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CHRISTIAN PAREDES

Contact information available upon request.

NOTICE TO RECRUITERS

I'm not interested. Thanks.

Summary of Qualifications

  • SAGE Level II Systems Administrator with two years of systems administration experience. Emphasis on configuration management and web services.
  • Operating Systems:
    • Intermediate: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux.
    • Novice: Mac OS X Server, Windows Server.
  • Programming and Scripting Languages:
    • Intermediate: UNIX shell scripting, XHTML, CSS, LaTeX.
    • Novice: awk, sed, PHP, Perl, SQL, Ruby, Python.
  • Configuration Management:
    • Intermediate: Chef.
    • Novice: Puppet.
  • Databases/Data Stores:
    • Novice: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis.
  • Web Services:
    • Intermediate: nginx, Apache.
    • Novice: haproxy, stunnel, Passenger.
  • Certifications: A+ (July 2002)
  • Professional Organizations: LOPSA.

Experience

  • Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA
    Seattle Biomedical Research Institute: April 2011 - Present

    • Rolled out RVM and Puppet for all CentOS 5 and Ubuntu hosts, enabling us to upgrade to the latest version of Puppet.
    • Maintained repository of Puppet manifests.
    • Implemented logstash, graylog2, and elasticsearch for logging infrastructure.
    • Deployed mcollective for control of entire fleet of UNIX machines.
    • Overhauled monitoring infrastructure with Opsview and automatic Puppet registration with Opsview via the Opsview REST API, as well as with collectd and graphite, for plotting system stats.
    • FOR SCIENCE.

  • Senior System Administrator - Seattle, WA
    Blue Box Group: September 2010 - April 2011

    • Provided Tier 3 support for large, high value customers.
    • Introduced various incremental improvements for the infrastructure, such as Ruby/shell script automation and Chef automation, and assisted with tier 1/2 tickets.
    • Setup chef-server deployments for customers who needed a fully automated multi-tiered infrastructure.
    • Contributed code upstream for Chef, libcloud, and fog on behalf of Blue Box Group.
    • Maintained open sourced Chef recipes for the company on GitHub.
    • Automated several dedicated machine bootstrap components with Chef, such as automating OpenVZ installations, MySQL installations, etc., which saved several hours of time for large customer deployments.
    • Started work on automating Cisco switch configuration.
    • Presented my work on setting up Chef for a BBG customer in CasITConf '11.
    • Blogged about technical problems and solutions on behalf of Blue Box Group.

  • Jr. Systems Administrator (contractor) - Seattle, WA
    Jambool, Inc.: June 2010 - July 2010

    • Wrote Puppet recipes for Wordpress and MediaWiki as a part of an overall effort to switch all systems over to Puppet.
    • Maintained EC2 instances and physical servers with Puppet.
    • Migrated Jambool's blog, internal wiki, and OpenVPN concentrators to new hosts.

  • Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA
    Accretive Technology Group: March 2010 - June 2010

    • Wrote shell and Perl scripts for system maintenance, automation, and configuration management of 500+ Debian and FreeBSD machines.
    • Administered services under the guidance of the other systems administrators, such as apache 1.x/2.x, MySQL, and BIND.
    • Setup replication across several MySQL servers.
    • Created Debian packages for the local repository.

  • Systems and Network Consultant - Seattle, WA
    Cafe Allegro: September 2009 - September 2010

    • Redesigned the wireless infrastructure from scratch.
    • Deployed OpenBSD server for routing and firewall services for wireless clients.
    • Organised a volunteer team of sysadmins, including me, in order to keep the system up and running.
    • Coordinated with a volunteer project coodinator in sketching out the deployment plan and the business case for upgrading the system that was already in place.
    • Handled smooth transition from our managed solution to a self-managed solution after end of consulting period.

  • Systems Administrator - Seattle, WA
    Bishop Blanchet High School, Technology Department: August 2009 - February 2010

    • Increased systems awareness by implementing a centralized logging service and a network monitoring service on FreeBSD 7.2 with syslog-ng, Nagios, and MRTG.
    • Implemented an AMANDA Community Backup server for data retention and disaster recovery for Windows and FreeBSD servers.
    • Performed light administrative work on a Cisco ASA/PIX firewall appliance and Cisco Catalyst switches.
    • Programmed small shell and Perl scripts for systems administration tasks, as well as for data manipulation.
    • Streamlined client computer imaging process by implementing unattended, a platform agnostic unattended Windows installation server.
    • Promoted from help desk technician to systems administrator within four months of employment, due to demonstrative improvement of the services provided to all members of the school.

  • Student Assistant in Web Development and Systems Administration - Seattle, WA
    UW Heinecke Lab, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition: December 2008 - August 2009

    • Deployed critical Windows and Linux servers for the lab's infrastructure, such as a WSUS patch management server and OpenVAS for security scanning.
    • Designed and programmed a new website for the laboratory in PHP and XHTML/CSS.
    • Built a ten node Beowulf/OSCAR compute cluster for scientific high performance computing.
    • Provided help desk support for laboratory members.

  • Student Audio/Visual Specialist - Seattle, WA
    UW Pathology: August 2008

    • Setup and coordinated the setup of audio/visual equipment and computers for the Vasculata 2008 Course.
    • Provided technical and computer support before, during and after the course.
    • Produced DVD recordings of all lectures for distribution to seminar attendees and lecturers.

  • IT Technician I - Seattle, WA
    UW Gastroenterology: June 2004 - September 2004

    • Responsible for the setup of computer hardware and the installation of various computer software.
    • Responsible for the deployment of Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP to over 100 computers in the division.
    • Troubleshoot computer problems when they occur.

Volunteer Work

  • Chair of LOPSA Mentorship Program
    League of Professional System Administrators: July 2010 - October 2010

    • Successfully launched the LOPSA mentorship program with a small team of 10 volunteers.
    • Within one week of launch, we've received roughly 15 applications and have setup 7 pairs so far.

Open Source Contributions

Education

  • University of Washington - Seattle, WA
    BA Mathematics and Philosophy: June 2009

  • Seattle University - Seattle, WA
    Freshman - Sophomore, Coursework in Mathematics and Computer Science: Fall 2004 - Fall 2006

    • Relevant coursework: Introduction to Programming (C++), Databases, Object Oriented Design, Data Structures

Web Programming and Design Portfolio

  • redbluemagenta

    • Designed website with vim. Version controlled with git.
    • Website generated using Jekyll, a Ruby-based static website generator.