Phil Chen

Current

• Director of Systems Engineering at VMIX
• Co-Founder & Director of Operations at Blue Penguin Consulting
• Founder at Systems Watch

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Past

• VP of E-Commerce at Swell
• Sr. Systems Administrator at VMIX
• Software Engineer | Sr. Systems Specialist at Websense Inc.

• Director of Systems & Networking at SIPphone Inc. (Gizmo5)
• Network Operations Engineer at AT&T Enhanced Network Services
• Sr. QA Engineer at Blue Mountain a Division of American Greetings Inc.
• Sr. QA / Project Analyst at AT&T CERFnet

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Education

• San Diego State University-California State University
• West Torrance High School

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Connections

393 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• VMIX Media Inc.
• Blue Penguin Consulting
• Systems Watch

Phil Chen’s Summary

Technology professional, with a passion for innovation. Experience in developing, scaling, and securing web technology platforms in support of ISP, MSP, and SaaS Models.

Phil Chen’s Specialties:

TCP/IP Packet Analysis, Systems & Network Monitoring,
Network Security, Linux Systems, Web Caching,
Web Infrastructure Scaling, Public Cloud Computing (Utility Computing), E-Commerce, Product & Project Management, Contract Negotiations

Phil Chen’s Experience

• Director of Systems Engineering

  VMIX

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Directing all Systems Engineering and Network Engineering Initiatives. Developing and implementing system architecture models to utilize Cloud Computing / Utility Computing. My ongoing goal is to cut infrastructure costs, increase system scale and performance of the VMIX media management SaaS platform.

• Co-Founder & Director of Operations

  Blue Penguin Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Co-Founder of a reputable technology consulting company providing a wide variety of internet-related services, including: web development, systems administration, hosting and colocation, security auditing and firewall configuration, cloud computing, training and network support.

• Founder

  Systems Watch

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

  Founder of Systems Watch a leader in small business systems and network monitoring solutions, and original developer of Process Watch a Linux IDS and Process Monitoring Application.

• VP of E-Commerce

  Swell

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

  August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

  Managed the successful launch of Swell's advanced E-Commerce website from a PRD specification to live production use in coordination with a third party technology group. Also responsible for architecting Swell's content & community web infrastructure.

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  VMIX

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Developed and scaled the systems infrastructure supporting the media management and community platform, core product offerings. Also responsible for systems and network monitoring and security, configuration management, server performance tuning, server clustering, architecture design, and web caching.

• Software Engineer | Sr. Systems Specialist

  Websense Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; WBSN; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 7 months)

  Software Engineer working in an integrations development team working with proprietary network protocols, and resolving systems and network client escalations in regards to firewalls, proxies, cache engines, and cross platform software deployments.
  
  Sr. Systems Specialist responsible for Tier 3 escalations regarding software deployments within various enterprise network topologies.

• Director of Systems & Networking

  SIPphone Inc. (Gizmo5)

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  Founding Systems Architect. Second employee of SIPphone Inc. architecting and deploying the SIP and STUN VOIP network infrastructure for successful August 6, 2003 product launch.

• Network Operations Engineer

  AT&T Enhanced Network Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  Responsible for network monitoring and troubleshooting of 896+ enterprise hosting / colocation clients located in AT&T's Global Data Center infrastructure.

• Sr. QA Engineer

  Blue Mountain a Division of American Greetings Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Responsible for system and network QA of 1.5 Million Paid Subscriber base, electronic greeting card website. I worked for Blue Mountain owned by Excite@Home then bought buy American Greetings Inc.

• Sr. QA / Project Analyst

  AT&T CERFnet

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  Responsible for helping in the migration of legacy services from CERFnet one of the first National Business Internet Service Providers in the United States to AT&T.

Phil Chen’s Education

• San Diego State University-California State University

  BA , Psychology Emphasis I/O - Minor Sociology Social Control , 1995 — 1998

• West Torrance High School

Additional Information

Phil Chen’s Websites:

• VMIX Media Inc.
• Blue Penguin Consulting
• Systems Watch

Phil Chen’s Groups:

•    Internet Society
•    The League of Professional System Administrators
•    Excite@Home Alumni
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    Sociology Graduates
•    NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
•    Amazon Web Services Community Network
•    Hosting Industry
•    AT&T Alumni
•    CERFnet Alumni
•    Websense Alumni
•    Cloud Computing
•    San Diego State University Alumni
•    San Diego Tweetup
•    IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
•    American Greetings Employees and Alumni
•    O'Reilly Velocity Conference

Phil Chen’s Honors:

-AT&T Internet Services Broadband Trailblazers Award July 29, 1999 market launch of AT&T Broadband Business Services DSL Offer

-AT&T CERFnet Employee of the Month February 1999 for completion of Shared Hosting Migration to AT&T Small Business Services

-Y2K Response team recognition award Jan 1 2000 AT&T Enhanced Network Services

-Excite@Home Galaxy Award for Outstanding Employee Achievement for Cost Cutting through Automation 2001

-VMIX MVP Award July 2008 for increasing infrastructure scale and performance while cutting company costs (first to receive the VMIX award)