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As you may notice, I work in a fairly corporate business unit of the University
within 5 levels of organization. We also have a habit of changing names of
everything. The tree below shows approximately where I exist in this organization
and where my responsibilities lie.
[-] The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
| formerly The Farmers High School, Agricultural College of
| Pennsylvania and The Pennsylvania State College
|
[-] Information Technology Services (ITS),
| formerly The Computation Center and Computer and Information Systems (C&IS)
|
[-] Administrative Information Services (AIS)
| formerly the Office of Administrative Systems
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[-] Applied Information Technology (AIT)
| formerly Advanced Information Technology; formerly reported to Center for Academic Computing,
| Academic Services and Emerging Technologies and Consulting and Support Systems
|
[-] Enabling Technologies Group
| formerly UNIX Systems and Technical Solutions Group
|
[-] Jeff D'Angelo - Manager / Research Programmer
| formerly Penn State Computer Science and Engineering
| undergraduate student and Systems Analyst / Programmer
|
[+] MIT Kerberos maintenance and updates: Supervise staff and perform
| technical research, development and management of Penn State's central
| authentication system, including security analysis, performance
| analysis and application development. Currently performance testing
| University of Michigan replication with MIT's variant of Sun
| Microsystem's incremental propagation.
|
[+] Penn State Directory Service: Supervise staff and perform technical
| research, development and management of Penn State's central LDAP-based
| directory service. Current research projects include team redesign of
| data management software, redesign of account groups including support
| for group nesting, persuit of InCommon Silver certification,
| integration with new IAM project person affiliations, and continuous
| integration support with various 3rd party applications. Future
| projects may include departmental customer translucent overlays service
| for customizing user attributes to unit systems.
|
[+] PASS: 2008 DFS to GPFS Migration Project technical lead; Responsible
| for management of service provisioning, system technical analysis,
| research and development. Previous principal developer of
| discretionary security mechanisms and interfaces, quota management, and
| lead application developer; now group supervisor and secondary
| developer.
|
[+] Web hosting services: Supervise staff and previously personally
| responsible for configuration and upgrades to various Web servers
| including www.psu.edu, www.personal.psu.edu, www.courses.psu.edu,
| www.clubs.psu.edu, www.dept.psu.edu, and over 70 virtually hosted web
| hosts for various units, log management and other related services.
|
[+] Dynamic Content Application Engines: Supervise
| staff and previously personally responsible for
| developing scalably secure systems to deliver dynamic
| Web content from individual Penn State students, staff and
| faculty; student organizations; courses; departments,
| colleges and other units; and various projects of the
| University's Web sites. Development continues on providing
| relational database access and account management tools.
|
[+] Penn State Search Engine: Previously responsible
| for configuration and management of Penn State's primary search engine,
| search.psu.edu, which was:
| - 2003-2006 a Google Search Appliance model GB-5005, version 3.x
| - 2006-2009 a Google Search Appliance model GB-5005, version 4.x
| - 2009-2010 redundant, load balanced Google Search Appliances model GB-7007, version 5.x
| - since replaced by a Google Site Search (managed by another unit)
|
[+] AIT Linux and Solaris Systems Administration manager: Supervise staff
| and perform tertiary 22/7/365 support of AIT's Linux, Solaris and
| VMware based infrastructure. Used to also manage Windows team.
|
[+] Active Directory and Windows Update services: Supervise staff
| and perform tertiary 22/7/365 support and management of an Active
| Directory service which uses an external trust to the MIT Kerberos
| realm for authentication. [ Supervisor duty passed to another manager in 2012 ]
|
[+] Unix support: Provide email support for the ITS UNIX
| Cluster, install and maintain software.
|
[-] Various account and UNIX systems management applications
| |
| [+] CACTUS perl scripts: perform changes to DFS GPFS such as
| | creating/deleting filesets (PASS home folders), setting
| | quota, linking PASS space www folders to the Personal
| | Web server, etc
| |
| [+] DFS GPFS (PASS) maintenance and monitoring scripts
| |
| [+] Various directory (LDAP, AD) management applications written in C, Perl.
| |
| [+] dcerchacl: a recursive DCE/DFS (PASS) ACL tool
| |
| [+] pacl (PASS Access Control List tool): A recursive command
| line permissions tool capable of setting NFSv4 based GPFS
| (PASS) permissions using simplified permission types,
| service provision specific templates and compound operations
| using a shared compiled C library.
|
[-] Specific Web applications: Responsible for maintenance of,
| | and in some cases written, the following:
| |
| [+] PASS File Permissions Manager: a Web-based permissions
| | manager (wizard) based on pacl available through the
| | PASS Explorer.
| |
| [+] Student Organization Web Service Management System
| | https://admin.clubs.psu.edu/
| |
| [+] Google Search Appliance Custom Search Results (XSLT) Generator
| http://aset.its.psu.edu/googledocs/custom_style.html Phased
| out after GSA shutdown in 2010
|
[-] Presentations, courses and other useful artifacts