Supporting Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Lead Services Engineer at Yahoo!
- Owner at Scurvy.net
- Past
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- Unix Administrator at Internet49.com
- Sr. Unix Administrator (contract) at Copart, Inc.
- IT Consultant at United Auburn Indian Community
- Sr. Unix Administrator at Copart, Inc.
- Systems Engineer at RagingWire Enterprise Solutions
- Unix Engineer at Wavve Telecommunications
- Network Operations Engineer at JPS.net
- Tech Support + System Administrator at Ulink.net
- Tech Support at JPSNet
- Education
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- American River College
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Nick Berry’s Summary
Systems administrator with experience in Solaris, Linux and *BSD. Personal and professional interest in Perl and PHP development with a growing background in Javascript and CSS.
Favorite quote: "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
Nick Berry’s Specialties:
System administration (linux/solaris/windows), scripting (perl/bash/ksh), data collection/presentation, web technologies (php, perl, javascript).
Nick Berry’s Experience
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Lead Services Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Have served as Service Engineer for several properties, currently supporting www.yahoo.com and content optimization.
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Owner
Scurvy.net
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)
Scurvy.net started as a web-hosting company with lots of enthusiam and has become a "help friends out for free web hosting" / "place to keep my personal stuff" site.
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Unix Administrator
Internet49.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — February 2008 (5 years 2 months)
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Sr. Unix Administrator (contract)
Copart, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CPRT; Automotive industry)
December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year )
Continuing roles from full-time position.
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IT Consultant
United Auburn Indian Community
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)
March 2007 — October 2007 (8 months)
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Sr. Unix Administrator
Copart, Inc.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Responsible for open systems: Solaris 9/10, Linux, NetApp, NetCache, NetBackup
Specialized in building tools for automating tasks and monitoring various services. -
Systems Engineer
RagingWire Enterprise Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Responsible for the design, documentation, implementation and support of all unix-based infrastructure systems including dns, http, ldap, nntp, and syslog as well as Veritas NetBackup.
Also administered all SAN and NAS systems including HDS 9600 and NetApp 840c. Worked with multiple SAN startups for stress-testing and evaluating upcoming products including 3Par Data and Caldera. -
Unix Engineer
Wavve Telecommunications
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; WV.V; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2000 — January 2001 (10 months)
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Network Operations Engineer
JPS.net
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
September 1999 — April 2000 (8 months)
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Tech Support + System Administrator
Ulink.net
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — September 1999 (10 months)
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Tech Support
JPSNet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Nick Berry’s Education
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American River College
Mathematics 2003 — 2004
Additional Information
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Nick Berry’s Groups:
Tang Soo Do Martial Way Association
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JPS Internet Services Alumni
Nick Berry’s Contact Settings
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