Experience

Hayseed Networks
11/1996 - present
Senior Systems Administrator / Co-Founder

• Founding member of technical community website/domain/ISP with 150+ regular users.
• Responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of a small cluster of Linux server and Windows 2000 client/satellite machines.
• Maintain Apache installation with 15+ virtual hosts, with PHP, MySQL, CGI, mod_perl, SSL, and various other web technologies.
• Ongoing duties include security updates, user management, sendmail / postfix, Samba, NIS/NFS, DNS, and other day-to-day administrivia.
• Shared duties include upkeep of NetScreen firewall, management of RAID 5 array, maintenance of Cisco switches, and network troubleshooting.
• Special projects have included VPN creation to users' homes, setup of webmail system, content management system for site news and user journaling, MRTG network monitoring software, SNORT network intrusion detection system, MOO chat/collaboration system.

• Projects included Perl/CGI, search engine creation, Netscape Communicator/ Javascript customization, midsized database install/maintenance, HTML coding and debugging, and other assorted server maintenance and configuration tasks.
• Platforms and technologies have included Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Apache, Perl, MySQL, PHP, sendmail, Javascript, HTML.
• Clients have included:
  Moveon PAC
  Green Home
  Meyer Sound
  Fisher Development
  Cliq Services Cooperative
  Adult Day Services of Northern Alameda County
  Pickett Communications (no relation)
  

• Responsible for health, maintenance, and deployment of popular gift registry site, lashing together Windows NT, Solaris, OpenBSD, Oracle, IIS, and Apache.
• Wrote and maintained Perl/shell-based deploy system to automate rolling out new code; this system reduced deploy downtime from 8 hours to under 2 hours.
• Maintained and administered all in-office Unix machines, including multiple copies of the site for development and testing purposes.
• Integrated multiple office locations using Checkpoint Firewall/1 and its VPN features.
• Directed and drove project to integrate existing weddingchannel.com and della.com sites after merger of the two companies.
• Designed and implemented cage architecture for merged site, with weeks of on-site time at the colo facility.

• Part of a team responsible for maintenance and updates of the Organic corporate site as well as many client hosted sites, on Solaris/Apache and NT/IIS, with such high-profile clients as starwars.com and levi.com.
• Did rotating shifts of 24-hour on-call support for hosted and corporate connectivity.
• Responsible for backups/restores and other routine maintenance for onsite Solaris web, mail, and DNS servers.
• Wrote and deployed CGI-based helpdesk trouble ticket system to manage IS department tasks.
• Streamlined integration of heterogeneous NT, Solaris, Irix, MacOS, and BSDi network with NFS, Samba, netatalk, NIS, and other such technologies.
• Created VLAN / NT domain sharing between the corporate office and the first satellite office in New York.
• Provided desktop support for an algebraically-growing number of NT, MacOS, Irix, and Solaris desktop users.

• Solely responsible for corporate network's wild mix of MacOS, DOS/Win3.1, Win95, NT 3.1, Solaris, SCO Unix, BSDi, AppleShare, Netware, AppleTalk, IP, IPX, NetBEUI, Ethernet, LocalTalk, Timbuktu, ISDN, and tin-cans-and-string.
• Specified and installed company's first Internet connection, and set up firewalling, routing, and desktop IP on aforementioned wild mix.
• Part-time webmaster, time permitting, creating CGI storefront applications, tidying HTML, updating server, modifying Apache modules, etc.
• 24/7 on call for end users' and developers' problems, real or imagined, network or personal.
• QA testing for company's music software products.
• Development and maintenance of MIDI "signature" database for hundreds of MIDI devices from scores of manufacturers, for company's OMS product.