Lyle Tagawa

Current

• Director, Network Management at Vertro, Inc.
• Director, Network Management at Alot.com

Past

• Director, Network Management at MIVA Direct
• Lead Network Planning Analyst at MIVA Direct
• Systems Administrator at FindWhat

• Systems Administrator at Comet Systems
• Contractor at Internet Channel
• Contractor at Data2Vault
• Consultant at Arces Network
• Consultant at BET Interactive
• Systems and Network Administrator at Taos
• Systems and Network Administrator at Taos Mountain
• Consultant at The Princeton Review
• Consultant at OnMoney
• Consultant at Ameritrade
• Consultant at Ameritrade Holding Corporation
• Consultant at UBO
• Consultant at Urban Box Office
• Programmer Analyst at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Programmer Analyst at UCSD
• Programmer Analyst at SIO
• Programmer Analyst at Scripps
• Specialist at Sneaky Specialties
• Web Developer at LA Internet

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Ryman Arts
• Westchester

• Conjunction Junction

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Connections

108 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Writing

Lyle Tagawa’s Summary

Appeasing the robot overlord.

Lyle Tagawa’s Specialties:

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

Lyle Tagawa’s Experience

• Director, Network Management

  Vertro, Inc.

  (Public Company; VTRO; Internet industry)

  March 2009 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Director, Network Management

  Alot.com

  (Public Company; VTRO; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years 9 months)

• Director, Network Management

  MIVA Direct

  (Public Company; VTRO; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — March 2009 (2 years 3 months)

• Lead Network Planning Analyst

  MIVA Direct

  (Public Company; VTRO; Internet industry)

  April 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 10 months)

  Performed capacity planning and analysis to project trends and anticipate server, network load.
  
  Designed, implemented 3-tier LAMP architecture, servicing 140MM dynamic, 12MM static requests/day.
  
  Managed global content delivery with BGP, DNS, server load-balancers, reverse-proxy caches.
  
  Negotiated BGP transit relationships with upstream carriers to handle failover and IP anycast topology.
  
  DDoS mitigation: protocol analysis, bogon filtering, null routing, BGP and IP anycast, NSP collaboration.
  
  Supported 4x growth of server infrastructure and network bandwidth, 3 data center migrations.

• Systems Administrator

  FindWhat

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 5 months)

• Systems Administrator

  Comet Systems

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 11 months)

• Contractor

  Internet Channel

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2001 — April 2002 (5 months)

• Contractor

  Data2Vault

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2001 — April 2002 (5 months)

• Consultant

  Arces Network

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — November 2001 (2 months)

• Consultant

  BET Interactive

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — November 2001 (2 months)

• Systems and Network Administrator

  Taos

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Deployed highly available infrastructure for Single Sign-on web services using Apache, BEA WebLogic cluster, and Oracle 8i/VxCS with shared storage (HDS over FC).
  
  Authored audit tools, enumerating NT4/5 domain servers, remote NTFS ACLs, Registry key/hives, IIS metabase, AT and Scheduled Tasks (ADSI, WMI APIs).
  
  Established client as an AS, setup initial BGPv4 configuration, PIX 515 conduits, frame relay PVC.
  
  Authored ROI and TCO contract justifications, and Perl training material.

• Systems and Network Administrator

  Taos Mountain

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 6 months)

• Consultant

  The Princeton Review

  (Public Company; E-Learning industry)

  September 2001 — October 2001 (2 months)

• Consultant

  OnMoney

  (Financial Services industry)

  October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year )

  OnMoney Financial Services

• Consultant

  Ameritrade

  (Public Company; Financial Services industry)

  October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year )

  OnMoney Financial Services

• Consultant

  Ameritrade Holding Corporation

  (Public Company; Financial Services industry)

  October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year )

  OnMoney Financial Services

• Consultant

  UBO

  (Internet industry)

  September 2000 — October 2000 (2 months)

• Consultant

  Urban Box Office

  (Internet industry)

  September 2000 — October 2000 (2 months)

• Programmer Analyst

  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  May 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  Co-developed Atlas of Oceanographic Sections (Perl/NetCDF/POA; published 03/1999; PO.DAAC, NASA JPL).

• Programmer Analyst

  UCSD

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  May 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 2 months)

• Programmer Analyst

  SIO

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  May 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 2 months)

• Programmer Analyst

  Scripps

  (Public Company; Research industry)

  May 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 2 months)

• Specialist

  Sneaky Specialties

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — January 2000 (1 month)

  netcat/hping2/firewalk/nmap network reconnaissance and fw/ids busting, Tripwire/aide, snort/sguil, netflow/sFlow analysis for anomaly detection, p0f, TCT/autopsy, nessus, Splunk/rsyslog, reverse SSH tunnel/https fw busting and mitigation, bpf/ngrep/ethereal/snoop/tcpreplay protocol analysis. Apache 1.1-2.2, mod_(rewrite|proxy|ssl), mpm_(worker|event); nginx; lighttpd; NCSA 1.4. MySQL 3.23-5.1 capacity planning, performance tuning, master-master replication; Oracle 8i-10g. BIND 4.8-9.5, djbdns; familiarity with DNSSEC and DNSCurve; Postfix, qmail, Sendmail. Veritas Cluster Server 1.1-1.3 (NFS, Apache agents), VxVM, VxFS; SVM/DiskSuite; LVM. Veritas NetBackup 3.4-6.0 (MS Exchange, SQL Server agents); Amanda. BEA WebLogic 6.0; Apache Jakarta/Tomcat 3.2-4.1; memcached. OpenIPMI, SMART, KVM/IP, LOM, iLO environmental and lights-out management. VMware Server/ESX; Citrix Xen; linux KVM; Amazon AWS, Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling. SVN; RCS; Atlassian JIRA, Confluence; Socialtext, wikiCalc. Microsoft Active Directory/GPO, IIS 4/5, RIS unattended installs, MTS/COM+ package administration. Solaris 2.5.1-10; SunOS 4.1.4; FreeBSD 4.2-5.1; GNU/Linux 1.2-2.6; MacOS 7-10.5. Cisco 7200VXR, MSFC2/MSFC/RSM, 3400ME, 3600/2600, 2500. Cisco 6500/5500, 2960G, 3500XL/2900XL, 1900; HP Procurve 8000m/4000m. Cisco PIX 515, IOS CBAC; Juniper NetScreen ISG, 50, 5gt; netfilter, ipchains, ipf, ipfw; FW-1. Brocade/Foundry ServerIron GT, XL; Citrix NetScalar 9000; Radware WSD. Grandstream GXP2000, Linksys PAP2/ATA, Toshiba CTX PBX. IBM ISS Proventia GX5000, MX1000 IPS, RealSecure IDS. SNMP 1/2c, NetFlow 5, MRTG/RRDtool, cacti, remstats, ntop, argus, flow-tools, nagios/netsaint. EMC CLARiiON CX300, FC4500; HP MSA 1500; Sun A1000, D1000. Hitachi Data Systems Freedom 9900 and InRange FC/9000. ADIC Scalar 1000, Quantum SuperLoader, SpectraLogic TreeFrog. Perl 5, sh/bash/ksh/csh, Python 2, ANSI C/C++, SPARC and MIPS asm.

• Web Developer

  LA Internet

  (Internet industry)

  June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)

  - Natrol, Inc.
  - KTWV 94.7 "The Wave"
  - Paciolan Systems (now Ticketmaster)
  - Florist.com (now FTD)
  - California Paralyzed Veterans Association

Lyle Tagawa’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  BS , Computer Science; Area Studies: Visual Arts and Political Science , 1995 — 2000

  Network game analyzer: research project overseen by Evi Nemeth; analyzed CAIDA coral traces to determine workload characteristics and performance of network game traffic over the Internet (Perl/C/libpcap/bpf).
  
  Pre-emptive threads package: provided prioritized and round-robin processor scheduling, condition time-outs, and asynchronous I/O. Worked within a team of three by modularizing tasks and maintaining a consistent API.
  
  Research project overseen by Dr. Scott Baden; evaluated the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) APIs using several nodes of an SGI Cray Origin2000 located at NCSA.
  
  SPARC/Solaris RPCd buffer overflow: successfully exploited an unbounded memory copy in a RPC client/server package by overflowing the remote stack and overwriting a function return pointer to redirect its flow of execution to the injected code (C/gdb/asm/truss).

• Ryman Arts

  1994 — 1995

  "I don't think of myself as just an artist or painter. I think of myself as a very curious observer and, fortunately, a lucid and graphic recorder" - Herbert D. Ryman

• Westchester

  1991 — 1995

• Conjunction Junction

  1988 — 1991

  Function: Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

Additional Information

Lyle Tagawa’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Writing

Lyle Tagawa’s Groups:

ISACA, USENIX, SAGE, ACM

•    Certified Information Systems Auditor
•    Certified Information Security Managers
•    ISACA Professionals
•    USENIX Association
•    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
•    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Lyle Tagawa’s Honors:

CISA, CCNA, SCSA, BCMSN

Lyle Tagawa’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch