Release Engineer at Red Hat, Inc
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Release Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.
- Adjunct Professor at Liberty University
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- Programmer at NumbersUSA
- Verification and Testing Unit Lead at Liberty University
- Programmer at Liberty University
- Chief Programmer and System Administrator at NumbersUSA
- Analyst Programmer at University of Maine UNET
- Senior Programmer at Whetstone Logic, Inc
- Education
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- University of Maine
- Liberty University
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Anderson Silva’s Summary
System deployments. System testing. System Administration. Programming. Technical writing.
Anderson Silva’s Specialties:
Software Development, Teaching, System Administration, Software Testing, Release Engineering.
Anderson Silva’s Experience
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Release Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; rht; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for the release process, which governs Red Hat's internal, and external suite. Worked with development team to organize, plan, and execute application deployments to global web sites. Worked as a member of the team responsible for the Production Operations of Red Hat's website, RHN service, and other internal/external customer facing services. Required participation in an on-call rotation with the other team members, monitoring of a ticket queue for problems and requests relating to these operations. Developed several scripts and applications to automate internal process to assist team with releases.
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Adjunct Professor
Liberty University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Taught CMIS 310 - Web Architecture and Development.
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Programmer
NumbersUSA
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Political Organization industry)
April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Programmer and System Administrator (Telecommute). Designed, developed and maintained applications in Perl, HTML, Javascript (including AJAX/AHAH), Shell Script, and Php. Assisted Network and System Administrators. Maintained CVS, Web Clusters on RedHat Global File System, and MySQL. Estimated and Designed several projects including Object Oriented design, database and operating system security policies.
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Verification and Testing Unit Lead
Liberty University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Developed a brand new sub-department for the University responsible for approving the release of any new systems developed by the IT Development & Engineering Development. Managed a team of student workers who were responsible for testing and verifying deployments to production servers. Created workshops for developers to share knowledge and educate one another. Assisted developers creating better standards, and techniques to solve problems [i.e. re-usable code, code standards].
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Programmer
Liberty University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Implementation of products using Macromedia Coldfusion, Perl, Shell, Delphi, MS SQL, Oracle, Java (Servlets, JSP). Linux system administrator. Setup Linux system for Patch Deployment procedures and uPortal testing technology. Development and Implentation of a new Testing and Verification Unit for the Department
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Chief Programmer and System Administrator
NumbersUSA
(Political Organization industry)
September 2002 — July 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Installed and mantained 7 Red Hat Linux servers running as DNS, HTTP, E-mail, Mysql, Hylafax servers. Developed and maintaned applications in Perl, HTML, Javascript, Shell Script, and Php. Designed several projects including time estimates, Obejct Oriented design, database and operating system security policies.
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Analyst Programmer
University of Maine UNET
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Developed web and system appliactions with PL/SQL, Java (including JSP and Java Servlets), C, Rexx on Unix, MS Windows and IBM Mainframe. Developed databases on Oracle. Introduced to be an Oracle DBA by UNET's DBA.
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Senior Programmer
Whetstone Logic, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Senior Programmer (Telecommute). Developed several web applications for clients, and internal use (HTML, PHP, Javascript, Perl). Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD System Administrator.
Anderson Silva’s Education
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University of Maine
MS, Information Systems, 2002 — 2005
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Liberty University
BS, Computer Science, 1996 — 2000
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Anderson Silva’s Interests:
family, church, thinking, learning, web technologies, linux, programming, blogging, movies
Anderson Silva’s Groups:
ACM (on and off)
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Open Source member -
Generation Red Hat member
Anderson Silva’s Honors:
ITIL Foundations Certified
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL 5)
Member of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
Kappa Mu Epsilon Honor Society
Dean's List
Microsoft Office User Specialist (Master Level)
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