Resume

Technology Professional & Systems Architect

EXPERIENCE:

VP of E-Commerce Applications @ Swell
2008 - Present

Co-Founder & Director of Operations @ Blue Penguin Consulting
2006 - Present

Responsible for server and network infrastructure, including client provisioning as well as security and network monitoring at all layers.

Founder at Systems Watch
2003 - Present

Founder of Systems Watch a leader in small business systems and network monitoring solutions, and original developer of Process Watch a Linux IDS and Process Monitoring Application.

Sr. Systems Administrator @ VMIX Media Inc.
2006 - 2008

Developed and scaled the systems infrastructure supporting the media management and community platform, core product offerings. Also responsible for systems and network monitoring and security, configuration management, server performance tuning, server clustering, architecture design, and web caching.

Software Engineer | Sr. Systems Specialist @ Websense Inc.
2004 - 2006

Software Engineer working in an integrations development team working with proprietary network protocols, and resolving systems and network client escalations in regards to firewalls, proxies, cache engines, and cross platform software deployments.

Sr. Systems Specialist responsible for Tier 3 escalations regarding software deployments within various enterprise network topologies.

Director of Systems & Networks @ SIPphone Inc. (now Gizmo5)
2003 - 2004

Second employee of SIPphone Inc. architecting and deploying the SIP and STUN VOIP network infrastructure for successful August 6, 2003 product launch.

Network Operations Engineer @ AT&T Enhanced Network Services
2002 - 2003

Responsible for network monitoring and troubleshooting of 896+ enterprise hosting / colocation clients located in AT&T’s Global Data Center infrastructure.

Sr. QA Engineer @ American Greetings / Blue Mountain (Excite@Home)
2000 - 2002

Responsible for system and network QA of 1.5 Million Paid Subscriber base, electronic greeting card website. Formerly owned by Excite@Home.

Sr. QA / Project Analyst @ AT&T CERFnet
1999 - 2000

Responsible for helping in the migration of legacy services from CERFnet one of the first National Internet Service Providers in the United States to AT&T.

EDUCATION:

San Diego State University
BA, Organizational Psychology Minor Sociology emphasis social control, 1995 - 1998

SPECIALTIES:

Network Security
Linux/Unix Systems Administration
TCP/IP Packet Analysis
Systems and Network Monitoring
Web Infrastructure Scaling
Web Caching
Cloud Computing
Product/Project Management

Groups and Affiliations:

Internet Society
IEEE
LOPSA
SAGE
USENIX