LinkedIn: Sean Ellis

Current

Senior Network Engineer at DreamWorks Animation

Past

Data Center Manager at MobiTV
Senior Network Engineer at First Victoria
President at Aloe Software Group

Systems Integrator at Office Systems Center

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Education

Texas A&M University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sean Ellis’s Summary

I am a fairly-open networker via LinkedIn. If you would like to link to me, my email address is sellis@totallygeek.com. Other information about me can be gathered easily from my website at www.totallygeek.com.

Computer professional of more than fifteen years experience, with an extensive background in network operations, data communications, systems engineering, host auditing, service security, and software development. My experience is fairly broad, and I hold several certifications from Compaq, Novell, Red Hat, and Cisco.

Sean Ellis’s Specialties:

IP networking, switching, routing, firewalls, Linux / Unix administration, scripting (Bash, Perl, PHP)

Sean Ellis’s Experience

Senior Network Engineer

DreamWorks Animation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DWA; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

June 2007 — Present (1 year)

Design, implement and maintain network infrastructure for feature animation technology.
Data Center Manager

MobiTV

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for all functions of MobiTV global data centers, content ingestion sites and hosted equipment; including network connectivity, security, load balancing, service monitoring, and host provisioning.

Was integral in migrating from managed hosting of one hundred twenty systems to collocated environment of more than five hundred systems. Developed methods for automating system builds, and software to assist content launches and task management for hosts. Implemented redundancy for network communications, designed VLAN and routed infrastructure, created access control lists, and established virtual private networks.

Systems: Linux, OSX, Windows
Network: Foundry, Netscreen, Juniper, Cisco, Netscaler
Code: Bash, Perl, PHP
Other: Sendmail, MySQL
Senior Network Engineer

First Victoria

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

November 2000 — February 2006 (5 years 4 months)

Design, implement and maintain LAN/WAN for multiple bank processor and more than twenty-five remote sites. Ultimate responsibility for data communications at all OSI layers; Cisco, Avaya, and MCK voice systems; and Netware, Linux, Unix, and AS/400 servers and services.

Networking: Cisco, Sangoma, IBM
OS: Solaris, Linux, OS/400, Netware
Code: Bash, Perl, PHP
Telcom: Avaya G3Si, MCK Branch Extender, Cisco Call Manager
Other: Lotus Domino, Sendmail, MySQL
President

Aloe Software Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2000 — February 2006 (5 years 3 months)

Provided initial capital and credit. Was responsible for company’s initial network design and customer implementation issues, being an application service provider for multiple Texas public school districts and education service centers.

Systems: Linux, HPUX
Network: Cisco
Systems Integrator

Office Systems Center

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1995 — November 2000 (5 years 9 months)

Supported customers with Unix and Netware systems. Coded on projects in C, Bash, Perl, Pascal, and Dataflex. Built an Internet service provider offering area businesses T1 access.