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Integrity. Innovation. Achievement. Excellence.
Unix System Administrator,
Engineering Technical Support (ETech)
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering
& Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road, MS EC33
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: 972-883-2997
Fax: 972-883-2710
Office: ECSN 2.508
Email:
ETech Email: 
Biosketch
Michael Hamblin joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1999 to provide technical support for the rapidly growing research programs in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Mr. Hamblin's talents with workstation desktop support and system administration were quickly recognized, and he was recruited to serve as system administrator for the QuEST Forum TL9000™ Metrics Repository. His quality of work often went beyond the call of duty, earning him the Chlamtac Award for providing solutions for the Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services (CATSS).
After a brief appointment with Information Resources, Mr. Hamblin returned the Erik Jonsson School when his talents and knowledge of the school's unique computational needs were recognized as a strategic asset to the mission of the Electrical Engineering program.
Since that time, due to the growth of the Erik Jonsson School, the mandate of providing support for the Electrical Engineering school has grown considerably to include Telecom Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bio-Engineering (added 2010), managing resources in numerous facilities across the UT Dallas campus. Mr. Hamblin has consistently provided leadership and direction when facing the unique technical challenges of the Erik Jonsson School.
Mr. Hamblin performed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering, with interests in Digital Signal Processing and Embedded Systems Software Development, completing his Senior Design project by developing an 8051 microcontroller based system embedded firmware. In September of 2008, Michael Hamblin married Tiffany I. Keen in Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas. Their first child, Matthew Alexander, was born in December 2009.
Mr. Hamblin's résumé is currently available as an unofficial PDF copy via his website.
Professional Accomplishments
Professional Contributions and Impact
- Provided Exemplary Technical and Customer Support for the Erik Jonsson School, its research faculty, research projects, staff, students, guests, and special projects
- Over ten year track record of providing excellent and reliable solutions and support
- Established and Exemplified Standards of Professionalism
- Established and Standardized Workflow Practices to Streamline Technical Operations
- Senior Technician in ETech. Mentored additional technical staff, lead project teams
- Performed as Solutions Architect for ECS Infrastructure
- Advised, Proposed, and Implemented critical technical solutions for Research Faculty
- Performed System Integration
- Network Architecting
Management Functions
- Senior Technician in ETech. Second to John McConnell, ETech Supervisor
- Provided seamless management of technical operations in supervisor's absence
- Trained and mentored new technical staff, empowering them to be self-directed and motivated.
- Interviewed Applications for multiple positions. Provided hiring recommendations.
- EE-Tech to ETech transition, 2009
- Regularly lead technical project teams
- Performed Departmental Training in a variety of topics (security, software usage, operation of classroom AV podiums and projectors) for a diverse range of audiences (Technical Staff, Faculty, Administrative Staff, Students)
- Experienced in Presentations: Departmental Status Reports, Faculty Meetings, Vender Relations
- Provided Technical Support for Kevin Mitnick
Enterprise Storage Administration
- Sun Microsystems™ Storage 7410 32Tb NAS + iSCSI SAN
- Sun Microsystems™ Storage 7110 6Tb NAS + iSCSI SAN
- Sun Microsystems™ StorEdge 6920 6Tb Fiber Channel SAN
- QLogic® SANbox® 5200 and SANbox® 5600 Fiber Channel fabrics
- Sun Microsystems™ StorEdge A3500 1Tb DAS
- Sun Microsystems™ StorEdge A1000 100Gb DAS
- Dell EqualLogic™ 2Tb iSCSI SAN
- Restored Dell NAS appliance during a catastrophic failure event
- Management and Access Control of NFS Shares
- Manage SAMBA CIFS services and Access Control of CIFS Shares
Enterprise Backup Administration
- Administrated Sun Microsystems™ ETL 4/1800 Jukebox using Sun Microsystems™ StorageTek™ Enterprise
Backup System (EMC Legato)
cure Sparc 10 server - Rearchitected to Overland Storage® NEO® 4000 LTO1 solution
trinity Sun Microsystems™ E250 server, 2003 - Reconfigured Backup Server and added Overland Storage® NEO® 8000 LTO2 and REO® 9000 VTL hardware
- Overhauled trinity to Sun Microsystems™ V240 server to provide Fiber Channel SAN connectivity
- Upgraded Overland Storage® NEO® 8000 library to LTO3
- Upgraded NEO® 4000 from SCSI to Fiber Channel LTO2 Drives
- BakBone® NetVault® Initiative
- NDMP Client Configuration
- Fully Restored Material Science and Engineering Backup Server after Catastrophic Hardware Failure
- Configured TxACE D2D VTL with Sun Microsystems J4400 storage array
- Mozy Internet Backup
Enterprise Systems Administration
- Home Directory Services
- Managed ECSN Data Center and ECSN Data Closet
- casa Sun Microsystems™ Enterprise 250 NFS+SAMBA File Server, Sun Microsystems™ A1000 DAS array
- casa1 SunFire 280R NFS+SAMBA File Server, Sun Microsystems™ A3500 and Sun Microsystems™ A1000 DAS array, VERITAS File System
- core Sun Microsystems™ Enterprise V245 NFS+SAMBA File Server, Fiber Channel Attached to Sun Microsystems™ StorEdge 6920 SAN
- Storage Services
- eenfs Fibre Channel HBA, NFS+CIFS, General Purpose SAMBA CIFS services
- Material Science and Engineering File Server, Dell NAS Appliciance
- NDL Fiber Channel Storage Arrays
- CRSS DAS Device, Veritas File System
- Mechanical Engineering File Server, Sun Microsystems™ Storage 7110 NAS
- TxACE File Server, Sun Microsystems™ Storage 7410 NAS
- jupiter Computational Sun Microsystems™ Server
- Sun Microsystems™ Enterprise 3000, 2 CPUs, 2Gb RAM
- Replaced by Sun Microsystems™ Enterprise 3500, 8 CPUs, 8Gb RAM
- Proposed and Implemented upgrade to Sun Microsystems™ 1280R, 12 CPUs, 24Gb RAM
- Proposed and implemented europa Computational Linux Server, 4 CPU (8 core), 16Gb RAM
- Solarium Student SunRay Lab
- Initial Rollout, Sun Microsystems™ Enterprise 3000, 40 seat SunRay 1, 2000
- Server Rearchitected to dual Sun Microsystems™ SunFire 480Rs in failover configuration, 2001
- Rearchitecting and Major Overhaul: V490, 8 CPUs, 16Gb RAM, expanded to 50 seat SunRay 2 environment, 2006
- License Management
- famine license server
- Proposed and implemented dmv license server
- dmv Rearchitecture to dual Sun Microsystems™ V245, 2007
- Virtualized Windows Server 2008 License Server
- Printer Support and Accounting
- clotho print and DNS server
- Adapted Printer Billing Software for use in the Erik Jonsson School
- Investigation and Recommendation on Digital Copier Infrastructure Replacement, 2005
- Rearchitected Print Server to a Microsoft® Windows Server® solution supporting CIFS, lpr, and lp printing
- Equitrac® Print Management Solution
- Office of Assessment
- Provided Support for Windows Server Infrastucture
- Provided Support on AEFIS™ Implementation
Virtualization Initiatives
- Early academic adopter of VMware® technology. 100 seat license, VMware Workstation, 1999
- Desktop Virtualization Solutions
- VMWare® Workstation
- VMWare® Fusion™
- Oracle® Virtualbox™
- Microsoft® Windows® Virtual PC
- Microsoft® Windows XP Mode
- Bochs
- QEMU
- PearPC
- Researched Enterprise Virtualization Solutions
- VMWare
- VirtualBox
- Virtual Iron
- Xen
- Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2
- Investigated Blade Options for Server Consolidation (Sun Microsystems™ / Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Dell)
- Implemented VMWare® ESX™ Departmental Environment
- Joined VMware Academic Alliance
- Implemented VMWare® vSphere™ for TxACE Project
- VMWare® View™ 4
Workstation Systems Administration
- Performed Primary Management for 120 Sun Microsystems™ Solaris and 50 Linux Workstations and Server
- Deloyed Solaris installations via Jumpstart network installation
- Implemented Kickstart RedHat Linux Network Installation System
- Solarium Student SunRay Lab
- SunRay 1 initial rollout
- SunRay 2 + Flatscreen upgrade, 2006
- Performed Installation of ECS Open Access Lab, 2003
- VLSI CAD Lab
- Managed 20 Sun Microsystems™ Ultra80 workstations for computationally intensive VLSI CAD applications
- Lab Overhauled to 26 seat Blade2500 infrastructure, 2004
- Expanded Lab with Sun Microsystems™ Ultra 45 Workstations, 2007
- Supported RedHat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise, SuSe Enterprise, openSUSE, in addition to other Linux distributions
- Strong familiarity with a variety of Sun Microsystems™ hardware: Sun Microsystems™ Ultra 45, Blade 2500, Blade 2000, Blade 1000, Blade 150, Blade 100, Ultra 60, Ultra 30, Ultra 10, Ultra 5, Ultra 1, SPARCStation 20, SPARCstation 10, SPARCstation 5, SPARCstation 2, SPARCstation 1
- Performed Phased retirement and replacement of legacy hardware in laboratories and faculty desktops
Network Infrastructure
- Performed oversight on a series of network infrastructure upgrades
- Implemented Cisco 2924 switched environment, replacing legacy hub-based infrastructure
- Proposed changes to network topology
- Rearchitected VLAN structure
- Managed of Cisco 2924 and 2960 switches
- Oversaw Wireless deployment, 2003
- Proposed and implemented conversion from public IP addresses to private networks with NAT
- Initiated Wireless 802.11g Deployment
- Network Infrastructure on UPS Battery Backups
- Proposed and initiated Cisco 2960 Gigabit upgrade, 2007
- Proposed Juniper Switching Solutions for Data Center Environment
Power Infrastructure
- Coordinated a series of power infrastructure upgrades with Physical Plant to expand power capacity in ECSN Data Center
- Provided technical contributions to ECS Power Commitee, 2003
- Recommended critical upgrades to diesel power generators
- Replacement of problematic emergency power bus failover switch
- Emergency Power Bus Expansion
- Uninterruptible Power Supply Technologies
- Tripplite
Unmanaged UPS solution, limited usage in ECSN Data Center -
APC® Back-UPS RS 1300
Deployed to select workstations, network printers, and low-grade servers - APC® Smart-UPS XL 750VA Serial
Deployed to network infrastructure to support switching infrastructure, wireless access points, VoIP and PoE devices, Card Readers and Access Control Systems, and Smart Card devices - APC® Matrix-UPS 3kVA 220/230/240V
Deployed in ECSN Data Center, ECSN Data Closet, ECSN Solarium Infrastructure Closet, CRSS Laboratory Data Rack - Mitsubishi 2033A Series UPS 40kVA installed in ECSS Data Center, 2003
- Liebert Npower™ 80kVA On-Line UPS ECSS Data Center expansion, 2009
- Tripplite
Technical Research Support
Providing Essential external systems support to Institutes, Centers, and Labs in the Erik Jonsson School, including but not limited to:
- Center for Robust Speech Systems
(CRSS), Dr. John Hansen
- Sun Microsystems™ V490 with StorEdge3310 and Veritas File System
- Nanometer Design Laboratory (NDL), Dr. Carl Sechen
- Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE), Dr. Kenneth O, et al.
- Photonic Technology and Engineering Center (PhoTEC), Dr. Cyrus Cantrell
- Open Networking Advanced
Research (OpNeAR), Dr. Andrea Fumagalli
- Groundbreaking Linux Deployment in ECS - First ECS lab Linux deployment tied into campus authentication
- Upgraded authentication environment from NIS+ to LDAP
- Performed major workstation expansion of lab environment
- Omega Cluster Network Simulator - Written Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- First ECS RedHat Enterprise Linux deployment
- Analog Electronic Systmes (AES), Dr. Jin Liu, et al.
- Installed initial Sun Microsystems™ Blade 100 Solaris and SunPCi II environments.
- Implemented Sun Microsystems™ Blade 1000 Expansion.
- Installed analog Sun Microsystems™ 280R computational and file server.
- Major expansion in 2006 to Sun Microsystems™ Ultra 45 infrastructure.
- Mixed-Signal & Power IC Lab (MSPIC), Dr. Hoi Lee
- Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS) Dr. Poras Balsara, et al.
- Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL), Dr. Aria Nosratinia
- Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services
(CATSS), Dr. Imrich Chlamtac
Supported a network of SGI Indy IRIX workstations, SGI Challenge IRIX server, and Linux workstations - This is only a limited sample of the number and diversity of research labs ETech supports.
Security Initiatives
- Scriptlogic®
- NeoAccel SSL VPN-Plus
- SunBelt Software Counterspy®
- Solaris system hardening initiaitive
- Network Privitization Initiative
- Cisco IronPort™ S-Series Web Security Appliance Web Proxy Initiative
- McAfee Endpoint Encryption™ Directive
- Member of University Evaluation Team for BigFix® and Configuresoft SCM
- Identity Finder
Events and Incident Response
- Material Science and Engineering Storage Server Recovery Event, November 2008
- StorEdge 6920 recovery event, May 2008
- A3500 recovery event, September 2004
- Power Events, March 2000
- Power Events, Fall 2004
- Power Events, 2007-2009
- Occupation of ECSS Building, 2003
- Physically Installed 180 seat student Open Access Lab
- Migrated Computer Science Laboratories and Equipment
- Installed Network Printers
- Performed Troubleshooting of Wireless Difficulties
- Physically Installed Graduate Unix Laboratories
- Planned and Staged Migration of equipment from ECSN Data Center and ECSN Data Closet to ECSS Data Center
- Blaster Worm Response, August 2003
- Data Compromise Incident response, December 2006 - 2007
- Performed digital forensics for a variety of minor security incidents as needed
Engineering Software Administration
- Cadence®
- Virtuoso® AMS Designer
- Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment
- Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator
- Cadence® OrCAD PSPICE
- Synopsys®
- Design Vision™
- Design Compiler® / Design Analyzer®
- Synthesis
- AvanWaves™
- StarRC™ (formerly Star-RCXT)
- VCS® MX
- Scirocco™
- TetraMAX® and PowerFault IDDQ
- Discovery AMS Simulation Interface Environment
- HSPICE®
- NanoSim
- CosmoScope™
- Taurus Medici
- Taurus TSUPREM-4
- TCAD Sentaurus
- Astro®, Astro® Interactive Ultra, JupiterXT™
- PrimeTime® Suite
- Liberty™ NCX
- IC Compiler
- Cadabra
- Formality®
- SpiceCheck, SpiceExplorer and WaveView Analyzer (formerly Sandworks Spice Explorer)
- Nanotime
- Synplicity Synplify®
- Mentor Graphics®
- Modelsim® SE™
- Calibre® nmLVS
- Austria Micro Systems Hit-Kit
- ANSYS®
- ANSYS® Workbench™
- ANSYS® HFSS™ (formerly Ansoft)
- Mentum Planet® (formerly MSI Planet)
- Xilinx® ISE® Design Suite
- Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS)
- PTC® Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0
- PTC® Mathcad®
- The MathWorks™ Matlab®
- Wolfram Research Mathematica®
- Design Science, Inc. MathType™
- OriginLab® Origin® Data Analysis and Graphing Software
- National Instruments™ LabVIEW
- OPNET®
- Texas Instruments
- TISPICE
- Artisan
- Code Composer Studio™ IDE (CCStudio)
- Altera® Design Suite
- COMSOL Multiphysics®
- Wind River® Simics® (formerlyl Virtutech)
- AWR® Microwave Office®
- IBM®
- ILOG CPLEX
- Rational Rose (formerly Rational® Software)
- Rational® PurifyPlus™ (formerly Rational® Software)
- NetSarang® Xmanager® Enterprise
- OEA International, Inc.
- Post-Layout Workshop (PLWS)
- NET-AN™
- BUS-AN™
- Clock Designer™
- HENRY™
- METAL™
- Magma®
- Sonnet® Suites™ 3D Planar High-Frequency Electromagnetic Software
- VPIphotonics™ VPItransmissionMaker™
- Remcom® XFdtd®
- EM Software & Systems FEKO
- Provided Support for Process Design Kits (PDKs) - MOSIS, IBM, TSMC, TI, UMC, etc.
- Flexera® Software FlexNet Publisher® (formerly GLOBEtrotter Software FLEXlm License Manager)
- MSDN Academic Alliance
- VMware Academic Program
Administrative Software Tools
- Dell™ KACE™ KBOX
- Faronics™ Deep Freeze™
- DAEMON Tools
- GFI LANguard™
- Configuresoft SCM
- FrontRange Solutions HEAT®
- Ecartis Modular Listserver/Mailing List Manager
- Symantec™ PartitionMagic (formerly PowerQuest)
- Diskeeper® Defragmentation Software
- McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®
- McAfee® AntiSpyware Enterprise
- Secunia
- KNOPPIX
- KNOPPIX STD (security tools distribution)
- Darik's Boot And Nuke
- Nagios®
- Splunk®
- Symantec™ Ghost™
- Microsoft® Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK)
Application Software Support
- Productivity Suites
- Microsoft® Office® 95/97/2000/2003/2007/2010 Beta
- Star Office
- OpenOffice.org
- Go-oo
- Encryption Software
- Microsoft® Visio®
- Microsoft® FrontPage®
- Microsoft® Project™
- Microsoft® Visual Studio®
- Microsoft® MSDN®
- Intuit® Quicken®
- Intuit® QuickBooks®
- Thomson-Reuters Endnote®
- Autodesk® AutoCAD®
- Corel® DESIGNER® (formerly Micrografx Designer)
- SpectorSoft® Spector Pro®
- TCP3270: IBM 3270 Terminal Emulation over TCP/IP for Microsoft® Windows
- Nuance®
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- OmniPage® (formerly ScanSoft®)
- PDF Converter (formerly ScanSoft®)
- PDF Create (formerly ScanSoft®)
- Adobe®
- Serif™
- E-Mail Software
- Desktop Videoconferencing and H.323 Solutions
- Skype
- VZOchat™
- Apple® iChat®
- Microsoft® NetMeeting
- Webex
- Team Viewer
- LogMeIn.com
- DimDim
- Antivirus Software
- SunBelt Software Counterspy®, VIPRE®, and VIPRE™ Rescue
- ESET® NOD32 Antivirus
- Symantec AntiVirus
- McAfee AntiVirus / ePolicy Orchestrator / Stinger
- CD/DVD Authoring and Burning Software
- Video Players
- Apple® Quicktime®
- Realplayer
- VLC
- MPlayer
- RealAlternative
- QuickTimeAlternative
- Corel® WinDVD (formerly InterVideo)
- Web Browsers
- Desktop Search Software
Development
- Intensive Rewrite of Information Resources Printer Billing System
- Adapted IR Printer Billing System for use in ECS
- Wrote a variety of administrative perl scripts
- Developed VLSI CAD Tool Profile Scripts
Documentation
- Procedure Development and Practices: built a new technical department from the ground up
- Added critical documentation for Information Resources technical procedures
- Provided updates, corrections, and additions to the UTD Unix FAQ
- Documentation for Solaris jumpstart procedures
- Documentation on procedures for installing engineering software and tools
- Procedures for clean shutdown and restart of ECSN and ECSS Data Center
Certifications and Training
- Sun Microsystems™ StorEdge 6920 Administration - Broomfield, CO December 2006
- BakBone® NetVault®: Backup v8.5 Implementation and Administration Administrator (NAM), March 2010
- BakBone® NetVault®: Backup v8.5 Optimization and Customization Administrator (NAM), March 2010
- Microsoft Windows 7: Installation, Configuration and Administration, June 2010
- Microsoft Windows VISTA with Desktop Deployment
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure Architecture
- Microsoft Active Directory Administration
- Perl Programming
- Introductory SQL (Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008)
Quotes
- "Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito."
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI. Official Motto of The Ludwig von Mises Institute - "The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them."
Dave Barry - "Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."
Henry M. Robert, Robert's Rules of Order preface, 1876 - "The point where living within the truth ceases to be mere negation of
living with a lie and becomes articulate in a particular way is the point at
which something is born that might be called the 'independent spiritual,
social, and political life of society.'"
Václav Havel, in "Power of the Powerless" - "A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of
God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To
put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law
that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 1963) - "The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are
simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow
their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual
pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of
western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda
usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if
one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one
finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are
directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States ..."
George Orwell, in "Notes on Nationalism" (May 1945) - "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty
may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so
with the approval of their own conscience."
C.S. Lewis - "Instead of making our theological seminaries merely centres of religious
emotion, we shall make them battle-grounds of the faith, where, helped a
little by the experience of Christian teachers, men are taught to fight
their own battle, where they come to appreciate the real strength of the
adversary and in the hard school of intellectual struggle learn to
substitute for the unthinking faith of childhood the profound convictions of
full-grown men."
J. Gresham Machen, 1913 - "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the
story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is
about to conquer the highest peak, as he pulls himself over the final rock,
he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for
centuries."
Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers