Manager Software

Mark Ratliff

** ****** ****

Pennington NJ ****4

Work: 609-***-**** Home: 609-***-****

abpilw@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES

To increase my knowledge and awareness of emerging IT technologies. To

further develop my project management, staff management, public speaking,

and writing skills. To use my knowledge and skills to continue contributing

to research and development in the academic community.

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Astronomy

University of Virginia,

1996

Research: Hydrodynamical Simulations of Mass Transfer in Binary Stars

Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy

Ohio State University, 1993

TRAINING and CERTIFICATION

Java: Certified Java 1.1 Programmer

Oracle: Oracle 8 DBA training

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, Perl, C, C++, PL/SQL, FORTRAN 77, Shell, CShell

Software: Solaris, Linux, Windows, VERITAS VM and VxFS, Oracle 8i and 9i, Apache

+ JServ, Rational ClearCase

EXPERIENCE

2001 - Present: Manager of Systems Administration,, Princeton University I currently manage a group of four administrators for Windows,

Unix, and Oracle database installations. These staff are geographically

dispersed across three sites. This group's major projects have included:

upgrading from four, replicated Sun E4000 to four, multi-domain, replicated

Sunfire 6800 servers with zero downtime to the JSTOR website, upgrading

Oracle 8i to 9i with zero downtime, office-wide Windows NT to Windows 2000

upgrades (included 70 instances across three offices), Wireless LAN implementations,

Firewall implementations, negotiating software and hardware pricing, coordinating

relocation of Sunfire 4800 server from Michigan to Manchester, England,

working with architects to specify machine room and office desktop requirements,

coordinating the installation of JSTOR application software, and day to

day server operations and maintenance. I have specified and purchased over

$2 million worth of server hardware. I have established excellent relationships

with Sun Microsystems sales reps, systems engineers, service engineers and

managers in the northeast education district. I am responsible for budgeting

and staffing decisions within the systems group.

1996 - 2001: Systems Administrator and

Software Developer,, Princeton University Designed, installed, and maintained high availability hardware

architectures for US and UK webservers using Sun E4000 servers and Sun fibre

channel disk arrays. Configured these systems with Solaris and VERITAS software.

Developed custom DNS load balancing software for US servers. Designed and

implemented website authentication and access control systems using Java,

JDBC, Perl, and the mSQL relational database. Developed authentication mechanisms

based on IP address, username/password, and X509 digital certificate credentials.

Later migrated authentication data from mSQL to Oracle 8i database. Developed

Java servlets to exchange and maintain Oracle data using JDBC and XML. Developed

search engine for internal websites using Oracle interMedia Text. Installed,

configured, and maintained Oracle database including replication and interMedia

Text features. Acted as technical contact and manager of software and hardware

vendor relations. Assisted JSTOR legal counsel in writing software and service

licensing agreements.

2001 - Present:

Consultant to Andrew W Mellon Foundation Specified, installed and maintained the first Dell and Sun

servers and Oracle 9i database instances for the

project. Developed procedures and wrote software for reliable loading of

image data onto those servers. Smaller projects have included administering

two small Linux servers, small code and configuration contributions to the

Hartmath-Computer Algebra

System project, configuration and maintenance of Vgetty+Mgetty

installation, and some advice on and administration of office networking

and firewall systems.

1998 - Present:

Consultant to FingerLakes School of Massage Installed, configured, and wrote Perl software for e-commerce

site. Managed secure webserver. Developed Perl code to process secure, on-line

application forms.

1995 - 1996:

IATH, University of Virginia Developed the first Java version of,

an image annotation tool now used in IATH's

William Blake Archive. Software development began with an alpha version

of the Java programming language and has continued development through Java

2. The tool can be used to attach textual annotations to images and contains

an algorithm for detecting the positions of lines of text within the image.

1993 - 1996:

Astronomy Graduate, University of Virginia Modeled mass transfer in binary stars using VH-1 numerical

hydrodynamic code. Wrote supporting FORTRAN code to model H-alpha line emission

and map the emission to images for comparison with observational data.

PUBLICATIONS and TALKS

JSTOR: Sun Success Story, "Sun Technologies

Power JSTOR digital archive at Princeton University, The University of Michigan,

and The University of Manchester"

Kirchhoff & Ratliff, "Storage Structures in Digital Libraries: JSTOR."

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries.

Robert B. Allen and Edie Rasmussen, Editors. New York: The Association for

Computing Machinery, 1997, p. 261

Talk given on

"JSTOR's High Availability Architecture and Upgrade Experience".

Java: Slide presentations from Java programming courses and talks on Java applets

and servlets may be found on my list

of recent talks.

Astronomy: Richards & Ratliff, 1998,

"H-alpha Emission in Algol-Type Binaries", Astrophysical Journal, 493,

326

OTHER INTERESTS

Hockey: I organize and participate in Princeton University

Noontime-Hockey.

Bicycling: I bicycle 30 to 40 miles most summer weekends and participate in a few

charitable rides each year.

Arts: I enjoy theatre and music.

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