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As you may notice, I work in a fairly corporate business unit of the University
within 5 levels of organization. We also have a habit of changing names of
everything. The tree below shows approximately where I exist in this organization
and where my responsibilities lie.
[-] The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
| formerly The Farmers High School, Agricultural College of Pennsylvania and
| The Pennsylvania State College
|
[-] Information Technology Services (ITS),
| formerly The Computation Center and Computer and Information Systems (C&IS)
|
[-] Consulting and Support Services (CSS)
| an evolved subset of the former Center for Academic Computing (CAC)
|
[-] Applied Information Technology (AIT)
| formerly Advanced Information Technology
|
[-] Enabling Technologies Group
| formerly UNIX Systems and Technical Solutions Group
|
[-] Jeff D'Angelo - Manager / Research Programmer
| formerly Penn State Computer Science and Engineering
| undergraduate student and Systems Analyst / Programmer
|
[+] PASS: Project technical lead; Responsible for management
| of service provisioning, system technical analysis, research
| and development. Principal developer of discretionary
| security mechanisms and interfaces, quota management, and
| lead application developer.
|
[+] Web services: Responsible for configuration and upgrades
| to various Web servers including www.psu.edu,
| www.personal.psu.edu, the ITS virtual host server (hosting
| its.psu.edu, aset.its.psu.edu and others), the
| departmental virtual host server (hosting over 40 domains
| including www.hbg.psu.edu, www.clubs.psu.edu,
| search.psu.edu and others), log management and other related
| services.
|
[+] Dynamic Content Application Engines: Responsible for
| developing scalably secure systems to deliver dynamic
| Web content from Penn State students, staff and faculty
| personal; student organizations; courses; departments,
| colleges and other units; and various projects of the
| University's Web sites. Coming soon: PHP, ASP, JSP,
| relational database access and account management tools.
|
[+] Penn State Search Engine: Responsible for configuration
| and management of Penn State's primary search engine,
| http://search.psu.edu/
| (http://search-results.aset.psu.edu/), currently the
| Google Search Appliance model GB-5005
|
[+] Unix support: Provide email support for the ITS UNIX
| Cluster, install and maintain software.
|
[-] Various account and UNIX systems management applications
| |
| [+] CACTUS perl scripts: perform changes to DFS GPFS such as
| | creating/deleting filesets (PASS home folders), setting
| | quota, linking PASS space www folders to the Personal
| | Web server, etc
| |
| [+] DFS GPFS (PASS) maintenance and monitoring scripts
| |
| [+] Search Engine maintenance and monitoring scripts
| |
| [+] dcerchacl: a recursive DCE/DFS (PASS) ACL tool
| |
| [+] pacl (PASS Access Control List tool): A recursive command
| line permissions tool capable of setting NFSv4 based GPFS
| (PASS) permissions using simplified permission types,
| service provision specific templates and compound operations
| using a shared compiled C library.
|
[-] Specific Web applications: Responsible for maintenance of,
| and in some cases written, the following:
|
[+] PASS File Permissions Manager: a Web-based permissions
| manager (wizard) based on pacl available through the
| PASS Explorer.
|
[+] Student Organization Web Service Management System
| https://admin.clubs.psu.edu/
|
[+] Google Search Appliance Custom Search Results (XSLT) Generator
http://aset.its.psu.edu/googledocs/custom_style.html