CHRISTIAN PAREDES Contact information available upon request. Summary of Qualifications ----------------------------------- * SAGE Level II Systems Administrator with one year of systems administration experience. * Operating Systems: Intermediate: *BSD, Linux. Novice: Mac OS X Server, Windows Server. * Programming and Scripting Languages: Intermediate: UNIX shell scripting, XHTML, CSS, LaTeX. Novice: awk, sed, PHP, Perl, SQL, Ruby. * Databases: Novice: MySQL, PostgreSQL. * Certifications: A+ (July 2002) * Professional Organizations: Paying member of SAGE and LOPSA. Experience ----------------------------------- * Systems Administrator (part-time) - Seattle, WA Stealth Startup: July 2010 - Present * Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA 3TIER Group: July 2010 - Present * Jr. Systems Administrator (contractor) - Seattle, WA Jambool, Inc.: June 2010 - July 2010 - Wrote Puppet recipes for Wordpress and MediaWiki as a part of an overall effort to switch all systems over to Puppet. - Maintained EC2 instances and physical servers with Puppet. - Migrated Jambool's blog, internal wiki, and OpenVPN concentrators to new hosts. * Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA Accretive Technology Group: March 2010 - June 2010 - Wrote shell and Perl scripts for system maintenance, automation, and configuration management of 500+ Debian and FreeBSD machines. - Administered services under the guidance of the other systems administrators, such as apache 1.x/2.x, MySQL, and BIND. - Setup replication across several MySQL servers. - Created Debian packages for the local repository. * Systems and Network Consultant - Seattle, WA Cafe Allegro: September 2009 - Present - Redesigned the wireless infrastructure from scratch. - Deployed OpenBSD server for routing and firewall services for wireless clients. - Organised a volunteer team of sysadmins, including me, in order to keep the system up and running. - Coordinated with a volunteer project coodinator in sketching out the deployment plan and the business case for upgrading the system that was already in place. * Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA Bishop Blanchet High School, Technology Department: August 2009 - February 2010 - Increased systems awareness by implementing a centralized logging service and a network monitoring service on FreeBSD 7.2 with syslog-ng, Nagios, and MRTG. - Implemented an AMANDA Community Backup server for data retention and disaster recovery for Windows and FreeBSD servers. - Performed light administrative work on a Cisco ASA/PIX firewall appliance and Cisco Catalyst switches. - Programmed small shell and Perl scripts for systems administration tasks, as well as for data manipulation. - Streamlined client computer imaging process by implementing unattended, a platform agnostic unattended Windows installation server. - Promoted from help desk technician to systems administrator within four months of employment, due to demonstrative improvement of the services provided to all members of the school. * Student Assistant in Web Development and Systems Administration - Seattle, WA UW Heinecke Lab, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition: December 2008 - August 2009 - Deployed critical Windows and Linux servers for the lab's infrastructure, such as a WSUS patch management server and OpenVAS for security scanning. - Designed and programmed a new website for the laboratory in PHP and XHTML/CSS. - Built a ten node Beowulf/OSCAR compute cluster for scientific high performance computing. - Provided help desk support for laboratory members. * Student Audio/Visual Specialist - Seattle, WA UW Pathology: August 2008 - Setup and coordinated the setup of audio/visual equipment and computers for the Vasculata 2008 Course. - Provided technical and computer support before, during and after the course. - Produced DVD recordings of all lectures for distribution to seminar attendees and lecturers. * Student Help Desk Technician - Seattle, WA UW Technology: August 2007 - September 2007 - Responsible for providing technical assistance to UW faculty, staff and students via e-mail and phone. - Responsible for providing service for UW proprietary network services, such as web publishing, UWNetID login, PINE e-mail, SecurID issues and other network/computer-related issues. - Coordinate with supervisors regarding network issues/problems. - Attend to phone and e-mail inquiries in a timely manner. * IT Technician I - Seattle, WA UW Gastroenterology: June 2004-September 2004 - Responsible for the setup of computer hardware and the installation of various computer software. - Responsible for the deployment of Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP to over 100 computers in the division. - Troubleshoot computer problems when they occur. Education ----------------------------------- * University of Washington - Seattle, WA BA Mathematics and Philosophy: June 2009 * Seattle University - Seattle, WA Freshman - Sophomore, Coursework in Mathematics and Computer Science: Fall 2004 - Fall 2006 - Relevant coursework: Introduction to Programming (C++), Databases, Object Oriented Design, Data Structures Web Programming and Design Portfolio ----------------------------------- * Critical Gaming Project: http://depts.washington.edu/critgame/ - Programmed Wordpress theme with light PHP, XHTML, and CSS. * UW Heinecke Lab: http://depts.washington.edu/heinlab/ - Programmed website completely in PHP, XHTML, and CSS. * redbluemagenta: http://www.redbluemagenta.com - Programmed Wordpress theme with light PHP, XHTML, and CSS. - Self-managed NetBSD 5.0.2 Xen DomU server running lighttpd and MySQL. Backed up daily to Amazon's S3 service via duplicity.