Walter Wong

Current

• Systems Architect at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Past

• Andrew Systems Manager at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
• Research Systems Programmer at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Walter Wong’s Summary

Walter Wong’s Specialties:

Email systems, file systems and storage (distributed and local), systems management of distributed computing systems, virtualization infrastructure; proficient in C, perl, java.

Walter Wong’s Experience

• Systems Architect

  Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

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

  January 2000 — Present (10 years )

  Help set the technical direction of the central computing environment by
  • Investigating, understanding, and applying (or avoiding) new technology
  • Evaluating and providing guidance for major departmental projects
  • Documenting best practices
  
  Specific projects include:
  • Requirements and design for primary campus datacenter networking retrofit for systems and iSCSI SAN
  • Datacenter planning for new building in Qatar
  • Design and deployment of VMware Virtual Infrastructure
  • Systems Lead for deploying the computing infrastructure “from scratch” in less than 6 months for the Qatar campus
  • With Larry Greenfield and Rob Siemborski. Designing and deploying a horizontally scalable email solution: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html
  • SAN evaluation leading to an iSCSI SAN deployment (EqualLogic)
  • Windows 2000 beta testing leading to an early deployment of Windows 2000 in the public labs

• Andrew Systems Manager

  Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

  (Higher Education industry)

  January 1996 — January 2000 (4 years 1 month)

  Managed the operation of a large scale (for its time) distributed system, including authentication, email and file services, for the central campus.
  
  Management of Project Cyrus (http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu) which included work on protocols such as IMAP, POP, ACAP, SASL, SMTP AUTH, and SIEVE.

• Research Systems Programmer

  Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

  (Higher Education industry)

  August 1991 — January 1996 (4 years 6 months)

  Developed tools in C and perl for managing the local disk of workstations as well as managing the centrally maintained software collections.
  
  Publications:
  • With Wallace Colyer. Personal Computer Integration in the Andrew System. Integrating Personal Computers in a Distributed Client-Server Environment. Prentice Hall. Ed. R. Khanna. 1995.
  • With Wallace Colyer. Managing Distributed Systems and System Management Strategies. Distributed Computing: Implementation and Management Strategies. Ed. R. Khanna. Prentice Hall, 1994.
  • Local Disk Depot: Customizing the Software Environment. LISA VII Proceedings. 1993.
  • With Wallace Colyer. Depot: A Tool for Managing Software Environments. LISA VI Proceedings. 1993.
  • With Wallace Colyer, Mark Held, and David Markley. Software Management in the Andrew System. AFS Users Group Proceedings. 1992.

Walter Wong’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS , Cognitive Psychology , August 1987 — May 1991