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165 Estates Drive, Piedmont, CA 94611 (510) 427-4960 (cell) rudy@winnacker.com Summary of Experience: Currently System Administrator with Google. Prior: 1+ years as System Administrator with Pyra Labs. 1+ years as Programmer/Analyst with Maxim Group. Four years with Resumix, Inc. in a variety of positions including Systems Engineer, principal CGI programmer in the Web Operations Group, Technical Support Team Lead. Other experience as Teaching Assistant and Notetaker at U.C. Santa Barbara, HR staffing system operator, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Administrative Research Assistant for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Technical: Operating Systems: UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux), Windows, DOS. Web Servers: Apache, Microsoft IIS, some Netscape, other freeware. Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Fulcrum, MySQL. Programming: UNIX shell scripting (csh, sh, ksh), PL/SQL, HTML, CGI, Perl, PerlScript, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, PHP, Python, assembly, BASIC. Education: U.C. Santa Barbara, M.A. and C.Phil. in Philosophy, 1996. Ph.D. program, University of Oregon, 1992 to 1993. U.C. Berkeley, B.A. in Philosophy, 1991 with high honors. Professional Development: In-House Productions, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, 2000. Verisign, Securing Web Servers, 2000. Oracle: PL/SQL Program Units, Intro to SQL and PL/SQL, Database Administration, 1998-1999. Sun Microsystems: Solaris Network Administration, Solaris Advanced System Administration, 1997. Google: BSD system internals, Python programming. Experience: Google, System Administrator 6/03 - Present System Administrator (I, II, III) in Site Reliability Engineering group. This team is responsible for the maintenance and operation of Google's production network. Originally worked on the transition of Blogger infrastructure to Google's. Transferred to Hardware Systems group and shortly afterward became one of three original system administrators on the new Cluster Operations team. The group was created to formalize the operational duties of Google's distributed storage system. This role transitioned to operational support for the search index pipeline. After a few years, Cluster Operations grew sufficiently large to divide it into more specialized teams. At the same time, the need to formalize the operational duties of Google's Bigtable storage system was identified. Part of original staff of the Bigtable Service team as Technical Lead. Pyra Labs, System Administrator 4/02 - 6/03 System Administrator for the Pyra Labs websites, including Blogger and Blog*Spot. Blogger is a free web logging service and Blog*Spot is a free weblog (blog) hosting service. These are both high traffic websites that require maximum uptime, for which this position has the primary responsibility. Notable projects completed for Pyra:
This is a high-responsibility position requiring the ability to manage a variety of simultaneous services independently and within an extremely restricted budget. Maxim Group, Perl Developer at SBC Long Distance 5/01 - 12/01 This was an extended 6 month assignment at SBC Long Distance. Focused on Perl development of CGIs and tools, with some system administration projects installing and configuring Oracle and Apache on Solaris. Areas of work include: Oracle8+, Apache, Perl, JavaScript, Unix (Solaris and HPUX), CVS. Most projects involved interfacing a custom front-end CGI with back-end processes and statistics stored in Oracle databases; where necessary database objects were created and maintenance and data collection processes were coded and implemented to support the front-end. In each project there is an emphasis on user-friendliness, flexibility and reliability. Here is a summary of the projects completed for SBC:
12/00 - 4/01 Joined Maxim Group to work as a consultant Programmer/Analyst at Global Digital Technologies. Developed web sites using Perl to interface with pre-existing classified advertising mainframe systems via middle-tier software. Clients included major newspapers. Participated in a re-write project for this application in addition to maintaining the pre-existing code base. Technologies used include: Perl, Apache, IIS 5.0, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, W2K, CVS. In addition this position included some auditing of the company's security policy and implemented improvements including the installation of network firewalls. Installed and implemented a shareware support/bug management application written independently at around the same time. Entera, Inc.,(now CacheFlow) Technical Support Group, 9/00 - 12/00. Hired into the Technical Support Organization help deploy the rebuilt team. Plans changed dramatically with the acquisition of Entera by CacheFlow. During the four weeks prior to the acquisition, created an installation lab for the TeraEDGE cache (proxy) server and the TeraCAST streaming media server. Most of my time was spent re-implementing the Quintus support and bug management system (called "CustomerQ"). This included building a support intranet site to deliver real-time reports using the primary database (MSSQL), full text searching of cases and solutions (Fulcrum), as well as support documentation and FAQs. Resumix, Inc. (HotJobs.com), Systems Engineer, Web Programmer, Customer Support Lead Engineer, 9/96 - 9/00. Systems Engineer and web programmer for the Web Operations Department. Key member in the deployment of a hosted web application that moves the core Resumix Enterprise functionality to the internet. Participated in the initial project launch team as well as the current product management group. Worked hands-on configuring servers for deployment at the Exodus ASP, and documenting such procedures. Created interim system, application and database server monitoring and backup routines using built-in application features as well as batch and other scripting. Created, proposed and won approval for a front-end login server as a short-term logistical solution for managing customer data under a data management model in-progress. Here is a summary of some of the other web applications (CGI and ASP) programmed at Resumix:
Academic Honors: Awarded four-year U.C. Regents Special Fellowship for graduate study in Philosophy at U.C. Santa Barbara, 1994. President, U.C.S.B. Graduate and Faculty Philosophy Club, 1994-96. Awarded graduate teaching fellowship at the University of Oregon, 1992. Awarded departmental honors and high collegiate honors from U.C. Berkeley, 1991. Elected Phi Beta Kappa, 1991. Dean's lists. Professional Honors: Maxim Group, Consultant of the Month, 2001. Special Recognition from HotJobs.com University for individual contribution, 2000. "Resumix Raider" special quarterly company recognition, 1999. Departmental Peers' Choice Award (2), Resumix, 1999. Special, one-time company-wide award in recognition of excellence, Resumix, 1997. Departmental Customer's Choice Award, Resumix, 1996. Departmental Peers' Choice Award, Resumix, 1996. Key Contributor Award, Sybase, 1994. Other: Excellent references available. Natural languages studied include Spanish, German and Latin. Writing samples available. |