Draft Curriculum Vitae of Johann Botha Mr. Johannes Lodewicus Botha blio Corporation Director Contact Details <..removed..>, http://www.swimgeek.com/, +27 21 683 1563, +27 ..removed.. Street Address 30 Bisset Road, Newlands, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7700, South Africa Postal Address PO Box 3472, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, 7602, South Africa $Id: joecv.xml,v 1.1 2002/09/29 13:22:12 joe Exp $ Copyright (c) 2002 Johann L. Botha All trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective owners.All other material is owned by Johann L. Botha. All rights reserved. Abstract o Produced with DocBook XML V4.3 / XSLT using Free Software o Latest version available at http://www.swimgeek.com/career/cv/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Summary Personal Details Language Proficiency Skills Key Skills Unix/OS Skills Software Development Skills Networking and ISP Industry Skills Misc Work Experience Professional Education Academic Background Tertiary Education School Free Software and Non-Profit Projects Current Interests and Research Sport Hobbies References Summary Johann has a wide range of experience in the Information and Communications Technology industry. Motivated and independently thinking. First-class analytical, design and problem solving skills. Full of energy and charisma yet diplomatic and professional. Versatile with a good sense of humour. Successful two-year track record in running small businesses. Personal Details Table 1. Summary of Personal Information +----------------------------------------------+ | Summary | | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Date of Birth | 4 July 1977 | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Age | 25 | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Sex | Male | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Citizenship | Republic of South Africa | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Place of Birth | Pretoria, South Africa | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Marital Status | Single | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Smoking | No | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Vehicle License | Yes | |-------------------+--------------------------| | Criminal Offences | None | +----------------------------------------------+ Language Proficiency Table 2. Summary of Language Skills +----------------------------------------------+ | Language | Skill | |-----------+----------------------------------| | English | Speak / Read / Write (Excellent) | |-----------+----------------------------------| | Afrikaans | Speak / Read / Write (Excellent) | +----------------------------------------------+ Skills Key Skills o Unix Systems Administration o Network Management o Web-based Database-driven Systems Design and Development Unix/OS Skills o GNU/Linux since February 1997, kernel 2.0.17 o FreeBSD since August 1999, ver3.2 o OpenBSD since October 1999, ver2.5 o Solaris since April 2000 o Cisco IOS since July 2000, ver11+ o AIX, SCO, HP-UX, BeOS, OS/2 Software Development Skills o PHP, Perl, C, sh, PLPgSQL, sed, awk, GNU Make o Relational Databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL o PKI Crypto, GnuPG o Version Control, CVS o XML, (X)HTML, CSS, DocBook XML, XSLT, LaTeX Networking and ISP Industry Skills o Cisco platform experience: 800, 1600, 1700, 2500, 2600, 4500 series o Firewalls/NAT and Security, IPFW, IPF, IPTables o General IP Routing, BGP4 o DNS Management Systems, based on djbDNS and OpenLDAP o Mail Servers, Qmail-LDAP, Exim o Web Servers, Apache-ssl, Publicfile o IP Space Planning and Migration o IP Accounting, Graphing and Statistics o FTP, Proxy, NTP, NFS, Kerberos, LDAP and Public Key Servers Misc o Lecturing Technical Training Courses o Touch Type 50wpm on the DVORAK Keyboard Layout Work Experience o May 2002 to Current :: Sair GNU/Linux Training for IT Intellect Cape Town : Part Time Contract Lecturing GNU/Linux Training Courses with topics ranging from basic Unix philosophy to Security, Administration and Networking. o July 2001 to Current :: saproperty.com Cape Town : Full Time Employment Currently working for saproperty.com, in a role ranging from architecture design, systems administrator, database administrator and developer to support and project management. The saproperty.com system is an XML, PKI-crypto B2B exchange listing properties for the nine largest real estate agencies in South Africa, completely running on free software with an uptime of more than a year, serving an average of more than 10,000 page impressions a day. Extensive use of relational databases, XML, LDAP directory services, Public Key Cryptography encrypted eMail containing XML. PHP, Apache, PosgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Qmail-LDAP, PureFTPd, GnuPG, djbdns, Debian GNU/Linux, PKS PublicKey Server. Central authentication of services using LDAP for an excess of7000 property agents. o May 2001 to Current :: blio Corporation Cape Town : Small Business Co-founded a startup Embedded Systems Company called the blio Corporation which is currently in the development phase of a product range of network appliances and security devices. o December 2000 to Current :: Independent Online, IOL.co.za Cape Town : Full Time Employment Worked for the Independent News and Media group's IOL.co.za, a news portal which currently ships is excess of 10 GBytes of traffic a day or more than 10 million page impressions per month. Experience in being part of the team managing and building the content management systems and database back ends for this high load database driven web services environment. Primarily using FreeBSD, MySQL and PHP. Informix, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware. o July 2000 to Current :: Frogfoot Networks Cape Town / Stellenbosch : Small Business Co-founded an ISP called Frogfoot Networks and gained valuable networking and business experience. Frogfoot is currently running smoothly and growing at a good rate. Frogfoot runs almost completely on Free Software and provides a very stable environment for corporate fixed line clients. At the time of writing Frogfoot has servers with uptimes in excess of 465 days. Cisco Routers, Qmail, Apache, FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux, Traffic Graphing,LDAP authentication systems. o July 2000 to November 2000 :: Visoft (Pty) Ltd. Stellenbosch : Full Time Employment Worked as a Systems Administrator for a Java Development House.Experience with running and supporting Java technology. Managing eMail systems, firewalls, routers and source repository. Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Qmail, Exim, Apache, CVS o January 2000 to March 2002 :: Linux Touch screen Kiosk Project Stellenbosch : Part Time Contracting Developed and built a Touch Screen Information Kiosk for a Hardware store to display inventory and price comparisons. The touch screen interfaced with a Pastel accounting back end for stock info and pricing. Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Touch screen Hardware o December 1999 to June 2000 :: E*Trade Africa, ETS Stellenbosch : Full Time Employment Worked for a company building the E*TRADE Africa Online Trading System as Unix Systems Administrator and DBA.Experience developing and supporting high availability systems with load balancing related to mission critical web applications.Gained knowledge of the JSE's trading system, news feeds and real time share price information systems. Debian GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, Apache, PHP, Perl, PosgreSQL, Exim, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware, SSL accelerator hardware, Cisco LocalDirector load balancing hardware. o June 1998 to February 1999 :: Chet Chemicals Johannesburg, Kempton Park : Full Time Contract Gained a wide range of experience in a diverse IT environment ranging from development work, systems administration to end user support.System Administration of company Wide Area Network connecting four remote sites using, 3Com Routers. Developed an integrated Proof of Delivery Document Scanning and Achieving System. Debian GNU/Linux, Samba, Perl, HP-UX o 1997 :: South African Department of Land Affairs Pretoria : Part Time Contract Worked as systems administrator and web developer. HTML, CGI, SNMP, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware Professional Education o 1996, 1997 :: Iscor Mining Bursary Training Ellisras Grootegeluk Coal Mine Industrial Process Monitoring and Production Environmental Modelling Academic Background Tertiary Education I was awarded bursaries from Iscor Mining and the SA Air force to study Engineering. Chose the Iscor bursary and to study at Stellenbosch University. o 1999 :: B.Sc Computer Science, Stellenbosch University o 1996 to 1998 :: B.Eng Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University Societies and Sport o 1999 :: Stellenbosch University Wine Culture Society Committee Member, Organiser of the Wine of the Month Club o March 1999 :: Became a licensed Amateur Radio (HAM) Operator o 1996 to 1999 :: Stellenbosch University Underwater Club 1997/1998 :: Committee Member, Secretary 1996 to 1999 :: Maties Underwater Hockey 1st Team o 1996 :: Stellenbosch University Residence, Huis Marais Sport Representative for the Swimming Team Squash Team School o 1991-1995 :: Matric, Menlo Park High School Pretoria, Higher Grade, Afrikaans Medium o 1984-1990 :: Grade School, Pretoria East Grade School Pretoria, Afrikaans Medium Table 3. School Subjects +------------------------------+ | Subject | Symbol | |---------------------+--------| | Afrikaans | C | |---------------------+--------| | English | B | |---------------------+--------| | Mathematics | C | |---------------------+--------| | Applied Mathematics | C | |---------------------+--------| | Science | B | |---------------------+--------| | Computer Science | A | |---------------------+--------| | Accounting | C | +------------------------------+ o 1995 :: Supervisor of School Novell Netware Lan o 1995 :: Provincial Underwater Hockey Colours Northern Transvaal A Team o 1991 to 1995 :: Member of School First Swimming Team o 1993 to 1995 :: Member of School B Squash Team Table 4. Summary of School Awards +---------------------------------+ | Award Received | Year | |------------------+--------------| | Academic Colours | 1991 to 1995 | |------------------+--------------| | Swimming Colours | 1991 to 1995 | +---------------------------------+ Free Software and Non-Profit Projects I am a strong believer in the principles and values of Free Software.Basically the freedom and liberty of software and the people who use the software. I've been running Unix on all my desktop machines for more than 6 years. o 1996 to Current :: Debian - The Universal Operating System I am a Debian GNU/Linux Developer and I admire Debian's pragmatic idealism,the scale of the project and its success in producing high quality software. o 2000 to Current :: Western Cape GNU/Linux User Group I am a member of the Western Cape GNU/Linux User Group (CLUG) Committee where I keep in touch with the local Free Software community and give occasional lectures at the group's meetings. For the last two years I've been in charge of the design and manufacture of the propaganda clothing sold by the group at the Cape Computer Fair. o 2001 to Current :: The Hub Peering Point Project I am a co-founder of The Hub, a group of people working on a project in the interest of better Internet Traffic Exchange or Peering in Cape Town. o 1997 to 1998 :: Stellenbosch GNU/Linux User Group Founding Member of the Stellenbosch LUG I am a member of ISOC and it's South African chapter and take a keen interest in general Internet matters like discussions on the NANOG and IOZ mailing lists. ISOC, AfriNIC, AfNOG, Afrispa, ISPA, PAVIX, CTUF, CITI. Current Interests and Research o DocBook XML/XSLT, XHTML, CSS2 o LDAP, DEN, Directory Based Management Systems o BGP4, QoS, MPLS, IPv6 o Embedded Systems Design, Industrial Design Sport o Advanced NAUI SCUBA Diver o Mountain Biking o Swimming, Spear Fishing, Underwater Hockey o Squash Hobbies o Computers o Jazz Music, Reading, Movies, Cooking References o Abraham Van Der Merwe Co-founder Frogfoot Networks, Blio Corporation and fellow Debian Developer ..removed.. +27 ..removed.. o Theo van Niekerk Technical Manager of Generation Trading 5 theo [@] gen5 [dot] co [dot] za +27 82 448 1222 o Thomas Andrews Chairman of Western Cape GNU/Linux Users Group tandrews [@] mindspring [dot] co [dot] za +27 83 708 1872 o Geoff Payne Managing Director saproperty.com (Pty) Ltd. geoff [@] saproperty [dot] com +27 21 481 6217