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-
   level Computer Science courses.  (On sabbatical from teaching
   2008-06-15 to 2009-06-15.)

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

			    Education

*  Master of Mathematics, 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.

			 Work Experience

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


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).








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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
*  Many years of experience (1976 to present) with several
   variants of UNIX/Linux on various hardware 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
   - 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.





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Current Microsoft/Apple Experience
*  Windows 9x networking and customization; Cygwin UNIX toolkit;
   Win4Lin; VMware

*  Apple OSX (Darwin BSD UNIX) installation and customization


Other Experience
*  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 Attributes and Skills

*  Family: Married to midwife Jan Teevan; step-father to three
   young adults aged 24 - 29.

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

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

*  Amateur theatre and television: improv performer, director,
   actor, writer, producer.
   Board Member of a Company of Fools theatre troupe (2007) -
   www.fools.ca

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

*  Electronics/Electrical: Hobbyist, X10 (BSR) home automation.

*  Music: Piano, guitar, flute, recorder.

		     Links to this Document

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












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