Unix/Linux Expert
Tasmania, Australia
- Current
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- Sysadmin/DBA at LibraryThing
- Developer at The Dwarf
- Past
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- Networking Coordinator at linux.conf.au 2009
- HPC Coordinator at University of Tasmania
- Senior Systems Administrator at University of Tasmania
- Systems Engineer at Nunatak Systems
- Systems Administrator at Tas Access
- Education
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- University of Tasmania
- University of Tasmania
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John Dalton’s Summary
I am:
- A Unix/Linux Systems Administrator with a decade of experience.
- A Web Applications Programmer with a flair for systems integration work.
- A confident and articulate communicator, whether face to face or for a hundred-strong crowd.
- Passionate about my work, my life and my family.
John Dalton’s Specialties:
Unix flavours including Solaris, IRIX, FreeBSD, OSX; Linux flavours including Redhat (current RHCE), SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and building from scratch; Top to bottom proficiency with the LAMP stack; Particular expertise with PHP and Apache.
John Dalton’s Experience
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Sysadmin/DBA
LibraryThing
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I'm working with LibraryThing to help them grow their infrastructure, maintain stability, and ease our way through the growing pains!
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Developer
The Dwarf
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
October 2001 — Present (7 years 10 months)
The Dwarf is a well established online music community site, currently a leader in this space within Australia.
I've consulted for The Dwarf over the years, providing systems administration and development expertise. Development has been picking up over the past couple of years as the site has grown its community and expanded coverage to include all of Australia.
In this position I've developed fairly extensive knowledge of the eZPublish enterprise open-source CMS. In addition I did work to provide The Dwarf with full ecommerce capabilities including integration with the SecurePay payment gateway. -
Networking Coordinator
linux.conf.au 2009
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2008 — January 2009 (1 year 1 month)
linux.conf.au is both one of the largest Linux conferences and one of the largest volunteer run conferences in the world. I volunteered (along with Steve Walsh) to organise the networking infrastructure for the conference in 2009, being held in my home town of Hobart, Tasmania from January 19th - 23rd.
The conference was very successful, and the extensive network coverage (wired and wireless) across multiple venues and delegate accommodation contributed greatly to that success. -
HPC Coordinator
University of Tasmania
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)
In this role I was responsible for coordination of technical activities in support of the University of Tasmania's High-Performance Computing facility. I worked for TPAC (the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing) under an SLA with the university's department of IT Resources. The major component of this role was to continue work on establishing a national compute grid in collaboration with the other APAC (Australian PAC) partners.
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Senior Systems Administrator
University of Tasmania
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 5 months)
I was employed by UTAS to work on a number of small systems integration projects, but the role transitioned into general systems administration and then began to concentrate on maintaining the university's HPC (High-Performance Computing) infrastructure, under an SLA with the system owners.
The responsibilities of this position were eventually split, with day-to-day administration pushed into a new HPC Systems Administrator position while I continued my other duties in HPC Coordinator role. -
Systems Engineer
Nunatak Systems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2001 — February 2004 (2 years 5 months)
At Nunatak Systems I initiated and did major development work on a new document management product. The product was originally intended to run on a server appliance, and I created the tools and process to manage the underlying custom-built Linux OS running on an embedded platform. As well as writing large parts of the application, I did the vast majority of the systems integration work.
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Systems Administrator
Tas Access
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1997 — October 2001 (4 years 9 months)
General Systems Admin, mostly focussed on web technologies. Built and maintained client web hosting infrastructure, wrote interface between billing and user account management systems. Did some web applications development for clients.
John Dalton’s Education
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University of Tasmania
Bachelor , Computing , 2005 — 2009
Recommenced part-time study of my computing degree in 2005.
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University of Tasmania
BComp , 1996 — 1997
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