Chris McCraw

Current

• systems administrator at Respond2
• firefighter at R2C Group

Past

• senior systems administrator at Nike
• geek at university of texas at austin
• senior systems analyst at university of texas at austin

• software engineer at united devices

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Chris McCraw’s Summary

I've been a unix system and network administrator for the past 12 years, with varying levels of software development sprinkled liberally throughout. I have extensive experience with most types of unix in use today, and am very customer oriented in my treatment of user problems. I look for more of the same sort of work.

Chris McCraw’s Specialties:

unix, system/network debugging, bicycle riding, joy facilitation

Chris McCraw’s Experience

• systems administrator

  Respond2

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  wrangler of a small network of unix machines, mission facilitator

• firefighter

  R2C Group

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• senior systems administrator

  Nike

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)

  2007 — March 2008 (1 year)

  part of the team responsible for the care and feeding of www.nike.com. huge diverse 3-tiered web app, developer wrangling, and more!

• geek

  university of texas at austin

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2003 — May 2007 (3 years 10 months)

  senior operating system specialist. my team managed several hundred linux and solaris machines from specification to usage & upkeep in a challenging academic environment.

• senior systems analyst

  university of texas at austin

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1995 — October 2002 (7 years 2 months)

  designed, oversaw installation of, and managed a network which grew from 25 hosts to over 200 in a high-demand research environment

• software engineer

  united devices

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2000 — August 2001 (9 months)

  worked briefly in QA before writing an installer, helping with debugging, documentation, and some parallel computing modules.

Chris McCraw’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  bachelor of arts , computer science, psychology, latin, spanish , 1994 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  President - UT ACM (400+ person student organization) - 1999,
  Vice President - UT ACM - 1998
  Organizer & leader - UT ACM Linux special interest group - 1995-2000

Additional Information

Chris McCraw’s Interests:

unix, writing, bicycling, endurance sports, reading, martial arts, scrabble, saving the planet

Chris McCraw’s Groups:

•    Geek Austin
•    PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon
•    Linux Against Poverty

Chris McCraw’s Honors:

CISSP certified (http://www.isc2.org)
mentor of the year, faculty/staff mentor program, UT Austin, 2006

Chris McCraw’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch