Athens, Georgia Area
- Current
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- Associate System Administrator at Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
- Past
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- System Administrator/Web Developer at Sole Proprietorship
- Research Assistant at University of Georgia
- Assistant System Administrator at Emory University
- Teaching Assistant at Emory University
- Deputy Director of IT at Emory Wheel
- Field Manager at Fund for Public Interest Research
- Policy Debate Coach at Mount Pisgah Christian School
- Senior Conference Manager at Emory University
- Residential Computer Consultant at Emory University
- Conference Manager at Emory University
- Education
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- The University of Georgia
- Emory University
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Brian Pitts’s Experience
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Associate System Administrator
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
(Research industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
I document, design, code integrate and test new systems technologies for an international bioinformatics website project. Technologies I use include Red Hat Linux, Nagios, Puppet, LDAP, Apache, Tomcat, VMware, Nginx, Subversion, Oracle, Java, and Perl. I also help maintain the uptime of 21 production and 100 development websites and provide platform support for data processing workflows on compute clusters.
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System Administrator/Web Developer
Sole Proprietorship
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Installation and administration of web software stack including Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, lighthttpd, and MySQL. Highest traffic site serves an average of 2.4 million monthly page views. Development and maintenance of custom Perl and Ruby applications. Development of extensions for existing PHP applications including Wordpress, phpBB, and OpenX.
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Research Assistant
University of Georgia
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)
Data collection and classification. Software development in C and Python for data analysis and simulations.
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Assistant System Administrator
Emory University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2006 — July 2007 (11 months)
Part of Linux Administration, Integration & Web Development group. Performed system administration duties for several digital library projects. Developed solutions to meet the needs of researchers and developers. Technologies worked with included clustering (OpenSSI), digital preservation (LOCKSS), web crawling (Heritrix), and GIS (OpenLayers and Mapserver).
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Teaching Assistant
Emory University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)
TA for Database Systems course. Graded projects and worked individually with students during lab sessions.
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Deputy Director of IT
Emory Wheel
(Newspapers industry)
August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Assisted Director with purchasing and personnel decisions. Led training and documentation efforts. Provided final tier of technical support in a deadline-oriented environment. Administered Linux servers and OS X servers and workstations. Projects implemented include fibre channel SAN, directory services, offsite backups, and groupware system.
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Field Manager
Fund for Public Interest Research
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 2006 — June 2006 (2 months)
Planned fundraising operations within Atlanta areas. Led canvassing teams in the field. Participated in hiring and training. Assisted media outreach and press conference work.
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Policy Debate Coach
Mount Pisgah Christian School
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
August 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 5 months)
Developed introductory policy debate curriculum. Taught workshops and weekly class sessions. Judged local and regional tournaments.
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Senior Conference Manager
Emory University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)
Worked during summer for Oxford College Office of Events and Conferences. Scheduled office, desk, and oncall shifts for managers. Delivered training on procedures and equipment usage. Worked with university divisions to maintain services during infrastructure upgrades. Continued previous responsibilities as Conference Manager.
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Residential Computer Consultant
Emory University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
Worked during academic sessions for OCIT. Provided on-site cross-platform technical support to students. Implemented university security guidelines and policies.
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Conference Manager
Emory University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
Worked during summer for Oxford College Office of Events and Conferences. Part of a team responsible for managing all aspects of guest experience. Coordinated services provided by vendors. Scheduled group access to university resources. Maintained inventory of university spaces and equipment. Operated and troubleshot audio/visual and computing equipment. Handled billing for facilities and services.
Brian Pitts’s Education
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The University of Georgia
MA , Political Science , 2007 — 2009
Expected graduation summer 2009. Thesis on hyperlink structure of political information online.
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Emory University
BA , Political Science, Computer Science , 2003 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- Emory Scholars, Emory Free Culture, Computer Science Club, Few Debate Society, Rainbow Oxford Student Alliance
