Unix Geek with an Entrepreneurial Spirit
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Co-Owner / Director of Engineering at SmartJabber LLC
- Past
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- Co-Owner / VP of Development at JumpLaunch Inc.
- Sr. Systems Engineer at Groovr, Inc.
- Systems Administrator at CheetahMail, An Experian Company
- Network & Systems Engineer at ICANN
- Sr. Systems Administrator at iPowerWeb, Inc.
- System & Network Enginner at NMIA, Inc.
- Solder at U.S. ARMY
- Technical Support at America Online
- Education
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- Technical Vocational Institute (TVI)
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Peter Sanchez’s Summary
Unix and Network Administrator, Small Fry Software Engineer and all around good guy. Mostly focus on high availability projects. Very interested in Python and Django development. I do enjoy the startup phase of a new company.
Peter Sanchez’s Specialties:
freebsd, linux, apache, mysql/postgresql, dns (bind, tinydns, maradns), python, django, php, perl, shell scripting, networking, BGP4, cisco, foundry, juniper, OSPF, VLAN, firewalls
Peter Sanchez’s Experience
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Co-Owner / Director of Engineering
SmartJabber LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
SmartJabber is a software solution that provides users with an automated chat agent. The agent is completely programmable by the end user. The idea is to provide an inexpensive, but powerful, tool to help convert web site visitors into customers or to offer your visitors a very basic form of customer support.
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Co-Owner / VP of Development
JumpLaunch Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)
JumpLaunch Inc. is web hosting company based out of Los Angeles, CA. I am a co-founder of this company and did the initial development of internal software. I now manage the software development as well as systems operations of the company. Additionally, I am partially responsible for marketing and business development. I have sold my interest in the company.
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Sr. Systems Engineer
Groovr, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)
Groovr is a startup based in Los Angeles, that centers around the social aspect of the internet. My duties are to install, maintain and document infrastructure components and servers. As well as develop front-end web components and back-end processing systems. Systems are running Linux and utilizing various open source applications. Software creation is done mostly in Python.
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Systems Administrator
CheetahMail, An Experian Company
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
My position is to work in the SA team with the administration of various Linux servers, which perform an array of different tasks. Our servers are stored in multiple datacenters around the world. Server functions include a very high email injection rate, storage, application scaling, data mining and reporting, router/firewalls and standard web services (to name a few.) I also assist in the support of various in house applications.
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Network & Systems Engineer
ICANN
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Was responsible for the various networks that belonged to ICANN. Also participated in the management of the L root server (l.root-servers.net.) I also assisted with the day to day administration of the various Linux and FreeBSD servers in use at the ICANN data centers.
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Sr. Systems Administrator
iPowerWeb, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
August 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 4 months)
iPowerweb is one of the largest webhosting companies in the country. I was responsible for over 400 shared hosting servers and 200 dedicated hosting servers. Maintained services for each server, which handles transactions for more than 450,000 customers.Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of two Foundry NetIron 40G core routers, two BigIron core switches, Cisco Pix Firewalls (515E), Foundry FastIron Edge switches and HP Pro Curve switches.
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System & Network Enginner
NMIA, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
August 2000 — May 2004 (3 years 10 months)
NMIA was the largest local ISP in New Mexico during my employment there. I was responsible for maintaining services and connectivity for over 15,000 customers. Maintained network integrity by managing a Cisco 3660 and various Cisco Catalyst Switches. Servers I managed were running FreeBSD 4.x and Linux (Red Hat and
Slackware.) Managed other services such as, Frame Relay, PPP T1 Links, Dialup
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Solder
U.S. ARMY
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
July 1999 — February 2000 (8 months)
Successfully completed Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. MOS was 63T, Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems Engineer. Due to an injury, I received a medical discharge.
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Technical Support
America Online
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Services industry)
May 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 3 months)
I was 17 years old when I started at AOL. I was responsible for assisting customers with any issue relating to the AOL service. Acted as NOC support and assisted in keeping the local network and workstations updated. Served as a team “Mentor” and assisted with the more advanced, complicated issues.
Peter Sanchez’s Education
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Technical Vocational Institute (TVI)
N/A , Computer Science , 1997 — 1998
Completed 2 semesters at TVI. Took general courses as well as advanced C programming.
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Peter Sanchez’s Interests:
freebsd, linux, open source, python, django, e-ANYTHING, entrepreneurship, motorcycles, classic cars
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