Operations Engineer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Operations Engineer at Yahoo!
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- Service Engineer at Yahoo, Inc.
- Senior Operations Engineer at techTribe Networks
- Founder/A&R at Nobis Records
- Senior Systems Architect at Neoteric Production Group
- Education
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- Pasco-Hernando CC
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Michael Heijmans’s Summary
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Y! Groups including:
Provisioning new machines for growth on the site.
Designing and implementing new design ideas to make the application run smoother and be more maintainable.
Designing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans as well as testing those plans.
On call for Disaster Recovery.
Michael Heijmans’s Specialties:
Eclipse, PHP, Major Releases (Alpha/Beta/GA), Catastrophe Management, Castrophe Planning, Server Security, System Mangement, TWiki, CruiseControl, PostFix, Lua, Cent OS, Red Hat Linux Enterprise ES, Slackware Linux, Mandriva Linux, Microsoft Server 2000, Microsoft Server 2003, Cisco OS, Routers, Accesspoints, Red Hat Linux Enterprise AS, XML, Small Projects, Adobe Photoshop, Technical Writing, Marketing, communication, switches, J2EE, Public Speaking, Build and Release Management
Michael Heijmans’s Experience
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Operations Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Y! Groups including:
Provisioning new machines for growth on the site.
Designing and implementing new design ideas to make the application run smoother and be more maintainable.
Designing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans as well as testing those plans.
On call for Disaster Recovery. -
Service Engineer
Yahoo, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year )
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Senior Operations Engineer
techTribe Networks
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Maintained all servers including production, beta test, benchmark test, and core operations servers
Implemented a continuous build loop for beta testing new code using Cruise Control
Designed and implemented a "push" release system in ant to build, package, and push new code to production using a simple ant target.
Maintained a Subversion source code repository and a git source code repository
Maintained a high availability JBoss cluster and MySQL cluster in a production environment
Built a web based git repository browser using ruby from the ground up
Implemented Domainkeys and SPF for outgoing emails to insure delivery of bulk mails to user inboxes
Maintained a postfix email server cluster that averaged millions of emails monthly
Implemented server monitoring tools for tracking change over time using Hyperic HQ
Designed and implemented a high availability INNODB based MySQL load balanced database cluster with failover using mysql-proxy -
Founder/A&R
Nobis Records
(Music industry)
January 2002 — August 2007 (5 years 8 months)
Produced and sold Musicians to Record Labels.
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Senior Systems Architect
Neoteric Production Group
(Entertainment industry)
August 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Designed, Deployed, and Maintained a multi-colo online media provider system for web based publishing and sharing of user generated music, video, and photos.
Michael Heijmans’s Education
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Pasco-Hernando CC
2002 — 2005
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