Work Experience
Backblaze
Current
Backblaze
MySysAdmin.net
Current
MySysAdmin.net
Pythian
2014-11-01 - 2017-07-01
Pythian
Rafter, Inc.
2010-08-01 - 2014-04-01
Rafter, Inc.
Entrust
2008-06-01 - 2012-02-01
Entrust
PlanetArt
2007-10-01 - 2010-07-01
PlanetArt
Microsoft
2006-03-01 - 2007-09-01
Microsoft
Backblaze
2007-01-01 - 2007-08-01
Backblaze
MailFrontier
2003-09-01 - 2006-03-01
MailFrontier
Tradec, Inc.
2002-05-01 - 2003-09-01
Tradec, Inc.
Skills
Summary
I have over 20 years experience in IT Operations, specializing in multiplatform connectivity. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and most other Unix variants (SUSE, FreeBSD, etc), Novell and VMS. Experienced in cross-platform Firewalls, VPNs connectivity (full mesh gobal installations performed), Network design, multi-platform problem resolution, MySQL database setup, product research, vendor management, and facilities. I have setup both Windows and Linux datacenters, configured most common Windows commercial and Unix Open Source applications (web servers, applications servers, databases, source control packages, monitoring, etc). I design solutions, with a focus on what is best for a particular company, in their market, based on years of experience solving problems, and seeing what works in the real world. Specialties: Internet Security, Network architecture and documentation, multi-platform support, Project Management, Vendor management. Also excellent in Facilities management, office moves, liquidations, Physical Security and some phone systems.