Drupal Administrator/Content Developer at Great Green March. Volunteer Shiba (Medicare) Counselor
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Web Team at Great Green March
- Volunteer Counselor at SHIBA
- Past
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- Database Developer/Unix Admin at Shari's Management Corp.
- Professional Services Consultant at Tripwire
- Systems Administrator & Database Developer at Oregon Medical Board
- Education
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- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Denver - Sturm College of Law
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Ray Robert’s Summary
Experienced system administrator. My career emphasizes structured change, pro-active examination of system health, and careful documentation.
I'm especially interested in the intersection of legal requirements with technical systems, e.g., HIPAA, SOX, PCI compliance, payroll and HR requirements.
Ray Robert’s Specialties:
VMware environments.
SANs and NASs.
Linux/UNIX/Windows/Network Administration & Security
Progress Database — Character and GUI clients, AppServer
Perl; Java; C Language; PHP
Ability to work with technical and legal documents
Ray Robert’s Experience
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Web Team
Great Green March
(Environmental Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Adding content to Drupal-maintained site for start-up charitable organization. GGM aims to increase awareness of sustainability by staging a cross-country march. Local stops will be mini-seminars.
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Volunteer Counselor
SHIBA
(Financial Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
SHIBA provides free, personalized counseling, outreach, and assistance with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
The rules and procedures in this area may be more complicated than IT systems! -
Database Developer/Unix Admin
Shari's Management Corp.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 9 months)
I took over a custom application built with Progress on SCO OpenServer (Unix). No systemic work had been done on it in years other than bolting on a few extensions. No one was sure what code, system configurations, and services actually composed the application. Indeed, since it liberally used R commands to cross-execute it wasn't even clear on which machines the application resided.
Not surprisingly it was unreliable. Week- and period-closings were usually emergency situations. Change was hazardous.
I applied the principles of VisibleOps to stabilize and gain control of the application, as I had taught others to do as a Tripwire Professional Consultant.
Today we have repeatable, bare-metal build libraries. Change is applied in scheduled maintenance windows. It's detected and confirmed by automated processes. Unplanned work is minimal. We have the flexibiilty to migrate platforms, including migrating OS and moving to virtual platforms like VMware. -
Professional Services Consultant
Tripwire
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Advising customers on implementing Tripwire change monitoring solutions, usually part of a SOX, PCI, NIST, HIPAA, or similar effort. Often integrated with external databases. As then constituted the position involved almost constant travel.
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Systems Administrator & Database Developer
Oregon Medical Board
(Government Administration industry)
1996 — 2005 (9 years)
Redesigned network.
Rewrote custom database application (Progress v. 6 and later).
Employee Excellence award
Ray Robert’s Education
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University of Colorado at Boulder
BS , Computer Science
National Merit Scholar
Boettcher Scholar -
University of Denver - Sturm College of Law
JD ,
Additional Information
Ray Robert’s Websites:
Ray Robert’s Interests:
Tournament bridge
Ray Robert’s Groups:
iXorg
SHIBA volunteer (http://www.oregonshiba.org)
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Portland Linux/UNIX Group -
VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group -
Progress Software -
PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon -
Progress Email Group (PEG)
Ray Robert’s Honors:
National Merit Scholar
Ray Robert’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
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