Elizabeth D. Zwicky
1100 Cherry St. San Carlos, CA 94070
(650) 631-0221
zwicky@greatcircle.com
Leadership of project and support teams, system design and integration, writing, teaching, improvisational problem-solving.
Technologies: Large-scale TCP/IP networks, large-scale administration of UNIX in heterogeneous environments, firewalls, Internet security, large-scale electronic mail.
Director/Security Architect. Managed engineering and IS teams. Designed and oversaw implementation of all internal computing systems, including a redundant, continuously available and geographically distributed database system which received data from Counterpane's customer sites continuously, processed it, and presented relevant information to analysts who provided managed security monitoring services. Built IS department from one person to a geographically distributed group with its own director.
Technical Consultant, Professional Services. Provided consulting for Silicon Graphics customers worldwide, specializing in security and large-scale electronic mail systems.
Technical Team Leader, European Desktop Team. Designed, implemented and supported Silicon Graphics' European strategy for desktop applications for its employees. Provided applications to 1600 people at 40 sites in 16 countries.
Senior System Administrator. Provided day-to-day management and technical assistance for the assistance center, providing desktop application and UNIX system support for Silicon Graphics employees.
System Administrator and Senior System Administrator, Information, Telecommunications and Automation Division. Managed a 6 person system administration group for a research division specializing in UNIX and networking. Maintained multiple production and research networks for SRI, worked on contract for SRI clients. Held a Top Secret security clearance for work with government clients.
User Support Manager, Computer and Information Science Department Computer Facilities. Managed daily operations (including backups, account installation, and most user consulting). Handled all aspects of documentation, on-line and paper, including its creation. Maintained TeX and LaTeX, was PostScript expert, maintained the printing system, and did general system administration when necessary.
1982-1986 The Ohio State University; Bachelor of Arts with honors in Cognitive Science, National Merit Scholarship, University Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa, Arts and Sciences Award for Scholarship (twice), President's Award for Scholarship.
(with Simon Cooper and D. Brent Chapman) Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly and Associates, June 2000, ISBN1-56592-871-7, 869 pages. Now in print in English, Polish, Portuguese, German, and Russian, with French and Japanese translations in progress.
(with D. Brent Chapman) Building Internet Firewalls, O'Reilly and Associates, April 1995, 544 pages. Published in English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Czech.
Presented at USENIX LISA, SAGE-AU, SAGE-NZ; Problem Solving for System Administrators, NT in the Firewall Context, (with Geoff Halprin) Management 101, (with Geoff Halprin) Managing Programming Projects.
Presented at SAGE-AU, USENIX LISA-NT, USENIX LISA, SAGE-NZ, SANS, Sun User Group, BayLISA, including "NT in the Firewall Context", "Evaluating Your Site's System Administration", "Rules of Thumb of System Administration" (with Steve Simmons).
Several dozen, in publications including Dr. Dobbs, Computerworld, The Industry Standard, ;login: on topics including "Enough SNMP to be Dangerous", "System Administration Models", "Who Are My Peers", "Attitude Problems", "Analogies to Live Without: You Don't Need a Manual to Drive a Car", "System Administration Tools Your Vendor Never Told You About".
Counterpane Internet Security technical advisory board, 2001-present.
Board of directors of USENIX, an international association of UNIX and advanced systems programmers and professionals, 1996-2000.
Founding member and first president of SAGE, an international professional society for system administrators; board of directors 1992-1995, president 1992, 1994, 1995.
Board of directors of SAGE-AU, the Australian system administration society, 1994-1995.
Board of directors of Bay-LISA, the Bay Area Large Installation System Administrator's group 1990-1992; founding member and secretary 1990-1991.