Ian  D.  Allen





	       22 Oak Street	    Telephone: +1 (613) 235‐6216
	       Ottawa, Ontario,     E‐Mail: idallen@idallen.ca
	       Canada.	 K1R 6S9    WWW: http://www.idallen.com/


				    Summary

       *  Professor of Computer Studies (1996 to present)
	  Preparation, delivery, and assessment of community college
	  Computer Science courses.

       *  UNIX/Linux® Computer Systems Administrator (1980 to present)
	  Operating system set‐up, networking, security, programming,
	  and friendly support.

				   Education

       *  Master of Mathematics (MMath), Computer Science, University of
	  Waterloo 1985.
	  Emphasis on software engineering, debugging, and
	  human/computer interaction.

       *  Honours Bachelor of Arts (Dean’s List), Psychology,
	  University of Waterloo, 1980.
	  Specialized in counselling and social psychology.

			   Selected Work Experience

       Community College Professor (1996 to present)
	  (http://teaching.idallen.com/) Developing curriculum and
	  teaching students at the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and
	  Technology.  Current topics: UNIX/Linux script programming,
	  Linux for programmers, Web/CGI programming, TCP/IP network
	  programming, UNIX/Linux system administration, computer
	  architecture.  Prior topics: intermediate C programming
	  (compiler writing), Windows 9x, Visual Basic, IBM OS/390 (MVS
	  JCL).




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       Network Technical Director (3 years, to 1996) http://www.ncf.ca/
	  Responsible for technical management, design, and programming
	  at the 60,000‐member National Capital FreeNet (NCF), Canada’s
	  largest community network.  Supervised NCF’s adoption of WWW
	  and PPP technology under UNIX (SunOS/Solaris).


       Research Systems Manager (5 years, to 1993)
	  (http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/) Responsible for a network of 50
	  UNIX computers in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the
	  University of Waterloo.  Configured, upgraded, and modified
	  most areas of the UNIX/Ultrix system environment to support
	  academic research.  Some real‐time message‐passing programming
	  experience under the NRC Harmony operating system.


       Head of Math User Services (3 years, to 1988)
	  (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/) Supervised a staff of seven
	  student consultants in the Mathematics Faculty Computing
	  Facility at the University of Waterloo.  Solved faculty,
	  staff, and student problems on computers ranging from
	  Honeywell DPS‐8 main‐frames to networked UNIX/Ultrix super‐
	  mini’s and Sun workstations.

		      Academic Standings and Scholarships

       *  MMath: Master of Mathematics, Computer Science, University of
	  Waterloo, 1985.

       *  BA: Honours Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of
	  Waterloo, 1980.

       *  Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
	  (NSERC) Graduate Scholarship 1981.

       *  Province of Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 1982.

       *  Faculty of Arts Dean’s List, University of Waterloo, 1980.

       *  Faculty of Arts Scholarships, University of Waterloo, 1974 −
	  1978.

			Operating Systems and Languages

       Current Unix/Linux Experience
       *  Decades of experience (1976 to present) with several variants
	  of UNIX/Linux on various hardware platforms and virtually
	  under VMware.  This includes:

	  − Unix/Linux systems administration
	  − X‐Windows installation (xdm, xrdb, etc.)
	  − Protocols: HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3, etc.
	  − Samba, Apache, News, sendmail, postfix,
	    DNS/bind, Shorewall, troff/groff, etc.
	  − system and network security; ssh, NAT, firewalls



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	  − network and communications programming, iptables
	  − Unix/Linux kernel configuration and installation
	  − C programming, Perl, PHP, Java, CGI, RRDTool,
	    rsync, sh/csh/awk/sed scripting, etc.



       Non‐Unix Experience
       *  Some Windows 9x, XP networking and customization

       *  Windows Cygwin UNIX toolkit; Win4Lin; VMware

       *  Minor Apple OSX (Darwin BSD UNIX) installation and
	  customization

       *  My past experience, mostly academic, also includes the
	  following:

	  − assembler: PDP‐11, GCOS, IBM‐PC
	  − real‐time O/S: RT‐11, Harmony [NRC]
	  − IBM mainframes: VM/CMS, TSO, JES3, JCL
	  − Macintosh System 6/7 (MPW C, Hypercard)
	  − legacy languages: COBOL, FORTRAN, PL‐1,
		Pascal, ALGOL, SNOBOL, MODULA2, etc.


				 Miscellaneous

       *  Family: Married to midwife Jan Teevan; step‐father to three
	  young adults aged 26 − 31.

       *  Languages: English, Conversational French, a very little
	  German/Esperanto.

       *  Leadership training: Context Associated Excellence Series,
	  Mastery graduate.

       *  Theatre: amateur actor, improviser, director, writer,
	  producer.

       *  Board Member of a Company of Fools professional theatre troupe
	  ‐ http://fools.ca

       *  Arts: Contact improv dance, calligraphic lettering, posters,
	  layout, digital photography.

       *  Electronics Hobbyist, X10 (BSR) home automation.

       *  Music: Piano, guitar, flute, recorder.

			    Links to this Document

       *  http://www.idallen.com/resume/





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