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Aaron St. Pierre

Hi, I'm Aaron St. Pierre. I help people attain their visions through the use of open source software!

Aaron St. Pierre has worked in various sectors over the past ten years: publishing, financial, and professional services. Each of these sectors has added to his overall competancy with respect to Information Technologies. Aaron is a creative thinker who enjoys complex challenges. It is Aaron's goal continue to develop and cultivate relationships both in life and at the work place.

Aaron St. Pierre's Background

Aaron St. Pierre's Experience

Sr. TechOps Engineer at VMware

January 2008 - September 2010

Systems Engineer at The Monitor Group

June 2004 - January 2008

-Configured and installed 200+ Extreme network devices world-wide. -Deployed EPICenter for management of network devices. -Installed and configured ISPman, a utility for managing apache virtual hosts/mail/DNS, for management of 100+ domains. -Responsible for the installation and configuration of RSA Keon Certificate Authority. Wrote custom code in both C and Perl to enable use of OneStep within our environment. -Installation and configuration of CheckPoint SPLAT. -Management of 25+ firewalls world-wide: Rulebase updates, and migrations. -Wrote scripts in BASH and PERL for various tasks (code samples available upon request). -DNS management (ISC Bind). -Day-to-Day troubleshooting and management.

Consultant at The Monitor Group

September 2003 - June 2004

- Explore Voice Over IP solutions. - Configure and install test VOIP solution using VOCAL software. - Wrote a comprehensive document describing the feasibility of implementation and use throughout the company.

Consultant at LeaseForum

September 2002 - February 2004

- Developed disk sanitization systems: HP PA-RISC, and Alpha. - Enhanced disk sanitization environment for Sun SPARC environment. - Wrote a set of scripts used to manage disk scrubbing application. - Authored a detailed paper defining the models that would be used in the disk sanitization project. - Upgraded and reconfigured internal network.

Consultant at IowaOne

August 2003 - January 2004

- Administer core FreeBSD servers. - Manage mail servers including installing anti SPAM software. - Installation and configuration of new core components. - Work to improve network stability. - Trobleshoot system and network issues.

Senior System Administrator at Viridien Technologies

September 2001 - April 2002

- Configured Unix environments for product testing. - Managed both Unix and NT machines with cfengine. - Redesigned both internal and external DNS servers. - Built Solaris packages for increased manageability of Unix machines. - Wrote scripts to aid in management of user accounts, Samba accounts, FTP accounts, and other information systems. - Involved in recommending and purchasing of sun equipment for projects. - Installed and configured performance monitoring software.

Systems Programmer at Enthusian

May 2001 - September 2001

(Consultant at StateStree Bank Globallink) - Configure and install Solaris machines. - Wrote scripts for other groups to aid in publishing web content. - Configure jumpstart server for site specific installation. - Implement security standards group-wide, using cfengine. - Installed servers at customer sites. - Troubleshoot network, OS, and security issues on-site. - Developed and implemented new DNS infrastructure.

Senior Security Engineer at CMGI

January 2000 - September 2001

- Migrated internal DNS infrastructure from NT to UNIX. - Wrote custom scripts using Perl to aid in the migration process. - Installed and configured ACE server. Wrote custom C programs using the ACE server API to aid in database loading. - Designed single sign on solution using the following software: ACE Server, Apache, Netegrity, Dynamo Application Server, DynamoPersonalization Server, and LDAP. - Wrote encrypted password database in Perl which runs on various versions of Solaris. - Built and maintained over one hundred Open Source Software packages for Solaris. - Setup internal Certifying Authority (CA).

Senior Network Engineer at Fidelity Investments

September 1998 - January 2000

- Wrote a utility to parse CISCO log messages and report on BGP failure within extranet environment. - Wrote utilities to manage BigIP machines to perform: Update management, user management. - Wrote a set of utilities, in Perl, to gather SNMP information. - Install and support various network management packages, Tivoli, HP OpenView. - Wrote a front-end to the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG), to monitor our external ISP links. - Wrote a suite of tools to aid in the management of Open Source Software utilities. - Certified various network devices including Cisco Route Switch Module (RSM). - Wrote scripts to interact with Empire SystemEdge SNMP agent in Perl.

System Administrator at Addison Wesley Longman

June 1997 - August 1998

- Installed Firewall-1, on Solaris, performed software upgrades, and maintenance, primary contact for problems relating to hardware and security. - Sendmail migration and administration: Built and installed Sendmail on Solaris, customized rule sets. - OpenMarket Transact: Installed and configured OMTX v2.3.1, on Solaris. Primary technical contact for development, staging, and production Electronic Commerce environments. - DNS administration of internal and external environment. - System administration and maintenance: NIS, user account creation, backups, disaster planning, security, and scripting.

System Engineer at Houghton Mifflin

February 1995 - June 1997

- Configured and maintained corporate and local backups, on Solaris, using Legato's Networker. - Designed a DNS administration tool for Solaris in Csh. This tool made it possible to add, delete, and change IP addresses. - Solaris server installation maintenance, upgrades, and performance tuning. - Installation and configuration of Active Commerce DB (OMI) on Solaris. Designed and coded an online catalog using SapphireWeb (Bluestone).

Founder at SaintlySolutions

January 2012

- Company creation and development - Managing and developing relationships with clients - Sales & Marketing - Website design, development and support - Day to day server management - Consulting services

Certified Bikram Yoga Instructor at Bikram Yoga Boston

November 2010

Teaching the 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises sequence developed by Bikram Choudhury.

Aaron St. Pierre's Education

Suffolk University

1991 – 1996

B.S.


Aaron St. Pierre's Interests & Activities

Technology, open source, Linux, climbing, hiking

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