Manuel Gil

Staff Systems Engineer at Intuit, Inc.

Greater San Diego Area

Current
Past
  • Infrastructure Engineer at SBI
  • Infrastructure Engineer at marchFIRST
  • Network Operations Manager at USWeb/CKS
  • Unix Network Operator at Reach Networks, Inc.
Education
  • Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
  • Davis & Elkins College
Connections
110 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Manuel Gil’s Summary

Certified systems and network administrator, open source applications integrator with extensive hands-on experience on Web systems and technologies.

Manuel Gil’s Specialties:

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.


Manuel Gil’s Experience

  • Staff Systems Engineer

    Intuit, Inc.

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)

    June 2007Present (2 years 6 months)

  • Application and Infrastructure Manager

    Digitaria

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    September 2005June 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    Console, Inc.

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    January 2003September 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  • Unix Security Consultant

    Celerity Technology Services, Inc. - Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2002July 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.

  • Infrastructure Engineer

    SBI

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    June 2001December 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

  • Infrastructure Engineer

    marchFIRST

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

    March 2000June 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.

  • Network Operations Manager

    USWeb/CKS

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; USWB; Internet industry)

    October 1996March 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.

  • Unix Network Operator

    Reach Networks, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    March 1996October 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.


Manuel Gil’s Education

  • Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    M.S. , Computer Science , 19941995

    Research focused on Computer and Network Security.

  • Davis & Elkins College

    B.S. , Computer Science , 19901994


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Manuel Gil’s Interests:

Professional networking, technology research, technology trends, running, speedskating, cycling, soccer.

Manuel Gil’s Groups:

  •    USWeb Alumni
  •    Intuit Employees and Alumni

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