Christian Pearce

Current

Consultant at xforty
Consultant at Afilias

Past

Owner, Consultant at Christian Pearce, LLC
Consultant at The Hershey Company
System Administrator, Senior Software Engineer at Versatile, Inc.

Consultant at University of Oklahoma Information Technology
Developer at Packet Pushers, Inc.
Network Engineer at NuNet, Inc.
Programmer at Pentamation Enterprises, Inc.
Developer at Internet Unlimited, Inc.

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Education

University of Kutztown

Recommended

10 people have recommended Christian

Connections

162 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Christian Pearce’s Summary

Offering 11 years of experience in information technology, infrastructure architecture, system administration, automation with scripting, research, programming, web application development, CMS website development, deployment process, LDAP, software releasing, product management, support, program design, professional services, Internet services and database administration and migration. Specializing in helping business apply best practice to grow and improve their operations.

Christian Pearce’s Specialties:

Cfengine, PHP 5, Drupal, Shell Scripting, System Administration, Drupal, Rails, CakePHP Configuration Management, Software Architecture/Design/Releasing/Installation, OO development, Perl, Postgresql, MySQL, Linux (RedHat, etc.), LDAP, Solaris, RPM and Solaris Packaging.

Christian Pearce’s Experience

Consultant

xforty

(Information Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Focusing on building Drupal websites, while educating and training the customer to perform their own work in the future. Part of that is training customers to use a SDLC.

Also perform various Linux system administration tasks such as mail migration during technology refreshes. Develop enhancements to rails applications.
Consultant

Afilias

(Internet industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Architect Web Applications for the Application Services group. Designed and built Drupal based websites. Created best practice for development, testing, and production deployment with subversion and custom scripting. Preformed training and transfer of knowledge to local resources.
Owner, Consultant

Christian Pearce, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 4 months)
Consultant

The Hershey Company

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

October 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Manage Cfengine installation for automation of configuration management. Perform Solaris server builds via Jumpstart architecture. Responsible for server upgrades from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.
System Administrator, Senior Software Engineer

Versatile, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 10 months)

My position allocated half of my time as a System Administrator consultant to provide solutions for Versatils's enterprise customer base. Most of this work was done on short term consulting engagements. The solutions that I provided were: designing and implementing Mail, LDAP and Web service architectures. I also analyzed and made recommendations for managing the configuration and monitoring of enterprise servers. The remainder of my time was spent as team lead for the Systems Navigator (www.sysnav.com) development project using on-site consulting experience. This product automated the management of server configurations in the enterprise for medium to large scale data centers. Additional my supporting tasks included defining requirements, and design for future releases. Responsible for developing Cfengine, Shell and PHP scripts for SysNav. I provided additional product support that include integrating SysNav into operations, assisting with sales, and training consultants.
Consultant

University of Oklahoma Information Technology

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2002 — December 2002 (10 months)

Engaged as a consultant to aid in the implementation of Systems Navigator. Implemented systems monitoring and configured a standard operating environment (SOE), via SysNav. Assisted in the mail migration project from SIMS to Sun ONE, focusing on moving all the LDAP accounts and mailboxes. Played key role as a technical advisor in several newly initiated projects. Wrote a strategy for implementing best practices and improving availability and uptime for the CIO.
Developer

Packet Pushers, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Lead programmer on various development projects. Primary coder on a web hosting system that allows users to a control all aspects of web hosting. Managed open source development of larrd, which is a metric trending tool for UNIX operating systems. Responsibilities include programming, debugging, support, bug tracking, documentation, and releasing of larrd software.
Network Engineer

NuNet, Inc.

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

May 1999 — January 2000 (9 months)

Responsible for NuNet's DSL deployment. Working with DSL vendors, developed technical and administrative procedures for qualifying, registering, and fulfilling DSL orders. Assisted with the management of Solaris and NT mail systems. Managed various Linux and Solaris Web servers for customers. Programmed custom web applications for internal and customer use.
Programmer

Pentamation Enterprises, Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — April 1999 (4 months)

Maintained State requirements for local government software packages. Responsibilities included developing patches, testing, debugging and releasing updates to customer sites.
Developer

Internet Unlimited, Inc.

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

May 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Designed and developed various web applications for customers and internal use. Created web applications for allowing both customer and employees the ability to manage interactive game hosting. Lead programmer on complex user management system for a subscription based web site. Assisted with systems administration of a Linux based web hosting environment.

Christian Pearce’s Education

University of Kutztown

BS , Computer Science , August 1994 — December 1999

Treasury of the Kutztown Universirty Computer Association (KUCA) for two years.