Objective:

Implement high availability / fail-safe systems, automation, real-time and predictive monitoring. Systems design and implementation.

Experience:

6/2010 - present Aupeo GmbH aupeo.com Berlin, Germany
Systems Administrator
Currently managing ~30 EC2 instances, four locations, load balancing, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, Nagios/Cacti

3/2011 - present Jabbakam www.jabbakam.com London
Contract Work: Systems Administrator, 8 EC2 instances, 1 Rackspace instance

5/2010 - present Offdeck www.bigparameter.com Washington, D.C.
Contract Work: Systems Administrator, 10 EC2 instances, Webistrano

2/2010 - 6/2010 Distributive Networks distributivenetworks.com D.C.
Systems Administrator, PHP

8/2009 - 1/2011 Ironstar Helsinki www.ironstarhelsinki.com Helsinki
Contract Work: Systems Administrator, PostgreSQL, pgpool

7/2008 - 12/2009 Essential Software / More International esnd.com NYC
Systems Administrator, Perl

6/2006 - 2/2008 Site9.com Portland, Oregon
Web App Eng / Performance Engineer / Linux Systems Administrator /
Network Administrator / IT, Java

11/2005 - 2/2008 Rightbrainresource.com Portland, Oregon
Contract Work: VoIP Engineer / Network Administrator / IT

11/2005 - 6/2006 Conquent.com Portland, Oregon
Web App Eng / Linux Systems Administrator / DBA / Network Administrator / IT, Perl

5/2005 - 12/2005 Yageo Corporation Seattle, Washington
Contract Work: Systems Administrator / IT, Perl

8/2003 - 5/2005 Amazon Seattle, Washington
Web Application Engineer / Deployment Engineer, Perl

3/2001 - 1/2003 DanceSafe Oakland, California
Senior Software Engineer, PHP

1/2000 - 2/2001 bSource / Niku Corporation Redwood City, California
Senior Software Engineer, Perl

10/1998 - 12/1999 Linuxworld / ITWorld San Francisco, California
Software Engineer / System Admin, Perl

8/1996 - 5/1998 Inovis GmbH / Harbinger Corporation Karlsruhe, Germany
Software Engineer, C++

5/1995 - 8/1996 Worldfocus.com / Webmark San Francisco, CA
Web Application Engineer, Perl

Skills:

Core: Linux, AWS, MySQL, Apache2, Perl

Linux: Ubuntu, Redhat, apt-get, yum, dpkg, rpm, wajig

Linux tools: rsync, lsof, vmstat, dig, tcpdump, awk, sed, crontab, iftop, logrotate, nmap, find, locate, mtr

Database: MySQL including replication and snapshots, PostgreSQL/pgpool, memcache/membase, JDBC, LDAP, SQL Server

Networking and security: OpenSSL, OpenVPN, pfsense, route, iptables, bridge firewalls, WLANs, router setup and maintenance, VLANs, Cisco PIX, IPSec

Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, SNMP, monit, Wormly, Cloudkick

Clouds/Infrastructure: EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, SES, Rackspace, RightScale

High Availability: EC2 load balancing, EC2 auto-scaling, haproxy, RAID 6, Linux-HA, DRBD

Shell scripting: Perl, Ruby, Bash

Repository and deployment tools: git, Capistrano/Webistrano, Passenger, Ant, subversion

Email: exim4, DKIM, SPF, postfix, Zimbra

Systems: Linux servers, Mac OS X Servers, Window Server 20xx

File Systems: mdadm, LVM, ext3/ext4, zfs, 3ware/LSI, off-site backups, rdiff-backup

DNS: domain registration and maintenance, SSL certs, zone creation and maintenance

Webapps: PHP, Perl Mason, Ruby on Rails, Web Objects, Struts

Ticketing: fogbugz, redmine, trac, Remedy

Telephony: Asterisk PBXs, IAX2, SIP, VoIP phones, Digium Cards

Migrations: application migrations, database migrations, repository migrations

Misc tools: WikiMedia, JasperReports, Dynamic PDFs, UML, EDI

Windows: SMB, from scratch desktop build-outs, Microsoft Security Essentials

Java: Tomcat, CruiseControl, JProfiler, JMeter

Lectures:
Education:
Coursework and Exams

5/1992 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
BA in Music; Certificate in Computer and Electronic Music
Director of Center for Participant Education

5/1985 North Miami Beach High School, N.Miami Beach, Florida
Mathematics and science education; top scores on Adv. Placement: Phy
I, Cal I/II, Chem, Pascal

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