Staff Systems Engineer at Intuit, Inc.
Greater San Diego Area
Staff Systems Engineer at Intuit, Inc.
Greater San Diego Area
Certified systems and network administrator, open source applications integrator with extensive hands-on experience on Web systems and technologies.
System and network administration, data center management, LAN/WAN management, security policy management and auditing, website architecture, site migration, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Wintel, TCP/IP, Cisco.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 10 months)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 9 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)
Assigned to Sony Music Entertainment as Unix and Systems Security Consultant:
* Rebuilt European web production environment after it was vandalized following a break-in.
* Evaluated and hardened security of European web, CRM, database, and analytics systems.
* Audited all European production systems and drafted a re-architecting plan for better security and performance.
* Reviewed and recommended improvements to system administration policies.
* Provided systems lead to several IT projects including integrating a Help Desk website and building a Digital Service Provider server using open source technologies.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 2001 — December 2001 (7 months)
Company was formerly known as marchFIRST. Duties included:
* Participated in client projects as technology resource, providing expertise in systems, networking and security.
* Developed custom system automation scripts.
* Installed and configured Development and QA servers in a mixed OS setting including Sun Solaris and MS Windows Servers on several hardware platforms including Sun and IBM.
* Evaluated diverse set of open source technologies for possible production use including search engines, database engines, file sharing protocols and operating systems.
* Lead technical design and implementation of www.nttdocomo.com
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Company was formerly known as USWeb/CKS. Duties included:
* Provided expertise in systems, networking and security, and performed web systems design, implementation and management.
* Inplemented and managed departmental firewall, VPNs, DMZs and security policies.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; USWB; Internet industry)
October 1996 — March 2000 (3 years 6 months)
Company was formerly known as Reach Networks, Inc. Duties included:
* In charge of the day to day operations of the company's 24x7x365 data center facility, including supervision of 7 network operators,
* Provided 24x7 on-call second and third-level support services to data center Network Operators
* Managed and maintained data center network security policy.
* Wrote and distributed guides for monitoring and maintaining development and production systems
* Implemented systems and network monitoring scripts.
• Performed network traffic analysis.
• In charge of LAN/WAN management.
* hardware/software installations, operating system and system patch installations, router and switch setups, systems optimization, and monitoring of development and production systems.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 1996 — October 1996 (8 months)
* Performed essential UNIX system and network administration tasks for development and production systems including Backups, server builds and maintenance, shell scripting, monitoring and first-level response.
* Provided support for basic office network services and LAN users.
M.S. , Computer Science , 1994 — 1995
Research focused on Computer and Network Security.
B.S. , Computer Science , 1990 — 1994
Professional networking, technology research, technology trends, running, speedskating, cycling, soccer.