Lake State, Brian's alma mater, 1974 Brian Teal Resume Page
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Welcome to my resume page, this informal site is a means of introduction to perspective employers.
Personal History
This is a brief personal history as a means of introducing myself.
Professional History
Here are highlights of my 40+ year work history, compressed into a few short paragraphs.
Contact Information
Phone, pager and email information. I would appreciate hearing from perspective employers as well as feedback on this page.
Here are the gruesome details. A short synopsis is under each heading. Click the heading title for complete information. The full resume is available here.

Employment Objectives
UNIX/Linux System/Applications Administrator, ksh/bash/Perl/expect Programmer, HTML Developer, CGI Programmer, Systems Engineer, Systems Support, Operations
Education
I earned an Associate's degree in electronics my first two years at a junior college. I then transferred to a university where I earned my Bachelor degree in electrical engineering and an Associates degree in computer engineering.
Employment History
I have over 40 years of experience in this industry ranging from hardware and circuit design to system administration and program development. I have done system administration for 28 years and 18 years on UNIX based systems of every variety (SUN Solaris/SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, DG-UX, Silicon Graphics). I have build small and large system installations including OS, disk farms, networking, database and applications. My particular skill is in automation of OS and application management and monitoring. A am an expert ksh, sh, bash, perl, expect script writer with heavy experience in text file parsing using perl, awk, sed, grep ... creating logs and reports in formatted flat files, HTML, database import/export and Excel. I have managed people but prefer to spend the bulk of my time writing code to automate and report.
Hardware and Software
Platforms, utilities, tools and applications. Here is a run down of the systems and software I have used over the years.
Full Word Resume
Here is my resume in word document form.