Jason Korth abnbng@r.postjobfree.com - *** Hillandale Lane - Garner, NC 27529 -

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Technical Summary:

I have over 15 years experience working in virtually every modern systems

and network environment. I have over 8 years experience managing medium to

small software development projects as well as enterprise level to medium

sized system / network engineering projects. I am excellent at

disseminating the needs of a business into technical requirements and

executing those requirements through my project management skills. I am a

great leader, I am good at getting people excited and enthused about things

as well as rallying support. I am accustom to dealing with many sorts of

technical and non-technical personalities.

Virtualization: ESX / ESXi / Veeam / Vranger / VMotion

Storage: Equalogic, EMC, FreeNAS.

System Engineering: Amazon EC2 and S3 storage, Scalr, Solaris, Linux

(CentOS, Slackware, Redhat, Fedora) AIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, BSD, BSDI.

Windows XP, 2000/3 Server and other windows operating systems. Active

directory / LDAP concepts. Email systems such as: Sendmail w/ IMAP, POP

and MS Exchange Server. DNS Configuration - BIND9, thin client technology.

Citrix Winframe, Windows Terminal Server, Novell Netware 2, 3.12 and 4.

CVS, SVN, Eventum, Phing, JIRA.

Software Engineering: OO PHP, Smarty, Javascript, JQuery, EXTJS, Perl

system administration scripting, web development, Bash and Macromedia Flash

Actionscript OO programming. Database normalization and design, SQL

language specifically in PostgreSQL, MySQL / MySql Enterprise and MSSQL

Server 2k.

Data Network Engineering: Wide area network design, configuration and

troubleshooting. Worked mostly with Cisco routers. RIP, OSPF, BGP. IP

addressing / subnet masking for large and small environments. Using Cisco

and Bay Networks hardware. Local area networking design and configuration.

Worked with many Ethernet switching products, wireless networks, DHCP,

Network Management, HP Openview, Tivoli, Nagios, SNMP, OpenNMS. Implemented

security systems such as SecureID, RADIUS, TACACS+

Search engine optimization / Marketing: I possess the knowledge, and the

experience to gain top listings on Google, etc for virtually any keywords.

I've maintained top listings in the past for keywords such as: debt, debt

consolidation, loans, adult words, credit cards, real estate and many more.

I am quite familiar with the process of negotiating and executing media

buys and sales as well as building, promoting and managing numerous

affiliate programs. I've done this through in-house software, 3rd party

affiliate software and Linkshare, BeFree and CJ affiliate networks. My

software engineering background allows me to integrate key elements of

design, programming and business logic into effective marketing campaigns

while implementing effective tracking methods that delivery key business

metrics. I maintain several SEO projects for a small group of companies.

Work History

Aug 2009 - Present

GetReel, CTO

The GetReel Health platform has been in development for 2+ years (

http://www.getreelhealth.com ). My first responsibilities as CTO to the

company was the following:

. Build a software engineering, system engineering and QA teams to

support the business.

. Design a scalable back end on the Amazon EC2 cloud to support our SAS

(software as a service) architecture.

. Conceptualize and design the requirements for the business to be able

to provide video trans-coding services to the masses, similar to

YouTube, integrated into our PHP application built with the Zend

Framework.

. Build functional and technical requirements for a specialized uploader

designed to function similar to Dropbox with special client-side video

trans-coding features, as well as conceptualizing the hooks required

to tie this all together within the context of a "GetReel MediaVault".

. Put processes in place to manage the software development lifecycle.

(SCM, test / staging environments, ticket system, continuous

integration environment, etc

. Defining and implementing change management processes for making

changes to our production software and systems environment.

. Managing the day to day engineering efforts.

GetReel is currently in the stage of seeking funding for its business. This

has been a very exciting 'sweat equity' position for me, with a great

opportunity to learn and grow.

Sept 2007 - Aug 2009

Erosguide.com, Director of System Engineering

When I first started with BBH, their software, environments and systems

were in a mangled state of disarray. The company was running on a mesh of

unmanaged, differently configured unix based systems. Many of which had odd

and hidden dependencies on each other. Their in-house CRM was not build-

able from source control, nor easy to program. Their in-house work ticket

system as well as several other systems would crash regularly, with the

lack of proper fail-over. In my first year of working with BBH, I

accomplished the following significant goals:

. Established escalation path for support of critical systems.

. Fixed 100's of bugs in their CRM. I made this software build-able in a

test, development, staging and production environments. Provided 6

successful releases, addressing many important business needs from the

operations department.

. Re-wrote the old perl based RT application in PHP, thus stabilizing

the application and significantly reducing the CPU and memory

requirements and increasing the speed, responsiveness and scalability.

. Created the system engineering department.

. Built a custom environment and configuration management system which

manages and deploys software and system configurations for multiple

environment types (dev, test, stage, production).

. Consolidated all UNIX systems to virtualized ESX v3 cluster.

Redesigned backup, monitoring and fail-over systems.

. Engineered and executed plan to migrate all internal systems from

Oakland to Raleigh.

. Stabilized Java environments, centralized configuration management.

. Built process and procedures to help trivialize the management and

support of the companies systems infrastructure.

Maintain a road map for system engineering department.

The system engineering department did not exist before my employment with

BBH Media. I put together and managed a group of system engineers while

interfacing with the project management and upper management groups,

translating their business needs into technical requirements and ensuing

the proper resources are in place and available for execution. My

department was responsible for:

. Migration of entire production environment (500G) over a 3Mb

connection from Oakland to Raleigh.

. ESX cluster management over wan replicated SAN fabric to provide

business continuity from Raleigh to Amsterdam.

. Change management for production, test and staging environments. These

environments are used to develop in-house software built on PHP using

Zend Framework and Java, J2EE, JBoss web applications.

. Software and system configuration management, version control

management (CVS, SVN, Phing, DBdeploy)

. Definition of technical requirements for our Unix environments

. 24x7 system monitoring and uptime (Nagios, OpenNMS).

. Storage Management, capacity planning. (NAS, SAN).

. Data recovery / retention procedures

. Technical project management (Software and systems).

. Expense planning

. Maintained environments for our development team, QA and production

servers.

. Provide end-user support to developers 24x7

. Provide second level support to IT department 24x7

With the current state of BBH's system environments being stable with a

team in place to manage it, I have moved on in the company to provide

technical project management and software engineering support for the

marketing department as well as completing the framework on our release

engineering processes. In a this sized company, I find myself wearing many

hats.

December 2005 - Sept 2007

PlanetiBiz Inc - Sr. PHP/Actionscript/Javascript Developer contracted to

Formula, Inc.

Developed software using PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP and Action script -

Formula, Inc. - http://www.ie-formula.com (A PlanetiBiz Customer) is an

outsourced services company that provides media, art, animation and

programming for customers which are mostly in the movie and entertainment

business in Hollywood, CA. My job was to be a creative problem solver and

advise customers on which technologies to use, I would advise on design

functionality for custom software applications written for customers,

install and customize freeware PHP applications as well as working on

larger projects like DDD - http://www.dddcorp.com - where I was a part of a

2 man management / development team to tackle the task of converting their

COBOL encounter resolution system into a web based application written in

PHP and PostgreSQL. Due to the sensitive nature of this application, it was

important to adhere to strict HIPAA guidelines for security and encryption

of sensitive patient data.

October 1999 - Present

PlanetiBiz Inc, CEO

Managed day-to-day operations, developed web based software and maintained

search engine rankings for customers. PlanetiBiz was my first attempt at

having my own company. Our primary income came from the search engine

optimization portion of our business. We generated roughly $500,000 profits

per year for ourselves in advertising revenue and upwards of $5M in annual

revenues for our customers in the mortgage, debt settlement, insurance and

credit card businesses. We took our profits and focused it on developing

software for our customers. We created applications like debt lead manager

and mortgage lead manager which brought us additional revenues in software

licensing fees as well as helped our customers organized their data better,

which in-turn allowed them to make more money from better decisions We also

focused resources in a new project, Mealagent

– http://www.mealagent.com which is an on-line application that gives

restaurants the ability to 'do business' online. This is the best

alternative for restaurants that have an on-line presence but no means to

close business with their customers from the internet. This project

continues as on-going. Planeti.Biz, currently functions as an outsourced

CTO to a several customers.

March 1999 - October 1999

Engage Technologies, IT Director

Managed IT department. Windows and Linux environment. When I started

working for Engage Technologies, they recently acquired "Accipiter Inc"

which is well known for their software "Accipiter Ad Manager." I was

responsible for the decision making for all IT infrastructures in the

Raleigh, NC location. I managed the day-to-day operations of the IT

department and managed groups of contractors. In my time there I upgraded

all their server platforms (Windows and Linux) and had all systems speaking

together in a functional enterprise environment. I wrote an on-line

application in PHP for end-users to request real time help as well as

entering trouble tickets for their IT issues.

June 1998 - March 1999

State of North Carolina, Senior Data Networking Engineer (Contractor)

Traveled throughout different sites around North Carolina as part of the

state's Novell NDS technology upgrade project. I was one of 2 engineers

responsible for upgrading every server on the State's network. I worked out

of the Dorothy Dix campus in Raleigh, NC. Which I was 'docked' at home

base, I would assist with various web development tasks using Perl, PHP,

Shell scripting and some IPX networking programming.

February 1997 - June 1998

ABB, Senior Systems Administrator (Contractor)

I worked as a contractor for ABB as a Senior consultant for their Solaris

and Windows server platforms as well as trouble shooting and increasing the

performance of their Local area network. My programming experience also

allowed me to create several applications which lent themselves to system

administration and network management, that were used company-wide to help

automate tasks that were unnecessarily consuming 'people time'.

January 1997 - June 1997

IBM, Level 2 Windows Support (Contractor)

Provided level 2 windows support for a group in IBM that served as a front

line technical support team for a revision control product that was widely

used in the company. I was a great help to this group of people, which were

mostly accustom to OS2.

March 1996 - January 1997

MCI, Project Engineer III (Contractor)

Managed wide area networks for specific managed customers. The accounts

that I was responsible for were: American Express, Lear and Alcoa. My

responsibilities were to oversee and supervise the turn up of new networks

and routers of my customers and set them up to be monitored by the GMNC

(Global Network Management Center) using HP Openview and Tivoli. I would

also maintain documentation for each customer consisting of project notes,

data network diagrams and a log of important events. I communicated issues

between the customer and upper / mid-level management and par-took in many

meetings with the customer.

August 1995 - March 1996

McKinsey and Company, WAN Engineer (Contractor)

At McKinsey, I was a wide area network engineer working on Cisco and Bay

Network routers, I also tested new technologies that were being considered

for the McKinsey data network. These technologies consisted of, terminal

servers, security devices, new server operating systems to name a few. In

my time there, I implemented a SecureID token based security system which

was integrated with TACACS from a BSDI authentication server for employees

to access the company network from dial-up. This goal of this project was

to create the most secure means of accessing their network from the outside

world. This solution was the 'bleeding-edge' technology at the time, and

perhaps still is.

December 1994 - August 1996

Computers Unlimited, Data Network Service Technician

On-site data network installation and maintenance for Novell and Unix

networks. Installed and maintained Ethernet, Arcnet and Token-ring

networks.

Technical Portfolio:

S3Ninja ( http://s3ninja.wordpress.com/ ): A Linux based command line S3

client to provide a simple and robust way to add Amazon S3 storage

capabilities to web applications. Unlike most tools that are similar to

this, S3Ninja supports callback and forking, which is very important when

you want to transfer large files. This is currently what GetReel Health

uses on it's clustered production environment.

SEO Engine (Erosguide.com): Project based on Zend framework to handle

specialized content construction and dynamic link handling and content

presentation methods for over 3000 domains with layout customization.

Linkback Checker (Erosguide.com): A specialized php / zend framework

application designed to verify back links with advertisers and link

exchange partners. This system has special customizations to hook into our

back-end systems using SOAP, as well as an administrative and user front

end to manage and approve link all across our network.

Sales Lead Scraper (Erosguide.com): A data-mining tool designed to 'scrape'

valuable data from the internet, validate that data against our internal

systems, and organize the data into a functional data model to provide

reporting and trends.

Release Engineering / Software Lifecycle Project (Erosguide.com):

Engineered packaging and deployment methodology to manage environments and

distribute custom software across a 250+ node CentOS Linux environment

consisting of development, test, staging and production servers. This was a

large project consisting of:

. Packaging our PHP and Java software from source into RPM

. Maintaining multiple development and production yum repositories

. Management of SVN

. Automation of managing our system level environments

. Configuration management of custom PHP and JBoss applications in

multiple environments

. Establishing a PHP/Java continuous integration environment

. Creating mechanism for system engineering to package and deploy

changes using RPM and Yum.

. Defining release process, software lifecycle and standards for

developers to package and build.

. Implemented a database version control

. Configuration and unit testing

Internal PHP Applications for Erosguide.com:

RT - Rewrote ticketing system originally written in Perl. Ported to

Object Oriented PHP, JQuery, ExtJS. This was a huge win for the company due

to the fact that their current implementation of RT, which is an extremely

modified version of the open-source RT project was crippled and falling

down weekly.

CRM - Was project manager for CRM, fixed over 100+ bugs in Eventum,

stabilized the application in the respect that I made it build-able and

configurable in different environments in the service of being able to move

the code from dev -> test -> stage -> prod. This was not possible with CRM

for years due to the girth of spaghetti code.

Configuration / Environment Management System - I developed from the ground

up an easy to use but fairly sophisticated config / environment management

system using a combination of SVN, NFS, NIS, automounter and PHP-cli. In

addition I created a custom suite of linux command line tools to manage

this environment, push code, etc.. There was a huge need for such a

solution in our organization.

PhoCart ( http://www.phocart.com ): PHP web based application written

using Zend framework, Jquery with an Ajax implementation. The goal of this

project is to create a free shopping cart for the Internet community to

allow them to sell their own electronic / download-able goods with an open

source foundation to build on. The business goal is to create a successful

profit model for a truly open source product, similar to MySQL and

OpenNMS.

Encounter Resolution System, DDD Corp ( http://www.dddcorp.com )

Our project was to take COBOL based medical data and create a HIPPA

compliant, normalized RDBMS structure in PostgreSQL for use in a PHP web

application which is used by DDD's customers (such as HMO's) to reconcile

their medical billing data and act as a data warehousing application. I was

part of a two man team that was in charge of this large project. I

programmed and made fundamental design decisions. The project was started

in November 2005 and the software is now in production and used by hundreds

of health care providers.

Flash Digital Cable Set Application, Time Warner

( http://www.timewarnercable.com )

The development of a flash based digital cable box written completely in

Actionscript. It contained a channel guide, pay per view, video on demand,

change channels, settings screen and find shows screen to name a few. I

developed this application top to bottom without having any experience with

Flash or action script beforehand. I completed this project in about one to

two months working around the clock.

Mealagent, PlanetiBiz Inc ( http://www.mealagent.com )

Mealagent is a web application for restaurants to provide on-line ordering

for their customers. The big challenge here was to normalize a food order

for a RDBMS and create a simple enough interface for the public to

interface with it to build menus. I was the project manager and owner of

Mealagent. I did about 35% of the programming and 65% of the business

development. This project is on-going and has over 10,000 food ordering

customers.

Debt Lead Manager, PlanetiBiz, Inc. ( http://www.debtleadmanager.com )

"Debt Lead Manager" is a PHP Web application for debt management /

settlement companies to track incoming sales leads, measure performance and

ROI of the lead sources as well as the performance of their sales staff. I

was the project manager for this project and the owner of the company. This

was a very successful project due to the fact that it filled a big need for

debt settlement companies to manage their leads which they were spending so

much money on. This product is still being used by several large debt

settlement companies.

Email Monkey, PlanetiBiz Inc.

An internal tool designed to send very large e-mailings. This application

was originally written in Perl and was designed to be a multi-process mass

mailing tool to run on the Linux platform. Many of our customers needed the

ability to send out non-spam mass mailing to their customers which required

each mail to be individually formed. Eventually this code was integrated

directly into our lead manager and Mealagent products and no longer was

used stand-alone. I was the project manager for this.

Canned Chicken, Planetibiz Inc.

A web based application designed to serve content to search engines spiders

with the intention of gaining top rankings for particular words. The way

this application was designed and engineered was ingenious. It created

hundreds of thousands of dynamic pages, each containing very distinct

dynamic text all with distinct dynamic linking structures cross linked in a

complete mesh across however many external domains we defined. From the

outside perspective it appeared that the pages created with this tool were

like huge libraries of data. At first launch this software was a complete

success. We gained #1 rankings on Google for EVERY word we aimed for. This

got a great deal of attention from the internet community and was quickly

shot down since, by definition we were 'spamming'. It was a very

educational experience and a good opportunity to work on some good

mathematic code as well as a lucrative two months. Suffice it to say, our

SEO practices these days are 100% 'above board'. Doing things the right way

works well too!

Interests: I have always had a special interest in competitive, organized

multi-player gaming - WoW, TF2, RTCW... Although I don't have a lot of

time these days to play like I used to, I hope to help pioneer the

commercial aspect of on-line gaming. I love star trek. I enjoy being part

of the technology that will eventually allow us to travel light years

through outer space.

Education

Satisfied course requirements for VMWare VCP certification.

Novell, CNE

Sun Microsystems, CSA

NY State Regents High School Diploma

Half Hollow Hills High School East - Dix Hills, NY

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