Derrick Klise
email: sil@free.house.cx

• Entry level position as a systems administrator, or general 'tech guy.'

• Maintained 3.5+ GPA throughout Junior and Senior years in High school
• Golden State Award:
  • Biology (1998) - School Recognition
• Scored within 92nd percentile of State-wide Testing

• "Fluent" in: C, HTML, BASIC, Pascal
• Experience with (software): Apache, Wu-ftpd, GIMP, Bash, Gnome, KDE, Windowmaker, Enlightenment, GNUStep, Flash3, vim, Emacs, make utilities, cvsup, LILO, BTX, pppd, ssh/sshd, CodeCrusader, compiling/configuring kernels (Linux+FreeBSD), linuxconf, gno/rpm, freebsd ports/package system, X configuration, ipfw
• Experience with (hardware): Sound, Modems, Ethernet cards, cutting cable, CD-Roms/Burners, hard drives, most Intel-architecture hardware
• Experience with (distributions): Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, FreeBSD

• 1996 - Got Unix for Dummies, read constantly
• 1997 - 1998 Took Networking class at Lincoln High school, learned about Novell Netware - Teacher looked startled when I asked if we would learn about Unix
• 1999, March of - picked up Mandrake Linux 5.3; first exposure to Linux
• 1999 - picked up FreeBSD 3.3
• 1999 - 2000 (continuing) Designed, webmastered, and set up a Linux box to host the Mark Twain High school website, along with helping wire a computer lab for network access