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                             Peter J Toscano
                    5602 Limpkin Ct Fairfax, VA 22032
                        Home Phone: 703.738.6372 
                       Mobile Phone: 703.628.2523 
                        E-mail: pete@toscano.org
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WORK EXPERIENCE

  VeriSign, Inc. and Network Solutions, Inc.

    Systems Research Manager  / "Enabler" January 2001 - Present
    Systems Research Engineer  September 1999 - January 2001

    - Played a key role in getting the first official VeriSign blog launched.
	- Advised internal groups on blogging and blogging software.  
	- Installed and configured software.
	- Helped craft a workflow that balanced the nature of blogging with the
	  protective nature of lawyers.
	- Customized plugins to fit our blogging workflow.
	- Trained all parties involved on how to use the software with our
	  posting process.
	- Received an internal award for this project.
    - Deployed a bulletin board system for an internal group, replacing a
      similar external system from an outside vendor, saving the company
      $1,000 to $3,000 a month.  Helped train the group and currently maintain
      the system.  Received an internal award for this project.
    - Adding SELinux manditory access controls to servers that support it.
    - Evaluated, tested, deployed, and maintained systems demonstrating 
      various new technologies.
        - IPv6, VoIP, IP-based lawful intercept
        - Traveled to trade shows to help demonstrate and troubleshoot
          these systems.
        - Helped customers and potential customers interface their 
          systems with ours.
    - Designed and deployed a secure, multi-architecture, cross-platform
      package update system.
    - Re-designed network to reduce cost and increase efficiency.
    - Deployed Nagios network monitoring system.
    - Secured, maintained, and deployed Linux and Solaris servers for both
      infrastructure and pilot program work.
    - Maintained and deployed group's email, mailing-lists, web, blog, wikis,
      DNS, time servers, and MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
    - Monitored and studied security issues.
    - Helped users administer group workstations and laptops.
    - Performed various managerial tasks.

    Software Engineer  May 1998 - September 1999

    - Developed servlets, CGIs, and other back-end programs and utilities in
      Java, C, and Perl.
    - Helped co-branding partners build interfaces to the Network Solutions
      system.
	- Wrote an example Perl interface for partners to use or modify for
	  their own interface.
	- Talked directly with partners to troubleshoot problems with the
	  interface.

  PSINet, Inc.

    Internet Software Engineer  February 1996 - May 1998

    - Developed secure customer-facing account management system.
    - Maintained and modified an auto-registration server and PSINet's
      home-grown back-end customer database.
    - Departmental Solaris system administration. 

    Corporate Customer Support Technician  June 1995 - February 1996

    - Member of the corporate customer support Rapid Response Team.
    - Assisted corporate customers in setting up, configuring, and
      troubleshooting network-related services, such as routing, email, and
      DNS.
    - Development work on Perl CGI to output a platform-specific firewall
      configuration based on platform-independent desires.

COMPUTER-RELATED SKILLS AND INFORMATION

  Operating Systems
    - Most comfortable with CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Core
      Linux.
    - Also comfortable with other Linux distributions, OS X, Solaris, Windows,
      and xBSD.
    - I am familiar with and have some admin experience with IOS.
  Programming Languages
    - Python, Bourne Shell, C, Perl, Java, C++, TCL, LISP, Prolog
  Other
    - I have taken the following SANS courses:
      - Securing Unix & Linux
      - Firewalls, Perimeter Protection & VPNs
      - Systems Forensics, Investigations & Responses
      - Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling
      - Intrusion Detection In-Depth
    - Attended ShmooCon 2006.
    - Member of DC Security Geeks.

EDUCATION

  State University of New York at Utica/Rome Marcy, New York
    - All course work for MSCS completed.
    - Degree pending completion of thesis.

  State University of New York at Buffalo    1992 Buffalo, New York
    - Bachelor of Arts in Statistics