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Berlin, Germany

Solicit external communications needs across all teams of the Software Engineering department and make them happen across existing and newly created channels. Liaise with the external communications team and coordinate comms to make them more efficient and repeatable.

Berlin, Germany

Create, maintain and improve documentation on MediaWiki for Wikimedia Deutschland's software products, chiefly Wikibase. Interpret technical concepts for audiences of varying technical skill.(Because I have the skills to do so, also moonlight as translation manager as needed)

Berlin Area, Germany

Write, edit and translate texts that are chiefly but not exclusively technical in nature on a freelance basis.

Berlin Area, Germany

Portland, Oregon Area

Working mainly with AWS and internal software procurement and management (including trialing various open source projects for use), with some Terraform, Cloud Foundry, BOSH and Concourse to boot.

Portland, Oregon Area

Systems engineering serving production operations. Automation with Puppet and Foreman; MongoDB maintenance and tuning; Elasticsearch/ELK work; monitoring with Nagios; documentation.

Portland, Oregon Area

June 2014: Senior Systems Engineer: In addition to previous activity, I'm now heading up projects using Agile/Scrum and working with a larger team, including intensive AWS work managed by Chef & CloudFormation templates, and continued and increasing work with jenkins, Splunk, nagios, ganglia and more. I also work remotely out of Portland.Systems Engineer (April 2013-June 2014): administering a Chef-run four-environment installation for mobile and web applications; MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB administration; Atlassian JIRA, Confluence & Crowd; AWS & Rackspace Cloud administration; advanced use of Percona MySQL tools; ganglia 3.6; VMWare ESXi...

San Francisco Bay Area

Build out, administer & troubleshoot CentOS 5/6 EC2 environment built on Pressflow with MySQL 5.5 and liftweb, akka & cassandra; managed by chef & jenkins. Configure and maintain nagios & munin for 24/7/365 on-call; care & feeding of trac. Ensure mail deliverability (postfix), reliable SSL cert renewal; misc. client issues. Solo office IT & VOIP phone management; second-string release management.

San Francisco Bay Area

Manage and build out a database-intensive group of Fedora machines at Rackspace in a mysql-mmm environment with customized logging (rsyslog), monitoring (nagios, ganglia); system security and a little EC2 automation on the side

Maintain, simplify, update and document a global network of Juniper/ScreenOS devices for production and corporate networks; on-call duties. Project and vendor management, turnup and turndown of circuits & datacenters

Set up and maintain VOIP server environments (ca. 30 servers), internal tools (svn, Hudson, Mediawiki, nagios); on-call duties; office IT (3-month contract position)

Set up, administer and scale all aspects of a 500-server farm: Apache, Resin, Java tuning; FAI, apt repository, svn, puppet; data center management. Managed daily production deploys; branching, package building; eng. coordination. IT purchasing, installation and troubleshooting for SF and London offices

Deployment & management of LAMP & Java apps using custom RPM/deploy system, scripting and tooling; documentation & knowledge base creation, troubleshooting

Checked articles for grammatical and factual errors before publication; controlled layout of modified articles within QuarkExpress

Design, set up, administer and document production & test environments: Tomcat, Apache, Oracle, SAPDB for TÜV certification; on-call rotation (nagios, mon); office IT

Build out and administer RedHat & Solaris web environments; data center management; monitoring; on-call rotation

As SA: Administered and built out all aspects of clustered, qmail-based mail & webmail environment (Solaris, FreeBSD, NetApp, Oracle); data center mgmt; on-call rotation.As PSM: Above duties, plus manage and coordinate 8-person sysadmin team

Manage & deploy customer DNS (50,000+ domains) with shell scripts; maintain telco-scale DNS servers (BIND 4&8), 24/7 on-call; SecurID badge management

As TA: Dial-up Internet technical support by phone for Windows & MacAs Senior TA: Manage 10-person team; team lead among seniors; employee training (Windows 95)

Linguistics, English

Activities and Societies: Zellerbach Players

Associate Of Arts, Foreign Language (German)