Andy Hawkins

Current

• Director of Technology at tangle.com
• Director of Technology at Big Jump Media

Past

• Senior WebMaster / CNS at Adsmart
• Senior System Admin / WebMaster at Florida Southern Plywood

Recommended

2 people have recommended Andy

Connections

73 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Portfolio

Andy Hawkins’s Summary

PHP4,5, Perl, ASP, .Net, MySQL, Memcache, Performance Programming, Diagnostic Debugging, Server Management and Interaction, Maintain 1000+ file projects with ease, Managing a cluster of 20+ devices/servers with ease, Multi Tasking, Being very flexible working without technical spec documents, Single Handed Management (From Server Architecture to the Graphic Layout) , QA, and Development of Large Scale Projects.

Andy Hawkins’s Specialties:

Working with cutting edge technology, ability to design outside the box to increase performance, and future feature sets.

Andy Hawkins’s Experience

• Director of Technology

  tangle.com

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  The site is a Christian Alternative to YouTube, Myspace, and Facebook. Currently manage the entire cluster of Godtube.com servers, and develop new feature sets, while maintaining the network cluster and availability of the site. Developed and deployed the site GodTube.com which was the fastest growing website for the month of August 2007 with a record of 973% growth!

• Director of Technology

  Big Jump Media

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

• Senior WebMaster / CNS

  Adsmart

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Promoted to Senior Webmaster after two months of employment working as Campaign and Network Services Manager for the US branch.

• Senior System Admin / WebMaster

  Florida Southern Plywood

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Construction industry)

  January 2001 — April 2005 (4 years 4 months)

  Maintained the Windows/Uinx Network, maintained their AIX unix POS network. Upgraded their network a few times to allow windows based computers open connections to the Unix based application. Wrote multiple programs to parse data dumps from the AIX system. Improved their networking system to the thriving system they work from now.

Additional Information

Andy Hawkins’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Portfolio

Andy Hawkins’s Interests:

Internet Development, Traveling, Fine Dining, Exotic Locations, Latest Technologies, Improving my knowledge of everything technology related, I really enjoy the finer things in life.

Andy Hawkins’s Groups:

Windows, Linux, PHP, BBB, GodTube, tangle, Red Hat, CentOS, Unbuntu, Mysql, Sqlite, Postgres, Perl, Video, Audio,

•    Open Source Universe
•    Linux Expert
•    ApacheCon
•    Lucene Users
•    LAMP Web Developers
•    ASF
•    *AMP
•    LA LAMP
•    Nagios Users
•    LAMP Professionals Network
•    Backtrack
•    Open Source

Andy Hawkins’s Honors:

Developed and deployed the site GodTube.com which was the fastest growing website for the month of August 2007 with a record of 973% growth!
Since then Godtube.com has changed to tangle.com, I work with a team 7 developers, managing the daily technical needs of tangle.com, from architecture to coding. Anointed Master Of Everything (MOE) also referred to as Andy.com.
Developed a system of converters (from parts from radio shack) for an old AIX UNIX POS Server to allow windows devices to connect to them, saving the company roughly 15 thousand dollars if provided from a third party (licensing issues).

Andy Hawkins’s Contact Settings

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