Chris Whip - Curriculum vitae

Skills sampler

Operating systems admin
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris. Monitoring, security, central configuration, software compilation and management
Network admin
Ethernet, TCP/IP and routing, DNS, DHCP, security (firewalls, SSH, SSL/TLS, PKI and digital certificates )
Services admin
Storage (NFS, SMB) and backup (tape, disk, automation), access control(Kerberos/LDAP, Radius), email service (spam/malware filters, postfix, Exchange), web servers (Apache), databases (MySQL)
Programming
Perl, Bourne shell, C, C++, Lisp
Web content creation
HTML, CSS, XML, standards compliance and accessibility, image editing and compression
Web site administration
Large site coordination, policy and standards
Supervision of team members

IT manager for Department of Applied Mathematics
Supervision of assistants for systems rollouts and Web content creation
Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and HP Tru64 system administration, security and firewalling, and Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox virtualization
Server room and rack management
Hardware procurement/deployment (server, desktop, notebook, print)
Software procurement and license management
Service planning (secure authenticated Web services, server backup/sync, client backup/sync, Linux compute workstation network, compute servers)
Service migrations reducing department costs (NIS to Kerberos/LDAP to UW campus Kerberos, postfix to UW campus email,)
Programming (systems tools, automation, user computation tools)

Lead systems administration for a Seattle internet service provider
System administration and security (Linux, Mac OS X)
Service planning, implementation and maintenance (sendmail, bind, mailman, Apache, MySQL, radiusd, amanda, VPN ...)
Programming (automation of ISP functions)
Developer support for customer applications and Web sites

System administration (Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/2000)
Network administration (Cisco routers, VPN)
Administered mail, DNS and database-backed web servers, introduced LDAP, developed Web services ...

Reengineered network for 64 processor Windows NT-based image rendering rack
Created efficient rendering setup code and centralized configuration management system

Created university course information website generation system within a two-week contract. The system operated in production for several years.

Created clean standards-compliant Web-based course materials with optimized images from teaching staff's unstructured, print-oriented course notes.

Acted as university webmaster 1998 - 1999; managed university Web service (high-availability cluster, Digital Unix/Apache)
Introduced fast, reliable campus search engine
Set policy for accessibility, attribution and style
Consulted to university units regarding Web issues and projects
Managed, trained and supported team members
Web site creation, large scale automation, and programming