Maintenance System Administrator
Resume:
Joshua Kugler
PO Box *****
Fairbanks, AK *****
******@*******.***
Job I am looking for a job which will utilize my experience in the field of computers,
Objective: especially in the areas of software development, database design and
programming, and systems administration, as well as expanding my project
management experience.
Education: 1999 Graduate, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Independent Study High School
(3.84 GPA) Pursuing a MS in Computer Science at University of Alaska
Fairbanks (currently on hold)
Experience:
Dev/Ops Lead - Whamcloud/Intel - 2011-12 to present
Maintain servers for website, code repository/code review, bug tracking, wiki, test result tracker,
and build farm. Maintain a 50+ machine test lab, currently expanding to 150+ machines. Some
user support.
Senior Developer - CRC Health - 2010-02 to 2011-11
Maintain an architecture (hardware and code) which supports over 300 web sites: version
control and deployment manager. Various projects including system upgrades, programming,
and system monitoring. Site maintenance and scripting. Some ETL programming. System and
software documentation. Web application maintenance. SOAP API consumption. Instrumental
in documenting several previously-undocumented systems and machines.
Web Application Server/Python Web Services Architect - WordStream - 2008-11 to 2009-04
Began contract position as a system administrator and framework architect. Transitioned into
system maintenance, application programming, and database administration. Helped to extend
and improve the company's SaaS web application. Scheduled and coordinated planned
outages, and researched and installed software to monitor servers to ensure maximum up time.
Was responsible for an architecture designed to serve thousands of clients with zero downtime.
Python Developer (WSGI web framework/back end) - S&K Aerospace - 2007-11 to 2008-10
Job entailed designing and coding applications and unit tests for the in-house WSGI framework
(somewhat similar to Turbogears/Pylons). Also wrote various utilities, such as: scripts to take
SQL dumps and turn them data-dictionaries, dependency graphs, and Python and Javascript
CRUD frameworks. Designed and coded functional and integration tests. Performed Linux and
Windows system administration.
Lead System Administrator and Senior Programmer - EE Internet - 2006-05 to present
Responsible for daily maintenance of servers, as well as maintenance of in-house scripts and
applications. Designed and implemented scripts (python and perl) for weather and
environmental data processing, current conditions reporting, and graphing (see
http://photizo.eeinternet.com/). After successfully arguing for the use of wikis in project
documentation, researched, planned, and implemented a "wiki farm" for creating information
repositories for both internal use (documentation, project planning) and external use (client
communication and collaboration). Planned and executed migrations of: Approximately two
dozen domains from an aging Apache 1.3 server to an Apache 2 VMWare guest; DNS service
off of two aging machines to new VMWare guests; Sendmail/SpamAssassin based system to a
Postfix/Dspam based system; Restructured network from a simple NAT box and servers
exposed to the internet to everything behind a firewall.
System Administrator - UAF Center for Distance Education - 2004-09 to 2006-05
Took the initiative to replace an aging and broken backup system with an open-source,
cross-platform backup solution (Bacula). Administered 15 servers of various kinds (storage,
web, database (MySQL), backup), both Linux and Windows and supported 20+ user desktops.
Performed small programming and scripting projects as required. Was responsible for spec'ing
out, purchasing, assembly, and installation of new servers. When storage was needed,
researched, recommended, acquired, and implemented storage servers providing a total of
20.4TB of storage space (Coraid AoE), which back then was actually a big deal.
Information Services Director - Associated Students of UAF - 2000-02 to 2004-08
Was hired into a new position, so was responsible for setting department policy, duties, and
precedent. Did Linux and database administration. Rewrote their legislation tracking database
as an MS Access front end/MySQL back end system. Was responsible for designing, coding,
and implementing, for the ASUAF elections, the first online voting system in the state.
Computer Technician/Database Programmer - Hunt Foods Company - 1998-1999
Was initially hired to do meter reading and reports. Upon demonstrated aptitude in other areas,
was tasked with inventorying for Y2K equipment replacement, setup and maintenance of
production floor workstations, maintenance and extension of various in-house MS Access
database applications, Excel and Access development, and co-administration of Windows NT
servers.
Proficiencies
Python, Perl, Linux administration (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Redhat, SUSE), Apache, Bacula,
LigHTTPd, Postfix, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Database design, Subversion, Trac,
Redmine, Git, Bind (and DNS admin), (X)HTML, TCP/IP and Ethernet Networking,
ATA-over-Ethernet, Buildbot, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Gerrit, Chef, Linux KVM, Cobbler,
Conman, Powerman, Slurm, NFS, NIS, CherryPy Applications, Munin, Mon
(http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/), Nagios, Salesforce API, Google Adwords, Yahoo Search
Marketing (now MS AdCenter), Web Services, JSON, REST, XML, SOAP, VMWare Server,
some Capistrano, PHP and C/C++
Licenses, Certifications, and Training
18 year clean driving record. Hold Alaska Driver's License.
Leviton One-day Cat5 Cable Installer Training and One-day Fiber Optic Installer Training
Have held a US Government Security Clearance
No arrests, DUI's/DWI's, or other infractions
Papers
10,001 (Or More) Polling Stations: Voting Virtually @ UAF
http://jjncj.com/papers/VotingVirtually.pdf
Improving Open Source Software with an Object Oriented Design Model
http://jjncj.com/papers/OOD.pdf
Using the UA Web: Observations, Suggestions, and Comparisons
http://jjncj.com/papers/UAWebUsability.pdf
Open Source Involvement and Projects
Recognized MySQL Community Contributor
Two patches accepted by the Buildbot project, one of them a new feature
Minor contributions to rst2pdf (http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/)
Bugfix for OWFS's Python module (http://sourceforge.net/projects/owfs/)
Feature addition for two Munin plugins
Contributions to Salesforce Python Toolkit
(http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/)
E-mail and dspam utilities: http://www.eeinternet.com/opensource.html
AWStats Cache File Reader: https://github.com/jkugler/awstats_reader
CDC Data Collector: A sensor reading framework
https://github.com/jkugler/cdc_data_collector/
Volunteer and Community Experience
2011-Present Serve on the advisory board for the University of Washington Certificate in
Python Programming
2001-2003 Served on the Technology Advisory Board at UAF, which distributes student TAB
fees to be used for innovative technology in education.
2000-02,06,07 Served as a judge for the yearly Home School Science Fair
2003/2004 President of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Linux User's Group
Miscellaneous Highlights
Fall, 2002 Nominated by the students of UAF for, and appointed by the Governor to, the
position of Student Commissioner for Post Secondary Education, a position with the Alaska
Commission on Post Secondary Education.
Fall, 2002 Participant in the first web-based Computer Science graduate course at UAF
Spring, 2003 Invited by the Chair of the UAF Department of Math and Sciences (DMS) to be
the student representative for DMS at the UAF College of Science, Engineering and
Mathematics planning retreat
Spring, 2004 Appointed by UAF President Hamilton to sit on the University of Alaska Ad Hoc
Committee for Accountability and Sustainability, a group convened to make UA more efficient
and cost effective.
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