TECHNICAL SKILLS

17 years of experience with Solaris, Unix, Apache, Bind, Sendmail, TCP/IP, Network troubleshooting, Solaris Performance Tuning, Shell Scripting (sh, ksh, tcsh, csh, bash), and Perl. Several years of SQL, Oracle Installation and Tuning, and Unix security experience. 5 years of experience in web hosting. 2 years of experience in digital video and 12 years of experience supporting desktop publishing.

EXPERIENCE

Mediatemple, Inc., Culver City, CA

9/2007 - 11/2010

Senior Systems Engineer

• Worked with the engineering staff to design high performance, highly available storage systems for distributed web hosting clusters with thousands of customers.
• Designed the Grid Storage v2 and v3 architectures
• Worked with Operations to ensure knowledge transfer and maintainability of systems.
• Designed, wrote, and implemented a multi-threaded backup architecture for over 16 PB of customer data.

Amp'd Mobile, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

1/2006 - 8/2007

Senior Manager, Network Services

• Working with the development teams, helped to make products scalable, supportable, and manageable.
• Worked with development and operations to ensure that new systems were successfully transitioned to our vendors.
• Managed a team of people performing Systems Administration tasks for our internal development teams.
• Using Solaris Zones, created a staging environment in a box, that could have saved Amp'd over $60,000 a month.

Filmcomposer.com, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
5/2004 - 2/2008

Chief Information Officer

• Helped to set policies and procedures for how the company maintains and processes information and electronic resources.
• Helped to define, procure, and implement the Information Technology structure

Earthlink Networks, Los Angeles, CA & Atlanta, GA
7/2002 - 3/2004

Senior System Administrator

• As part of the Focus Systems Administration department, I provided systems administration expertise to the development groups working on our portal products.
• Provided a level of escalation and in-depth technical expertise and troubleshooting on production issues.
• Helped evaluate different server platforms for use for our products.
• Helped ensure that products in development were stable, scalable, and would be manageable in production for 5 million customers.

PacketVideo Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
4/2001 - 4/2002

Unix Systems Administrator

• Provided technical support to members of the Engineering Development and Quality Assurance teams
• Ensured the stability of development environments to develop and debug wirelessWebapplications usingTomcat, Apache, Oracle, Interbase, Java,Javascript,and Perl on Unix/Solaris and Linux/Red Hat.
• Assisted during development and debugging of the product PVAirStudio Development Kit, an ADK for the PacketVideo wireless multimedia streaming platform
• Worked closely with Quality Assurance to set up and maintain testing servers and systems
• Set up and maintained a development environment for outside (possibly competing) developers to share, including security and obfuscation mechanisms

iBoost Technology, Inc., North Hollywood, CA
7/2000 - 3/2001

Unix Systems Administrator

• Designed, set up, configured, tuned and monitored servers to maintain a 24/7/365 Web presence to sustain the company’s core business (Web advertising and content aggregation)
• Maintained more Web traffic than all of IBM's Web traffic (Position 296(iBoost) versus 297(IBM) on the Web300, November, 2000). Worked closely with internal developers to track down and eliminate performance-related issues with internally designed Web applications

University ofSouthern California, School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
10/1999 - 7/2000

Matrix Lab Technician

• Worked with the machines in the Matrix program (digital video and digital publishing program for students)
• Created a second lab space, including specifying machines, application programs, and operating systems
• Maintained the USC School of Fine Arts Web site, including an internal Web site to help staff work toward a paperless office
• Managed four student workers to enable the lab space to be open more hours

JOBTRAK Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
1/1997 - 1/1999

Systems Engineer

• Helped discover problems and solutions for problems with Web applications
• Performed technical support via phone and e-mail
• Performed various systems administration tasks, including DNS maintenance and Sendmail tuning
• Created customized scripts to fax information on demand with information pulled from the company’s Oracle database

EDUCATION