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McGivern Way — Santa Cruz, CA 95060-9300
Phone
(831)423-7151 — Mobile (831)227-6440 — Email joe@eshu.net
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Objective
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Senior technical/management position with
excitement, challenges, and opportunities for growth.
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Functional Summary
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High-level
strategic technical management experience in startup and research
environments. Team building. Vendor & Customer relationship
management. Recruiting. Network engineering. Software
engineeringTesting/QA/Release engineering.
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Technical Summary
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20+ years UNIX, 15+ years network
administration, design, & security, 10+ years Linux. FreeBSD,
*Nix. Cisco PIX & Catalyst, PKI, SSL/TLS, VPN, IDS. Apache,
DHCP, DNS, PXE. SMTP, IMAP, Anti-Spam. Anaconda, Kickstart, RPM.
Amanda, automated bare-metal installation & recovery, LVM,
software & hardware RAID. Samba, Windows. Perl, C, PHP,
MySQL.
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Employment
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2006– Joe
Christy Informatics Santa Cruz, CA
Consultant
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2003–2006 MailCleanser
LLC Scotts Valley, CA
CTO/CFO
Architected and implemented
Scrubber(sm)
email content filtering system, including web-based GUI,
scalable, high-availability clustered backend. Scrubber filtered
email for spam, viruses, and offensive material, using a mixture
of open source and custom tools, with greater than 99% accuracy
and less than 0.05% false positive rate.
Organized Limited Liability
Company to provide managed email services, hired attorneys and
accountants, set up accounting and billing systems. Managed
vendor relationships, and handled delinquent accounts.
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2001–2002 D
Integrity San Mateo, CA
Principal
Principal in an
attempted restart of Digital Integrity. Involved in corporate
structuring, finance, alliance building, recruiting a CEO,
software architecture, release engineering, pre- and post-sales
engineering in engagements with IBM and Reuters.
D Integrity was an effort to:
1) complete the Digital Integrity IP Audit Platform and Ewall
products & market them under license from Digital Integrity,
2) purchase the IP assets of Digital Integrity.
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2000–2001 Digital
Integrity San Mateo, CA
Director
of Operations
Owned 24x7
productions networks (120 Intel servers, 5 clusters, 30
desktops), MIS/IT group. Also handled relations with vendors,
testing/QA/release cycle, recruiting, etc. 4 direct reports,
dotted line to virtually everyone in company, reported directly
to CEO.
Key contributor to email
content filtering product specification and architecture. Owned
award-winning Findsame search service. Helped develop technology
and productization strategy for integrated DI Intellectual
Property Management Platform. Worked to establish partnerships
with xSPs (Loudcloud, Big Fish, Critical Path, Exodus).
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1999–2000 Digital
Integrity San Mateo, CA
Member,
Technical Staff
Employee #6.
Architected and implemented office (12 Win NT/2000 desktops, 2
servers), development (20 Linux desktops, 12 servers), and
multiple production networks (108 Linux servers) with
redundancy, monitoring, and failover. Built IT team.
Contributed to architecture
of Findsame service, and DI Tracker web Intellectual Property
infringement product. Helped implement a management structure as
company grew. Coordinated recruiting for entire company.
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1997–1999 Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute Berkeley, CA
Associate
Director for Computing
Directed computing
operations of a cutting-edge international research institute.
Enabled scientific research, software development, scholarly
communication, and electronic publishing. Managed hardware and
software acquisition, budgeting, and support staffing for MSRI's
computing environment.
Planned and wrote federal and
private foundation grants and solicited industrial sponsorship
to raise over $1,000,000 to support computing at MSRI. Served as
webmaster of the award winning site www.msri.org,
comprising over 20,000 pages. Led MSRI streaming video project,
serving over 400 hours of video lectures and associated
supporting text, with a worldwide network of mirrors. Built
Beowulf compute cluster.
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1992–1997 Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute Berkeley, CA
Head
of Computing
Grew MSRI network
from 18 Sun Workstations to a heterogeneous network of over 120
client workstations and 35 Xterminals running five versions of
UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, Irix, and Linux), Windows NT, and
MacOS, with 18 servers, then migrated Unix network from
proprietary platforms to Linux on commodity hardware. Set up
first and most heavily used web site for the mathematics
community. Fathered electronic publication in the mathematical
sciences. Led MSRI MBone project to enable real-time video- and
data-conferencing over the Multi-cast Backbone of the Internet.
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Education
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Ph.D.
Mathematics
University of
California, Berkeley
A.B..
Mathematics
Yale University
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Professional Memberships
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Usenix; SAGE, the system administrators guild;
American Mathematical Society; Governing board of ArXiv.org (Los
Alamos) electronic preprint archive.
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References
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Available
upon request.
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