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Seattle, WA

Seattle

• Coordinated, planned, and executed office move and tech stack migration. Worked with electrical and networking contractors to design and build data center in new office. Completed physical tech stack migration in less.
• Collaborated on team tasked with the migration of the company’s Apache/Tomcat/MySQL production stack. Designed, acquired hardware for, and rebuilt entire production stack and coordinated service transfer to new.
• Promoted from Systems Engineer to Manager of IT/Operations while maintaining Systems Engineering responsibilities, including participation in on-call rotation.
• Led IT Operations team to support enterprise production web sites, internal infrastructure, and anticipate problems before they occurred.
• Reduced load time for production web sites by 75% by leveraging server- and browser-side caching, Google’s PageSpeed Apache module, and implementation of AWS CloudFront CDN.
• Managed 200+ physical and virtual CentOS, RedHat, MySQL, and Windows servers in a VMWare/ESXi environment managed with VSphere.

• Managed 65+ production servers at three separate data centers. This hosting and development business hosted high profile web sites for companies like Qwest, Bartell Drugs, and Warren Miller.
• Supported a team of developers with the configuration and maintenance of LAMP and ColdFusion based web sites, SVN deployments, and infrastructure management.
• Managed move of corporate office to new location and managed the migration of internal server farm hosting Qwest customer sites to a new colocation with minimal downtime.
• Planned and performed the upgrade of 6+ year old infrastructure/servers. Migrated mix of operating systems (Solaris & Windows) to Red Hat/CentOS Linux.
• Managed DNS servers, corporate postfix mail server, Cisco networking infrastructure, SSL registration and troubleshooting, and Nagios monitoring.
• Implemented disaster recovery backup solution utilizing AWS EC2/S3.

Seattle

• Led Linux systems administrator in company’s IT group. Designed and implemented migration of company’s enterprise MySQL databases to EqualLogic SAN storage.
• Upgraded company’s core production servers from failing white boxes to HP Proliant Servers with minimal downtime.
• Advanced troubleshooting and maintenance on forty Linux servers running Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora located in Seattle and the Philippines. Administered Apache web servers running Mongrel and Ruby on Rails.
• Configured remote DR backup plans for MySQL databases via replication.
• LAN/WAN management and troubleshooting, Checkpoint firewall, BIND, and LVM on HP SAN.

• UNIX administrator for mission-critical server cluster hosting a 24/7 production clinical database (EPIC) with a 3000+ daily users, including two Seattle hospital ERs.
• Project Manager responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise SFTP infrastructure for the transfer of patient billing files across UW network.
• Designed and implemented offsite hot disaster recovery facility for mission-critical servers.
• Built and managed a series of SUSE Linux servers on UWPN WAN configured for network sniffing, intrusion detection (NTOP), Tripwire, MRTG, SSH, and SFTP services.
• LAN manager responsible for installation & maintenance of HP Procurve switches at 9 UWPN clinics and secure data centers.
• Maintained network security at host/server level utilizing IPsec filters and TCP Wrappers as well as network level managing 15-Lucent layer-2 firewalls.

• Operated, administered, and troubleshot shipboard digital seafloor mapping network and software for real-time assessment of seabed routes for telecommunication cables.
• Utilized UNIX (Solaris) and NT based geo-acoustic processing software; G2, GMAP, Microstation, and Starfix software for the production of digital map databases.
• Managed a production crew of data technicians in high stress shipboard environment.

• Provided offshore technical support, data analysis, and formal presentation of digital marine geo-acoustic database for SW Washington Coastal Erosion Study.
• Technical support, data analysis, authored peer reviewed papers, and conference presentation of offshore survey results for the West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project 1996-1998.
• Offshore technical support for 1992 USGS/NMFS seafloor mapping project of Georges Bank in the North Atlantic Cod fisheries impact survey.
• Provided technical support for the 1992/1993 Airborne Geophysical survey of Western Antarctic Rift System in cooperation with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Institute for Geophysics of the University of Texas at.

Ms, Marine Geology

M.S, Marine Science

B.S, Geology

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