Joshua Larios

Past

• Sr Computer Specialist at University of Washington
• Sysadmin at Fizzylab
• Sysadmin at Headbone

• Sysadmin/Webmaster at Jack Straw Productions
• All-purpose geek at Speakeasy
• Cook at Pizzeria Pagliacci

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Education

• University of Washington

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Joshua Larios’s Summary

Unix sysadmin and jack-of-all-trades, with coding ability in php, perl, python, shell, C, Ada, and Fortran. Strong communication skills and various unrelated abilities, from carpentry and copyediting to bicycle repair and concert photography.

Joshua Larios’s Specialties:

Desktop support in Mac/Windows/Linux, LAMP development, rapid web application prototyping, systems administration for linux, solaris, irix, openbsd, and others.

Joshua Larios’s Experience

• Sr Computer Specialist

  University of Washington

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — May 2008 (7 years 3 months)

  * Provided in-depth desktop support (Windows/Mac/Linux) for departmental computing support staff and end users throughout the entire campus with questions beyond the capabilities of the first-tier support staff.
  * Consulted with departments and groups to configure and maintain firewall systems; trained local support staff in routine maintenance.
  * Consulted with Software Licensing group to configure and provision a storefront providing the entire UW community with software at an academic discount; debugged java e-commerce application provided by E-Academy.
  * Acted as a project liason for the Customer Services Review Board, collaborating with project teams to ensure any changes to existing customer-facing services received proper oversight and schedule coordination.
  * Developed Autoclave, a utility to securely erase the contents of hard drives prior to disposal of desktop systems; and MacPine, an OS X application wrapper around the terminal-based Pine and Alpine email clients.

• Sysadmin

  Fizzylab

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  * As part of a team of three sysadmins, installed and maintained Solaris servers for a search engine startup, supporting development and production environments running Apache, JServ, Oracle, MySQL, sendmail, etc; maintained Red Hat Linux servers providing internal email and intranet services.
  * Collaborated on the creation of a software build management system, streamlining the develop/test/release cycle.
  * Worked with an external consultant to develop a suite of data mining utilities to track billable usage of the flagship product and provide detailed usage reports.
  * Configured and maintained Big/IP load balancers for production environment, providing high-availability and reliability for an application used by many large content providers throughout the country.

• Sysadmin

  Headbone

  (Media Production industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years)

  * With a co-sysadmin, installed and maintained Slackware Linux servers running Apache and MySQL for a multimedia company making the transition from edu-tainment CD-ROM games to print, web, and tv content.
  * Provided security analysis and code review of web applications, with an emphasis on safeguarding the privacy of the tween and teen userbase.
  * Installed, maintained, provisioned, and operated OpenAdStream advertising network software, providing an additional revenue stream for the web portion of the business.
  * Co-wrote a technology column for the "Headbone Zone" web site, answering technology-related questions from subscribers, explain concepts such as the Y2K bug and browser cookies.
  * On an extremely short timeline, developed and deployed an interactive horoscope-like application for the Headbone Zone web site, meeting the deadline set by the sponsor and preventing the delay of several related advertising campaigns.

• Sysadmin/Webmaster

  Jack Straw Productions

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Fine Art industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

  * Configured and maintained Irix server running Netscape httpd and RealAudio Server for a heavily audio oriented nonprofit arts organization.
  * Helped with the design and implementation of Sonarchy.org, a pioneering archive of found audio, radio interviews, live performances, and other works of sonic art.
  * Provided internal desktop support for Windows 3.1 and 95, and MacOS 7, along with office applications and dialup networking.

• All-purpose geek

  Speakeasy

  (Internet industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  * Provided front-line technical support for users of the Cafe's internet services, including email, shell, usenet, irc, and desktop publishing applications.
  * Designed, implemented and maintained client web sites, from personal web pages to large arts organizations and hospital departments.

• Cook

  Pizzeria Pagliacci

  (Food Production industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years)

Joshua Larios’s Education

• University of Washington

  1992 — 1996

  Coursework included new media studies, poetry, computer science, and music composition and performance. Degree was deferred in favor of entering job market.

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• My Blog

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