Developer Design

Ted Drake

ABOUT ME

Phone #: A hard working, multifaceted, resourceful IT professional

708-***-**** with a knack for finding and fixing bottlenecks and design

problems in customer facing web infrastructures.

Successful with the design and deployment of a multitude of

Email: high availability systems that are secure and scalable in

ted.drake@gmail.c order to meet the needs of a rapidly changing business. I

om am also quite personable and easy to work with.

Address:

24 Aurora Ave.

Naperville, IL

60540

QUALIFICATIONS

10 years of experience administering, deploying and

troubleshooting the Linux operating system with a focus on

RedHat/CentOS environments.

3 years of experience administering, deploying and

troubleshooting the Solaris 10 operating system.

3 years of experience deploying server virtualization

solutions using VMWare Server and Solaris Zones.

Advanced Unix/Linux troubleshooting, security and command

line skills.

9 years of experience programming high quality, secure,

object oriented web applications using Linux, PHP, Oracle,

PostgreSQL and MySQL.

9 years of experience with advanced SQL query writing,

optimization and normalized relational database design.

EXPERIENCE

Operating Systems:

Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, HP Unix, Windows

(Vista/XP/2000/NT)

Virtualization:

VMWare Server, Solaris Zones, Sun VirtualBox

Storage & Hardware:

NetApp SAN, Brocade switches, HP HS21 Blade Centers, Sun

V445 Servers

Programming and Markup Languages:

PHP, Python, Bash, Korn, Perl, C#, AS3, Visual Basic, C++,

HTML, XML, PLSQL

Databases:

Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, sqlite

Networking:

iptables, nmap, tcpdump, ethereal, snort, dhcpd, 802.11

Graphics Design:

Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Flash, After Effects, Cinelerra,

mencoder, ffmpeg

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Software Developer Responsible for the design, implementation and

& administration of the infrastructure that supports the

Systems ty-retailers.com and ty.com online ordering systems in

Administrator addition to the servers that support a massive

multi-player online gaming world with

Ty Inc. hundreds-of-thousands of users. Also the lead developer

Westmont, IL responsible for the creation of the ty-retailers.com

website which is used by account executives and customers

Oct. 11, 2000 - in multiple countries for ordering products and managing

Present inventory.

Deployed RedHat and Centos Linux servers running services such as Apache, PHP,

PostgreSQL, memcached, dhcpd, SVN, postfix and imapd.

Built and deployed Solaris 10 servers primarily consisting of Oracle database

servers and Apache web servers taking advantage of ZFS snapshotting and Zones.

This hardware is interfaced to a NetApp SAN storage array with Brocade fiber

channel switches.

Configured and maintained several virtualized servers using VMWare Server and

Solaris Zones.

Created a significant number of Bash, Korn and Perl shell scripts for

automating a huge variety of tasks.

Designed, created and deployed a system for allowing our Account Executives

and customers to order products and monitor inventory from the web using PHP

5.

Worked with our Oracle database administrator to design, analyze and optimize

tables in the databases and the queries ran against it in order to enhance DB

performance and reliability.

Implemented memcached servers to vastly reduce the server load on the Oracle

databases and to further increase the speed and reliability of queries ran

against them.

Implemented hourly ZFS snapshots on mission critical systems in order to

assure a high level of reliability and allow the ability to quickly roll back

changes in the event of a problem.

Maintained disks and implemented Dual-Parity RAID 6 storage systems on NetApp

SAN equipment. In addition to putting in place backup and recovery solutions.

Monitored and tuned Linux file systems to achieve optimum performance and

reliability.

Software Hired into the technical support department as a temp in

Developer 1998 and was quickly brought on as a full time technician

after proving myself in the field. After 1 year of

United Parcel technical support work, I was moved to the software

Service development team where I implemented numerous systems used

Hodgkins, IL throughout the facility including some of the first Linux

based systems ever to be used in the company.

Aug. 1998 - Oct.

2000

Developed a real-time web-based diagnostic and monitoring system for DCOR

(Dense Code Optical Reader) devices.

Developed an employee identification system to make it easier for employees

that had forgotten their identification badges to enter the facility and keep

track of the entry and exit of employees into the facility.

Developed a data mining system for package tracking that could estimate the

location of a particular package inside of a shipping container based off of

the time and number of packages that were loaded into the vehicle.

Maintained the servers that housed the DB2 and Oracle databases that allowed

the facility to operate.

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