Ben Smith

Current

• System Administrator at AG Interactive

Past

• Developer/System Administrator at In The Round Design Group
• Network Engineer at Ohio Online
• Roamer Support Technician at US Cellular

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Education

• AB Tech

Recommended

1 person has recommended Ben

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Ben Smith’s Summary

I have been a part of almost every aspect of Internet Technology from application development & technical infrastructure/architecture, to help desk/customer service.

Ben Smith’s Specialties:

Linux, Perl, Python, PHP, Shell Scripting, C, Version Control, Storage

Ben Smith’s Experience

• System Administrator

  AG Interactive

  (Internet industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Part of a team that manages a large server farm running such sites as http://www.americangreetings.com, http://www.egreetings.com, http://www.kiwee.com, http://www.bluemountain.com, http://www.webshots.com. 90% of our farm is Linux. I focus primarily on assisting with the operational side of new product development and desktop applications, automating processes for the management of many hundreds of servers running various *nixes and managing many terrabytes of storage on NAS/SAN's.

• Developer/System Administrator

  In The Round Design Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

  Lead developer & system administrator.

• Network Engineer

  Ohio Online

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2004 — September 2006 (2 years)

  Manage servers & networking gear, write code.

• Roamer Support Technician

  US Cellular

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Wireless industry)

  March 1999 — October 2004 (5 years 8 months)

  QA on Trouble Reports. Technical Escalation point. High level technical analysis of Cellular Switches. Wrote & managed inter-department applications.

Ben Smith’s Education

• AB Tech

  1997

Additional Information

Ben Smith’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Ben Smith’s Interests:

Linux, Solaris, Perl, PHP5 (seriously PHP4 sucks), Apache, starting to get comfy with python, Javascript, C/C++.

Ben Smith’s Groups:

Cleveland Linux Users Group, CPAN, ISSA, Clepy

•    PyCon 2008
•    NE Ohio IT Professionals
•    Linked Cleveland

Ben Smith’s Contact Settings

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