Sarah Elkins

Current

Network Engineer at TerpSys

Past

Volunteer at One Laptop Per Child
Configuration Manager / Build Engineer at Applied Biosystems
Senior Configuration Management Developer at JDA Software (formerly Manugistics)

Configuration Management Specialist at BMC Software (formerly Maxm)
SCM Engineer at Itron
Software Project Engineer at Xerox

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Education

College of Charleston

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sarah Elkins’s Summary

Certified in Configuration Management for IT and Software Development (via CMPIC), with over ten years experience in it. Web application troubleshooting and system administration (large scale / high availability). Hands-on experience in practical knowledge management. I love helping people collaborate and share knowledge, in such a way that we can build on what we have learned and produced, and more knowledge and ideas can grow.

Sarah Elkins’s Specialties:

Configuration management (builds, deploys, version control, standards, processes, etc.), change management, release management.
CM and build tools: SourceForge Enterprise Edition, Subversion, CVS, PVCS; Perl, shell scripting, Ant, CruiseControl, make, InstallShield, InstallAnywhere.
Collaborative software and knowledge sharing: using wikis, blogs, tags and RSS to nurture knowledge and collaboration within an organization.
OS/Platforms: Linux, UNIX (SUN Solaris, AIX, HP, DEC), Windows NT/XP.

Sarah Elkins’s Experience

Network Engineer

TerpSys

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Federal contractor to the National Cancer Institute / NCI Center for Bioinformatics (100+ sites/applications on multiple tiers -- 400+ servers). Lead SCM role. Builds, web application deploys, troubleshooting; tool/repository administration; change control and architecture review facilitation; team maintenance planning task force. Technologies: Linux, UNIX (SUN Solaris), Subversion, CVS, AnthillPro, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, Plone, Zope, GForge, Support Wizard, Enterprise Wizard, JIRA, SharePoint.
Volunteer

One Laptop Per Child

(Non-Profit; E-Learning industry)

December 2007 — April 2008 (5 months)

Unofficial volunteer for the One Laptop Per Child educational project: Presented the XO laptop to the Northern Virginia Linux User Group; demo'd the XO at the Federal Office Systems Exposition in DC; co-paneled the OLPC Round Table at Penguicon in Michigan. Participated in Give One, Get One program; blogged about OLPC, added information and crosslinks to wiki pages, answered questions on user forums.
Configuration Manager / Build Engineer

Applied Biosystems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ABI; Biotechnology industry)

September 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 4 months)

Configuration management (coordination and change control), software builds and deploys, and knowledge management (collaborative software administration, wiki contributions and crosslinks, set up resources and gave presentations and training).
Senior Configuration Management Developer

JDA Software (formerly Manugistics)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JDAS; Computer Software industry)

April 1997 — November 2002 (5 years 8 months)

Software configuration management: administered software repository (including translation and platform-port branches), built software products, produced master media, escrowed releases for business continuity, trained personnel on tools and processes.
Configuration Management Specialist

BMC Software (formerly Maxm)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

March 1995 — April 1997 (2 years 2 months)

Configuration management: administered software repositories; built software products; software librarian; sysadmin and packaging/distribution/shipping functions at times. This was actually at MAXM Systems Corp., bought by Boole and Babbage, bought by BMC.
SCM Engineer

Itron

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ITRI; Computer Software industry)

August 1994 — January 1995 (6 months)

Software configuration management
Software Project Engineer

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1988 — May 1994 (6 years)

After coding and benchmarking, joined software configuration management (SCM) team. Audits, automation, developing corporate SCM standards. Contributed to Xerox's feedback as solicited by the Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (on the Capability Maturity Model), and Learning Tree International (SCM course materials). Led "Immortal Software" team. Led UI/translation QA task group, participated on change control board.

Sarah Elkins’s Education

College of Charleston

BS , Computer Science, Philosophy , 1984 — 1988

# Defended Honors Program Senior Thesis on artificial intelligence to CS department.
# Presented top state undergraduate philosophy paper at academic conference.
# Teaching Assistant (advanced symbolic logic): tutored; prepared, gave selected lectures; gave, graded exams

Activities and Societies:

# 1987-1988 President, Senior Class at College of Charleston
# 1987-1988 President, Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter
# 1986-1987 President, Honors Program Student Association

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Sarah Elkins’s Interests:

Configuration management, collaborative and social software, information architecture, educational games. Presented "Knowledge Gardening" at open source conference (Penguicon 2007) and "One Laptop Per Child Demo" at NoVaLUG and other venues. Co-paneled on "Creating a Wikinomic Online Community" at Penguicon 2009.