Jonathan Gilbert
     30 Eugenia Ave
     San Francisco, CA 94110
     jong@jong.org
     http://www.jong.org/resume/

  Objective
    To excel at a challenging and rewarding position in production systems
    that takes advantage of a broad experience across many operating systems
    and protocols.

  Experience
   Network and Systems Integration Consultant, Like.com
    May 2008 - October 2008
    
    Assisted in the physical move of Like.com's primary datacenter and a capacity upgrade. 
    Completed installation of new power-management, network devices, and 150 servers before 
    deadline. Re-engineered both internal and external networks for optimum use, increasing 
    performance and ensuring network reliability. Implemented configuration management for all 
    managed power and network devices and successfully integrated configuration management 
    into existing revision control systems. Updated automation tools and scripts where necessary. 
    Implemented capacity measuring and system monitoring for all managed power and network
    devices.

   Contract Programming, Theme Park Photo, LLC
    August 2007 - Present
    
    Wrote a chat and social network information system over mobile-phone SMS to Theme 
    Park Photo's specification. Took ongoing direction for use and feature integration from TPP 
    and TPP's client. Specific goals were: to provide a performance-geared messaging system 
    capable of processing 1,000,000 per day over 50,000 groups of individuals; 
    to provide a flexible plugin-based processing system for later enhancement by the client; to  
    ensure the resulting product components were easily swappable and changed without impact 
    to other moving parts. Final product was backed on an asynchronous message queue using 
    STOMP to pass serialized objects, with persistent user and client data in SQL, and multiple 
    input and output "channels" such as IM, email, and web. Provided documentation for all 
    moving parts as well as UML state diagrams.

   Contract Programming, Simply Hired Inc.
    November 2006 - December 2006

    Wrote a change management application from the ground up to Simply
    Hired's specification. Took direction from the Operations Manager on
    platform, backend, features, and look-and-feel: the deliverable product
    was mod_perl under Apache with MySQL 5.0 utilizing an AJAX interface,
    suitable for Linux or Solaris. Deliverable was in put into internal use
    January 2007.

   Senior Systems Administrator, BitTorrent Inc.
    April 2006 - August 2006

    Contract-to-perm system administrator for internal and production
    services. Maintained and deployed new nodes and services for a content
    deployment startup in San Francisco. Day-to-day tasks included content
    deployment, service load troubleshooting, application fault diagnosis
    and repair, short-term growth and scaling for the BitTorrent tracker,
    search, and streaming services. Additionally performed in-office desktop
    and user issues.

   Contract Systems Integration, Riya Inc.
    February 2006 - March 2006

    Performed physical inventory of new and existing production nodes for
    Riya's image search product, and entered them into an instance of
    Password Management. Synchronized user accounts across all nodes, and
    ensured roles-based access management worked as expected. Instructed
    current system administration team on Password Management's use and
    functionality via in-person training and documentation. Wrote and
    deployed Riya-specific plugins for Password Management, meshing it into
    their tool and monitoring infrastructure.

   Senior Systems Administrator, Covad Communications Group Inc.
    February 2001 - October 2005

    Systems administrator within Production Services. Maintained and managed
    as part of a team over 1000 individual production and development
    servers. Worked closely with software and network engineering groups to
    ensure the highest availability possible on several very large in-house
    software projects. Redeployed and maintained a nationwide network of AAA
    services based on RADIUS. Augmented system management tools with a focus
    towards automated OS and software deployment, metrics tracking and
    server availability. Developed Password Management for node and user
    management across hundreds of nodes with a programmatic REST API.

   Senior Systems Administrator/Programmer, Engage Inc.
    October 2000 - January 2001

    Systems administration for Network Services. Maintained and managed
    production web and ad servers. Developed internal ticketing system for
    tracking and closing various production and internal issues for use by
    multiple departments. Implemented performance gathering and statistical
    analysis system for all ad serving farms across the U.S. and in Europe.
    Made recommendations on and initiated changes for various backend
    systems and datawarehousing systems.

   Senior Systems Administrator/Programmer, ReplayTV Inc.
    June 2000 - October 2000

    Senior administrator for Internet/Network Services. Administrated,
    troubleshot production web servers in use by individual ReplayTV
    Personal Video Recorders. Implemented multiple site-wide performance
    gathering and statistical analysis system. Optimized developer-deployed
    server side applications and tools for performance and stability.

   Senior Website Systems Engineer, Netscape Communications, California
    August 1998 - June 2000

    Senior administration for Netcenter Operations. Architected,
    implemented, and troubleshot many of Netcenter's production user
    services, serving one of the top ten sites on the Internet in terms of
    raw traffic. Responsible for global traffic load balancing for web
    services across 7 domestic and international pops. Dictated and enforced
    new security policies, designed and implemented operational processes
    and procedures. Trained new operational staff and assisted with AOL
    operational integration during merger. Development of custom system
    monitoring tools for over 700 production hosts. Principle administration
    of DNS.

  Skills Snapshot
    Operating Systems and OS Deployment
      Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10, Linux, Windows NT/2000, IOS 11.x, Novell
      3.11/4.1

    Programming Languages
      Perl5, C, sh, awk, sed, Javascript, SQL, CGI

    Software Applications and Services
      Solstice DiskSuite (ODS), Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Cluster
      Server (VCS), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Netscape Enterprise Server
      3.6/4.0, Apache 1.3/2.0, Solaris Jumpstart, CVS, RCS, Subversion

    Network and Application Protocols
      BGP, DHCP, DNS, EIGRP, HTTP, HSRP, IMAP, PAM, POP3, NFS, 
      NIS, NTP, OSPF, PVST+, RADIUS, RIP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, 
      STOMP, Syslog, TACACS+, VRRP

    Server Load Balancers and Firewalls
      Foundry ServerIron, Resonate, Cisco LocalDirector, F5 BigIP, tDNS,
      Cisco PIX, Cisco IOS ACLs, CheckPoint FireWall-1

  References
    Professional and personal references are available by request.

  Miscellany
    Author, primary contributor of "UNIX Password, Roles & Node Management":
    http://pwman-covad.sourceforge.net/

    Author, primary contributor of "Change Mangement":
    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/change-mgmt

    ITIL Foundations Certified, 2005

    BSA Eagle Scout, 1993