Christine Tran

Current

Senior Software Developer at Assured Decisions

Past

Co-Author: Pro OpenSolaris at Apress
Solutions Architect at Sun Microsystems
Senior UNIX Analyst at SAIC

Special Unit at Shadow Company

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Education

The Johns Hopkins University

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Industry

Computer Software

Christine Tran’s Summary

I've been at Sun for 9 years as a Professional Services engineer, product specialist, and OS ambassador, at different times in those capacities.

18 months before this writing, Web2.0 was still taking shape. The tools that appeared in the last 18 months made new uses possible. Who would ever though I'd have a 20GB account on Flickr to store photos! At one time disk and especially bandwidth was too little to envision such a future.

My ideal job would be to use innovative features in software to work on a future we can't envision now.

Christine Tran’s Specialties:

Solaris 10, DTrace, ZFS, zones, containers, SMF, FMA, iSCSI, file systems

Christine Tran’s Experience

Senior Software Developer

Assured Decisions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

I'm working on a project to build an AI network that will eventually become sentient, take over the world, and send a robot back in time to preemptively destroy the man who'll destroy it, AND become the governor of California. Yes, that was in the project plan.

No, of course not. Someone already built that. But I'm working on something else equally cool.
Co-Author: Pro OpenSolaris

Apress

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

December 2008 — March 2009 (4 months)

Harry Foxwell and I share our experience working and developing on OpenSolaris with developers and programmers used to working on other platforms. A Linux (or other OS veterans) developer can start a project on OpenSolaris in as soon as 2 hours, the time it takes to load OS, tools, and fire up the AMP stack. We show you all the useful and practicals tricks that we used to help you build your project on the F1 racer of operating systems: OpenSolaris.
Solutions Architect

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1999 — September 2008 (9 years 9 months)

Solaris Technical Resource
• introduce and teach new features to others
• create whitepapers, teaching & lab materials, live demos, SMF FAQ.
• help prioritize goals in large migration to S10; advise on technical feasibility, pros & cons of different solutions, (ex. when to use zones vs. LDoms or sparse vs. whole-root zones).
• cover grey area between "intended use" and "creative use", supporting escalation, running proof-of-concepts, finding bugs, advocating for customer, finding non-technical solutions.

Technical Consultant for Professional Services:
• I’ve deployed Blades to F15K/25K systems, set up WANBoot, managed firewalls and routing policies, re-designed and implemented DNS for an entire enterprise, deployed large-scale SNMP systems using SunMC, coded with NetSNMP and RRDTool (circular DB that lets you aggregate millions data points to something humanly manageable), lots more. Due to the varied and short-term nature of PS work, I pick up new languages and skills quickly.
Senior UNIX Analyst

SAIC

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

July 1995 — January 1999 (3 years 7 months)

Technical lead for Unix SA team
Special Unit

Shadow Company

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

April 1987 — April 1987 (1 month)

"Worked for a group called Air America - C.I.A. front, secretly ran the entire hotdog war out of Laos. Part of a special unit called Shadow Company. Mercs. Competitive eaters. When Charley was bringing in wieners to finance the V.C. government, Shadow Company went in and burned it all down. We grilled everybody."

[This was a little humor, ok? Google it, and chill. :) -CT]