Dean Brundage

Current

• Subject Matter Expert at CSC
• Beer Judge at The BJCP

Past

• System Technologist at Sun Microsystems
• Senior Technical Support Specialist at The Grid Inc.

Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
• Homestead

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Brewing Blog
• Facebook Profile

Dean Brundage’s Summary

- Full-time unix infrastructure support administrator and developer since 1999.
- Solid foundation of ruby on rails knowledge.
- Works on global teams to accomplish tasks and resolve problems.

Dean Brundage’s Specialties:

Solaris & Sun Cluster Certified
Gentoo Linux
Mysql

Dean Brundage’s Experience

• Subject Matter Expert

  CSC

  (Public Company; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  - Enterprise-wide software deployment and maintenance.
  
  - Member of international team deploying software used by a CSC customer with 38,000 employees. Programs include StarOffice, Firefox, and the Java Desktop System.
  
  - Configure and deploy Mozilla-based products to a 38,000-user environment. Integrate corporate policies and LDAP directory information into thunderbird and firefox autoconfig (AKA Mission Control) to automatically set user preferences according to the customer's specification.
  
  - Architected an enterprise-wide application tracking system to help the customer visualize monthly usage. The system collects roughly 60,000 reports per month tracking usage of some 35 applications. Kept close communication with the customer from requirements documentation to post-deployment performance tuning.
  
  - Lead developer on whole-company operating system upgrade. Advised the customer's global team on desktop environment customizations to ensure that all employees work in a standard environment. Improved maintainability, reduced complexity, adhered to legal guidelines such as SOX. Customer asked we perform the deployment in half the time of the previous two and my team delivered.
  
  - Communicate with customers regarding project requirements, implementations and close-down. Strive to keep project documents concise.
  
  - Use subversion to house configurations and source code enabling rapid turn-around on many new projects.
  
  - Developed small web application to manage software licenses.

• Beer Judge

  The BJCP

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  - Offer critical, yet gentle appraisals of home-made beer submitted to competitions.
  
  - Evaluate beer based on criteria, rather than personal taste.
  
  - Promote beer literacy and the appreciation of real beer.
  
  - Certified by the BJCP, not an employee; see http://www.bjcp.org/

• System Technologist

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1999 — May 2006 (7 years )

  - Supported 6 buildings encompassing roughly 2000 users and many unix services including a large-scale SunRay group. Senior administrator supporting the demanding Newark campus Sun University buildings. July 1999 - August 2004
  
  - Beta-On-Sun team. Coordinated with product developers to beta test Sun One Messaging System. Ran clustered servers with 600 users on the latest mail-server software in a two-tier configuration. Liaison between user-base, IT Operations and development. August 2004 - November 2004
  
  - Puppet Development Team. Maintained 20,000 lines of perl and bourne code for Puppet. Primarily responsible for user-interface and client code. Led weekly team meetings. Primary contact for IT Operations "train process". November 2004 - November 2005
  
  - Newark Network Operation Center. React to user and automatically generated trouble tickets. December 2005 - May 2006

• Senior Technical Support Specialist

  The Grid Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

  Senior technical support rep.

Dean Brundage’s Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  Mathematics , 1994 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Rowing Crew, Program Board

• Homestead

  1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Dean Brundage’s Websites:

• Brewing Blog
• Facebook Profile

Dean Brundage’s Interests:

Brewing, Mathematics, Rails

Dean Brundage’s Groups:

Silicon Valley Sudzers

•    BJCP - Beer Judge Certification Program
•    The Creative Space

Dean Brundage’s Contact Settings

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