岩手県教育委員会 (Iwate Prefectural Board of Education)
岩手県立遠野高等学校 (Tōno Senior High School)

ASSISTANT LANGUAGE TEACHER (ALT)

Promote internationalisation and international exchanges at the community level; participate in the improvement of foreign language education; seek better understanding of the Japanese culture and language.

• Introduction and integration of Open Source software in an academic environment;
• introduction of VoIP technology to improve communications with overseas exchange program partners and reduce costs;
• programming of various tools to automate generation and control of interactive multimedia presentations;
• setting up a video editing studio entirely based on Open Source software.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Lead the technological aspect of the corporation; elaborate product and services R&D strategies by applying available knowledge and skill to fulfill current and future customer needs; oversee evolution and operations of the network infrastructure.

• Planning and execution of a complete overhaul of the IP addressing plan and routing architecture;
• negociation of two major service provider contracts and management of the associated transitions;
• migration and standardization of all service infrastructure servers from various Microsoft operating systems to Debian GNU/Linux.
• integration of multiple spam filtering systems in Mustang's heavily customized qmail/qpsmtpd mail servers;

Systems Engineering / Network Integration

NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Provide customers with network integration services, e.g. network design and architecture, engineering and performing end-to-end test plans, system-wide security analysis, establish or verify network element provisioning, be it on carrier-class networks that combine voice and data traffic or on small-scale LANs.

• Project prime, transitioning Ministère des Affaires Municipales et de la Métropole's core IP network to a new redundant architecture based on Nortel carrier-grade switch-routers;
• project prime for design, implementation and testing of the global out-of-band administration network for Worldwide Fiber (now 360 Networks) connecting every element of WFI's high-speed SONET network with their Network Operations Centers;
• project prime for design, implementation and testing of a data communication network for Basin Electric;
• design of network management data communication networks for China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile;
• testing and verification of Teligent's wireless point-to-multipoint network;
• installation, configuration and testing of the network monitoring and provisioning system for SBC's Internet Thruway.

Information Technology Security group

COMPUTER AND NETWORK SECURITY UNIT

• participate in the product review of Borderware Firewall Server 5.0;
• program in Perl a sendmail extension processing internal classified mail to control e-mail access to remote sites, expand mailing lists, verify classification levels, perform attachment conversion on the fly and route messages to the appropriate servers;
• webmaster for CSE's external web server;

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

• Ensure the availability of a network of Sun and x86 servers running SunOS 5.x as well as various Cisco, Ascend, Gandalf and US Robotics technologies being used to uplink customers to the Internet;
• prevent, find, analyze and correct security breaches;
• program applications to facilitate the personnel's routine tasks;
• participate in the training of new employees;
• offer technical support to the customers.

Information Technology dept. - Network Group

NETWORK AND UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION

• Participate in the administration of the local area network hardware;
• install and maintain various Unix systems (running SunOS 4 and 5, HP/UX and Linux), including WWW, DNS, NIS and Sendmail servers, as well as telecommuting tools;
• program Perl-based network monitoring tools using SNMP;
• implement authentication mechanisms for web-based tools;
• offer last-line Unix technical support to local users.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

• Manage various Unix (SunOS, ESIX) servers running WWW, DNS, UUCP and NEWS services;
• meet corporate customers to analyze their needs and install hardware and software for Internet connectivity;
• present Internet technologies to the public in trade shows, conferences.

• Building a Linux-based firewall controlling access from/to five networks, featuring NAT, PPTP VPN forwarding, mail relay, IP accounting and selective logging of internal network usage;
• setting up a full-featured mail server handling over 250 domains and 2500 users;
• installation of various server and application software.

• Analysis of available hardware and design of a new network architecture connecting Sun SPARC servers and workstations, PCs and a Mac;
• setting up a Linux-based firewall performing network address translation and tunneling of corporate data for remote use;
• installation of various server and application software including CDE, gcc, sendmail, samba, cap, pop3, Apache, SSH, RCS & CVS;
• train a system administrator for the new architecture.