Michael Jennings Email & Phone Number

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Berkeley, California

Senior Systems Engineer in High-Performance Computing Services and Cybersecurity, responsible for architecting, building, deploying, and managing mid-range HPC clusters for scientific research and simulation.

n + 1 is a Linux Consulting firm that specializes in Linux- and Java-related training, software engineering, and systems administration.

Responsible for the building and maintenance of VA's custom Linux distribution, "Red Hat Linux with VA Linux Enhancements" (RH/VALE). Developed and maintained build tools to facilitate distribution building and maintenance.

Lead administrator for the Alien Cluster, a 10-node NIS+ cluster used by 3Com Carrier R&D for firmware development. Machines in the cluster range from Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000's to SPARC 20's running Solaris 2.5.1.

System programming, maintenance, and administration of approximately 250 AIX servers and 400 Solaris servers.Customer service contact for server issues with a large degree of customer interaction.

System programming, maintenance, and administration on an 12-workstation HP-UX cluster with 1200 to 1500 users.Interacting with students, staff, and faculty on a daily basis to solve problems, conflicts, etc.Working with two other system administrators to make system decisions.Assisted in two major OS upgrades, which included conversion from NFS to DFS, the addition of DCE/Krb5 authentication, and the minimal-downtime upgrade of 12 HP servers.

System programming, maintenance, and administration of a variety of workstations and servers running Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, MacOS, Linux, and IRIX.In charge of technical staff which wrote and maintained all in-house programs, database systems, servers, and content pages.Coordinating with the Production staff, based in California, and the Louisville-based Marketing, Administration, and Technical teams to maintain the world's largest automotive web site, theautochannel.com (along with several other sites).