Tim Denike

Current

• Technical Yahoo! Service Engineer, Senior at Flickr

Past

• Operations Manager at Socializr, Inc.
• Senior Systems Administrator at Friendster
• IT Manager at Sonora Entertainment Group

• Senior Systems Administrator at ZipSend
• Systems Administrator at Lucidity, Inc
• Assistant Technology Coordinator at Benicia Unified School District
• Lab Support Technician at Benicia High School

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Tim Denike’s Summary

Expertise in network and systems administration, and developing highly-available, fault-tolerant architectures. Give me a Makita and a case of RedBull and I will build you a scaleable infrastructure as a base for a top-tier web property.

Specializing in a wide array of Linux and Web technologies.

Tim Denike’s Specialties:

UNIX, Linux Systems Administration, MySQL Database, Tomcat, PHP, TCP, BGP, Telecommunications, VoIP, Cisco, Juniper, Force 10, Application Architecture, Scaling, NAS, DAS, SAN, WAN, LAN, Perl, Customer Service, Hitachi Storage, McData.

Tim Denike’s Experience

• Technical Yahoo! Service Engineer, Senior

  Flickr

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Starting on July 7, 2008, I'll be the 4th member of the Flickr site operations team.

• Operations Manager

  Socializr, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  As one of the first employees at Socializr, I worked closely with the founder to build out a solid, scalable operations platform upon which to build an innovative answer to a rather stagnant social/invitations market.
  
  As manager of Operations, I purchased all hardware, managed vendor contracts and built a fully-redundant hardware architecture at minimal cost.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  Friendster

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

  December 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 6 months)

  Personally responsible for a large part of the design and implementation of technological processes at Friendster. Responsible for responding to and preventing any operational problems - usually under critical timelines. Maintaining and implementing creative solutions to operational and developmental problems.

• IT Manager

  Sonora Entertainment Group

  (Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

  February 2003 — December 2003 (11 months)

  Sonora Entertainment Group is the first nation-wide movie theatre chain to cater exclusively to a latino/hispanic audience. I was responsible for maintaining all IT systems including point of sales systems, VPN links and ticket management/reporting software. In addition to IT work I was on-site during new theatre build-outs to assist in IT systems planning and some projection and sound systems installation.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  ZipSend

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

  June 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  Responsible for maintenance and monitoring of ZipSend/Frogmagic web site. This company implemented a unique gift-sending system which allowed members of several large community-sites to enable users to send gifts to one-another without exposing personal information such as address.

• Systems Administrator

  Lucidity, Inc

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Starting as an IT manager, I quickly grew into larger roles managing production web services and hosted applications in our south-bay colo facility. Lucidity transitioned through several business models through the dot-com boom. Initially a gift-sending service similar to FrogMagic, Lucidity provided gift-sending services to our primary partner BlueMountain Arts. After their acquisition by @Home, Lucidity shifted to an ASP hosting model which was unable to survive in a slow market. During this time I created a unique hosted IVR Telecom product which allowed a company to completely outsource their call-center infrastructure.

• Assistant Technology Coordinator

  Benicia Unified School District

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  August 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 5 months)

  Working with the District Technology Coordinator, I was responsible for the hands-on management of all computer / network technology resources for the 9 campuses of the Benicia Unified School District. During my tenure, I was responsible for a network redesign, hardware acquisition, several new computer lab buildouts, desktop support, mail services, and training during migration to new student management system.

• Lab Support Technician

  Benicia High School

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

  June 1995 — August 1998 (3 years 3 months)

  As a lab technician I supported existing Novell lab and lead the migration to a new Windows NT lab with strict security policies. Additionally taught staff in-service training and classes on Internet use.

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Tim Denike’s Interests:

I have no interests. I only work.