Ryan Creasey

Current

Senior 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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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 americanidol.com, ign.com, gamespy.com, fileplanet.com, direct2drive.com, rottentomatoes.com and foxsports.com.

- Occupied a senior role on the Linux Datacenter Operations group, providing supervision for a team of administrators.

- Expert administration knowledge in distributed web services, including Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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

- Experienced in administration of Network Appliance network attached storage and storage area networks.

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

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 and SAN.

Load Balancing:
Citrix Netscaler, Squid, Pound.

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

Ryan Creasey’s Experience

Senior Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Technology Operations

Fox Interactive Media

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NWS; Entertainment industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

As a lead member of the Systems Engineering Group, designed and implemented automation applications for over 1,300 Linux and Windows servers in 8 datacenters worldwide. This group provided tools for several datacenter operation departments, allowing for an easier way to manage their systems. In addition to engineering custom administration applications, this position was responsible for the design decisions behind many enterprisewide datacenter deployments, including virtualization, global load balancing, rapid provisioning and monitoring solutions.

- Held a senior role on the Linux Operations Team and oversaw the datacenter administration of many of the flagship properties owned by FIM.

- Designed a custom Configuration Management Database to manage systems in all of the Fox datacenters.

- Engineered many of the automations services deployed in the company's datacenters worldwide.

- Designed a web services standard that has been deployed in all of Fox LAMP properties.
Principal Architect

Evilcode Corporation

(Online Media industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 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