I am looking for positions in systems design and
management, and technical project leadership that will provide me
with opportunities to technically challenge
myself, allow me to be an active contributer to business growth, and
to create excellent products or services for clients. I have 9 years
of professional experience in Information Technology with specialties
in Internet services, developing software tools, e-commerce, new
media, technical and business processes
automation.
Languages: English as native language, German
level B2.2
Citizenship: USA
Management Skills
I am experienced in technical leadership of
geographically diverse teams, vendor relations, hiring, mentoring,
and negotiations. I have extensive experience in working through
schedules that can meet the real needs of the clients and can be met
within the resource limitations given. I also have excellent
presentations skills for persuading and communicating to diverse
audiences.
Education
University of Chicago 1993-1995
Training
Goethe-Institut (Berlin)
German B2.2, 2004
Completed BGS Capacity Planning Training course,
1996
Completed SUN course SysAdmin 285,
1996
Experience
AOL/TW Streaming Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA : Oct 2001 - Sep 2003
Senior Systems
Administrator, Tools Team Lead
AOL is the world's largest ISP
and the largest provider of Internet radio and video products; I was
a member of the production operations staff.
managed systems and projects for
2000 node production cluster (Linux, Solaris, Win2K)
architected secure, 24/7/365 media
applications for operations and development teams (J2EE, PHP, Real
Server, Shoutcast, Ultravox)
managed and maintained schedules for
hardware and software integration (Sun, Compaq, Foundry, Cisco, Extreme, Solaris, Linux)
managed a 6-person development team
in 4 locations, in 3 time-zones (Perl, Java, C, Shell Script, TCL,
Oracle)
led team to develop a real time
business/operational data monitoring, data visualization, alerting, and
alarming system.
collected product requirements
evaluated competitive systems
built work plan
developed and managed
development
automated testing systems
planned roll-outs
fixed bugs and rolled out
updates
technical liaison to business
development
provided analysis of digital
media rights to technical and marketing teams
analyzed new partner technology
and estimated delivery capacity
performed competitive analysis
of market share in different media spaces
architected
and implemented low cost, high reliability, scalable Linux web cluster
(Apache, PHP)
developed and implemented automated
server installation and upgrade systems (Linux, Solaris)
developed a network services
security and inventory system
provided technical training for
business development, product management, and development teams
performed security analysis of new
projects: network architecture, code review, cryptography review,
privacy concerns, database model
wrote software with Perl (mod_perl, cgi), C, PHP,
shell script (bourne, bash, awk, sed), rrd, cryptography (blowfish, md5)
managed systems from Sun, Compaq, Foundry ServerIron,
Extreme Networks, EMC, Hitachi; Linux, Solaris, Oracle, DB2,
Apache, J2EE, ATG Dynamo (JSP), Tomcat, PHP, Veritas
(cluster, file-system), DNS (Bind), NFS,
Shoutcast, Real Media Server, Windows Media Server, Ultravox
Eazel
Inc.
Mountain View, CA, USA : May 2000 – Jun 2001
Release
Manager/Build Tools Team Lead
Eazel was a software development
firm producing Linux desktop software and services; I was a member of
the engineering staff.
managed product releases
time estimates
features vs. deadline decisions
integration of code components
between development teams (open source client and proprietary
services team)
integration of schedules between
internal development teams and GNOME community to meet business needs
designed processes
for
development milestones
QA testing
release acceptance
operations procedures
content vs. code updates
managed 3-person team to develop
build-tools including:
automated builds
automated software testing
automated developer environment synchronization
tracking correct branches
coordination tool and
library version
bug tracking systems (based on bugzilla)
build health system (based on
tinderbox)
architected production services
platform (Weblogic, Solaris, Oracle) for
reliability and scalability
analyzed
applications for security concerns (data flow, authorization, use of
cryptography)
San Francisco, CA, USA : Dec 1999 - Apr 2000
Sr. Systems
Administrator
Linuxcare was a Linux services
(support/consulting/education) company; I was a member of the IT
staff.
automated software installations for
a global data center (Hong Kong, San Jose, NYC, London)
grew and architected network for
basic IT services for a company that grew from 75-250
email (qmail, qpopper,
cyrus
IMAP, webmail)
information services (DNS, DHCP,
LDAP, NIS)
mentored and managed team of 4
systems administrators
managed projects for offices in
Canberra (AU), California (US), Toronto (CA), Paduva
(IT).
designed and implemented security
procedures for network accounts, firewalls, and remote access.
managed production web site, site
releases, and CRM applications
wrote software with Perl, shell
scripting (bourne, bash, csh, awk, sed)
managed systems from Compaq, HP,
Sun, Apple, Cisco; Linux (x86, PPC, Sparc, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Turbolinux,
Mandrake), Oracle, mySQL, Ingres, Apache,
PHP, Perl (mod_perl, cgi), qmail, sendmail,
postfix, cyrus, LDAP, NFS, Samba, IPSEC (Free S/WAN, Cisco), qpopper,
IMAP, POP, DNS (Bind), Firewalls (Cisco PIX, Checkpoint, Iptables, FW/TK), SQUID
Uniteq Application
Systems
Redwood City, CA, USA : Jun 1998 – Dec 1999
Sr. Systems
Administrator/Release Engineer
Uniteq was a business
automation software company, I was a member of the engineering staff.
managed corporate IT systems
including: email, file-servers, source control, Internet access,
development workstations, database servers.
worked at customer sites installing
and integrating Uniteq software
tuned performance and planned
capacity for both in-house and customer systems
ported in-house C software to
Windows NT 4.0 and various UNIX variants
architected deployment architecture
for the Uniteq application
wrote automated installers and
configuration tools
trained staff and clients on our
products and UNIX administration
wrote software with Perl, C (gcc, MS
Visual C++ - ported application to UNIX
variants and Windows NT), SQL, shell script
(bourne, csh, awk, sed)
managed systems from Sun, HP, IBM, Tandem, Cisco, Symbol;
Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, OS 400, Windows NT, NFS, DNS, NIS, Firewalls
(FW/TK), SQUID, CVS, Clearcase, Rational
tools, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix
First Options of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA : Sep 1996 – Jun 1998
Systems
Administrator
First Options is a financial services company,
currently owned by Goldman Sachs; I was a member of the production
operations staff.
managed a cluster of 100 systems for
providing various real-time equities trading services for professional
trading firms:
stock & options order
execution on multiple exchanges
wireless order entry systems
basket executions systems
risk management system
integrated systems to communicate
with multiple clearing systems, NASDAQ, NYSE, and others
managed and verified backups of
trade and system data
lead server consolidation project
capacity planning to ensure
performance and application responsiveness
cost analysis of consolidation
for capital and service budgets
analysis of reliability and
systems management risks
maintained contracts with vendors
automated systems management tasks
(creating the first company Intranet).
wrote software with Perl, shell
script (bourne, csh, awk, sed)
managed systems from Sun, Centronics,
Livingston, Cisco, EMC, OpenConnect; SunOS, Solaris, TCP/IP, Token Ring, X25, SNA, IPX,
IBM S/390, OS 400, Legato, NIS, NFS, DNS, SMTP Sendmail,
SOCKS Proxy, Apache, Lotus Notes, BGS Best 1, Sybase, MVS, CVS
University of Chicago Academic Computing Services
Chicago, IL, USA : Jun 1995 – Sep 1996
Resource Lab
Coordinator/Sr. Support Technician
The University of Chicago
is a private research University. Its resource lab provided
computing facilities for academic staff's special projects; I was a
member of the non-academic staff.
managed networks services including:
backups, printers, file-servers for the campus community
set up and configured applications
and networks for special research projects
supported Windows, Macintosh, and
UNIX systems for members of the University academic community
managed the Macintosh servers and
lab machines for the University's public computer labs
provided Internet connectivity
support to member of the University.
provided support on Internet connectivity, provided training in
basic use of the Internet (email, web browsing, gopher, WAIS)
Other Experience
Linux Trainer2001:
developed course materials and led classes for Linux Certified
Inc. Support Technician 1995: provided desktop support for
MacOS, Windows NT, UNIX at The University of Chicago Teaching
Assistant 1994: taught first year college calculus at The
University of Chicago Laboratory Technician 1991-1994:
molecular biology research, protein preparations, x-ray
crystallography at The University of Oregon