
Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area
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(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)
* Part of a small, highly effective, self directed team that manages many tens of thousands of Linux servers in a large scale clustered 24/7 production environment
* Responsible for all aspects of server management and production software from hardware turn over to the customer facing service in a revenue generating and business critical production environment
* Monitor, respond, repair, and maintain services to protect revenue and maintain a quality user experience
* Author and maintain a large library of custom Perl module for infrastructure systems
* Design and build software to monitor, maintain, and distribute software to thousands of servers with terabytes of data
* Build supporting framework glue to combine disparate products into a production service
* Represent production interests in product design meetings to ensure product performance, availability, scalability, and security
* Business continuity planning (BCP)
Computer Engineering 1992 — 1996
Worked at NSF Engineering Research Center
photography, programming, open source, linux, unix, solaris, perl, php, osx, web, real estate, investing, bike riding, learning java
Northern Virginia Photographic Society