Jeffrey Alan Weisberg

2601 Pennsylvania Avenue
Apartment 942
Philadelphia, PA 19130
215-787-0783 (Home)
215-601-9276 (Cell)
jaw @ ieee.org


Objective


 I have a passion for Internet technology engineering, and am seeking a multi-faceted position dealing with Internet Technologies. Skilled at architecting and implementing solutions to a wide variety of problems from security to redundancy to building networks to system administration to programming. Experiences range from getting hands dirty coding to leading teams.

Experience

2004 -    VoiceStar (a Marchex Company)
Chief Technology Officer

2001-2004    Consulting

Provided a number of Internet solutions to various companies. Some examples:

  • Large advertising company - Provided recommendations on network upgrades to improve capacity and reliability. Assisted with network migration. Implemented BGP, OSPF, and HSRP. Trained staff.
  • Consulting company - Designed and built reference implementation of a Traffic Capture and Analysis product for use in national infrastructure protection.
  • Suburban Private School - Analyzed network and firewall, provided recommendations for improving security.

1999 - 2001    NetReach Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
NetReach was a provider of Internet solutions focusing on advanced web development, e-commerce, and mission-critical hosting.

  • Managed team of network operations and system administration staff.
  • Trained other employees in cisco IOS, UNIX, TCP/IP, routing, and programming.
  • Designed and built large regional T1/T3/SMDS/ATM/FR cisco-based network.
  • Designed and built numerous large 10/100/1000 ethernet based LANs.
  • Designed and deployed OSPF/BGP/HSRP routing across network.
  • Designed and deployed 802.1q VLAN technology.
  • Built and administrated large number of Sun/Solaris/Linux/UNIX servers.
  • Developed and deployed high-availability and redundant web server arrays using cisco routers, switches, and load-balancers.
  • Developed and deployed high-availability and redundant email, DNS, and web servers using cisco and Sun based equipment running sendmail, qmail, bind, and apache.
  • Wrote perl software to monitor company's networks, servers, and telecommunications facilities.
  • Wrote web, SQL, and perl based application for documenting and tracking company's and customer's servers, routers, and telecommunications facilities.
  • Wrote numerous programs in C, C++, perl, and SQL to simplify deployment of new services for customers.
  • Wrote software to track, allocate, audit, and SWIP IP address blocks.
  • Worked to deploy services for customers and troubleshoot problems with networks, servers, and telecommunications facilities.
  • Improved security of company and customer networks using servers, routers, switches, and firewalls from various vendors.
  • Improved security of company Sun/Solaris/Linux/BSD servers.
  • Worked with other departments in company to develop technical solutions to internal and external customer problems.
  • Interfaced with telecommunication companies for negotiating, provisioning, and troubleshooting telecommunication facilities.
  • ... and documented all of it.

1995-1999    OpNet Inc.
President and Founder
OpNet was one of Philadelphia's first regional Internet Service Providers.

  • Started one of the first Philadelphia area ISPs.
  • Designed and built regional ISP from scratch -- offering dialup, ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay, leased-line connectivity and web-hosting on a Sun/Cisco/Lucent infrastructure.
  • Responsible for all engineering, architecture, day-to-day operation and security of TCP/IP network and UNIX servers.
  • Designed and deployed OSPF/BGP routing across network.
  • Built and administrated large number of Sun/Solaris/Linux/UNIX servers.
  • Developed and deployed high-availability and redundant email, DNS, and web servers using cisco and Sun based equipment.
  • Wrote numerous programs in C, C++, perl, and SQL to simplify deployment of new services for customers.
  • Worked to deploy services and troubleshoot problems with networks, servers, and telecommunications facilities.
  • Wrote C, C++, perl, and SQL software to track and bill customer services.
  • Wrote RADIUS server in C for user authentication.
  • Improved security of company and customer networks using routers, switches, and firewalls from various vendors.
  • Improved security of company Sun/Solaris/Linux/BSD servers.

    Note: OpNet was acquired by NetReach (above).

Education


 University of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science
        1994 M.S. Electrical Engineering
        1992 B.S. Engineering and Applied Science

5 to 10 years Experience with

Hardware - Sun Sparc & 68k, x86 PC, Cisco routers and switches, Lucent routers & terminal servers

Operating Systems - UNIX, Solaris, BSD, Linux, Cisco IOS, ComOS

Programming - perl, C, C++, HTML, SQL, postscript, assembler, lisp, forth

Software - sendmail, INN, BIND, apache, NFS, NIS, amd

Network Technologies - T1, T3, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SMDS, PPP, HDLC, DSL, ethernet, 802.11, 802.1q

Protocols - OSPF, BGP, RIP, TCP/IP, IPv6, SMTP, NNTP, POP, SNMP, HTTP, NTP, DHCP, RADIUS, DNS

Organizations


 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
North American Network Operators Group (NANOG)
Federal Bureau of Investigation InfraGard + CIDA

Major Community Contributions
  • Wrote original implementation of the widely-deployed SYN-Cookie defense against SYN attacks
  • Author of Argus System and Network Monitoring Software
  • Author of popular Usenet autoresponder, feeding and statistics software