Steven Klassen

Professional services engineer with over 15 years of networking, programming, and systems development experience in both large enterprise and small to medium organizations. Experience working in many industries such as financial, entertainment/media, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, development and retail.

Steven Klassen’s Specialties:

network engineering, systems administration, programming, documentation, database administration/design, project planning, organization, technical writing, consultancy, process optimization, customer service

Steven Klassen’s Experience

Sr. Systems Engineer

Sigma Solutions, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Co-Host

GeekFit.com

(Internet industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

GeekFit is a health and fitness podcast–mostly. Steve and Jason team up to talk about their individual struggles with staying fit all while having “geeky” professions that leave them shackled to a computer more often than not. They review websites, gadgets, and anything else one could use to help motivate someone trying to lower or maintain their weight.

Steve Klassen is working for a company based in Texas but lives in the Great Northwest. At the beginning of his weight loss journey he weighed over 400 lbs and has since lost over 100 lbs with a combination of diet & exercise. His wife Ivy’s constant encouragement and the thought of growing old with her while staying healthy keeps him going.

Jason Tucker also hosts the show; more details on his site: jasontucker.us.
Wizard
Xinu dot Org (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

Custom programming & database development in PHP, python, ruby, shell script, javascript, C, and several SQL procedural languages. That, and various feats of technical wizardry.
Systems Administrator
Hosting for Humans (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

February 2001 — Present (8 years 6 months)

A hosting company owned by a colleague where my domains reside.
Solutions Engineer

Alterpoint

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Installation and configuration of enterprise software for network governance. Custom scripting of integration solutions in perl & python. Delivery of training courses to everyone from management to engineers to developers to operators. Working in multiple locations, including 50% in the field, on-site, directly with our customers. Data mining from a number of database platforms: MySQL, SQL*Server, and Oracle 10g.
Network Engineer

The Kemtah Group, Inc. (Hewlett-Packard)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Contracted to Hewlett-Packard: Linux, Windows, and HPUX system administration; security threat assessment; primary engineering contact for escalation team; project lead for Redhat legacy system upgrades; participated in an on-call rotation; team lead for the core infrastructure group managing a high-availability application and web servers in a secure Internet-facing data center environment.
Lead Programmer

CommandPrompt, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
Systems Administrator

Lunarpages

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

October 2003 — April 2004 (7 months)

Provided systems administration and scripting for a growing farm of 100+ web servers; automated many of the usual break fixes that the technical support group would handle; acted as tier 3 technical support on their customer forums.
IP Support

New Edge Networks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Working closely with the tech support center and the NOC, my group handled all the level 3-7 issues for the customers. The included bandwidth usage, ACL adjustments on their prem routers, troubleshooting DNS/email issues, etc.

Twice a month I would train a new NOC tech on the higher layer troubleshooting based on a shfit bid.
Systems Administrator

XO Communications (formerly Concentric)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NXLK; Internet industry)

November 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 3 months)

At the peak of the Dotcom boom this data center had 3 customer staging areas with 15 rows each. I managed a set of accounts which included custom scripting, domain setups, DNS adjustments, application installs/configurations, and whatever else the customer would need done on their systems.
Systems Administrator

Virtually Free Internet

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

July 1999 — November 1999 (5 months)

A startup dial-up ISP based in Irvine, CA. My job was to set up an ISP from nothing. We were given 5 Sun E450 systems that were racked at a local co-location facility that were meant to offer POP3, SMTP, and HTTP services.
Systems Administrator

First American Credco / SMS

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

February 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 4 months)
Law Clerk / IT Manager

Law Offices of Edward H. Cross

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Law Practice industry)

October 1996 — February 1997 (5 months)
Media Technician / Network Administrator

Capistrano Unified School District

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

September 1994 — June 1995 (10 months)