Mike Sisk

Current

• Owner at TCPIP Ranch

Past

• Senior Systems Engineer at AboutUs.org
• Co-Founder/CTO at furfly, LLC
• Senior QA Engineer at Autodesk, Inc

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Education

• University of Kansas

Recommended

5 people have recommended Mike

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Mike Sisk’s Summary

UNIX systems engineer specializing in high-performing and high-availability Internet systems with recent emphasis on cloud computing.

Mike Sisk’s Specialties:

Internet services, server architecture, cloud computing, UNIX, Linux

Mike Sisk’s Experience

• Owner

  TCPIP Ranch

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Contract sysadmin services with emphasis in cloud computing and databases.

• Senior Systems Engineer

  AboutUs.org

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2008 — June 2009 (11 months)

  Senior member of an agile two-person engineering team responsible for the operation of AboutUs.org.

• Co-Founder/CTO

  furfly, LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — August 2008 (9 years 6 months)

  Clients: Edward Tufte, Greenpeace, MIT, New York Review of Books, US Army Corps of Engineers

• Senior QA Engineer

  Autodesk, Inc

  (Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1998 (8 years )

  UNIX Ports and Platforms Group 
  
  I performed manual and automated testing for releases of AutoCAD on UNIX. 
  
  I was the QA Team Lead for AutoCAD Release 13 UNIX and AutoCAD Map Releases 1 and 2. For the AutoCAD Map product I worked with a global GIS team which included team members in Russia, South Africa, Canada and Switzerland.

Mike Sisk’s Education

• University of Kansas

  BS , Geology

Additional Information

Mike Sisk’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Mike Sisk’s Interests:

Photography, camping, hiking, backpacking

Mike Sisk’s Groups:

USENIX, SAGE, ACM

•    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Autodesk Alumni Network
•    Silicon Florist

Mike Sisk’s Contact Settings

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