• Perl: CGI, system administration automation, user account maintenance, other.

• C: Multithreaded email load generator and performance analysis, modifications to various Open Source applications to customize for local use, including sendmail, procmail, and Apache. Debug and fix application source code as necessary to run on various platforms.

• UNIX scripts: System administration automation, account maintenance, etc, using bash, csh, ksh, expect, and tcl.

• PHP: Various dynamic database-enabled web pages, particularly in conjunction with PostgreSQL.

• I utilize my rare combination of siginficant UNIX systems experience, network knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and coding sensibilities to design, deploy, monitor, and automate all operational aspects of Yahoo!'s search back end.

5/2009 - 4/2010

Center for Mind and Brain / UC Davis

Davis, CA

Programmer / System Administrator

• I customize the survey application used to collect data for research and write front-ends to extract and display data from MySQL for the researchers. This job has me doing lots of PHP, SQL, Perl and some system administration.

10/2005 - 10/2007

Hewlett Packard / Kemtah Group

Roseville, CA

UNIX Administrator

• System Administrator for over 100 systems used by software developers. I maintain the accounts for over 400 people and handle system support. I'm responsible for keeping the systems in compliance with HP Security standards and passing security audit checks.

8/2002 - present

STAT Dicta

Roseville, CA

Chief Minister of Complicated Technical Thingies

• As the sole technical person, responsible for all technical matters, including architecture, purchasing, hardware/software setup, application installation, ongoing maintenance, desktop technical support to staff and clients, etc.
• Designed and implemented a build system for easy upgrades and maintenance of all servers.
• Designed and wrote the program that servers as the core application for the business.
• Designed and implemented security policies for servers and desktops.

11/1998 - 5/2001

Sendmail, Inc.

Emeryville, CA

Solutions Consultant

• Provided back-end support to Technical Support Engineers and consultants at client sites
• Designed, built, and tested high-end mail systems that supported up to 100,000+ users in various configurations.
• Specialized in performance tuning high-performance mail systems, and wrote reports on how to maximize email performance on various platforms and summarized the results of testing several reference platforms.

Lab Administrator

• Maintained a network of machines comprising all the platforms supported by Sendmail, including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, FreeBSD, several flavors of Linux, and Windows NT.
• Installed all new machines and applications, and kept all lab services running.
• Trained new Consultants and Technical Support Engineers in the use of the lab network and Sendmail product lines.
• Set up and broke down temporary networks for training classes.

Technical Support Engineer

• Provided technical assistance to sendmail users, who were primarily system administrators within organizations from around the world.
• Helped users diagnose and solve various problems with all Sendmail products.

1/1998 - 11/1998

TON Services

Brigham City, UT

System Administrator

• Maintained TONS' Internet and Intranet servers on IBM RS/6000 and Sun SPARC hardware.
• Installed and maintained hardware and services running on them.
• Maintained the corporate firewall and network security for both TONS and TONS' parent company.
• Wrote scripts for network applications and configured terminal servers for modem dial-up.

5/1997 - 1/1998

The MoneyStore

Sacramento, CA

Systems Consultant

• Maintained Internet and Intranet web servers on SGI Challenge and Sun UltraSPARC servers.
• Responsible for maintaining user accounts and security.
• With user input, planned the backup and disaster recovery system.
• Designed and setup redundant high-availability e-mail on Sun UltraSPARC servers with a 100 gigabyte RAID array using Netscape Messaging, Collabra, and LDAP Directory servers.
• Wrote software to convert over 4,000 Lotus Notes user accounts to Netscape Directory and assisted in the project planning to migrate all users over to the new system.
• Evaluated new software and hardware and made recommendations.
• Took Java training to use on internal and external websites.
• Performed other system administration duties as needed.

3/1996 - 5/1997

SureNet Corporation

Sherman Oaks, CA

Director of Technical Operations

• Team lead for Technical Support Representatives.
• Continued network and system administrator duties.

UNIX System Administrator

• Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the network, which included WAN routers, terminal servers, Frame Relay links, multiple UNIX and Windows NT servers, and the services running on those machines, including Web, Mail, News, and database.
• Provided technical support for over 4,000 active dial-up users, which included troubleshooting, resolving account problems and answering questions regarding the use of the local network and the Internet.
• Answered customer mail to webmaster@sure.net, postmaster@sure.net, abuse@sure.net, support@sure.net, and others.
• Maintained current backups of all critical data on the network and planned disaster recovery.
• Wrote scripts to automate common tasks, such as setting up new accounts.
• Installed and maintained Internet services for business clients, including web hosting, email, and domain services, and provided technical support for those clients.
• Set up company PCs and installed appropriate desktop software.