Head of IT Operations - COXnet
Greater Atlanta Area
Head of IT Operations - COXnet
Greater Atlanta Area
Experienced systems and network solutions provider in the Internet industry.
Web hosting, network administration, systems programming, familiarity with several UNIX flavors, automation of sysadmin tasks, capacity planning, system architecture, troubleshooting, systems analysis/optimization, software development and most recently: technical management.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Manager of the technical operations department of COXnet.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Managed the systems engineering department at COXnet.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Systems architect role in the systems engineering team.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — July 2004 (10 months)
This division of Cox Newspapers absorbed me along with part of Cox Interactive Media. Senior member of the systems engineering team.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
April 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 7 months)
Member of systems engineering team.
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Member of systems engineering team. I thought that I was an intelligent fellow before taking this position. The developers and founders of this company were in a different league altogether. I learned much about how a productive development cycle is supposed to work.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Sysadmin at web hosting company (absorbed Clever Computers, Inc).
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Sysadmin at a web hosting company (formerly known as Sage Networks).
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
Senior systems administrator at a start-up web hosting company.
none, Honors English, 1992 — 1994
UNIX, Internet technologies, UGA football, my Harley Davidson, Music (all kinds!), pretending to play Golf, fiction novels and multi-player FPS video games
- NAA pre-press award: http://www.naa.org/sitecore/content/Global/PressCenter/2005/PRESSTIME-MAGAZINE-ANNOUNCES-BEST-PRACTICES-AWARDS.aspx?lg=naaorg (hot-deployment methodology and tools for "0-downtime" J2EE development cycle)