Kevin Stanchfield
Office phone: (818) 354-6333
e-mail: Kevin.A.Stanchfield (at) jpl.nasa.gov

Purpose

To obtain a position which challenges me to grow my skills in the fields of computer security, information technology, and the administration of state-of-the-art computation hardware.

Education

1993-1996

California State Polytechnic University of Pomona - Computer Information Systems major. (Degree incomplete)

Certifications (provided by Brainbench.com for NASA Jan. 2, 2008)

• NASA certified Unix Systems Administrator.

• NASA certified Linux Systems Administrator.

• NASA certified Network Security Specialist.

Experience

March 3, 2008 - present
Senior IT security / Unix Systems Administrator for the Communications Architectures and Research Section at NASA/JPL. On February 29th (leap year), 2008 I quit my contract position with Columbus Technologies and Services and was was hired directly to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a CalTech employee.

August 2000 - Feburary 29, 2008
Unix System Administrator for Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc., contracted to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). At JPL, I am the sole administrator of five separate NIS domains, consisting of around 40 Sun workstations/servers and about 40 Linux workstations. One of the NIS domains under my responsibility is a network which provides computing resources for data acquisition by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, centered around a 70-meter telescope in the California high desert north of Barstow. Another domain provides data analysis computing resources for research on asteroids which closely approach the Earth. I am also the administrator of a 34-node Linux "grid" computer, using Sun Microsystems Grid Engine software. Other technologies used include: OpenSSH, NFS, OpenLDAP, Perl, and Bash scripting. I also maintain multiple Sendmail and Postfix e-mail servers which use Tripwire to detect intruders and SpamAssassin to reduce unwanted emails.

In addition to Unix systems administration and integration, I am also the lead IT Security administrator for seven different JPL Information Technology Security Plans, containing over 1000 computer systems. I am responsible for ensuring that NASA's strict computer security guidelines are enforced. This includes both the documentation and implementation of the necessary IT security measures, as well as interfacing with JPL's IT security system. These responsibilities include patching system software, monitoring logs, maintaining the operability of network services (OpenSSH, NFS, NIS), and implementing firewall rules via JPL's PAR system.

Oct. 1995 - August 2000
Five years working with SupplyEdge (formerly Cogent Software) of Pasadena in progressively more responsible positions. Jobs titles included Technical Support, IT Consultant, Web Designer, and Systems Administrator. Originally I worked with Solaris on Sparc, Ultra, and Enterprise class servers, but I was largely responsible for helping the company transition from slow and expensive Sun hardware to fast and cheap Linux systems, saving the company thousands of dollars. SupplyEdge was a mission critical operation, where all systems needed to be available 24/7.

References available on request.