Charles D. Aylward

Current

Operations Tools Engineer at Ooma, Inc.

Past

Unix Systems & Security Consultant at Charles Aylward Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
Sr. Systems Administrator at 8x8, Inc.
Software Engineer at Isthmus Network Consulting, LLC

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Charles D. Aylward’s Summary

Strong individual contributor in the design, development, deployment, and continued improvement of highly available, fault-tolerant, adaptive, intuitive, and scalable software systems. Adept in creating functional requirements and specifications, analysis and design, user interface design, end-to-end implementation and integration, and writing concise usable documentation.

Charles D. Aylward’s Specialties:

Software development, high-capacity fault-tolerant distributed systems, intuitive GUIs, network management and automation, systems security, data mining, and statistics visualization.

Charles D. Aylward’s Experience

Operations Tools Engineer

Ooma, Inc.

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Design and develop intuitive network management, automation, and high performance real-time visualization tools. Resident MySQL DBA.
Unix Systems & Security Consultant
Charles Aylward Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Networking industry)

February 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 11 months)

Helped small and medium businesses to both build their network infrastructure and configure core services (Web, Mail, DNS, NFS, Grids / Clusters, et cetera) with a strong emphasis on security for both internal and external customers.
Sr. Systems Administrator

8x8, Inc.

(Public Company; EGHT; Telecommunications industry)

December 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Made key contributions to capacity and roadmap planning. Increased efficiency and stability through the automation and streamlining of common tasks. Debugged and optimized key software components. Designed and implemented software packages for engineering and operations. Implemented documented procedures and trained other technical personnel. Assessed the viability of new technologies and techniques. Wrote and tested procedures for software migration strategies. Extensive database cluster planning, management, and tuning to provide highly available access to mission critical data.
Software Engineer

Isthmus Network Consulting, LLC

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

September 1999 — March 2004 (4 years 7 months)

Worked primarily as application developer leveraging Java technologies to build robust, highly extensible, and highly scalable network applications and web services. Assumed other responsibilities such as system administrator and technical writer as needed.