Ian  D.  Allen





	       22 Oak Street	    Telephone: +1 613‐235‐6216
	       Ottawa, Ontario,     E‐Mail:  idallen@idallen.ca
	       Canada.	 K1R 6S9    WWW:  www.idallen.com


				    Summary

       *  Former Professor of Information and Communications
	  Technologies − 1996 to 2019
	  Preparation, delivery, and assessment of community college
	  Computer Science courses.

       *  UNIX/GNU/Linux® Computer Systems Administrator − 1980 to
	  present
	  Operating system set‐up, networking, security, programming,
	  and friendly support.

			  Education and Certification

       *  Linux Professional Institute LPIC‐1 2009 (code ve2pwfp22v at
	  www.lpi.org)

       *  Master of Mathematics (MMath), Computer Science, University of
	  Waterloo 1985.
	  Emphasis on software engineering, debugging, and
	  human/computer interaction.

       *  Honours Bachelor of Arts (Dean’s List), Psychology,
	  University of Waterloo, 1980.
	  Specialized in counselling and social psychology.











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			   Selected Work Experience

       Community College Professor (22 years, to 2019)
	  (teaching.idallen.com) Developed curriculum and taught
	  students at the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and
	  Technology.  A list of topics is on teaching.idallen.com and
	  includes: introduction to UNIX/GNU/Linux system
	  administration, UNIX/GNU/Linux script programming,
	  UNIX/GNU/Linux for programmers, Web HTML and CSS, Web CGI
	  programming, TCP/IP network programming, computer
	  architecture, intermediate C programming (compiler writing),
	  Windows 9x, Visual Basic, IBM OS/390 MVS JCL.


       Network Technical Director (3 years, to 1996)	     www.ncf.ca
	  Responsible for technical management, design, and programming
	  at the 60,000‐member National Capital FreeNet (NCF), Canada’s
	  largest community network.  Supervised NCF’s adoption of WWW
	  and PPP technology under UNIX (SunOS/Solaris).


       Research Systems Manager (5 years, to 1993) www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca
	  Responsible for a network of 50 UNIX/Ultrix computers in the
	  Computer Graphics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo.
	  Configured, upgraded, and modified most areas of the
	  UNIX/Ultrix system environment to support academic research.
	  Some real‐time message‐passing programming experience under
	  the NRC Harmony operating system.


       Head of Math User Services (3 years, to 1988)
	  (www.math.uwaterloo.ca) Supervised a staff of seven student
	  consultants in the Mathematics Faculty Computing Facility at
	  the University of Waterloo.  Solved faculty, staff, and
	  student problems on computers ranging from Honeywell DPS‐8
	  main‐frames to networked UNIX/BSD/Ultrix super‐mini’s and Sun
	  workstations.

		      Academic Standings and Scholarships

       *  MMath: Master of Mathematics, Computer Science, University of
	  Waterloo, 1985.

       *  BA: Honours Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of
	  Waterloo, 1980.

       *  Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
	  (NSERC) Graduate Scholarship 1981.

       *  Province of Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 1982.

       *  Faculty of Arts Dean’s List, University of Waterloo, 1980.

       *  Faculty of Arts Scholarships, University of Waterloo, 1974 −
	  1978.



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			Operating Systems and Languages

       Current Unix/Linux Experience
       *  Decades of experience (1976 to present) with variants of
	  UNIX/GNU/Linux operating systems on various hardware platforms
	  and virtually under VMware and Virtualbox.  This includes:
	   − Unix/Linux systems administration
	   − X‐Windows installation (xdm, xrdb, etc.)
	   − Protocols: HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3, etc.
	   − Samba, Apache, News, sendmail, postfix, DNS/bind, Shorewall,
	     troff/groff, etc.
	   − system and network security; ssh, NAT, firewalls
	   − network and communications programming, iptables
	   − Unix/Linux kernel configuration and installation
	   − Python, Perl, PHP, CGI, HTML, CSS, C, rsync,
	     bash/sh/csh/awk/sed scripting, etc.


       Non‐Unix Experience
       *  Some Windows 9x, XP, etc. networking and customization

       *  Windows Cygwin UNIX toolkit; Win4Lin; VMware

       *  Minor Apple OSX (Darwin BSD UNIX) installation and
	  customization

       *  My past experience, mostly academic, also includes the
	  following:
	   − assembler: PDP‐11, GCOS, IBM‐PC
	   − real‐time O/S: RT‐11, Harmony [NRC]
	   − IBM mainframe: VM/CMS, TSO, JES3, JCL
	   − Macintosh System 6/7 (MPW C, Hypercard)
	   − legacy languages: B, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL‐1, Pascal, ALGOL,
	     SNOBOL, MODULA2, etc.

				 Miscellaneous

       *  Family: Married to retired midwife Jan Teevan; step‐father to
	  three young adults

       *  Languages: English, Conversational French, very little German
	  and even less Esperanto.

       *  Leadership training: Context Associated Excellence Series,
	  Mastery graduate.

       *  Theatre: amateur actor, improviser, director, writer,
	  producer.

       *  Arts: Contact improv dance, calligraphic lettering, posters,
	  layout, digital photography.

       *  Electronics Hobbyist, Z‐Wave, Zigbee, X10 (BSR) home
	  automation.




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       *  Supporter of electoral reform, proportional representation,
	  www.fairvote.ca, etc.

       *  Music: Piano, guitar, flute, recorder.

			    Links to this Document

       *  www.idallen.com/resume/


















































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