Objective:

Employment in UNIX Systems Programming and/or Administration, preferably in an enterprise computing environment.

Summary:

Over ten years experience with setup and support of UNIX and UNIX-like systems, and over seven years experience with software design and development. Strengths include large installation system administration, revision control, release management and process automation.

System Administration:

Operating Systems:: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, SuSE Linux, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, Apple MacOS X, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Excellent ability to learn new System V or BSD-based operating systems, and a solid knowledge of UNIX at the administration level
Software products:: Apache, BIND, sendmail, Exim, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, CVS, Rational ClearCase, Subversion, Samba, netatalk, NIS/yp, NFS, Veritas LVM, FTP, rsync, DHCP, VNC, SSH, NTP, RT Request Tracker, Bugzilla, Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti, VMware, Xen
Technology/Vendors:: Network Appliance, Cisco, IBM, Sun, TCP/IP, terminal servers, layer-3 network switches, fibre channel, SAN, NAS, 802.11b/g wireless networking

Software Development:

Programming/scripting languages:: Perl, PHP, C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, Tcl/Tk, Expect, sh, csh, sed, awk, AppleScript, JavaScript
Miscellaneous languages:: SQL, make, ant, HTML4, XHTML, CSS1, CSS2

Recent Employment History:

Ticketmaster Corporation
West Hollywood, California

Systems Administrator - Core Systems
June 2005 - February 2008

Linux systems administration of around 750 systems in 10 data centers worldwide, providing infrastructure support for inventory database servers with 99.999% availability requirements.

Designed and developed a resource allocation software suite to automatically manage startup, shutdown and maintenance tasks for emulated systems across the enterprise
Wrote a tool to analyze massive amounts of system logs looking for problems and open trouble tickets when appropriate for auditing purposes
Wrote a tool to automate network route migration during disaster recovery scenarios
Authored dozens of custom real-time monitoring, reporting and analytics tools, as well as tools to aid and/or automate system administration processes
Built out co-location facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Mexico City, and Monterrey
Advised junior administrators on best practices, and assisted them on projects when needed

Constant Data, Inc.
Hopkins, Minnesota

Director of Information Services
November 2002 - May 2005

Systems administration, resource planning, software development, quality assurance, release management, technical support and webmaster for a small software company.

Designed, developed, deployed and maintained the internal and external web sites for the company
In charge of installation, configuration and maintainance of the company firewall, wireless access point, VPN, primary and secondary fileservers, database server, revision control server, web servers, DNS, mail servers, office printers and employee workstations
Designed and developed an in-house application to track sales leads and manage product demos
Installed and maintained a small test lab of around 40 systems, with completely heterogeneous hardware and software
Setup and maintained the phone system and voicemail for the company
Software design and development for the company's flagship product; authored several tools and features that had high customer visibility. Lead developer on a project to port one of the company's products to Mac OS X.
Managed and maintained an automated nightly build process that included five different software platforms and three hardware platforms
Integrated the revision control system with the bug tracker, to aid code review and release management
Designed an automated test harness to run in conjunction with the automated builds, authored test tools, and managed a small team of QA technicians
Traveled to customer sites for product installation and training

Tricord Systems, Inc.
Plymouth, Minnesota

Programmer - Software Integration
December 2000 - August 2002

Systems programming for Linux and Win32 platforms, release management, and systems administration of around 900 systems.

Designed and developed a fully-automated software installation procedure that was used in product manufacturing
Wrote a tool to perform firmware upgrades of the company's products in the field
Integrated 3rd-party software with the company's NAS products
Managed, maintained and wrote tools for a fully-automated resource allocation system used in the test lab
Transitioned the revision control from StarTeam to CVS

Bridge Information Systems, Inc.
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Software Engineer
May 1999 - November 2000

Systems programming for Solaris and Win32 platforms, Technical support, and release management.

Designed and co-authored a fairly complex workflow front-end to Rational ClearCase, that automated builds, releases and system administration processes
Transitioned the revision control from SCCS and Visual Source Safe to Rational ClearCase
Designed and co-authored a regression test suite for the company's software API, and a web front-end to visualize the results.
Program analysis and troubleshooting for customers using the company's software API.

WAM!NET, Inc.
Bloomington, Minnesota

Systems Engineer
May 1997 - May 1999

IRIX systems administration on a wide-area network of over 2,000 systems.

Designed/wrote the tool sets, support infrastructure and documentation necessary to deploy a new product into the field, as well as supervising the beta test trials.
Automated the Customer Premise Equipment installation processes within the company, which allowed for costs-savings with outside vendors and the absorption of the departments job functions into another department.