Michael Osborne

Background

About Michael Osborne

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE WINDOWS 36 years of Windows experience. Installed and tuned all Windows versions since 2.1; including 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. Duties have included NT Domain Administration, MS Exchange Administration, Checkpoint Firewall 1 Administration, and Registry editing on all versions. Installed and maintained Cheyenne ARCserve for NT, XcelleNet for Windows NT, DNS and Bind 4.96 on Windows NT, and Internet Information Server 4.0. Class training on Microsoft Exchange 5.0 and Checkpoint Firewall 1. Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) on Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft TCP/IP on NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange 5.0. LINUX/UNIX 16 years of Linux experience and 2 years of UNIX experience. Installed and configured Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.3, ES 3.0 and associated applications such as Sendmail, Samba, Apache, SpamAssassin, MailScanner, ClamAV, SSH, BIND (DNS), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl and PHP. Installed SCO XENIX and SCO UNIX and UNIX applications including Sendmail, WordPerfect for UNIX; familiar with basic UNIX editing, file, and directory commands. Familiar with Linux since 1996 including Red Hat Linux 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, ES 3.0, and CentOS 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, 8.x, and AlmaLinux 8.6. Custom built SpamAssassin scripts for spam filtering as needed. Have built Linux based firewall and custom built all firewall rulesets. MACINTOSH Several years of Mac OS X experience including Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion. Installed and configured software including AdiumX, MS Office 2008, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, X11, OpenOffice.org, and StuffIt. Upgraded memory, hard drive, and replaced screen on MacBook. Specialties: Securing Windows PCs against infection, Windows registry editing for customization or repair, troubleshooting difficult issues on Windows computers.