Joe Christy

150 McGivern Way — Santa Cruz, CA 95060-9300

Phone (831)423-7151 — Mobile (831)227-6440 — Email joe@eshu.net

Objective


Senior technical/management position with excitement, challenges, and opportunities for growth.

Functional Summary


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.

Technical Summary


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.

Employment


2006– Joe Christy Informatics Santa Cruz, CA

Consultant

  • Managed outsourced web/server infrastructure for MSP startup providing editable websites and online marketing tools for photographers.


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.


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.


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).


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.


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.


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.

Education


Ph.D. Mathematics

University of California, Berkeley

A.B.. Mathematics

Yale University

Professional Memberships


Usenix; SAGE, the system administrators guild; American Mathematical Society; Governing board of ArXiv.org (Los Alamos) electronic preprint archive.

References


Available upon request.