBMS. Responsible for maintenance and daily operations of all computing machinery, including MS-based Windows PC's.

Fluent in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of these operating systems: Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian), Unix (NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD), OS/2.

Familiar with the operation and maintenance of these operating systems: Solaris, SCO Unix, SGI Irix.

Fluent in the use of these structured document systems: DocBook (SGML, XML, Website), DebianDoc, LaTex (AucTex, LaTex2HTML, Lyx), AFT (example: this document), Zope BackTalk, Emacs/PSGML.

Experienced in the configuration and use of these Content Management Systems ("CMS"): Zope CMF, Plone, Silva, Scoop, Drupal and these blogs: Movable Type, Blosxom, Pyblosxom, NanoBlogger, Newsbruiser, Wordpress.

Adept at the installation and configuration of most common TCP/IP network services and daemons, including encrypted email, news, time (ntp), http (Apache), ftp and SSH.
Experienced with several basic firewalling techniques, including the IPFilter and ipf packages found on most BSD systems, and the Netfilter implementation found in the Linux kernel.
Set up and use the Snort IDS (intrusion detection system), and the Shorewall Linux firewall utility.
Know the Juniper Networks NetScreen-25 firewall appliance, and the GnatBox firewall package.

Experienced user of the C language tool-chains used by Unix and Linux. I can test builds and debug C and C++ programs.
Shell scripting, cron jobs, other routine admin chores.

I can tailor the English language for particular situations and audiences. I have experience fine-tuning communications in diverse work settings, including technological, academic, business and social services contexts.
I have considerable experience in human services, working with people from all facets of the community, including many whom most would agree merit to varying degrees the label "difficult."
I have spent a good deal of time in ordinary business settings, and know how people in business ought to comport themselves.

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