Morgan Collins

Director of Information Services at ChartConnect, Inc.

Yakima, Washington Area

Current
Past
  • Systems Administrator/Web Developer at Yakima Herald-Republic
  • Owner at Morcant Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Systems Administrator at InCommand Interactive
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Industry
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Morgan Collins’s Summary

I have over 10 years of systems administration, information architecture, and programming experience. I started Morcant Technologies in order to provide remote application services, web hosting and backup solutions to clients.

Morgan Collins’s Specialties:

Linux System Administration, Database Administration, Wireless Systems, Application Programming, Web Programming, Information Architecture.


Morgan Collins’s Experience

  • Director of Information Services

    Noteworthy Medical Systems

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    April 2004Present (5 years 4 months)

    Coordinate database structure, planning and efficient query creation with developer's code needs.

    Maintain complex and sensitive database cluster, including fault tolerance, backup, security, performance tracking, and growth projection.

    Responsible for network design, maintenance and troubleshooting. Private intranets, point to point link and remote multi-network clinic integration.

    Corporate Information Security considerations including HIPPA adherence.

    Maintain Cold Fusion/PHP based Medical Application Server Platform comprised of load balanced Apache web server farm and MySQL database cluster with 100% uptime/reliability requirement.

  • Programmer

    non-profit open source development

    (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    1994Present (15 years)

    I contributed to many open source software projects as a volunteer. The most famous one is the ActiveGuardian project, with which has since been merged with Dansguardian.

    I have submitted patches for the Linux Kernel, Xorg, MythTV, etc...

  • Systems Administrator/Web Developer

    Yakima Herald-Republic

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

    2003May 2004 (1 year)

    Transitioned Newspaper's online presence from limited proprietary software to custom PHP/MySQL solution with robust functionality.

    Responsible for promotion of Newspaper content to their website.

    Provided System Administration for the Newspaper's website and email servers.

  • Owner

    Morcant Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    20022003 (1 year)

  • Systems Administrator

    InCommand Interactive

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 20002001 (1 year)

    Responsible for administering application and web services such as Apache (SSL, PHP, perl), Bind, MySQL, Oracle, Sendmail, DHCP and various streaming media applications.

    Designed, constructed and maintained city wide 2.4GHz wireless network with 500+ users.

    Design and development of Linux based firewall/gateway/router for use in embedded devices for use with wireless networks.

  • Engineering Intern

    PacifiCorp

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

    April 1998September 1998 (6 months)


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Morgan Collins’s Interests:

Biking, running, camping, hiking, video games (Halo), reverse engineering, problem solving, photography and reading.


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