Senior Network Engineer
Core Network Support
University of Florida OIT Network Services
I am involved in supporting the University of Florida's Campus Core Network. The network
consists of a dual switched gigabit ethernet backbone linking over 400
departmental subnets to campus computing resources to the Internet and
Internet II. The network currently routes IP, IPX, and Appletalk; SNA
traffic is carried via DLSw+ tunnels.
Fall 2007 work schedule
(Note that this changes at least once a
semester!)
- Monday 8:00am - 5:00pm === 8 hours
- Tuesday 5:00am - 3:00pm === 9 hours
- Wednesday 8:00am - 5:00pm === 8 hours
- Thursday 7:00am - 3:00pm === 7 hours
- Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm === 8 hours
Current projects
- Lead engineer and network liason to UF Bridges, the campus Enterprise
Resource Planning group (Handing this off soon - yay!)
- Becoming acquainted with the ins and outs of Florida Lambda Rail
- Manning the support phones and wishing I could mask off that
particular interrupt long enough to actually accomplish something
- Redoing my Cisco certifications from scratch, and maybe this time
around bulling my way through to getting my CCIE cert (you should live so
long!)
- Finding an effective, cheap groupware solution for the office,
that everyone would buy into (That's the hard part)
job)
- Convincing my boss that I am getting enough sleep at night
Fellow Travellers
- Dan Miller - Our fearless leader, who instructs us to, "BE the
router" (email)
- Greg Ayoub - VoIP support and old Camaros (email)
- Eli Bothe - Documentation, drawings, inventory, and whatever else
Sheridan can slough off on him (email)
- Chris Griffin - Chief core configurator and major cog in the Florida Lambda Rail
machinery (email)
- Matt Grover - Juggler
of wireless, Sniffers, expensive pooches, flight simulators, and small
children (email)
- Pete Mauro - Dean of the Department of Dialup, Keeper of the VoIP (email)
- Sheridan Rudolph - The guy what keeps our inventory inventoried, gets
our orders ordered, and makes sure the budget is budgeted (email)
- Robert Scott - jack-of-all-trades, recently acquired from UCF in
exchange for a third-round draft pick, my replacement as Bridges ERP jockey
(poor sod) (email)
- Ryan Vaughn - Internet
PoPmeister, Duke of Acronyms (CCNP, CCDP, CCSI, BYOB, etc) (email)
- Nancy Watson - Queen of Database, Precocious Perl Programmer, former fiber
goddess (email)
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at bhm@ufl.edu
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collection.