Bryn Smith Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Construction volunteer, leading teams of volunteers. Helped build 28 homes in SF, refurbish homes in Palo Alto, helped build two homes in Vietnam, and soon to help build two homes in Nepal.

San Jose, CA

• Implemented ITIL based jira ticketing system along with wiki based knowledge system
• Improved automated monitoring and alerting to prioritize key issues and maximize team utilization
• Collaborated across multiple Quality Assurance and Engineering teams to improve reliability of existing services, and assist in project management of new services
• Engineered reports to provide key statistics to senior management on team effectiveness and utilization
• Trained team and assisted them in System Administration and Application 7x24 support
• Systems supported provided live antispam, antivirus and reputation based protection for 50,000 email appliances around the world

San Bruno, CA

• Maintained 1200+ servers and ancillary testing and development infrastructure for IronPort Systems Email and Web security appliances.
• Led Development IT (DevIT) integration efforts between IronPort IT and Cisco IT. Made sure integration efforts minimally impacted business.
• Led successful project to re-IP entire development datacenter as part of integration with Cisco. Project brought in on time and with minimal impact to Engineering and QA.
• Maintained configuration of corporate "dogfood" email servers providing 7x24 mail flow using "bleeding edge" and stable versions of IronPort appliance software as part of real-world QA testing process.
• Led project to treble datacenter cooling. Wrote RFP, vetted proposals, proposed winning proposal to executive team, scheduled implementation, coordinated communication between vendors, building management and affected.

San Bruno, CA

• Installed and administered 1200 servers and ancillary infrastructure which supported development and testing of IronPort System Email and Web security appliances.
• Created VMWare ESX infrastructure to provide testing and development images for QA and Engineering teams
• Troubleshot networking issues over HP switch environment using FreeBSD firewalls and routers
• Created a virus lab infrastructure for operation teams to safely analyze various virus laden emails
• Created VMWare based training system so remote trainers could safely train customers on IronPort appliances using web and ssh based interfaces at customer locations.
• Migrated 800 development and corporate services from 3 closet sized spaces at old office location to "real" datacenter at new office location with less than 8 hours of downtime overall, and critical corporate and.

Brisbane, CA

* maintained production systems running Walmart's e-commerce website * Administered Solarix x86 tomcat, apache linux web, and Oracle Solaris database servers * Converted front-end web servers from Debian Linux to Solaris x86 providing a 40% increase in performance * Pushed weekly & monthly code updates to a very diverse code environments * Design and.

Reston, VA, San Francisco, CA

* Provided system administration and DBA support along with consulting services for project based work at numerous e-commerce and high-tech corporations * clients included: * AOL: system admin on extremely large squid web proxy farm to provide web cacheing services for millions of AOL customers * Fairchild Semiconductor: Informix DBA support when sole DBA.

• Programmed, Installed, System administered, and DBA'd 911 Dispatch systems for police, fire and ambulance companies throughout the US and internationally.
• Projects included: Midland, TX Police and Fire; Fresno County Sheriff; San Mateo County Sheriff; Chicago Police and Fire; Los Angeles County Fire; Regina, Saskatchewan,;
• Skill Set Included: VAX VMS, DEC Unix, Oracle database, Cobol and Macro Assembly programming, Client/Server technology, DECNET, TCP/IP, SNA LU6.2