Michael J. Linder

**** * ***** **** #**** Austin, TX 78704 acg21w@r.postjobfree.com 512-***-****

OBJECTIVE: A development / software role that allows me to exercise my technical and business skills in a

challenging and creative environment. Ideally, looking to incorporate network security & web development.

EDUCATION: Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas

• made progress towards an M.S. in Management Information Systems Aug '06–May '07

• B.S. in Computer Science with Business minor, GPR: 3.1/4.0 Sept ‘01–May ‘06

• participated in Student Engineer’s Council, Rotaract (Rotary), Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity

Strake Jesuit College Preparatory – Houston, Texas Aug '97–May '01

• GPR: 3.6/4.0, magna cum laude. Participated in soccer, debate, Boy Scouts, and news broadcasting

EXPERIENCE:

Acumera Jun '09 current

• Sr Network Administrator, Developer – employee #4 at this startup that builds multi site networks and

provides managed network services for medium sized convenience store chains (currently 3,000

locations) through their proprietary Linux router, Amazon Web Services, and web portal (LAMP

stack). Was required to learn quickly and implement solutions across various areas. Linux admin of

data center and Amazon Web Services infrastructure Bash scripting for automation, configuration,

admin, and scaling tasks Apache admin Built the company's Squid & cloud based web proxy product

Built the company’s OpenVAS & cloud based network vulnerability scanner product Built the

company’s Openswan & cloud based IPsec VPN appliance product Learned open source network

tools (iptables, dnsmasq, boa, nc, arping, nmap, dig, tcpdump, etc) Heavily involved in implementing

PCI DSS network security standards Automated external vulnerability scanning of customer

locations. Currently report to CTO.

MEMdata Oct '08–May '09

• Systems Administrator – worked with CIO on any IT related need for the company: Server/domain

admin, troubleshooting, IIS/Apache admin, PHP/mySQL/HTML/ASP/bash programming, basic linux

admin, maintained 2 domains and 3 websites.

Energy Systems Laboratory – Texas Engineering Experiment Station May '05 May ’07

• Graduate Assistant of Research .NET Software Engineer – UI Lead – implemented a C#.NET

Windows forms application that simulated building energy usage, used for retrofitting buildings on

campus and on Air Force bases. Used Agile practices with Test Driven Design.

Fungal Computational Biology & Genomics Lab Oct '06 Dec '06

• Student Researcher – Worked on a Bioinformatics project with a professor for a semester. Wrote a

PHP & perl website where the user uploaded DNS sequences and the website used various databases

(BLAST, COMPSEQ, and WEKA) to predict whether the uploaded sequences were of plant or fungal

origin and emailed the results to the user.

Valtech Technologies Jun ’06–Aug '06

• Intern .NET Software Engineer – our team implemented an ASP.NET portfolio management web

application for a large investment company. Used Agile practices, Test Driven Design, Continuous

Integration, ReSharper, Nhibernate, and Ruby on Rails. They offered me a full time position.

Information Technology Services – Dept of Residence Life – Texas A&M March ’04–May ‘05

• Student Worker Network Administration Worked for network administrator supporting 200 clients.

Tasks included maintenance of departmental desktops, servers, and IT equipment, domain

administration via Active Directory, research projects, and helpdesk calls.

Aggie Rotary (Rotaract) Club Texas A&M Sept '06–Dec '06

• Technology Director: created club website containing a calendar, photo gallery, news, and signup page

INTERESTS: Personal: Eagle Boy Scout, Linux user (Debian & CentOS)

Languages: PHP, JavaScript, bash, C#, Java, mySQL, perl, CSS, XML, HTML, JSON

Other: Amazon Web Services, Apache, git, MVC, MongoDB, PCI DSS, network security, .NET, Zend

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