Former Internet Professional On Hiatus
Greater Chicago Area
- Past
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- Technical Consultant at Vividas
- Internet Engineer at SyInc, Inc.
- Applications Support Analyst at Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.
- Unix & Network Administrator at BusinessBots, Inc.
- Unix Administrator at FastParts.com
- Senior Software Engineer at FastParts.com
- Senior Development Consultant at onShore, Inc.
- Webmaster at U.S. Host, Inc.
- Support & Development Consultant at onShore, Inc.
- Education
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- Prospect High School
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Adam Dace’s Summary
Currently looking for work in Rockford, specifically along the lines of food service or janitorial duties.
After many years in IT, the stress simply got to me and I'm looking for a simpler mode of existence.
Adam Dace’s Experience
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Technical Consultant
Vividas
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — May 2008 (3 months)
Performing a pretty wide variety of tasks, from shopping cart configuration to full-site implementation support.
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Internet Engineer
SyInc, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — March 2008 (5 months)
Designed and implemented a server architecture to create a unified LAMP test environment that supports multiple databases and websites, as well as one production website.
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Applications Support Analyst
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OWW; Internet industry)
April 2002 — August 2007 (5 years 5 months)
Participated in a high-profile project that saved the company an estimated $6MM in upfront hardware costs. Performed application-level installs on over 50 Linux servers and shipped them to production within a week.
Reduced headcount necessary to support to support both build and site promotion systems over the course of several years. Performed complete rewrites for each, eventually both were responsible for over 20 codebases spanning across hundreds of servers.
Provided dawn-to-dusk weekday support of multiple test environments, as well as on-call 24x7 production support on a rotating basis.
Created an Open Source Python-based distributed shell utility that empowers one person to administer a cluster of 10-100+ servers in an auditable, efficient, and scalable manner. -
Unix & Network Administrator
BusinessBots, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2001 — June 2001 (4 months)
Reduced overhead for this position by 60% versus the previous cost of an outside consultant. Provided day-to-day operational and security support of routers, firewalls, VPN, as well as Unix and Windows environments.
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Unix Administrator
FastParts.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Increased website traffic capacity by over 500%. Consulted on the time-sensitive transition from a single-server configuration to a multi-server, redundant "farm" configuration.
Improved overall development process efficiency by implementing separate Development, Quality Assurance, and Production environments.
Reduced potential cost of downtime by implementing and documenting script solutions for database export redundancy, revision control system management, and automated software deployment.
Reduced potential cost of a security breach by advising on various security issues including server, firewall, and database security. -
Senior Software Engineer
FastParts.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 6 months)
Improved worker efficiency by introducing a documented development process, as well as a tuned Oracle configuration.
Spearheaded the company's first Java-based product prototype.
Co-created and shipped the company's next-generation web-based product line, including online auction, catalog, and trading exchange products.
Improved server redundancy and performance by introducing an
external RAID subsystem to the existing server configuration.
Evaluated and recommended the WebMethods B2B Server product.
Assisted management in interviewing, hiring, and training 4 additional developers and a dedicated Oracle DBA. -
Senior Development Consultant
onShore, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 4 months)
Increased company revenue $75,000 by programming on an exciting financials product extension project.
Contributed to $50,000 of company revenue by acting as
Project Lead for a financials payment warehouse project
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Webmaster
U.S. Host, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 1995 — July 1996 (10 months)
Reduced company overhead by acting as a combination of Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, Support Engineer, and CGI Programmer for a growing Internet Service Provider.
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Support & Development Consultant
onShore, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 2 months)
Maximized company revenue $50,000 by participating in a team that brought over 50 professors online at the University of Chicago.
Also provided varied support and programming services.
Adam Dace’s Education
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Prospect High School
High School , 1989 — 1992
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