To solve problems; to fix things. To draw upon my experience and expertise as a Unix Systems Administrator and Perl Systems Programmer with Oracle and MySQL Database Experience to help enhance and support mission-critical applications for a fast-paced, high-tech company. To help make life better.

Experience designing, configuring and maintaining Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. 24x7 on-call support for Network Operations and Information Technologies. Familiar with Veritas, NetBackup, HP Openview and BMC Patrol management systems.

Confident administering Checkpoint Firewall, Cisco, 3Com and Foundry network hardware. Experience troubleshooting colocated production facilities worldwide. Well-versed in TCP/IP topology, load balancing, firewalls, traffic shaping, VPN and Network Address Translation.

Fluent writing applications and scripts in Perl and Unix shell. Experienced writing web-based tools; HTML, CGI, XML. Capable of debugging Java and C/C++ applications. Familiar with bioinformatics, including BLAST, Smith/Waterman and HMMer gene sequence analysis tools.

Capable of installing and configuring Oracle and MySQL databases. Knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL), Perl DBI/DBD modules and Java JDBC, as well as DBA administration (E.g., extent and tablespace management and system-level backups, etc.)

Currently serving as principal Systems Administrator for distributed-computing startup with applications in bioinformatics and computer-generated imaging. Have developed tools to monitor and maintain global, massively-parallel supercomputing platform and internal corporate network.

• Engineered secure VPN connection linking remote colocation facilities with company headquarters.
• Managed Oracle tablespaces and datafiles to provide more efficient use of storage space.

Worked in Server Operations and Internal Support department supporting Network Operations Center and Technical Support. Involved in Y2K upgrade and certification process.

• Coordinated SunOS 4 to Solaris 2 workstation upgrade. Provided transition path for legacy applications.
• Standardized Unix desktop environment (dotfiles, etc.) for thousands of new hires and existing employees.

Administered systems for then-exclusive registrar of all .com, .net and .org domains, before ICANN.

• Deployed corporate Intranet; developed web-based applications to enhance Customer Service.
• Wrote interactive whois client; designed numerous utilities to manage domain registration.

Though not computer-related, teaching snowboarding at one of northern Colorado's premiere ski resorts greatly enhanced my ability to deal with customers (including children) in a professional, yet engaging manner.

I quickly learned to assess students' learning styles and adapt lessons accordingly, all while maintaining control over the class as a whole (Keeping track of a dozen vacationing nine-year-olds can make monitoring hundreds of computer systems seem like a walk in the park!)

• A.A.S.I. (American Association of Snowboarding Instructors) Certification

Majored in Computer Science; DNF
Completed 400-level courses in Data Structures, Algorithms and Programming Languages.
Worked seven semesters as a Student Staffer (i.e. Unix Operator) for the Computer Science Department.