Andy Poling

Current

• A little of this, a little of that... at Econnectix

Past

• System Architect at Hostway
• VP Engineering at Affinity Internet
• Sr UNIX Systems Programmer at Johns Hopkins University

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Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Andy Poling’s Summary

I'm familiar with most aspects of a technology organization. I specialize in system architecture. but I've managed architecture and development groups, operations and corporate IT groups, and most things in between.

I like to build new and better systems and solutions utilizing open source software, and I believe in employing an architecture-first approach to designing and building modular systems.

As a manager, I believe that professional growth of the team members is essential to maintaining energy and group productivity, and I emphasize a tiered mentorship structure as a fundamental part of my approach.

I've worked in a 3-person startup, sprawling international corporations, and other sizes in between.

Andy Poling’s Specialties:

Large and efficient systems architecture, open source software, systems soup-to-nuts, senior technical management

Andy Poling’s Experience

• A little of this, a little of that...

  Econnectix

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year)

  As is typical in a young company, we're trying to make something neat happen.

• System Architect

  Hostway

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  Systems technology leadership, management of systems architecture, systems development, systems engineering, systems administration and corporate MIS (spread across 3 locations - 2 in US and one in CA).

• VP Engineering

  Affinity Internet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2000 — June 2006 (6 years 5 months)

  Corporate technology leadership, management of system and application architecture and development groups spread across offices in three US cities.

• Sr UNIX Systems Programmer

  Johns Hopkins University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1987 — 1996 (9 years)

  Modernized centralized UNIX computing systems by architecting, implementing and managing a distributed UNIX-based computing environment used by all faculty, staff and students. Rolled out the first graphical UNIX workstations in the public computing labs. Implemented leading edge (at the time) dns, email and web services and supported users across the university.

Andy Poling’s Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  BS, Math, 1990 — 1995

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•    Technology Leaders Association

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