Christopher Murtagh Email & Phone Number

Montreal, QC, CA

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

IT and infrastructure consulting for Pressbooks, an online publishing tool with a heavy focus on supporting OER and open textbook initiatives.

Montreal

http://ombu.ca/ I've produced several CDs, record music and audio for film and television, write software and build hardware for custom audio installations. This is a labour of love, and something I do in my spare time.

Montreal, Canada Area

• I hold the following tasks as Director of IT:
• Act as the Information Security Officer (ISO)
• Oversee IT documentation
• Oversee and approves of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) procedures, and plansany changes with the respective department heads
• Oversee and review the procedures for testing with the respective department heads
• Plans and executes move to recognized IT management and InfoSec frameworks (COBITand NIST)

Montreal

Architect, manage and design an MRI processing cluster and private cloud (kvm and VMWare). Setup high availability firewalls (iptables/shorewall, keepalived), mail server (postfix, amavisd, clamav, spamassassin, dovecot), DNS (bind), job queues (SunGrid Engine), configuration management (puppet), system monitoring (cacti, nagios), ticket tracking (redmine.

Montreal

Participated in FounderFuel's first cohort. Helped redesign the backend systems (Ruby, Redis, PostgreSQL) for BlameStella with CEO and co-founder.

Managed CloudOps (Syntenic) largest client performing DevOps duties and consulting on system architecture. Managed critical systems with 24x7 uptime requirements, developed and executed deployment rollouts. Regular consulting with various companies and startups on web infrastructure using private (Xen), public (Amazon AWS) and hybrid cloud systems.

Montreal, Canada Area

Helped plan the migration of StatusNet from a public cloud to a custom cluster. Setup puppet for configuration management, planned and executed software deployment on the cluster. Designed, configured, and managed a high availability cluster of web servers (apache), firewalls (iptables/shorewall), load balancers (keepalived, haproxy), caching servers.

Montreal, Peterborough, San Francisco, San Jose, Denver

Specializing in services for SMB (Small Medium Business), from networking to web application design and programming, with emphasis on free and open source software. Core developer of LedgerSMB - http://www.ledgersmb.org

Loveland, Colorado

System administration work for Terra Soft Solutions (the makers of Yellow Dog Linux). Tasks varied widely, from building / maintaining and monitoring machines to writing new/patching existing web applications to planning back-end systems to support TSS engineers. Also included building RPM packages for clients and for premium user yum repositories. We were.

Montreal, Quebec

Web Systems Architect for McGill University. Architected and lead the development of the content management system that runs www.mcgill.ca and it's associated hosting services. All developed using open source software (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl primarily).

Ottawa, Canada Area

Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) as a software tester for Financial Administration Systems(FAS). One of my main tasks was to develop tools/software to help manage bug reports, track fixes and verify data integrity. I also developed dynamic testing scripts, devised mechanisms for testers to store test results and debugged software.

Victoria, British Columbia

Program attendant for Saanich Parks and Recreation (a municipality near Victoria, B.C.). Was hired to run the public sound studio. Duties included: developing studio policies and curriculum, running courses (MIDI/computer music, sound recording techniques etc.), purchasing equipment, setting up and maintaining computers, interviewing instructors.

B.Mus Honours In Computer Applications, Music, Computer Applications And Sound Recording

Activities and Societies: I founded McLUG (McGill Linux Users Group) As well as all of my computer science and physics requirements for.

Dec, Pure And Applied Sciences

Majoring in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy

B.Mus, Music Performance (Trombone)

Completed 1 year of trombone performance.

Dec, Music With 1 Year Jazz Performance

2 year general music diploma, plus 1 year of jazz performance specialization. Graduated with highest marks in my graduating class in music.