Introducing Robert P. Bates. He is one of the pioneers of the Unix computer operating systems. Mr. Bates first started working with computers when electronic switching of telephony appeared in the early 1970’s. He has participated in design of both hardware and software for over 40 years. Mr. Bates held many positions while working at C & P Telephone (now a part of Verizon) until his retirement in 1992. He designed and built Verizon’s data network for operations.. He also wrote a large database application that was widely deployed within C & P and was sold to other regional phone company’s.

Towards the end of Mr. Bates’s career at C & P he became involved in system standards, he sat on the standards body at Bellcore that wrote the spec for Unix 5.4.

Towards the end of his career at C & P he was put in charge Security for all desktop and Unix Systems in C & P. In this role Mr. Bates wrote the computer security policy for C & P. He was also responsible for intrusion detection and audits of all systems. He also deployed SecurID for access to critical elements of the network.

            Upon retiring from C & P Mr. Bates setup a computer lab in his home. He has 8 different flavors of Unix available plus all form of Microsoft Windows/NT/2000/XP. Mr. Bates has been called upon to perform security evaluations and intrusion detection for many companies in the U.S. He also deployed SecurID for a number of companies.

            Being one that likes to work on the cutting edge of technology Mr. Bates worked as contractor to temp agencies in the Washington Metro area before finding a job in Rockville MD (which is close to his home).

            While working at Earthsat Mr. Bates was in charge of their computer security, while he continued to consult on computer security issues for other companies.

                    During his last two years at Earthsat Mr. Bates ran the computer evaluation-integration lab for Earthsat in his home. There he tested and evaluated all new software and hardware before it was deployed to production at Earthsat. Mr. Bates did the integration of Windows NT/2000 with Unix and Sun’s pcnetlink. Mr. Bates upgraded Earthsat’s network from a ten megabit to a 100-gigabit network.

             Mr. Bates worked for ASRC on DEA’S WEB Upgrade Project. He received a security clearance (Confidental) to work on this project.

Mr. Bates enjoys working with others. He also enjoys passing on his extensive knowledge to his co-workers.

Robert P Bates

1121 Raleigh Avenue
South Hill, Virginia 23970-1313
434-447-4403 (home)

301-367-9751 (cell)
rbates@rpbates.com

I am UNIX/NT/2000 Administrator with over 40 years in computing systems, management, administration, planning, programming , and deployment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

      April 2005 – Present

      Retired to South Hill, Va.          

After over 40 Years In computing Mister Bates has chosen to retire to His new home in South Hill, Virginia.

November 2004-April 2005, Contractor to Manpower Inc

 Working as Senior Unix Administrator at Network Associates Laboratories in Rockville Maryland (Company sold to Sparta, No contractors going to Sparta)

·     Patched and updated all Solaris 2.X to latest Software/Patch releases

·     Maintained Gauntlet Firewalls

·     Repaired Broken Legato backup system, setup to work correctly with tape library

·     Installed and migrated Main Sun Solaris Server to FreeBSD server.

·     Maintained Cisco, and Summit Switches

·     Worked on Apple Systems running apple OS 10.3

·     Repaired broken Sun Disk Arrays (SAN).

·     Performed usual daily weekly tasks for systems

 February 2003 – August 2004 ASRC Aerospace Greenbelt, Maryland

        Senior Unix Administrator

· Worked on site for contract of Diversion at Drug Enforcement Administration

· Responsible 3 Sun 3500 web servers, 4 Sun 450 application servers

· Responsible for installing and maintaining Oracle DB servers

· Responsible for keeping systems C2 Certified.

· Responsible for keeping systems patched and up to date

· Responsible for helping to formulate plan for upgrade of DEA web servers

· Responsible for installing and maintaining Veritas volume manger

· Responsible for installing and maintaining SAN

· Responsible for installing and maintaining Veritas NetBackup

·      Responsible for maintaining Cisco PIX Firewall.

· Repaired Legato Tape system and software for DEA computer Systems

· Migrated tape backups to new StorageTek Library Went back to Leagto

As backup engine because of cost of Veritas Netbackup

February 1995-November 2001 Earth Satellite Corporation Rockville, Maryland

Senior Unix/NT/Network Administrator

· Responsible for all phases of Earthsat’s computing/networking environment on a 24/7

 basis. This included surveillance of all vital network elements from my home on an audible alarm basis.

· Created, installed and maintained Washington University FTP site for Earthsat

· Created, installed and maintained Iplanet Webserver, Messaging, and Directory Servers

· Installed and maintained Oracle DB Server

· Installed and maintained Windows 95/98/NT/2000 systems

· Installed and maintained Sun’s PC Netlink (replaces NT primary domain controller’s)

· Installed and maintained all PC hardware and software; such as Microsoft Office Suite.

· Installed and maintained satellite systems. Which include dishes and receivers.

· Wrote shell scripts (korn, sh, perl )and C programs as needed to maintain systems using vi

· Installed and maintained HP Openview (provides network surveillance and alarming)

·    Installed, maintained and BETA tested Network Appliance disk arrays (SAN).

· Installed and maintained Cyberguard Firewall

· Installed and maintained data/Ethernet network

· Installed and maintained Cisco routers

· Maintained telephone system

· Installed and maintained Sun Enterprise Servers and workstations running Solaris 2.6,2.7,2.8

· Installed and maintained Silicon Graphics workstations and servers running IRIX 6.5

· Built systems from scratch

· Installed and maintained emergency power (both UPS and Diesel)

· Installed and maintained Cabletron, 3Com, Summit Data Switches

· Installed and maintained Human Design Systems and Network Computing Devices XTERM’S

· Installed and maintained Livingston Portmaster (dialup 56k)

· Installed and maintained Baynetworks Annex terminal server.

· Installed and maintained disk arrays using Solstice Disk Suite

· Installed and maintained Network files systems

· Installed and maintained Norton Antivirus

· Installed and maintained Ipsentry

· Installed and maintained Bind and DNS

September 1993-January 1995 Aerotek Temps Arlington, Virginia

· Contractor to EDS as Unix/PC/Network Administrator

· Installed and maintained Sun and Data General UNIX Servers

· Installed and maintained 100+ PC’s running Windows 3.1

· Installed and maintained Cabletron Ethernet HUB

· Supported users with 24/7 helpdesk function.

· Did troubleshooting of all hardware, software, and network troubles.

May 1993-September 1993 EDP Temps Reston, Virginia

· Contractor to Comsearch as a Unix/PC/Network Administrator

· Responsible for PC, network, Unix systems maintenance for both software and hardware

· Did troubleshooting of all hardware, software, and network troubles.

· Did capacity planning for network growth, and new servers,

· Installed and maintained SyBase DB servers

October 1963-December 1992 C & P Telephone (BellAtlantic, Verizon)

Jobs held: Assistant Manager – Data & Network Security, Current Planner, Supervisor

      Mini-Computer Operation, Supervisor Data Network & Software, Central Office Technician, Installer-Repairman, Coin-Box Collector.

· Responsible for C & P’s (MD, WV, VA, DC) Data Network and computer security

· Administered SecurID Security servers, conducted computer audits, and set security policy

· Deployed X terminals and servers for the ESAC personnel

· Provided technical support for all elements of network.

· Planned computer deployments

· Bell Atlantic’s subject matter expert to Bellcore’s Unix Technical Committee and C & P’s Standard Operating Environment committee

· Wrote code for and deployed one mechanization project

· Responsible for installation, operation, maintenance, and administration of 38 Unix
Systems, with their data circuits and switches at center which supported C & P’s Network Operations in the Washington metropolitan area

· Developed software

· Managed 10 employees (All Unix Systems Administrators)

· Responsible for installing new data network for C & P’s Switching Control Center in Maryland suburbs

· Created many mechanized systems

· Supervised 2 employees responsible for installing over 800 data circuits and 500 desktop devices

· Planned and deployed an NCR Tower 600

· Maintained Telephone Switching Machines (all types)

October 1961-October 1963 U.S. Navy Naval Air Facility Andrews Air Force Base

· Striker for Air Traffic Controller.

· Honorably Discharged

EDUCATION

April 1991 American Technical Institute Reston, Virginia
Major: Hands on TCP/IP

May 1990 Distinguished Unix Courses Arlington, Virginia
Major: Programming X Windows
Minor: C++

1989 AT&T Training Center Princeton, New Jersey

Major: Data Communications

1986 Bellcore Unix System Administration Lilse, Illinois
Major: Unix System V

1961 Woodrow Wilson High School Washington, DC
Major: College Preparatory

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

C, C++

· Written many C Programs and applications

Unix

· Installed and maintained all flavors of Unix Systems Unix 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, Xenix, SunOs, SCO, UnixWare, Solaris 2.x, SGI, IRIX, Linux, FreeBsd.

· Worked with every type of interface to hosts including Datakit, sna3270, bsc3270, Async, 10baseT, 100baseT, and Gigabit.

· Worked with and deployed LDAP, FTP, DHCP, Web servers and all types of shells and shell scripts.

· Worked with and deployed Informix and SecurID

Windows

· Installed, maintained and administered all flavors of Windows Systems including Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP

· Integrated Windows Systems with Unix Servers using Suns PCNL,

  SCO’s VisionFS and Samba

Security

· Consulted for computer security firms

· Familiar with most security tools used in today’s computing environment including TCP-wrappers, SSH, and SOCKS

Networking

· Installed and maintained Cisco Routers, Cabletron hubs and switches, 3com

               hubs and switches, Summit Switches, Annex terminal servers,

               Livingston/Lucent Portmasters and all kinds of NIC’s

REFERENCES

Owner of Security Risk Management, Jeff Spivey 704-521-8401

NAILABS: Ron Ostranga 301-947-7199

Earthsat: Former boss Chris Peterson 301-231-0660

Former Coworker at Earthsat: Chris Cartwright 610-742-1978

Former Coworker at C & P Bob Lucas 304-347-1493

Former boss At C& P Charles C. Cox 202-646-8844

Former boss at ASRC Kevin Proctor 301-873-4866