Work Experience:

OOF Industries, LLC
Unix Consulting	2005-current
» Consultancy to provide world class solutions for business, small and large alike, from the server-closet to the enterprise. » Unix architecture work for clients, spec'ing & purchasing Open Source based datacenter builds. » Unix system administration: OS builds, Tomcat, MySQL, Apache, security hardening, redundant monitoring networks. » Operations Management for Fortune 20 client, focusing on Red Hat Linux, IBM Blade, Apache/WebSphere/Oracle » Designed, implemented and launched full three tier IBM WebSphere solution for Fortune 500 client » M/A due diligence discovery projects for financial institutions » Technology focuses: J2EE Application servers, clusters, capacity analysis & performance tuning

Democratic Party / Voter Protection Project
Machine Certification	Fall 2004
» Verified & Certified electro/mechanical voting machines in a dozen counties throughout the state of New Mexico in preparation for Presidential Election. » Self-taught expert on AVC Advantage and ELECTronic 1242 voting machines » Corporate IT: Desktop support, Exchange Server, Access Server, Network » All around handyman during 16-18 hour days.

Sony Music, Inc
Web Operations Manager	2002 - 2004
» Led team providing internal & external facing systems exceeding 1,000s of websites and 10s of TB of data » Systems architecture & layout of $20m data center (Sun, EMC, Cisco) » Managed outsourcing of all external systems to Managed Services Provider, controlled costs and interfaced with development teams » Project Planning & Management for major migrations (both cross-data center, and cross-platform) » BEA Weblogic installations, upgrades, sizings, major performance tuning (Weblogic & Sun JVM) » Relaunch & Re-architecture of entire Sony Music Online & Sony Music B2B applications from Kiva (Netscape) to clustered Weblogic configurations » Administered disparate development environments for 8 concurent projects
Senior Unix Sysadmin	2000 - 2002
» Designed system and network topologies for redundant, HA Tier 1 digital music locker service » Decided, designed, and deployed Weblogic 5.1 and Clustered 6.0 application server installations. » Installed/tuned Apache for a litany of uses. » Worked with Internet Storage Vendor Scale 8 for massive distributed storage needs. » Installed, backed-up, and maintained Perforce Source control system » Worked with Checkpoint FW1 firewall software to secure local network » Tweaked Analog & Webalizer for both solid and pretty stats to make Engineering as well as Marketing happy » Setup Windows IIS server to provide DRM services for secure musical distribution » Engineered and performed massive audio encoding (WAV/MP3 to WMA) and packaging job entailing over 6,000 albums of content » Designed system for integrating 250,000 albums of content into database, and local storage systems » Setup Foundry Networks switches, load balancers, NetApp Filers, etc. » Managed complete shutdown of company data centers and integrated assets into Corporate Parent

Intel Corporation - Engineering Computing
Systems Engineer	1997 - 2000
» UNIX System Administrator: managing heterogeneous enterprise production design environment of 2000+ workstations and fileservers, with 4000+ users, including 24x7 support. » Focused on HP support, including Ignite-UX, Series 700 & 800 class machines, troubleshooting, kernel tweaking, scripting, LVM and more! » Performed many Y2K, network, and OS upgrades for all 2000+ machines. » Worked with large scale NFS servers (Auspex,EMC,HP), AFS (clients & servers), created logical network layout, minimal Cisco switches. » Served as solitary site support for Unix Calendaring solutions. » Lead two technical teams with worldwide membership; produced standard OS builds for company-wide deployment (5000+ HPs). » Demonstrated extra effort & ability by receiving 13 individual awards, 2 divisional awards and 2 promotions in 2 years. » Extensive technical management of new acquisitions and integration process.

Macquarium
Systems Programmer	1996
» Assisted maintaining network of SGI, Macintosh, NT machines, T1 connection, hosting major companies such as Cox Communications. » Authored, designed & programmed web pages using Perl, Javascript, HTML. Clients included BellSouth & MGM.

The Premisys Corporation
Programming Intern	Summer, Winter 1995
» With a team, developed Submittal Generator system for Trane Corp using C/C++ and MS Windows 3.1 API. » Wrote forms based data entry application for Submittal Generator.

LaSalle National Bank
Network Analyst	Summer, Winter 1994
» Managed 400 user token-ring Novell network running Windows 3.1. » Provided Tech support for workstation and network applications.

Skills & Keywords

» Operating Systems: *UNIX*: HP-UX (10,11), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, Solaris, Linux (Redhat, Slackware, etc) » Languages: Shell scripting, C, limited SQL, limited Perl » Software: BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, Jakarta Tomcat, Java, Apache (mod_perl, openssl, mod_rewrite, mod_wl, etc), X-Windows, samba, ssh, sendmail, qmail, postfix, spamassassin, mutt, mailman, zsh,ksh/sh/csh, sed/awk, HTML, HTTP, lvm, oracle, FW-1, bind/named (8&9), analog, webalizer, mysql, /etc » Hardware: 1962 Lincoln, Oxy-Acetylene and ARC welding, all PC, HP (C,J,K,N Classes), Sun, Network Appliance, Auspex, EMC, IBM Blade Centers » Odd Certifications: HP: HP-UX Systems Administration Foundry Networks: FCNE Auspex File Servers: NetServer & NS7000/NS800 Shells: Random Mention in the Turtle

Education Emory University 1993-1997

» BS in Computer Science (Dean's list)

University of Chicago High School 1989-1993

Other Work Experience & Projects
Bandwagon	Feb 2002 - Current
» CFO - Managed all finances for 20 person organization with multiple vendors. » Active, contributing (time & computing work) member of bandwidth/hosting co-operative effort.
SportService, Inc	Summers 1991-1994
» Point-to-Point Sales: Vendor Chicago White Sox / Cubs