Ryan Creasey

Current

Principal Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Technology Operations at Fox Interactive Media
Principal Architect at Evilcode Corporation

Past

Technology Consultant at Roadtrip Productions
Senior Systems Administrator at IGN Entertainment
Network Engineer at p11creative

Quality Assurance Compatibility Technician at Blizzard Entertainment

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Education

University of California, Irvine

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Industry

Online Media

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Ryan Creasey’s Summary

- Over nine years of experience in the IT support field with specialties ranging from multi-platform environments, automations design, centralized system administration and custom application development.

- Designed an automations framework that was implemented in Enterprise-scale datacenters containing all of Fox Interactive Media’s properties, including ign.com, gamespy.com, fileplanet.com, direct2drive.com, rottentomatoes.com and foxsports.com.

- Adept in managing a scalable and load balanced infrastructure, focusing on automations and and high availability.

- Designed a Software as a Service framework for rapid provisioning of system services and cloud architecture.

- Occupied a Lead Engineer position on the Technology Operations Infrastructure Engineering group, providing supervision for the engineering of datacenters and systems architecture.

- Expert administration knowledge in design and implementation of distributed web services including Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Oracle RAC, MySQL HA clusters and PostgreSQL.

- Fluent in many programming languages, including C/C++, Ruby, Perl and PHP.

Ryan Creasey’s Specialties:

Operating Systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, MacOS X.

Languages:
Ruby, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, C/C++, Bash.

Web Services:
Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Microsoft IIS.

Database Technologies:
Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server.

Storage Experience:
Network Appliance (Data OnTap 6/7G) NAS, SAN, iSCSI.

Load Balancing:
Citrix Netscaler, Squid, Pound.

Mail Systems:
Ironport, Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, Exchange.

Ryan Creasey’s Experience

Principal Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Technology Operations

Fox Interactive Media

(Public Company; NWS; Internet industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

As a lead member within the Technology Operations group, occupied a role in overseeing the operations of the Linux and Storage environments for 8 datacenters worldwide. This group was responsible for the day-to-day operations of Linux and Storage Infrastructure, as well as engineering new technology for streamlining Enterprise operations as a whole. Responsible for architecting new infrastructure plans and presenting to Engineering Review Board peers, as well as executing on implementation after ratification. In addition to engineering customized automations, this position was responsible for the design decisions for many Enterprise-wide datacenter deployment, including virtualization, global load balancing, rapid provisioning and monitoring solutions.
- Completely architected a customized Software as a Service and Platforms as a Service framework that immensely streamlined provisioning of assets in the datacenter.
- Designed a custom Configuration Item and Management Database for assets in all of the company’s datacenters.
- Re-designed the company’s DNS architecture for internal and external namespace within the company’s datacenters.
- Directly interfaced with many different company product groups, gathering operational requirements and designing deployment solutions for their needs.
- Based on application and infrastructure performance, advised the Operations departments on strategic and tactical scalability and optimization.
- Made significant contributions to the systems architecture and service configuration documentation for the Technology Operations department.
- Managed the mitigation of all security intrusions and provided the forensics expertise for the Information Security team during vulnerability outages.
- Provided an escalated level of support and shared in off-hour on-call duties.
Principal Architect

Evilcode Corporation

(Online Media industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

Currently under NDA.
Technology Consultant

Roadtrip Productions

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

January 2001 — December 2006 (6 years )

Designed and implemented the web presence for Roadtrip Nation, an information and community based website geared at providing career choices to undergraduate students. Started as a grassroots movement, roadtripnation.com was eventually picked up as a major series on PBS and was sponsored by Microsoft, Apple, State Farm Insurance and Starbucks.
Senior Systems Administrator

IGN Entertainment

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IGNE; Online Media industry)

September 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 2 months)

This position evolved into my role at Fox Interactive Media, when IGN Entertainment was purchased by News Corporation in October 2006.
Network Engineer

p11creative

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

September 2000 — July 2004 (3 years 11 months)

Solely responsible for the administration of a myriad of enterprise class server systems and various web related applications for a successful print and online design studio. In addition to managing the 150 servers in the company datacenter, the position was also responsible for the office network of mixed Macintosh and Windows
desktops.

- Oversaw the design, construction and management of the colocation facility for the company and its clients.

- Handled the maintenance and administration of the company's office infrastructure and mail systems.

- Responsible for day-to-day administration of managed and shared web hosting servers and infrastructure.
Quality Assurance Compatibility Technician

Blizzard Entertainment

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; V; Entertainment industry)

August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Oversaw the testing of hardware configuration compatibility for two software titles, Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition and Diablo II; specializing in graphic and sound card driver compatibility.

- Designed a hardware asset tracking database for the QA department; streamlining hardware tracking.

- Spent three months after the second software title shipped as a Customer Support Representative, providing telephone and online assistance for customers.

Ryan Creasey’s Education

University of California, Irvine

Bachelor , Information and Computer Science , 1998 — 2003

Specialization in Networks and Distributed Systems.

Activities and Societies:

Undergraduate Computing Federation, ACM, IEEE