President/CEO, GridZones
Greater Seattle Area
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- President/CEO at GridZones
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- Owner at Cordier Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
- Vice President / CFO at MindSource
- Senior Unix Consultant at Taos Mountain Software
- Software Quality Assurance Engineer at The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Cruz
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Phil Cordier’s Summary
My background includes extensive experience in UNIX systems/network/security administration, development/planning, project management, and quality review. Technical skills include risk assessment, network and host security requirements, high availability and load balancing techniques, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery, network security / firewall design, intrusion detection, and many other aspects of systems/network management.
Solaris and CISSP certified.
Phil Cordier’s Specialties:
Unix systems and network administration and management, information security, professional services for J2EE based infrastructures.
Phil Cordier’s Experience
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President/CEO
GridZones
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
GridZones is a full-service Managed IT Solutions Provider, offering:
* Hosting and Managed Services
* Network and Server Design and Consulting
* Information Security Assessment and Design
* Applications Architecture and Development
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Owner
Cordier Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1998 — September 2004 (6 years )
Provided expertise in the realms of systems architecture and operational infrastructure, for numerous clients throught the greater Seattle area.
* Designed a multi-tier hosting environment of Solaris 9 systems supporting Oracle 8i/9i, Oracle iFS, Oracle LDAP, ArcGIS, Apache/Tomcat and Orion application server.
* Project management and implementation of an LDAP-based UNIX authentication system, for Solaris 8, Linux and RADIUS servers.
* Systems architect developing and administering all aspects of operational reliability and scalability necessary for a 7x24 Internet service, supporting over 30,000 users.
* Managed development and production environments of two dozen RedHat Linux servers supporting a 7x24 online video/photo sharing service.
* Designed staging environment of RedHat Linux and Solaris ystems, with an F5 BigIP firewall.
* Supported over a dozen Compaq/Digital tru64 and Solaris servers supporting several multi-terabyte Oracle databases, on EMC disk. -
Vice President / CFO
MindSource
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1994 — September 1997 (2 years 10 months)
Executive manager of this technical staffing firm specializing in the placement of UNIX System / Network Administrators. Defined and implemented all policies and procedures for attraction and retention of top technical UNIX talent. Interviewed and hired hundreds of UNIX systems administrators. Engaged technical managers, performed analysis and review of technical requirements, submitted candidates, negotiated rates, and closed deals. Supervised accounting department, and managed payroll. Implemented and oversaw 401(k) program. Responsible for an annual budget of over $1M.
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Senior Unix Consultant
Taos Mountain Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1990 — March 1995 (4 years 8 months)
Provided UNIX expertise to various Silicon Valley companies:
* Sun Microsystems. Designed, implemented and maintained a large test harness for a native-code C++ compiler and related utilities. Extensive Perl, shell scripting, build management.
* Kubota Pacific Computers. Developed changes to UNIX systems libraries and utilities for use with a new long-filename file system. Implemented a custom networked test-harness system.
* Pyramid Computers. Administered a distributed LAN of dual-universe System-V/BSD MIServer systems supporting over 500 users. Extensive tools development.
* Arix. Performed quality review of Arix SVR3 UNIX. Designed and implemented a complete test plan for system utilities, developed a system-testing tool, performed system administration. -
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1987 — August 1990 (3 years 7 months)
Project lead for SCO UNIX and XENIX operating and development systems. Responsible for technical assurance of all aspects of operating system software. Recognized as an outstanding contributor to the development of SCO UNIX V/386.
Phil Cordier’s Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
BA , Computer and Information Sciences , June 1986 — August 1990
Focus on language theory and compiler design.
- Activities and Societies:
- Got real good at multi-trek and nethack. Wrote Ularn.
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LOPSA
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University of California-Santa Cruz Alumni (UCSC)
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