The Home Page of Jon C. LeBlanc

HP Certified IT Professional (HP-UX), and Certified Instructor: Hewlett Packard

Certified Sun Solaris System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Sun Microsystems

Certified UNIX/Linux System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Learnix Limited

Member: IEEE Computer Society

Member: SAGE, The System Administrators' Guild

Member: USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association

Member: CUUG, The Calgary UNIX Users Group

• UNIX Support Specialist for Nokia Mobile Phones
• Customer Service Technologist for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
• SunCAP (Sun Campus Access Program) Representative at the University of Calgary
• Programmer Analyst for University Computing Services at the University of Calgary
• Software developer for Library Research Services at the University of Calgary Library
• As a university student, owned and operated a small business building, repairing, and upgrading home & office computers

• Over 5,000 hours classroom teaching experience in UNIX/Linux, Windows, Networks
• Specialization Areas:
  • workstation and server system administration
  • security
  • network administration
  • logical volume management and storage capacity planning
  • UNIX shell scripting (Bourne, Korn, POSIX, BASH)
• Solaris System Administration Instructor for Sun Educational Services
• HP-UX System and Network Administration Instructor for HP Education
• UNIX & Linux System Administration Instructor for Learnix Ltd.
• Author of text book and course material for the course "UNIX/Linux System Administration" for Learnix Ltd.
• Seminar presenter at "The Bazaar" as a Faculty member (Dec. 1999, Topic: Migration from NT to Linux)
• UNIX instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
• Sun Microsystems Education instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.

• Kernels 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 (32 and 64 bit on either iNTEL, Sparc, Alpha & AMD x86 architectures)
  • Red Hat
  • Mandriva
  • S.U.S.E.
  • TurboLinux
  • Debian
  • MythDora Multimedia PC
• KDE & Gnome desktops
• Support of Open Source and Linux-based development environments (GCC, etc.)

UNIX

• SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x through 10 (Sun Sparc & Ultra, x86)
• HP-UX 10.10 through 11i (Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 700 & 800)
• AIX 3.x through 4.x (IBM RS-6000)
• IRIX 5.x through 6.x (SGI MIPS)
• OS-X 10 through 10.4 (Apple G4)
• DEC(Compaq) UNIX (a.k.a. True64) (Alpha)
• SCO UnixWare (x86)
• *BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD on x86)
• SQL Database support (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Informix)
• Support of UNIX-based development environments (compilers, etc.)

• 3.1, 3.11, & Windows For Workgroups
• 95 (OSR1, OSR2), 98 (First & Second Editions), ME
• NT 3.51, 4.0 (Workstation, Server)
• 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
• XP (Professional & Home)
• Windows Services for UNIX (2.0 & 3.0)
• Support of Windows-based development environments (Visual C++, etc.)

• OS/2 (IBM)
• QNX RTOS (Real Time OS)
• Data ONTAP 5.x, 6.x (on Network Appliances F7XX, F8XX, F9XX Filers)
• Apollo Domain (pre-Hewlett-Packard)
• DOS (PCDOS, DRDOS, MSDOS, FreeDOS)
• MacOS 7 through 9 (Apple Macintosh)
• Remedy AR 5

• Cisco, Bay Networks, 3Com
• Ethernet (10BaseT, 10Base2, 100BaseTX, 1000BaseSX)
• SONet, T1, OCR3, ISDN, *DSL and Cable Modem
• IEEE 802.11x Wireless LAN
• VOIP (Voice Over IP)
• ATM, FDDI, Token Ring
• FC-AL, SCSI
• Switches, routers, firewalls, gateways, proxies
• Modems, terminals

• Mobile (GSM, TDMA, CDMA, GPRS)
• Support of development environments (Symbian, TI, ARM, etc.)
• Support and service of VOIP (Voice Over IP)
• PBX (Nortel and Mitel)
• Local Telco and Long Distance environments