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<!DOCTYPE resume PUBLIC "-//Sean Kelly//DTD Resume 1.5.1//EN"
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"http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/dtd/resume.dtd">
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<resume>
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<header>
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<name><firstname>Charles</firstname> <surname>Wyble</surname></name>
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<address><city>El Monte</city> <state>CA</state> </address>
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<contact><phone location="mobile">818.280.7059</phone> <email>charles@knownelement.com</email> <url>http://www.knownelement.com/</url> </contact>
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</header>
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<objective>
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<para>
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I’m looking to reduce costs and improve efficiency in an IT service delivery organization,
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by rapidly sourcing and fielding whatever is necessary to get the job done on time and within budget.
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</para>
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</objective>
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<skillarea>
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<skillset>
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<title>Skills Summary</title>
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<skill>
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Linux systems engineer with extensive knowledge/experience on both Debian and RedHat based Linux distrubutions in a wide variety of applications.
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Very comfortable with shell scripting, package management, user account administration, configuration management etc)
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</skill>
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<skill> A superb communicator who will thoroughly and efficiently handle any situation requiring communication with clarity and conciseness. </skill>
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<skill> A frequent speaker/writer on a wide variety of I.T and open source matters, as well as a frequent contributer to open source projects. </skill>
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</skillset>
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<skillset>
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<skill>
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Core IT infrastructure Daily administration tasks in support of Mailman, Postfix, Bind, PXE boot (Debian Fully Automated Install (FAI) and
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Red Hat Kickstart on both Xen guests and physical hardware.
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</skill>
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<title>Linux Server Applications</title>
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<skill>Debian and Ubuntu / Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3/4/5)</skill>
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<skill>Shell scripting/automation (bash/sed/awk)</skill>
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<skill>Assisting tier3 support with software debugging (php/python/perl/java/)</skill>
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<skill>Apache 1.30/2.0/2.2</skill>
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<skill>Postfix and Courier</skill>
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<skill>Samba/ProfFTPD</skill>
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<skill>IpTables/Snort/Nessus/Nmap/OpenVAS (formerly nessus)</skill>
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</skillset>
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<skillset><title>Networking (switches, load balancers and security) </title>
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<skill>F5/BigIP Global Traffic Manager and Local Traffic Manager </skill>
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<skill>Cisco LocalDirector, 2600/1800 series routers, 3745/2900 switches</skill>
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<skill>Linux Virtual Server (LVS)</skill>
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<skill>IPTables, Snort, ClamAV</skill>
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<skill>OpenVPN</skill>
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</skillset>
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<skillset><title>Monitoring</title>
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<skill>Nagios, HP OpenView, HP SiteScope and What’s Up Gold</skill>
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</skillset>
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<skillset><title>Storage</title>
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<skill>Hewlett Packard SAN (20 terabytes total storage supporting VmWare workloads)</skill>
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<skill>EMC Clarion cx400 and cx700 (200 terabytes total storage supporting oracle/mysql/sql server workloads)</skill>
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<skill>Promise and Equallogic iSCSI Network Attached Storage (100 terabytes total storage supporting near line storage and development workloads)</skill>
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<skill>NFS on Linux supporting distributed web work loads</skill>
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</skillset>
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<skillset><title>Other</title>
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<skill>Basic systems administration of HP-UX 11i</skill>
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<skill>Basic systems administration of Solaris 8/9/10/opensolaris</skill>
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<skill>Panther CDN (used at Ripple/Targetcasat)</skill>
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<skill>ATT Edge Cache (used at Disney)</skill>
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<skill>Akamai (used at Evite and Disney)</skill>
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</skillset>
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</skillarea>
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<history>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux System Engineer</jobtitle>
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<employer>Targetcastnetworks INC (via acquisition of RippleTV)</employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>October</month><year>2008</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>January</month><year>2010</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<description>
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<para>
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Provided system engineering expertise for customer facing advertising platform (AdSpot) and internal fleet management tool (CPanel).
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Utilized Nginx, Mongrel, Thin, Rails, Merb and Rack. Also used MySQL and memcached.
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</para>
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</description>
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</job>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux/Windows/network/security consulting</jobtitle>
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<employer>Multiple entities including Cast And Crew Entertainment Services Inc, Evite.com and Siderean Software </employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>September</month><year>2007</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>October</month><year>2008</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<description>
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<para>
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Provided system engineering expertise for Evite.com, across 2 geographically dispersed data centers supporting
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10 million visitors and 2 million e-mails per day. Utilized Apache/Tomcat on Gentoo and Ubuntu.
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</para>
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</description>
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</job>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux/Windows System Engineer</jobtitle>
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<employer>The Walt Disney Company - Parks and Resorts Online - Walt Disney Internet Group</employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>August</month><year>2006</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>September</month><year>2007</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<description>
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<para>
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Provided system engineering and PCI compliance expertise for Disneyland.com,Disneyworld.com,DisneyCruiseLines.com
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and 23 related properties generating 2 billion dollars a year. Business logic was handled by Jboss instances on RHEL3/4.
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</para>
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</description>
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</job>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux Systems Engineer</jobtitle>
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<employer>Intuit Inc (via acquistion of Electronic Clearing House)</employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>October</month><year>2005</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>June</month><year>2006</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<description>
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<para>
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Linux systems engineer for a 24x7 transaction processing/ecommerce/
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financial services environment. Responsibilities included: Working closely
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with the network administration and infrastructure design teams. Ensuring continuous
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uptime of multiple high visibility/high impact/high value envrironments including:
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</para>
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<skillset>
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<skill> A 1TB MySQL database. </skill>
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<skill> A 300 TB Oracle database. </skill>
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<skill> A 1.5 TB Oracle Data warehouse. </skill>
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<skill> A 4,000 store LAMP based ecommerce system. (MerchantAmerica.com) </skill>
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</skillset>
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</description>
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<projects>
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<project>
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<title>Deployment of encrypted backups</title>
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<para>
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Designed/tested/documented/deployed an enterprise wide Linux backup system.
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All data stored on a central server with ISCSI attached network storage.
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Uses GNUPG and tar over ssh. Backups/Restores tested on a weekly basis.
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</para>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>Deployment of core database infrastructure.</title>
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<para>
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Deployed 2 Oracle RAC clusters, each consisting of 3 Dell 6850's. They are equipped with Qual Dual Core
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Xeon's and 32 Gb of RAM, running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 64bit edition.
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One environment is for staging and one is for production. EMC attached. This environment is used for
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our Data Warehouse, our Transaction Processing Software and our Credit Card Clearing application. It is a
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fundamental infrastructure component. The hardware and software was deployed in 3 business days.
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</para>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>File Integrity Checking</title>
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<para>
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Deployment of file integrity checking across 100 UNIX servers using fully open source software.
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Used integrit <url>http://integrit.sf.net</url> and some custom shell scripts which were submitted
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back upstream for inclusion.
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</para>
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</project>
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</projects>
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</job>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux/Windows/network/security consulting for various startups and defense contractors</jobtitle>
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<employer>Multiple entities</employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>February</month><year>2005</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>October</month><year>2005</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<projects>
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<project>
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<para>
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LAMP Deployment: Deployed a Debian Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP system and educated the System Administration and Development
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staff on configuration and use for an insurance company
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</para>
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</project>
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<project>
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<para>
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Corporate Linux Deployment/Migration: Provided assistance to a medium sized engineering firm with a near 100%
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conversion to Linux on the desktop and server. Utilizing SUSE Professional 6.5 for desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for
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servers (Email/File Server/DNS/DHCP).
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</para>
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</project>
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Linux Deployment/Migration: Providing on going assistance to a small software development firm with a near 100%
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conversion to Linux. Utilizing Ubuntu Linux for desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for servers
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(Email/File/LDAP/DNS/DHCP).
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</para>
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</project>
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</projects>
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</job>
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<job>
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<jobtitle>Linux/Windows Systems Engineer</jobtitle>
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<employer>GSI Commerce (via acquistion of Newroads Inc)</employer>
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<period>
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<from><date><month>July</month><year>2002</year></date></from>
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<to><date><month>February</month><year>2005</year></date></to>
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</period>
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<projects>
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<project>
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<title>Disaster Recovery from an Informix Database Failure</title>
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<para>
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Assisted in the design/testing/and execution of a disaster recovery in real time
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(on-the-fly). Wrote and documented the use of several utilities that cut down the amount of time to recovery by 30
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percent.
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</para>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>Streamlined the FTP Server Configuration process</title>
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<para>
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Streamlined the system configuration and new account creation process for ProFTPD on a mission critical FTP server.
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This allowed faster turn around times and freed up I.T. resources.
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</para>
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</project>
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<title>Deployed open-source Remote Control Software</title>
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<para>
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Deplopyed/Secured/Optimized/Maintained UltraVNC remote control software. This allowed the Infrastructure Support team to more
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rapidly respond to users support requests, and by doing so increase compliance with Service Level Agreements and increase
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end-user satisfaction.
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</para>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>Network Infrastructure Upgrade</title>
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<para>
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Upgraded the network from hubs to Linksys managed switches to increase network performance and usability/reliability.
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No network downtime occurred in the process of the upgrade
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</para>
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</project>
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<title>Hardware/Software Inventory Solution</title>
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<para>
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Wrote a custom software/hardware monitoring/reporting system to ensure compliance with software licensing and obtain an
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accurate overview of company assets for inventory and disaster recovery purposes. Utilized WMI/Visio/Microsoft Access
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</para>
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</project>
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</projects>
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</job>
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</history>
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<awards>
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<title>Classes/Courses</title>
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<award>
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<title>Course 319: Technical Writing A Comprehensive Hands On Introduction</title>
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<organization>Learning Tree International</organization>
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<date><month>May</month> <year>2004</year></date>
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<para>
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This course showed the entire process of developing clear concise effective technical writing in less time, that meets the needs
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of the audience.
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</para>
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</award>
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<award>
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<title>Course 364: Introduction to Internetworking Switches And Routers</title>
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<organization>Learning Tree International</organization>
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<date><month>October</month><year>2004</year></date>
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This workshop presented a conceptual overview of networking fundemntals and technology.
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</para>
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</award>
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</awards>
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<misc>
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<para>
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I founded an open source project to capture information on the Excel file format.
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</para>
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<projects>
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<project>
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<title>The Chicago Project</title>
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<para>
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If you ever open an Excel file in OpenOffice you are using code that I helped write via extensive research on the Excel file format.
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I also am the maintainer of the stand alone xlhtml software which is a command line xls convertor.
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This project produced code and documentation to assist developers working with the Microsoft Excel and compound
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document/structured storage file formats on non Microsoft platforms.
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</para>
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</project>
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I am a very active participant in the greater Los Angeles information technology community.
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<title> User groups </title>
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<para>
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I have presented numerous times at the Unix Users Association of Southern California (LA and OC chapters). Please see http://www.uuasc.org for details.
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I am a frequent contributor to the mailing list as well.
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</para>
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<para>
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I am a frequent presenter and participant (both in person and via mailing lists) at numerous Linux User Groups throughout the southern California region.
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This includes LiLAX, SFVLUG, SCLUG, SGVLUG.
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</para>
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</project>
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</projects>
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</misc>
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<copyright>
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<year>2010</year>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Redistrubtion as is allowed. No modifications without prior written consent.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</copyright>
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</resume>
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