Adam Auden - adam@bimble.net

Current
  • Systems Administrator at Inspired Gaming Group
  • Systems Administrator at Inspired Broadcast Networks
Past
  • Systems Administrator at Fotango
  • Senior Systems Administrator at The Moving Picture Company
  • Senior Systems Engineer at MPC
  • UNIX Systems Administrator at Imperial College London
  • Network Administrator at Profero
Education
  • Imperial College London
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Adam Auden - adam@bimble.net’s Summary

I am a UNIX Systems Administrator with 8 years of experience, predominantly in Linux. I am looking to move to Nashville, TN in November 2008.

Adam Auden - adam@bimble.net’s Specialties:

Linux, Backups and Storage.


Adam Auden - adam@bimble.net’s Experience

  • Systems Administrator

    Inspired Gaming Group

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; INGG; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2007Present (11 months)

    I work for Inspired as a UNIX systems administrator in the Technical Operations department.

  • Systems Administrator

    Inspired Broadcast Networks

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2007Present (11 months)

    See Inspired Gaming Group for details.

  • Systems Administrator

    Fotango

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2007September 2007 (3 months)

    The systems team at Fotango primarily support the server infrastructure hosting our internal services and those of our parent company Canon. These are high availability web applications provided through a redundant, load balanced, open source platform covered by 24/7 monitoring via a set of Nagios installations.

    Additionally we support the infrastructure for the development, testing and staging environments for our development team maintaining version control and build systems consistent with the production environments we are targeting.

  • Senior Systems Administrator

    The Moving Picture Company

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

    March 2003July 2007 (4 years 5 months)

    * Support a wide range of users (technical, creative, administrative, etc.)

    * Managing large network of workstations, render nodes and NFS servers and the tools and procedures which can be employed.

    * 24/7 business, systems availability was paramount.

    * Coordination with the production staff with regard to service outages and a clear understanding of how the services in question affect the business.

    * R&D of new tech.

    * Responsible for the company's backup and archive facilities.

    * Designing, building and managing a large Veritas Netbackup Enterprise system, based around Quantum PX720 with SDLT600 drives.

    * Throughput of 5TB of archives per week as well as backups of 65TB of data across the organisation.

  • Senior Systems Engineer

    MPC

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

    March 2003July 2007 (4 years 5 months)

    See entry for The Moving Picture Company.

  • UNIX Systems Administrator

    Imperial College London

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 2002March 2003 (7 months)

    Provided UNIX support for departments and financial services, supporting the operating environments for a number of large Oracle databases used by the finance and administration wings of the College.

    Running on a range of Sun hardware including Enterprise3500-6500 and SunFire 12K and platforms based around Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disk Suit I was exposed to a high availability production environment with the downtime scheduling and change management which comes with it.

    Linux was also used throughout the organisation as well as further Sun products, SGI, Digital, HP and Compaq UNIX machines which gave me the opportunity broaden my UNIX experience.

  • Network Administrator

    Profero

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

    June 2000June 2002 (2 years 1 month)

    Responsible for the UK office network and related network services - from the cable infrastructure and Ethernet hardware to security policies border and workstation virus protection.

    During my work here the company grew to include other offices worldwide and I managed a VPN based WAN to connect satellite offices back to the UK.

    I was also responsible for the administration and management of all of the company's production banner-ad servers and associated hardware. This gave me experience working in a mission critical production environment, along with the considerations that have to be taken into account when doing so.

    In addition it has provided me with the opportunity to gain experience across a range of technologies, such as load balancing, automated fail over of network components, servers and clustered firewalls.


Adam Auden - adam@bimble.net’s Education

  • Imperial College London

    BEng, Computing, 19972000


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