Chris Penn

Current

System Administrator at NOAA Southern Regional Climate Center Louisiana State University

Past

System Administration at Camera West, Mission Viejo CA
IT Manager at Fitsu Society
Independent Security Contractor at Physical Rehabilitation Network

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Education

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Chris

Connections

26 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Chris Penn’s Summary

# Getting a master/PhD in Mathematics.
# Helping Linux to become a true second option for every end-user in the world.
# Promoting free and open-source software to everyone I meet.

Chris Penn’s Specialties:

# Beowulf Clusters
# Qmail Mailservers
# Debian and RHEL/Centos environments.
# Backup solutions
# System Exploits
# and making awesome coffee.

Chris Penn’s Experience

System Administrator

NOAA Southern Regional Climate Center Louisiana State University

(Research industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Graduate Student in pure mathematics at LSU with a fetish for encryption. Enjoys kayaking, kickboxing, swimming at the beach, and a good user manual.
TURNONS:Fast processing. TURNOFFS: Microsoft Products.
System Administration

Camera West, Mission Viejo CA

(Consumer Electronics industry)

August 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 1 month)

Linux file server and Microsoft workstation support.
All Software and hardware decisions for Mission Viejo store locations.
Disaster mitigation and recovery planning for all company data.
IT Manager

Fitsu Society

(Fine Art industry)

January 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Remote and on site Administration of workstations and network.
Security Research and Implementations for business environment.
Independent Security Contractor

Physical Rehabilitation Network

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)

Security Research, Forensic and Networking, and Security Implementations on Linux Systems.

Provide technical security analysis and engineering support to the client.

Perform risk assessment, support security compliance audits and recommend course of action for field engineers upon review of data.

Assist in the development of security compliance guidance and internal training plans and processes.

Develop certification and accreditation documentation for legacy and newly deployed solutions.

Chris Penn’s Education

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

BS , Mathematics , 2000 — 2003

Title: Quasilinear partial differential equations and the method of characteristics with respect to traffic flow models / by Christopher A. Penn.

Library has COPIES IN REFERENCE ROOM AND ARCHIVES.
Publisher 2003.
Description 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2003.
Microfiche. San Luis Obispo, Calif. : MPI Microfilm Service, 2003. 1 microfiche.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

In Progress , Mathematics- Topology/Analysis , 2006

Currently studying anything topology ::grin::