Randy Hall Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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Washington D.C. Metro Area

Working as a professional services engineer has given me the opportunity to work with many aspects of the entire Aspera software product line as well as exposure to a variety of customer markets including Media, Federal, Healthcare and Legal. Assist customers with moves to the cloud, from the cloud and between clouds.Perform deployment of Aspera software to customers via on-site and remote engagements on Windows, Linux and MacOS.Represent the company and provide live product demos at NAB.Design, deploy and run Aspera software solutions in a managed cloud environment.Perform on site and remote training classes for Aspera products. Deploy custom solutions using Aspera Orchestrator requiring ruby on rails experience. Large projects include media packaging and media distribution.Developed initial version of Aspera Virtual Catcher which has become a significant product in displacing satellite delivery of media content.Developed migration solution allowing customers to easily upgrade from Aspera Shares 1.9.x to 2.0. This was a complete rewrite of the Shares product requiring new migration software between otherwise incompatible architectures.Developed High Availability clustering package based on a two-node redis cluster for Aspera Enterprise server when used with Aspera Files. Contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements to Aspera Orchestrator, Aspera Shares and various clustering packages for Aspera software.Most coding has been done in Ruby and Bash with some dabbling in Perl and GO.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

One of the advantages of working for such a great company is that I have the opportunity to do many types of diverse work. These are only some of the many projects I've been involved with over the past five years.Technical lead for migrating two different Microsoft Exchange organizations to Google Apps for Business. One of those customers expressed that it was the best run and implemented IT project he has ever experienced.Always ready to jump into the pre-sales role to showcase the many different products and services we can offer to our customers.Implemented a Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop & NetScalar environment for a health care organization. Converted complex proxy configuration from various products to Citrix NetScaler by writing my own translations scripts. Saving hundreds of hours of manual labor.Created an API the provided significantly more functionality for Bluecoat director. This allowed integration with the helpdesk software so that approving filter change in the helpdesk software would be all that is required to implement the change in the filters.Provide support for various local companies as part of our IT Outsourcing business.Plan and deploy enterprise wide security policies and full disk encryption.Perform packet level analysis of WAN connections in a Riverbed environment to determine resource hogs. Provide specific tuning points within the applications running over that link to adjust for optimal performance without guess work.Perform security assessments and penetration tests in both pre-sales and project based work.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Working for the Pilot Media Companies division of Landmark, I get to do a lot of fun stuff. I'm responsible for penetration testing of new acquisitions, managing desktop security for 1000+ nodes with Websense, SMS and Symantec, and contributing to policies & procedures. I also get to do forensic analysis from time to time for the HR or legal department. I have my finger on all remote access in one way or another leveraging RSA, CiscoSecure, Cisco PIX & ASA and blackberries. Because of my breadth of knowledge, not just my depth, I serve on the team that does new startups where we have to go from an empty building to publication in two weeks. I use Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMWare, Xen and Virtual Server on a daily basis and love the diversity. I am the company champion for using strong encryption everywhere it is appropriate and perform PCI audits to verify compliance.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

I supported the output of the newspaper from the moment the postscript file was generated by DTI to the moment the image was burned onto plates for the press. It's a complex system that really does seem like magic when it works as designed. I was also involved in disaster planning for business continuity. I designed and implemented an off site warm standby location where the newspaper could still be produced if we lost our primary facility. One of my long lasting contributions here are numerous Perl scripts scattered on dozens of systems that act as the glue for the newspaper production process. I feel that I now know more that any human should have to know about postscript, PDFs and fonts.

This is where my career really took off. I was given the opportunity to contribute to a brand new startup in the world of open source software. During my consulting as a PostgreSQL database expert, I learned how small the IT world really is and how important networking is. This was also the smartest group of people in one small organization I had ever worked with. As as startup, I worked many projects. Writing documentation, writing code, providing telephone technical support, working as a presales engineer, managing a team of engineers, serving as a consultant, creating software distributions. It was the best experience of my career and would loved for the company to have survived.

Newport News, Virginia

Started here as a contractor from Metro Information services (now Keene). Worked for a year as a contractor then was hired on full time. I used my problem solving skills to provide elegant solutions to unique problems. I did a lot of dBase and Novell here but since it was a national research center, I got a chance to get even deeper into Linux and networking. Along the way, I also did cold fusion web development of internal applications. My fascination with firewalls and security was born here even though I had no direct security responsibilities. I came to the realization that open source was going to be big.

Newport News, Virginia

This was a contract to hire for Jefferson Lab. Well, not really. But Jefferson Lab wanted me there so bad they bought out my contract with Metro. Details are in that position description.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

First job out of the gate from college. Cannot say it was too terribly exciting but it did pay the bills and provide professional growth. I spent most of my time writing reports in dBase. I did however get my feet wet with networking. First with Novell then with Linux. Other than the networking and Linux, my resume from this job looks like a list of all the technology that has been forgotten about over the years.