Principal Linux System Administrator at Omniture, Provo LUG Dictator, and Enterprise Linux Systems Consultant
Provo, Utah Area
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- PLUG President at Provo Linux Users Group
- Principal Linux System Administrator, TL at Omniture
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- Sr. Linux System Administrator at WestHost
- President at RyanSimpkins, Inc.
- IT Manager at The STUDIO
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Ryan Simpkins’s Summary
Ryan Simpkins began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 1998. He is currently a Principal Linux System Administrator and Team Lead working with 15,000+ production Linux servers, 6+ petabytes of storage, and a growing multi-site global datacenter infrastructure. Currently the system he administers receives more than 11 billion front-end transactions daily. Ryan also administers one of the ten largest MySQL installations in the world handling over 440 billion queries daily.
Taking an active role in his community, Ryan serves as president of the Provo Linux Users Group (serving over 400 members). He is also the System Administrator for the Foundation for Children and Youth with Diabetes, a cause he believes deeply in. Additionally, Ryan works as an open source business consultant donating his time to various start ups and small companies worldwide, ensuring the success of the Open Source ecosystem. Ryan also maintains several small GPLd projects, the Utah Radio & Scanner Group, six kids, a wife, and a home.
Ryan Simpkins’s Specialties:
Linux, System Administration, Security, Enterprise, Servers
Ryan Simpkins’s Experience
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PLUG President
Provo Linux Users Group
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
Ryan is the current dictator in charge, he is looking forward to the day there is a Coup d'état and someone else lays claim to the server (salvaged from the bowels of an Internet boomer). PLUG has 400+ members. Unlike most LUGs, we are actually growing. More than 90% of members are Open Source professionals. We try to meet the second Wednesday of every month. See www.plug.org for more information. We also have a growing LinkedIn group with over 100 members.
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Principal Linux System Administrator, TL
Omniture
(Public Company; OMTR; Computer Software industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Omniture is a leading provider of online business optimization software. Omniture’s market leadership has been demonstrated over the past ten years as we’ve helped industry leaders including eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, General Motors, Sony and HP drive successful online business initiatives
Omniture has more than 5,100 customers across 91 countries, and represents some of the largest and most well-respected enterprise brands in the world, including:
- Three of the top five Fortune-ranked companies
- Four of the top five banks
- Four of the top five travel companies
- Six of the top 10 retailers
- Six of the top 10 media companies
- Eleven of the top 15 automakers
- 15 of the top 20 advertisers
- 15 of the top 25 digital agencies
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Ryan is a System Administrator team lead, System Architect, and project leader for the Data Warehouse and Discover products. He is also engaged in researching and designing the next generation of data processing at Omniture. -
Sr. Linux System Administrator
WestHost
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 8 months)
WestHost is a medium sized discount web hosting company leveraging a unique VPS installation. With over 23,000 clients and over 100,000 hosted domains Ryan served as the lead Linux administrator.
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President
RyanSimpkins, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — March 2005 (4 years 5 months)
Successful Linux consultancy firm.
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IT Manager
The STUDIO
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
April 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 8 months)
3D Animator, CD-ROM Developer, WebSite Designer, Linux Sys Admin, Network Administrator, Perl Developer, Camera Man, Sound Engineer, Product Fulfilment, Stage Hand, Assistant Pyrotechnician, Film Crew, Etc., Etc.
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Ryan Simpkins’s Interests:
Linux, Computers
Ryan Simpkins’s Groups:
Provo Linux Users Group
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Perl Mongers
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