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
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