Douglas Hughes

13220 Glendale Dr
Hagerstown, MD 21742
(240) 420-8816

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Engineer for Global Crossing, Ltd Oct 2000 - present
- Influenced architectures as one of 3 senior engineers (of 6) on the systems engineering team.
- Responsible for worldwide deployment of network statistics gathering and billing collection pollers
- Systems architect on design of large, secure, highly available financial network project
- Gained experience using and managing Netcool, securid, and tacacs
- Designed multicast software distribution system with PGP authentication
- Resident Veritas software expert

Senior Network Engineer at Auburn University, AL, July 1994 - 2000
- Chief responsibilities include: system/network security, performance tuning, software development, OS deployment, user support, network management, network design/architecture, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, POP, TCP/IP, NIS, IMAP, SSL, NIS+, Apache, Cyrus, and SMB administration
- Senior administrator for 350 Sun (Solaris) and Linux Workstations and 650+ PC's using Samba/SMB on Win95, WinNT.
- Designed and implemented program for securely changing passwords and other common functions.
- Storage architect -- VxVM, VxFS, SDS, other storage (Manager of ssa-managers and Veritas-* mail lists)
- Session chair, presenter, guru at Usenix/LISA conferences and member of Lisa2000 program committee.
- Designed, installed, and supported the 1999 ACM SouthEast intercollegiate programming competition using Linux and network problem submission.
- Extensive programming experience: multithreading, kernel programming, device driver programming (EXB tape library driver), network programming (RPC, SNMP, TLI, NIT, DLPI), C, Perl, Tcl, C++, AWK, PHP3, shell
- Development of numerous publicly available network scripts and extensions (tcludp, sunrpc, hubtools, cpupie).
- Developed console server system - presented at SANS '97 - upon which Aurora Technologies console server is partially based.
- Contributed security tools to COAST project (tklogger, klaxon, tocsin) and SANS Securing Solaris project.

System / Network Administrator at GE/Martin Marietta, King of Prussia, PA, 1991 - July 1994
- Developed program to display WAN serial/Ethernet/FDDI performance metrics using SNMP
- Experience configuring/managing Cisco routers.
- Engineer in GE/Martin Marietta network operations center.
- Chief system administrator and system security architect for Landsat 7 network
- Contracted as consultant for client/server rollout for Information Systems division.
- Designed network audio and collaborative development tools as part of independent research and development group.

EDUCATION:

B.S. in Computer Engineering at Penn State University, University Park.
Pending Masters degree in CSE at Auburn University.

PUBLICATIONS

- "Using Visualization in System and Network Administration", Usenix, LISA '96 proceedings.
- "Managing a Server Room Without Actually Being There", a case study, SANS '97 proceedings.
- "Using Encrypted Clients to Manage Servers and Users", a case study, SANS '97 proceedings.
- Chief contributor to "A Practical Guide to Solaris", by Mark Sobell, Addison Wesley

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: IEEE Computer Society, ACM, Usenix, SAGE