Michael Halligan

Current

Director of Operations at TwoFish, Inc.
Professional Blogger - Datacenter Industry at Network World
Founding Gold Sponsor at LOPSA (League of Professional Systems Administrators)

Chief Technology Officer at BitPusher
Owner, Chief Consultant at Halligan Infrastructure Designs

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Past

Infrastructure Architect at MyPoints, Inc.
Senior Systems Administrator at Kontiki
Senior Systems Administrator at Napster, Inc.

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Michael Halligan’s Summary

Creative, strategic Infrastructure Architect, with a unique automation oriented focus. Proven experience to build or revamp infrastructures to align with corporate vision. Experience with availability planning, security auditing, and performance tuning, and staff development.

Michael Halligan’s Specialties:

BitPusher manages corporate, and production IT infrastructures for small, and medium-sized businesses at a fixed price. We are based in San Francisco, and provide services to the Bay Area, and beyond. Our offerings include:

* Fully outsourced datacenter management
* Outsourced corporate IT management
* Infrastructure consulting services
* Configuration management consulting including Puppet

Michael Halligan’s Experience

Director of Operations

TwoFish, Inc.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Currently managing TwoFish's production internet operations on a contract basis.
Professional Blogger - Datacenter Industry

Network World

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Blogging about the datacenter industry for NetworkWorld at http://datacenterjunkie.com/
Founding Gold Sponsor

LOPSA (League of Professional Systems Administrators)

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Program Development industry)

November 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

The League of Professional Systems Administrators (www.lopsa.org) is an independent, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to advance the practice of system administration.

BitPusher has become LOPSA's first corporate sponsor. BitPusher is providing, and managing LOPSA's IT infrastructure.
Chief Technology Officer

BitPusher

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

BitPusher, LLC is an IT services firm specializing in fixed-monthly-fee maintenance of IT infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses. We reduce costs and make them more predictable while improving the quality and reliability of IT services.
Owner, Chief Consultant

Halligan Infrastructure Designs

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

- Linux/Open Source implementation for customers
- Infrastructure redesign
- Server deployment strategies
- Network design, implementation, and maintenance.
- General systems administration
- Managment and staffing of any sized infrastructure project, from initial architecture design, to re-designs, new-deployments, and ongoing maintenance.