Software Engineer at Splunk
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Software Engineer at Splunk
- Chief Network Mechanic at Late Night Networks (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Network Operations Manager at Schematic
- Network Engineer at BackBone Communications
- IT Manager at Ligos Corporation
- Security Engineer at OneSecure
- Network Engineer at Route 1 Solutions
- Systems Administrator at Atlantic Internet Services
- Education
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- Edward Tufte
- Intercultural Institute of California
- San Francisco Fire Department
- City College of San Francisco
- Adobe Systems
- Juniper Networks Educational Services
- San Francisco Fire Department
- Broward Community College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Checkpoint Systems
- Florida Highway Patrol
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Greg Albrecht’s Summary
Systems, network, and security engineer for clients ranging from finance and education to telecommunications and entertainment. Focus on automation and disaster avoidance using high availability engineering techniques.
Greg Albrecht’s Specialties:
system architecture, network architecture, security architecture, perl, python, scripting, debugging, on-call, disaster mitigation
Greg Albrecht’s Experience
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Software Engineer
Splunk
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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Chief Network Mechanic
Late Night Networks (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
April 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)
Network consulting.
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Network Operations Manager
Schematic
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
May 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Designed and built several high availability web application and content management systems for big-5 media companies. Managed the day to day operations of 40+ FreeBSD & PostgreSQL based application servers. Coordinated the transition of co-location facility. Implemented network monitoring, trouble ticketing, instant messaging, document collaboration, spam filtering and other Microsoft Active Directory authentication based systems. Oversaw the deployment of a nation wide MPLS network that implementing QoS to ensure delivery of business critical VoIP traffic as well as rich media for clients.
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Network Engineer
BackBone Communications
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Developed VoIP to TDM network to handle an average of 2.5 million minutes per month of both inbound and outbound, international & domestic traffic. Oversaw the deployment of a multi-national MPLS network for a large west-coast banking firm as well as for use in replacing legacy frame-relay networks. Implemented corporate security policies and systems, such as firewalls and VPNs. Performed physical installation both in-house and on-site of equipment and leased-line services.
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IT Manager
Ligos Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year)
Oversaw and managed day to day IT operations in small office and co-location facility, including maintaining web servers and Directory based Windows 2000 network. Upgraded and developed new & existing on-line store back-end.
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Security Engineer
OneSecure
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
April 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Coordinated the design of a 24/7 Security Operations Center, including high availability network, and associated infrastructure. Maintained and researched security vulnerability archive and lab. Statistical and risk analysis of network traffic, along with forensic and fallout research of intrusions. Deployed LDAP based network services and back-end.
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Network Engineer
Route 1 Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Designed, implemented, upgrade, and document networks for a wide range of customers. Chief duties included security audits, server and firewall configuration, switch routing, establishing VPNs, and testing redundancy.
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Systems Administrator
Atlantic Internet Services
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for most aspects of building and maintaining a full service Internet Service Provider including purchasing, installation and configuration of remote access systems providing over 1000 dial-in lines for 3500+ customers across 5 locations. Lead team in charge of merging other acquired service providers networks and customer bases into our own.
Greg Albrecht’s Education
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Edward Tufte
Presenting Data and Information 2008 — 2008
Attended 8-hour course on data representation and design.
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Intercultural Institute of California
ACTFL Novice , Korean Language and Culture , 2008 — 2008
Attended 3 month course on Korean language and culture. Attained Novice-Low level for Korean on the ACTFL scale.
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San Francisco Fire Department
NERT, Community Emergency Response 2008 — 2008
Attended 6-hour training course covering patient extraction, technical heavy lifting, z-rig configuration, fire hose deployment & recovery and close-quarters maneuvering.
- Activities and Societies:
- SF NERT
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City College of San Francisco
History, Political Science, Astro-Physics 2006 — 2008
4.0 GPA
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Adobe Systems
AS3 , Computer Programming , 2007 — 2007
Attended 9 hour course on Adobe's Action Script 3 (AS3) programming language.
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Juniper Networks Educational Services
OJRE , Operating Juniper Routers in the Enterprise , 2007 — 2007
Attended 3-day course on Operating Juniper Networks in the Enterprise
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San Francisco Fire Department
NERT , Community Emergency Response , 2007 — 2007
Received 40 hours of training in emergency response, medical triage, emergency communications, Incident Command System, fire fighting, hazardous materials response, search & rescue and volunteer coordination.
- Activities and Societies:
- SF NERT
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Broward Community College
Developmental Psychology 2003 — 2003
4.0 GPA
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Carnegie Mellon University
CERT , Computer Security , 2001 — 2001
Attended 3-day Computer Emergency Response Team course.
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Checkpoint Systems
CCSA , Network Security , 2001 — 2001
Attended 4 day course on securing networks with Checkpoint's Firewall-1.
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Florida Highway Patrol
HAZMAT , Hazardous Materials , 1998 — 1998
Attended course on hazardous materials response.
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