Robert J.

Kennedy
Linux and Network Administration / RHCT
147 Meadow Lane Dublin, PA 267-614-9786 rob@kennedyprojects.com Oct/2008

Key Skills
 Highly organized, independent and dependable
 Team Player
 Problem Solver
 Ability to learn quickly
 Strong oral and written communication skills
 Early history with promotion of Linux on popular community
websites
 Advocate of open source technology
 Experienced in key open source servers and applications
including: Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, GIMP, Sendmail
 Web development
 Real time systems administration
 Networking protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SSH,
SSL, NIS, NFS

Certifications
● Red Hat Certified Technician : : Certificate Number: 605008742821047 : : Date: 10/10/2008

Work Experience
Kennedy Projects
Consultant 2002 – Present – Dublin, PA
 Sole Proprietorship
 Maintain websites for clients
 Design websites and web pages for clients
 Create and suggest content management solutions
 Recommend hardware and software for workstations and networking
 Design and implement client networks
 Utilize Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS) for client servers

Thompson Toyota
Parts Professional 2006 - Present - Doylestown, PA
 Administration and hosting of Dealership's Toyota/Scion community website
 eBay and Internet sales as well as wholesale and retail
Marchione Automotive Services
Service Adviser 2003 - 2006 - Plumsteadville, PA
 Administration of company intranet and public website
 Delegated assignments to technicians and kept customers updated

PWCToday.com, LLC
Owner Operator 2000 - 2006 - Dublin, PA
PWCToday.com is a very popular Personal Watercraft news web site. This website required co-location
on a Linux server and daily administration of services and news updates.
 Administration of the server required using and maintaining the following software: Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP, Sendmail, SSH, FTP, IRC, Perl scripting
 Migrated to seven different servers – upgrading each time to better hardware as the site grew and
became more popular
 Managed group of moderators to police the website
 Wrote technical articles and updated daily news feed

ASPRE, Inc
Admin Technical Support 2000 - 2001 - Horsham, PA
 Admin Linux support (third level) for a contract with AT&T to support customers of their 1500 Cobalt
(Red Hat) RaQ servers
 Admin Linux support for ASPRE, Inc's world class hosting services
 Troubleshooting: DNS, Sendmail, Apache, ASP, SSI, PHP, MySQL, Miva Merchant, SSH, FTP,
telnet
 Quality assurance testing for web based software applications

TUCOWS.COM, Inc
Webmaster 1998 - 2000 - Flint, MI (Off site)
 Linux-Howto.com:
• Owned and operated Linux-Howto.com from 1996-1998
• TUCOWS.COM, Inc purchased this, then hired me to maintain site
• Wrote scripts for mirror parsing – making sure the latest documentation were on the website
including Linux manual pages, Howtos, RFCs and contributed works.
 Ext2.org:
• Owned and operated Ext2.org online Linux magazine in 1998
• TUCOWS.COM, Inc purchased this as well and hired me to maintain site
• Wrote Linux articles and managed writers for articles for monthly releases
 Ftp.Linux.Tucows.com:
• Hand picked projects to host on popular FTP site
• Set up exclusive downloads with software companies/writers
 • Created one of the first popular Linux distribution iso download sites
 Help Desk:
• Answered questions from Linux users about their systems via email
 Public Relations:
• Promoted and made their Linuxberg Linux download website popular with the hardcore Linux
users
• Set up advertising and exchanges with other Linux websites
• Largely responsible for the first TUCOWS Linux CD set
• Largely responsible for TUCOWS acquiring LWN.net as their Linux news website

Sitelink Services
Administrator (contract) 1998 - 2000 - Doylestown, PA

 Set up and maintained their Internet servers with Linux to enable them to conduct all services
needed by their clients including: HTTPd, FTPd, DNS, Sendmail, PHP, Perl and various web
applications.

Sungard Data Systems

Disaster Recovery Specialist 1997 - 1998 - Philadelphia, PA
 Here I worked on the backup and restore process on various platforms. The platforms worked on
most were: VMS, DEC Unix, DGUX, Solaris, Sun OS, Windows NT and Linux.
 Used various distributions of Linux and Windows to mirror client's workstations

New Hope Cybernet

Owner Operator 1996 - 1997 - New Hope, PA
New Hope Cybernet was an Internet Cafe offering hourly rentals of PCs, training, email, and web
hosting design.
 Administered Linux on the main Internet server and on some of the workstations.
 Set up a training format custom tailoring it for specific needs.

Skill Age
Skill Years Used Last Year Used

Apache More than ten years 2008

DNS/Bind More than ten years 2008

HTML More than ten years 2008

Httpd More than ten years 2008

IRC More than ten years 2008

Linux More than ten years 2008

Mysql More than ten years 2008

NIS 1 2008

NFS 1 2008

Perl More than ten years 2008

PHP More than ten years 2008

PhpBB 8 2008

Sendmail 8 2005

TCP/IP More than ten years 2008

Tomcat 1 2008

Unix 4 2001

Vbulletin 5 2008

VMware 3 2002

Windows NT 4 2001

Microsoft Office More than ten years 2008

Windows 95 More than ten years 2006

Windows 98 10 2008

Windows XP 6 2008

Windows 2000 4 2006

Wireless Networking 6 2008

Affiliations
6/2000 – Present: Bucks County Linux User Group Co-Founder and member