Jason Dearborn

Current

• Senior Network Engineer at Current TV

Past

• Network Engineer at Six Apart
• Manager, Information Technology at Six Apart
• Founder, Principal Consultant at Eris IT Consulting

• Unix Systems Administrator at Xperts, Inc.
• Technical Team Lead at LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.

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Education

• City College of San Francisco
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Jason Dearborn’s Summary

Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, and Consultant with experience in the technology, legal, and financial industry. I enjoy challenging technical work and an intellectually stimulating work environment.

Jason Dearborn’s Specialties:

Perl and PHP scripting, OpenLDAP, Linux, Cacti, Nagios, CFEngine, BGP, OSPF, network infrastructure, messaging infrastructure, team management

Jason Dearborn’s Experience

• Senior Network Engineer

  Current TV

  (Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Network Engineer

  Six Apart

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — August 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  Design, implement, and administer multi-site network for high traffic internet web properties utilizing BGP, OSPF, Layer 7 routing, network security, traffic analysis and shaping in multi-provider environment. Responsible for vendor relations and negotiations. Work with various Cisco firewall/switching/routing, Foundry ServerIron, F5 BigIP 6X00-series, Force10 E/S-Series, and Juniper DX/M-series hardware.

• Manager, Information Technology

  Six Apart

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

  March 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  I hired and managed a small team that architected high-availability IT network and systems infrastructure, to include, monitoring, reporting, backup, storage and communication systems. I built flexible IT processes and procedures to efficiently support core business objectives and an international staff.

• Founder, Principal Consultant

  Eris IT Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 10 months)

  Eris IT Consulting prides itself in the way we help small businesses succeed. We don’t waste time or resources; instead, we aim to get the job done in the most efficient, cost-effective manner.

• Unix Systems Administrator

  Xperts, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Systems Administrator for software development company.

• Technical Team Lead

  LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; lafg; Insurance industry)

  May 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 10 months)

  Responsible for implementation and support of enterprise messaging system.

Jason Dearborn’s Education

• City College of San Francisco

  Computer Science 2003 — 2005

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  Computer Science, Liberal Arts 1994 — 1996

Additional Information

Jason Dearborn’s Websites:

• My Company

Jason Dearborn’s Groups:

•    San Francisco Bay Area Hokies
•    Broadcast Meeting

Jason Dearborn’s Contact Settings

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• consulting offers
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