Earl Stirling
Engineer
199 Banks St
San Francisco, California 94110
Phone
+1 415 259 7096
E-mail
[email protected]
Professional experience
03/00 - 03/01 Livemind San 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 - 03/00 Certicom (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 - 09/99 Power Integrations Sunnyvale 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 - 04/99 University 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 - 02/98 Tencor (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 - 10/96 Educational Mgmt. Associates Anchorage, 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
[email protected]
Jeff Herzbach
Formerly with Certicom
510 541 0480
[email protected]
Mark Jenkins
Director of Enterprise Network Services
University of California, San Francisco
(415) 476-8837
[email protected]
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