Earl Stirling

Engineer

199 Banks St San Francisco, California 94110 Phone +1 415 259 7096 E-mail earlstirling@yahoo.com

Professional experience

03/00 - 03/01LivemindSan Francisco CA Director of Network and Systems Infrastructure

Headed the departments responsible for ASP Site and internal IS. Started the department from scratch, and built and managed a team of 7 people to set up a Solaris E-commerce farm at Co-lo, including designing policies and procedures for maintaining SLA's with partners, outsourced remote maintenance, and partner support. Personally designed and implemented fully redundant networking and security components. Functionally, the site served WAP to phones worldwide, from syndicated partner databases. I was also responsible for designing all functional product security. Livemind applied for a patent for my combined authenticated/authorization algorithm.

09/99 - 03/00Certicom (previously DRG) Network Architect and Security Consultant

As a consultant for the professional services arm, I was primarily an on- site consultant for Northpoint, the DSL provider. Provided technical expertise for implementing their WAN, LAN (Cisco) and Solaris/Checkpoint firewall, especially during their move of 2000 employees from San Francisco to their new office and data center in East Bay. Other projects for DRG included network security reviews for Billpoint and BigWords?.com.

04/99 - 09/99Power IntegrationsSunnyvale CA Network Architecture Consultant

Installed remote access and authentication system. Managed 75 person network move to a new building including installation of 100 Mb/s wireless network link with only 10 days notice.

02/98 - 04/99University of California San Francisco Manager of Field Operations/Sr. Network Engineer

UCSF has a 24,000 node network, with 80 sites throughout the city, including a 5 node OC-12 ATM star, 45 Mb/s Microwave link to CalBerkeley, 10 Mb/s SMDS link to California Research Network, and an OC-48 Link to Internet-2. UCSF is the largest WAN in Northern California, includes the networks for 3 hospitals, and is PacBell's largest data customer.

-Mgr of Field Ops (2/98-11/98): responsible for fixing all network outages, managing a team of 4 technicians. Escalation support on-call 7x24x365. Managed Field Ops/NOC/Network Management integration. Provided all in-house network technical training. Managed Y2K gear swaps. Implemented all new policies for Operational Continuity. Mean-time-to- recovery dropped by 90% during my tenure.

-Sr. Network Engineer (11/98-4/99): Design and project engineer. Helped implement UCSF's Internet-2/Calren-2 2.4 Gigabit/s on California's first Packet-Over-SONET network. Implemented remote access and AAA, at the time, PacBell's largest rotary hunt group. Generated both technical and user policies.

10/96 - 02/98Tencor (later KLA-Tencor)San Jose, CA Manager of Network Services

Started as manager of Network Infrastructure for Tencor. 1,300 nodes. Managed 5 people. Technical and management lead for all network. Within 3 months of starting, managed moving 1,100 employees to new building on all new gear. Implemented 25 site Frame Relay worldwide WAN, including implementing remote worldwide support by AT&T and NCR. When KLA and Tencor merged, I became the senior manager, and successfully integrated the networks. Linked both campuses over public fiber network (now 3,200 nodes), and merged WAN's into 65 worldwide sites.

08/95 - 10/96Educational Mgmt. AssociatesAnchorage, AK Network Engineer Consultant

Specialized in wireless remote networking for school districts and native corporations in small native villages all over bush Alaska. Also, conversion of SNA networks to TCP/IP and voice over Frame Relay. Traveled to bush communities and provided Internet feeds and in school networks. Provided post-install long distance phone support for local "technical gurus." Emphasis of system design was on reliability and remote supportability.

References

Jens Francis

CTO Panoptic Solutions 408 316 9585 jensfrancis@panopticsolutions.com

Jeff Herzbach Formerly with Certicom 510 541 0480 jeffherz@earthlink.net

Mark Jenkins Director of Enterprise Network Services University of California, San Francisco (415) 476-8837 mjenkins@itsa.ucsf.edu

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