Nick Anderson Email & Phone Number

Oslo, No

I do things, mostly for CFEngine as part of Northern.tech.Northern.tech is the leader in device lifecycle management with a mission to secure the world's connected devices. CFEngine offers DevOps teams, security teams, and other IT stakeholders a versatile solution to automate large-scale server management and compliance. From provisioning workloads across hybrid clouds to patching and configuration management, including scheduling, local user management, process management, security hardening, inventory, and compliance management. With its strong security track record, CFEngine is widely used in heavily regulated industries like financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and governmental agencies, including the United States Navy, Novartis, Pfizer, Linkedin, and Samsung.

Oslo, Oslo, No

Helped to found, organize and facilitate community advisory board meetings.

I work with some of the smartest and most stimulating people on the planet!I am responsible for assisting CFEngine's customers with the evaluation,design, implementation and policy writing of the CFEngine products.I provide training, community support and contribute to product development and have lots of fun doing it.

Suwanee, Georgia, Us

Maintain and support engineering lab environments. Work in a geographically diverse team and participate in maintaining internal and external customer facing production services. Help to drive virtualization infrastructure adoption utilizing Citrix Xenserver, and VMware products. Help manage monitoring servers (Zenoss, Nagios/NRPE). Maintain configuration management infrastructure.Bang head on desk, have lots of fun solving interesting and challenging issues.Note: My division was purchased from Motorola Mobility. I continued in the same position.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Maintain and support engineering lab environments. Work in a geographically diverse team and participate in maintaining internal and external customer facing production services. Help to drive virtualization infrastructure adoption utilizing Citrix Xenserver, and VMware products. Help manage monitoring servers (Zenoss, Nagios/NRPE). Maintain configuration management infrastructure.Bang head on desk, have lots of fun solving interesting and challenging issues.Note: Motorla split into two seperate companies. My division went with Motorola Mobility. I continued in the same position.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Maintain and support engineering lab environments. Work in a geographically diverse team and participate in maintaining internal and external customer facing production services. Help to drive virtualization infrastructure adoption utilizing Citrix Xenserver, and VMware products. Help manage monitoring servers (Zenoss, Nagios/NRPE). Maintain configuration management infrastructure.Bang head on desk, have lots of fun solving interesting and challenging issues.

Mount Laurel, Nj, Us

Helped found and stear Mentorship program, supervise Mentor/Protege pairs.

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Perform troubleshooting of business computers and peripheral equipment. Manage Linux IT infrastructure including Gentoo, Debian 4.0, RHEL3, and RHEL4 distributions, Exim and Qmail mail servers, MySQL 4.x and 5.x, and Apache 2.0. Implementation of ACLs to improve security and privilege separation. Initiation of server consolidation and virtualization using both VMware server and the open source Xen hypervisor. Configuration of server monitoring with Zenoss to provide performance trending and system status notifications to ensure minimal downtime of critical systems. Provide ongoing desktop support for Linux and Windows workstations. Initiate ongoing consultation with management regarding maintenance, deployment, and cost for the managed infrastructure. Assist in building SEO strategies and successfully affected SERPs in a positive direction. Build relationships with technical educators in the area and manage Information Technology internships.

Worked within small technical team to integrate and support Linux based cluster solutions based on commodity hardware (AMD & Intel 64bit). Installed and configured servers, workstations, and high performance computing clusters. Worked with high speed interconnects including Myricoms Myrinet(10G) and PathScales InfiniPath. Enhanced automation scripts to check software configuration for correctness and report status. Installed and benchmarked customer requested compilers (PGI, PathScale, Intel, gcc). Re-created hardware burn-in environment using a Gentoo NFS root to stress all aspects of hardware and be able to trap kernel errors with netconsole. Supported end users' server, and workstation cluster configurations. Configured Asterisk as phone system for small office. Configured first public demonstration of Perceus for Supercomputing Conference 2006. Demonstrated Luster Cluster File System at Linux World 2006 (San Francisco). Installed and maintained RT ticketing system. Extended RT to be fully controllable via email.

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Provided customer service and troubleshooting for small business and personal computers. Responsible for maintenance and repair of computer hardware and software for various systems. Rebuilt Gentoo based vlan trunking configuration for a large dormitory.

Maintained network and workstation computers. Administered website built with Perl running on Apache web server. Managed Linux based mail server running Qmail. Designed and developed mobile servers to synchronize on-site and on-line sales. Reduced image processing time by rewriting image manipulation script, effectively cutting processing time. Configured routers, firewalls, domain name services, e-mail, web, and ftp services. Evaluated, purchased, configured and installed equipment. Developed internal technical documentation. Ceased outsourcing of email, web hosting, and e-commerce to increase profit margins. Processed images for lab as production manager.

Bs, Management Information Systems

Associates, Computer Information Technology

Computer Science