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Milwaukee, WI

Bootstrapped and operated a wholesale Usenet outsourcing business for the Usenet and Internet Service Provider (USP/ISP) industries, specializing in placing on-site servers at customer points of presence (similar to Akamai). We provided both high performance local indexing proxies that accessed remote NNTP spools, and also built some of the earliest large.

One of the earliest users of FreeBSD (and 386BSD before it), advocating for its use in multiple roles throughout the service provider network, including as servers, routers, and other networking appliances.Designed and implemented what is believed to be the first FreeBSD system that booted and ran off a 1.44MB floppy, in order to create diskless Xterminals.

Milwaukee, WI

Bootstrapped a retail Usenet Service Provider reselling MoreUSENET, LLC's wholesale Usenet services.Authored and maintained an account management and billing system in PHP. Directed business development activities by the other partners, and managed technical support and billing staff members.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked on the development of a cloud control plane, primarily focused on backup operations involving integration with Dell EqualLogic, automated control and management of EqualLogic snapshots, and various ZFS and NFS issues for next-iteration planning.

Winter Park, FL

Highwinds acquired Newshosting in 2006.Continued work to maintain the Newshosting Diablo clusters, including support for massive overview databases, a numbering extension to allow multiple operation modes to allow clients to pick RFC977 or RFC3977 article numbering, and 64-bit support in the core software. Bug-tracking issues with Linux in networking.

Santa Rosa, CA

Designed, built, and deployed on-site a set of custom servers for Sonic.net's Usenet news service, and provided occasional consulting and support services.

Ashburn, VA

Client had previously been reselling services provided by another Usenet outsourcing company, and had developed problems in that business relationship.Helped client develop a business plan to deploy their own servers, acquire financing, lease data center space, and then actually built those servers and deployed them in Ashburn, VA prior to a rebranding of.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Newshosting began as one of the early outsourcing shops running the Diablo Usenet News package, but quickly ran into a variety of scaling issues as rapid growth occurred.Early on, many changes were made to allow the scaling of Diablo to large numbers of connections, along with a high performance authentication system rewrite to integrate with the customer.

CoreComm acquired Voyager.net in 2000.Developed and deployed services including Usenet news, a large distributed web caching system integrating Squid proxies, a Cidera satellite content delivery downlink, and CacheFlow equipment in a regional network, including centralized caches and ICP location services, and a distributed recursion nameserver.

Voyager acquired ExecPC in 1998.Managed and greatly expanded Usenet news services, and designed virtual news service for integration of several dozen acquired Internet Service Providers. Designed Voyager's downtown Milwaukee POP in the Wells building, working with contractors to determine how to bear the weight loads in a 100-year old building. The.

After the departure of the previous system managers, MSCS was left with a problem: they operated one of the major regional hubs for e-mail, news, UUCP, and Internet connectivity, but lacked the staff to support it. As the operator of one of the other major regional hubs, I stepped in and helped them out, including an upgrade of a key system from a.

Designed, implemented, and maintained a Usenet news server cluster for ExecPC, prior to its acquisition by Voyager.

UNIX operating system specialist for an engineering group working on a next generation medical monitoring device.Developed a socket and syscall shim layer for a port of the X Window System server running on an SBus graphics card with its own onboard processor, to allow it to communicate with the host system.Developed a touchscreen driver for an Elo Touch.

Shift duties included managing grocery department and front end operations, department staff, customer relations, vendor deliveries, reconciling vendor accounting, facility maintenance, and pretty much jack of all trades. As a small, older store that found itself slowly surrounded by competitors over the years, the pressure to minimize costs (largely by.