David Magda        Toronto, Ontario, Canada
			E-mail: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca


Education

1997-2003   Ryerson University
            Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Computer Specialization)


Skills & Qualities

            Proficient in administering and using Unix (Solaris, GNU/Linux &
			FreeBSD) systems

			Proficient in several RFC protocols: SMTP, IMAP, DNS, HTTP/Web,
			NFS, NIS/YP, LDAP, DHCP

			Knowledgeable about Mac OS X (Tiger, Panther)

			Conversant with administrating Windows XP & 2000 and Samba

			Effective programming abilities in Perl, Unix shell and C

			Acquainted with Cisco routing and switching equipment

			Punctual, fast-learner, reliable

			Work well with others and independently


Work Experience

April 2005-January 2006  Alias Systems
			Infrastructure Systems Adminitrator

			 o  Supervised mail servers and spam filtering appliance

			 o  Helping in migrating from a NIS-based authentication system
			    to an OpenLDAP/Samba-based domain model

			 o  User account maintenance on IRIX NIS system and Linux LDAP
			    system (creation, deletion, locking, NFS mounts and homedirs)

			 o  Helping users with technical problems on Linux, IRIX, and Mac
			    OS X clients

			 o  Investigate Nagios host and server monitoring alerts


November 2004-March 2005    Rogers Communications Inc.
			Unix Administrator

			 o  Ensuring 24/7 operation of mission critical Oracle databases
			    and Sun ONE applicaiton servers

			 o  Overseeing data integrity and proper running of backups via
			    Veritas NetBackup

			 o  Helped in upgrading SAN environment and installation of new
			    EMC equipment

			 o  Arrange a proper environment so that application development
			    and testing can occur with minimal hassle

			 o  Answering any questions that coworkers may have on Unix


May 2003-October 2004    Mpathix Inc.
			Systems Engineering

			 o  Rewrote and updated company online support centre and
                trouble ticket database using Perl, MySQL and Apache

			 o  Monitoring and maintaining of deployed system

			 o  Developing tools and scripts for system monitoring and
                maintenance

			 o  Providing knowledge on the Sun Solaris UNIX operating
                environment


May 2001-August 2002    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
			Ryerson University
			Electrical/Computer Specialist

			 o  Assisted in managing over 300 Unix workstations & serves,
                and several dozen Microsoft Windows systems

			 o  Primary individual in maintaining network cabling
                infrastructure

			 o  Auditing the network for potential security issues and
                keeping current with security updates

			 o  Upgrading core servers (DNS, Web, SMTP, IMAP, printer/LPR,
			    DHCP) from Linux to FreeBSD 4.x

			 o  Provided support to faculty, students and the Ryerson
                community

			 o  Teaching assistant for two sections of a real-time
                operating systems course

Affiliations

            USENIX/SAGE -- Full Member

			IEEE -- Full Member

References         Available on request.