Systems Ninja
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Operations Engineer at Twitter, Inc.
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- Network Engineer at Webxites
- Managing Partner at Jayed, LLC
- SAP R/3 Basis Administrator at Tyco
- Senior Staff Systems QA Engineer at Metricom
- SAP R/3 Basis Consultant at Various (Self-employed)
- Education
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- University of Houston
- Collin County Community College
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Jay Edwards’s Summary
Senior Systems Administrator experienced with a very wide range of technology: Solaris, *BSD, Linux, HP-UX, AS/400, Postgresql, DB2, Oracle, Informix, MySQL, SAPDB. Like most experienced sysadmins, I'm both a tolerable developer and network engineer.
It's notable that most of the non-technical teams that I've worked on have been financial teams. I have a lot of experience designing, implementing, and auditing internal controls for ERP systems.
My ideal job title would be "The Guy that Has the Solution to Your Problem."
Jay Edwards’s Specialties:
Systems architecture, systems and application security, change management
Jay Edwards’s Experience
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Operations Engineer
Twitter, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
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Network Engineer
Webxites
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)
I have two main focuses: production support, and migrating our infrastructure to an open-source environment from windows and oracle.
Actually, I have one main focus: automate production support so I can spend more time migrating our infrastructure to an open-source environment. -
Managing Partner
Jayed, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 2 months)
Designing and implementing solutions that 'just work' for small businesses, schools and individuals.
It's a unique challenge to tailor a technical infrastructure for non-technical organizations with very limited budgets. It's a challenge I enjoy.
Technology shouldn't always be the biggest, most expensive solution -- it must always be considered from the perspective of "what does this client really need, and what can this client really work with". -
SAP R/3 Basis Administrator
Tyco
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TYC; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
February 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Like most system administrator positions, this one involved the care and feeding of many different systems: R/3, Oracle, HP-UX, Hyperion, EDI, and a raft of strange legacy applications.
My primary focus was on performance analysis and system growth measurement. I managed storage space, planned -- and conducted -- upgrades on all major system components. I provided training for our SAP security team. -
Senior Staff Systems QA Engineer
Metricom
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MCOM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1999 — February 2000 (8 months)
Metricom hired me to be a full-time Unix administrator. For two servers -- one of which was never running. After filling in here and there, I moved over to the QA group.
I managed the company's 100-node Ricochet test network in Greenville, TX. This involved pushing out new code versions, conducting regression tests, interfacing with developers and our few test customers.
This was one of the most exciting technologies I've ever worked with -- 128Kps while driving at 70MPH back in 1999. I resigned just before they went bankrupt. -
SAP R/3 Basis Consultant
Various (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1997 — June 1999 (2 years )
I worked for a number of corporations: Deluxe Checks, Samsung, Ericsson, and Nokia were my longer term engagements.
I provided expertise on the technical nitty-gritty of installing, upgrading, and tuning SAP R/3 at the operating system, database and application layer across a full life-cycle.
Jay Edwards’s Education
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University of Houston
Mathematics 2004 — 2006
Currently, my mathematical interests revolve around algebraic topology.
- Activities and Societies:
- Math Club
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Collin County Community College
American Sign Language 2001 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Emerging Scholar (Department of Linguistics)
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Jay Edwards’s Interests:
distributed programming, application tuning, mathematics, erlang, opensolaris
Jay Edwards’s Groups:
Erlang Group, Greater Houston OpenSolaris User Group, Open Management Consortium
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Project Voldemort
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