Management Manager

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My Body Of Work Thus Far

Thursday 07/07/11 at 10:36:42 PM

Michael Marschall

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Delray Beach, Florida 33484

Cellular: 310-***-****

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Education

Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science

University of Connecticut (double major).

Open Source Projects

* Massh - Author/Maintainer

Parallelized command running, file pushing and script execution framework.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/massh

http://sourceforge.net/projects/massh

http://m.a.tt/er/massh

Speaking Engagements

Systems Engineering vs. Systems Administration - Thursday November 11, 2010

Covered

* Flexible, Available Service Definitions

* Process/Service Monitoring and Alerting

* Buildout Automation

* Configuration Management

* Keep It Simple

* Keep it Close

* Least Impact Security

Large Environment Automation at Yahoo! - Thursday October 12, 2006

Covered

* System Deployments/Build-outs

* Configuration Management

* Versioning

* Pull vs. Push

* Core Infrastructure Services (DNS, SMTP, LDAP)

* Sizing

* Automation

* Build-out automation and the little tools that save the day.

Experience

* ProdEngr, Yahoo! June 2010 to Present - Burbank, CA

As a member of the Yahoo! Production Engineering team I am one of 5 people

responsible for the Advertising Systems that generates an overwhelming portion

of Yahoo's revenue. This accounts for more than 1000 and less than 5000 hosts.

My responsibilities include automation, configuration management, trending

and alerting. Implemented and or maintained:

* Configuration Management (Yahoo Gemstone, Yahoo Etch)

* Buildout Automation (Yahoo YBIIP, Yahoo Jumpstart, Redhat Kickstart)

* Monitoring (Yahoo Watcher)

* Graphing (data from lightweight events or mass polling to RRD)

* Packaging (RPM, Yinst)

* Application Release Framework

* Sr. SysAdm, Truecar.com

Dec 2009 - June 2010 - Santa Monica, CA

Duties for this role include anything from production automation, load

balancing, application management to IT desktop procurement. This position is

the loan position dedicated to the management of computing operations at

Truecar. Production applications are written in Python, running in a

Django/Apache environment with data served up by MySQL. Implemented and or

maintained:

* Configuration Management (Puppet)

* Buildout Automation (Kickstart and vm-spin (Author))

* Virtualization (Xen)

* Monitoring (Monit)

* Packaging (RPM)

* Mass management tools (massh, ambit, pingz, yumsync, repoupdate)

* Dir of Infra, Media Temple August 2008 to March 2009 - Culver City, CA

As the Director of Infrastructure I was responsible for the core infrastructure

hardware and services for both Media Temple's production and internal IT

environment. I was responsible for a team of 5 engineers and additionally was

personally responsible for implementing Puppet into the production environment

for configuration management. Implemented and or maintained:

* Configuration Management (Puppet)

* Buildout Automation (Kickstart)

* Virtualization (Virtuosso)

* Monitoring (Nagios)

* Packaging (RPM, deb)

* Mass management tools (massh, extent)

* ProdEngr, Yahoo! March 2006 to August 2008 - Burbank, CA

As a member of the Yahoo! Production Engineering team I am one of 10 people

responsible for Yahoo's Sponsored Search production environment (which

generates 90% of Yahoo's revenue). This accounts for more than 10,000 servers

and less than 100,000 servers. My responsibilities include massive scaling,

build automation, configuration management, trending and alerting of Yahoo's

Sponsored Search advertising infrastructure. Implemented and or maintained:

* Configuration Management (Yahoo Gemstone, Yahoo Etch)

* Buildout Automation (Yahoo YBIIP, Yahoo Jumpstart, Redhat Kickstart)

* Monitoring (Yahoo Watcher)

* Graphing (data from lightweight events or mass polling to RRD)

* Packaging (RPM, Yinst)

* Application Release Framework

Manager of SysOps, Edmunds.comJune 2005 - March 2006 - Santa Monica, CA

Edmunds.com is one of the leading automotive information and referral websites in

the United States. As the Manager of the Systems Operations I was responsible

for a team of system administrators that managed and maintained the production

environment at Edmunds.com. The team was also the nucleus of a massive site,

hardware and software migration of the Edmunds enterpise. The migration included

a physical move from a managed facility in Virginia to a new state-of-the-art

facility in downtown Los Angeles - A hardware move from Sun servers with EMC

SANs to Dell servers with NetApp Filers - A software move that included going

from Solaris to Linux, Oracle 9 to Oracle 10gRAC and Weblogic 7 to WebLogic 8.

* Configuration Mangement - Redhat Satellite

* Buildout Automation (Satellite, Kickstart)

* Monitoring (Nagios)

* Packaging (RPM)

* Mass management tools (deploy)

SysAdm, Foreclosure.comJune 2003 - June 2005 - Boca Raton, FL

Foreclosure.com is an Ecommerce company specializing in providing foreclosure

listings for the entire country to its customers for a recurring monthly fee.

My duties include full management and maintenance of a production environment

consisting of Red Hat 9 Linux, FreeBSD 4.5, PostgreSQL 7.x, Apache 2.0.x,

JBoss and Jetty. We use apt-rpm to manage and deploy all servers (~40), deploy

custom applications and updates. Below are a few of my highlighted projects.

* SysAdm, Equala Comminucations Feb 2003 - June 2003 - Ft Lauderdale, FL

Contract - Equala Communications provides highly available high performance

Internet infrastructure to its various customers. Equala specializes in domain

hosting, email hosting and email digital marketing resources (including

campaign design and deployment). My duties at Equala include installation,

configuration and management of over 100 Linux servers in various colocation

facilities. Technologies in use include Redhat Linux 7.3, Apt, Bind, PowerMTA,

Apache, Sendmail and Nagios (formerly NetSaint).

SysAdm/Web DesignerMarsMusic.comApril 2002 - Oct 2002 - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Contract - Marsmusic.com is the ecommerce website for Mar Music, a music and

recording retail change with 40+ stores throughout the United States. As one of

two Solaris Administrators my duties include full responsibility of the

production and test environment for the website. The production site includes

2 Sun E4500 servers running Oracle 8i, 3 Sun E450's running ATG Dynamo

Application Server, two E250's running Netscape Enterpise Web Server and 2 Free

BSD servers running BIND and Sendmail respectively.

Infra Manager, VoiceRiteMay 1999 - Dec 2001 - Miami, FL

Duties included managing LAN and WAN environment between the Miami office and

offices in the UK/Australia. I was responsible for AIX/NT/Linux development

machines and Linux production servers.

MIS Manager, Global Partners, Aug 1998 - May 1999 - Coral Springs, FL

Built and managed Global Partners internal Citrix application servers, which

ran all production applications. I was also the lead Citrix integrator for

Global Partner's customers. I integrated various Citrix and Windows NT systems

into environments that ranged from small engineering firms to large property

management firms.

Tech Support, Citrix SystemsDec 1997 - Aug 1998 - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Phone Support - Trade show experience with Technical Marketing Group -New Hire

TrainerNetEngr, Kaman Aerospace, Aug 1997 - Dec 1997 - Bloomfield, CT

Contract - Work at Kaman included Windows NT workstation installations, NT

user/group management and network troubleshooting. Most of my days consisted

of building NT workstations and delivering those to users.

NetEngr, DataComm University of ConnecticutOct, 1995 - Aug 1997 - Storrs, CT

The Data Communications department at the University of Connecticut is

responsible for the building and maintaining of the campus WAN for the

University. As a network tech responsibilities included network wiring,

network device installs, network outage troubleshooting. DataComm was

responsible for troubleshooting any network outage incidents. These incidents

ranged from small (only a few people are experiencing the outage) to nearly

campus wide. Understanding both Token Ring and Ethernet was critical for all

WAN troubleshooting as well as for the eventual transition to 100% Ethernet.

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