Sr. System Administrator at 24/7 Real Media
Greater New York City Area
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- Sr. System Administrator at 24/7 Real Media
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- Mgr of Operations at WikiYou Inc.
- Mgr, Network Operations at Bolt Inc.
- Technical Lead at Blue Marble
- Programmer at NW Ayer
- Education
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- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Massapequa School District
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Ed Lafferty’s Experience
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Sr. System Administrator
24/7 Real Media
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TFSM; Online Media industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
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Mgr of Operations
WikiYou Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)
I purchased, configured, installed and managed all servers (web, DB, mgmt) for www.wikiyou.com in a three tier architecture. I was responsible for monitoring the site and servers to both pro- and reactively take the needed measures to ensure site stability and availablility. I was responsible for database maintenance, performance tuning and reliabity. I set up the replication scenario used in production as well as a high availability solution using DRBD and Heartbeat.
Applications used, managed and installed included CentOS 4.5, Apache, JBoss, MySQL 5.0, MRTG, Nagios, DRBD, Heartbeat, WordPress and CVS. -
Mgr, Network Operations
Bolt Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 1998 — August 2007 (9 years)
"If it plugs into the wall, I am responsible for it."
I am responsible for the 70+ pieces of equipment in our datacenter. This includes web servers, database server, load balancers and routing/switching equipment. I have migrated the entire web infrastructure from Windows servers to servers running both Red Hat and CentOS Linux. I have been responsibile for two full data center moves with minimal downtime.
I am also responsible for our office network, phone and physical security systems.
I have experience with a wide variety of operating systems, software packages and devices, including but not limited to:
- Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory and Exchange (both 5.5 and 2000)
- Linux OS and Apache 2.0
- Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL
- VPNs, firewalls, DNS, TCP/IP, Cisco routers and switches and NetScaler load balancers -
Technical Lead
Blue Marble
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 1994 — September 1998 (4 years 8 months)
I was responsible for technological decisions at Blue Marble. I was also the lead developer on all Blue Marble projects. These were web projects for clients such as Microsoft, Continental Airlines, GM, AT&T, numerous P&G brands (Sunny-D, Always, Scope, et al). I developed the very first online store presence for Avon on AOL.
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Programmer
NW Ayer
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 1987 — February 1994 (6 years 4 months)
I worked on the DeBeers Consolidated Mines account as a database programmer for the Diamond Promotion Service. I was responsible for computerizing the sales force of the DPS.
Ed Lafferty’s Education
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State University of New York at Buffalo
1982 — 1987
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Massapequa School District
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Martial Arts, Gaming, Reading
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N.W. Ayer Alumni
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