URIAH R. WELCOME
Dexter, MI 48130, (408) 621-7091, resume@uriah.org
GOAL: Analyze, identify, and implement broad-based solutions in today's technical environment. I seek a role in a field that relies upon my experience in the computer industry as well as providing a path for new learning.
SUMMARY
- I am a Self-Motivated professional with orientation toward detail and quality.
- I am able to combine a highly technical background with deep understanding of user needs.
- I have the ability to understand, combine, and coordinate the differing and often divergent needs of customer support, sales, and development.
- I am able to relate with customers, users, and management.
- I am dedicated to the fundamental principles of customer relations.
SKILLS:
Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (All Versions), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OSX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris (SPARC and x86), HP-UX, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows (All Versions).
Languages: Go, C++, Python, Ruby, PERL, PHP, Shell Scripting.
Software: Apache Web Server, LigHTTPD, NGinX, HAProxy, Memcached, Hadoop, Hive, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CVS, Subversion, Git, Nagios Monitoring Software, SNMP, MRTG/RRD Tool, Cacti, Gitlab, VMWare, Xen, KVM, LXC, Docker, OpenStack, Ruby on Rails, AWS, GCE, GKE, AppEngine.
EXPERIENCE:
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA October 2013-Present
Technical Program Mananger, SRE
SugarCRM, Inc., Cupertino, CA January 2012-July 2013
VP of Systems Architecture
- Managed team of developers designing and building the next generation cloud deployment system. (RoR)
Mashery, Inc., San Francisco, CA October 2010-December 2011
Director of Network Operations / Systems Architect
- Helped bring the product and company through PCI-DSS 2.0 compliance.
- Managed Growth at an exponential curve.
- Brought the outsourced deployment process inside.
- Deployed to the Australian continent.
SourceForge, Inc., Mountain View, CA June 2007-October 2010
Sr. Director of Network Operations
- Designed network infrastructure to help rapid deployment of servers to developers.
- Planned and executed build out of completely new data center on all new hardware.
- Continued in my role of Sr. Systems Administrator, maintaining websites like SourceForge, Slashdot, Freshmeat, Linux.com, Thinkgeek, and Others.
VA Software Corp., Fremont, CA September 2002-June 2007
Director of Network Operations
- Planned and managed the move of 150 systems from Boston to Santa Clara with minimum downtime.
- Managed team of Systems and Network Administrators responsible for 300+ servers.
- Planned and deployed install of 150+ new servers along with new network design.
- Continued in my role of Sr. Systems Administrator, maintaining websites like SourceForge, Slashdot, Freshmeat, Linux.com, Thinkgeek, and Others.
- Redesigned legacy network for easier management and deployment of new servers.
- Replaced hardware load balancers with GNU/Linux based load balancers.
- Replaced problematic user management with centralized LDAP based system with complete user management tools.
- Wrote policies and procedures for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Dealt with massive site and traffic growth.
VA Linux Systems, Fremont, CA September 1999-September 2002
Sr. Systems Administrator
- Co-Founder of SourceForge.net.
- Wrote perl scripts to dump data from the database and securely create accounts, websites, CVS trees, mailing lists, mail aliases, etc on multiple machines.
- Implemented a centralized authentication scheme using LDAP.
- Designed LDAP based authentication and userspace tools.
- Implemented network-wide systems monitoring to facilitate simpler, faster problem detection and resolution.
- Planned and executed replacement of several key systems, while maintaining maximum system availabilty.
- Solely responsible for 80+ servers with 24x7 oncall support.
References available upon request.