Erlkönig: Résumé

Christopher Alexander North-Keys

   I  have  ten years of experience in leading small teams of programmers
   into  progressively more advanced academic projects, and have recently
   augmented  that  as  a team lead in commercial projects. I also have a
   somewhat  longer  history  of  problem  solving  in the realms of Unix
   systems administration and technical user support.
     * 2008-2008 Network Architect - Axirim
       Network  architect  and  network  manager  in  a  medium security,
       defense-in-depth, high-redundancy, predominantly Unix environment.
     * 2004-2007  Senior  Unix  Administrator  -  ReCare  / Catalis Linux
       systems  administration  using LDAP, Kerberos, and AFS. Controlled
       IT  policy,  ran  all  core  infrastructure  including  VOIP phone
       services.
     * 2003-2004 Consulting Systems Analyst - FaulknerUSA
       Network   and  systems  administration,  including  intercorporate
       switchovers of email, web, and DNS.
     * 2000-2002 Consulting Systems Analyst - Landmark Organization
       Network and systems administration.
     * 2001-2001 Embedded Software Engineer - TippingPoint
       Multiteam   design  of  leading-edge  network  product,  focus  on
       embedded core and API
     * 2000-2001 Network Architect - Netpliance
       Team co-lead of sysadmins, network development, development/coding
       of monitoring, documentation of best practices
     * 1998-2000  Senior  Software  Eng/Writer:  - Tivoli Systems, an IBM
       company
       Developed  advanced  training courses and scenarios for prerelease
       Tivoli software.
     * 1991-2002   Director   of   Technical   Instruction:   -  Resource
       Development Academy
       Instructor  in  { unix, sh, C, C++, OO concepts, HTML, email, ...}
       ranging  in  length  from  1  to 120 days, worked with ISDN and T1
       connections, PC config, SCO, SunOS, Linux, ecommerce), some Cisco,
       inhouse and contract CGI/PERL programming, webdesign, and more
     * 1994-1999  Unix  Tools  Specialist  -  Freie  Universität  Berlin,
       Deutschland
       GNU,  package  management  with auto search path generation, X11's
       XCMSDB
     * 1994-1997 Unix Systems Analyst - Origin Systems
       SGI/IRIX   admin,  user  environment  canonicalization,  extensive
       website  design and integration with PERL 5 based CGI, GL, OpenGL,
       widgets,  XNTP,  YP/NIS,  m4,  SSH,  MIME,  ATM on CAT5 and fiber,
       Samba, multiprocessing, VRML 1, enterprise backups, data analysis,
       firewalls,  spatial  simulation,  window managers, authentication,
       utility & messaging programming, taught MIS, more.
     * 1990-1991   Systems   Operator  -  General  Electric  Network  for
       Information Exchange
       Handling system crises during explosive userbase expansion.
     * 1990-1990 Systems Analyst - Pencom, for IBM
       Some familiarity with AIX on RS/6000s, AIX kernal programming,
     * 1989-1990  Assoc  Systems  Analyst - Microelectronics and Computer
       Technology Corp
       User  environ canonicalization across multiple shells, IRC, Frame,
       Emacs  i18n  via  C  & LISP, Sun/Mac file/print sharing, TCP/IP in
       C++,   X11   programming,   postmaster,   newsmaster,   dnsmaster,
       Unix/Amiga and Unix/PC integration, more.
     * 1988-1989  Systems  Technician  -  Microelectronics  and  Computer
       Technology Corp
       Unix/SunOS  admin,  sh,  sendmail,  thick/thin ethernet, sed, awk,
       routing,  DNS, NFS, YP, Frame, net analysis, backups, GNU, TCP/IP,
       more.
     * 1988-1988   Mathematics   Tutor  -  Selected  Topics  in  Advanced
       Mathematics
       Algebra, topology, introductory calculus, and other topics.
     * 1987-1988  Research  Lab  Asst.  -  University  of Texas at Austin
       Computation Center
       User-level  SunOS,  csh,  Suntools,  X,  FTP, telnet, email, news,
       PostScript,  vi,  emacs, K&R C, user support, security, some HPUX,
       more.
     * 1981-1982 Mathematics Tutor - Planer Geometry
       Volunteer tutoring to other students.

  EDUCATION

     * Beginning Japanese at Austin Community College, GPA 4.0
     * Teaching  Approval  for  Networking,  C,  Unix,  and others, Texas
       Education Agency
     * B.S.  CompSci/Mathematics  (~60 hours complete) College of Natural
       Sciences, UT Austin
     * Lucent/Agere:   PayloadPlus  network  processor  chipset  assembly
       programming
     * Oracle: Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL
     * Oracle: Enterprise DBA Part 1A
     * Tivoli Top Gun (~200 class hours on Tivoli software deployments)
     * Tivoli Framework certification passed
     * Windows NT Administration

  FURTHER RESOURCES

     * Much more detail can be found at
       http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/resume/ 
     * I can be contacted via
       http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/contact/