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Staying home, watching my latest grand daughter.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Foster City, Ca, Us

I manage a distributed team of QA Engineers located in Redwood Shores, CA. and Beijing, China.My team has responsibility for the the following products:- Security Scanner software, with approx. 10 major releases per year.- Vulnerability Management signatures with over 10k signatures, approx. 230 releases a year.- Policy Compliance (GRC) solution with over 5k signatures and Controls.- Hardware appliance scanner (3 versions), with associated applications.- Virtual Scanner technology (VMware, HyperV, Xen and Amazon EC2)Major accomplishments include:- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Development and Product Management.- Developed teams that were able to define, implement and drive root cause analysis - Implement processes to develop and optimize test plans, for overall quality improvement.- Managed teams using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.- Successfully managed the conversion from a hardware based lab to virtual lab infrastructure.- Design and develop automation framework and tools for testing and automation- Develop testbed infrastructure to replicate diverse customer environments.- Develop tools to track and report on production to identify and resolve quality issues across multiple cloud platforms.

OIC was a small startup with an IT department or 1. I designed, installed, configure and maintain complex network infrastructure integrating wireless (802.11x) and wired devices providing 24x7 security monitoring and reporting infrastructure to our customer base.Also responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining corporate Email (Sendmail), Web (Apache and IIS), DNS and LDAP services.

As Director of IT I was responsible for all production and engineering systems from Servers to Desktops supporting multiple OSes including Windows (Exchange/AD/Storage), Mac and Linux systems.Major accomplishments included:- Growing from a single site to multiple offices.- Design and support of backend Linux based file servers based on iSCSI hardware.- Design and implement Inter-office network architecture with a focus on security and performance. - Infrastructure and applications servers including AD, Exchange, NIS+ infrastructure, backup services for desktop's and production servers.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

1990-20001990-1994 Responsible for Production Unix systems.1994-2000Sr. Engineer Technical Marketing, responsible for Internet Services. Including Principle Internet Solutions Architect to professional services

Principal consultant for the Internet Systems division to Professional Services. Responsibilities included:- Architecting Secure, highly available Web, News and Email systems for customers such as New Zealand Telecom, China Telecom- Provide in-depth training on system and application setup and management for ISP's and corporate Intranets.- Subject matter expert on Apache, Zeus and Netscape web servers, Gauntlet and CheckPoint Firewalls, Usenet News servers, and Sendmail 8 Mail servers.

Design multi-tiered architectures for ISP's and companies around providing News, Mail and web services. Core features were Security, Scalability and rapid growth.I worked closely with Sales Engineers and Systems Architects to provide targeted solutions for each customer.I also was responsible for providing training, trade show presentations for Internet Systems solutions and was the Keynote speaker at a technical conference in Seoul S. Korea.

Senior Systems Administrator for Corporate Unix systemsInstalled the first Web Servers and setup the initial Intranet web infrastructure.Sr. Systems Admin during the conversion project that migrated all backend systems from the HP Fireman system to Oracle running on SGI systems.

Responsibilities included testing and release of:- In System Emulators- Unix development system based on the NSC 32000 CPU- System Admin and backups of VAX 11/750 and VAX 11/780 systems- System Admin for various Sun Servers