Career Profile
Senior Linux Systems Administration and Systems Developer with healthcare industry knowledge. Strong skills in monitoring, storage, high availability and database architecture. Proven history of delivering solutions on time and within budget. I am currently looking for a full time position as a DevOps Engineer in the public or non-profit healthcare sector in San Francisco.
Experiences
Came on as the first formalized IT Manager position for this non-profit organization providing medical services for sex workers and their families since 1999.
- Migrated electronic medical records system from a custom application (Python/Django/MySQL) using PHP and libraries from OpenEMR to improve clinical staff accessibility and participant continuity of care.
- Exceeded HIPAA compliance standards throughout the organization to provide custum privacy requirements by managing all IT vendors, cloud assets, and systems integrations.
- Enabled the organizations ability to provide a Covid vaccine program, electronic perscriptions, and integration with local laboratories with development leadership by writing code, supporting volunteer developers, and integrating 3rd party addons.
- Architected, configured, monitored, and proactively responded to issues with all site networks to provide highly available secure access to the internet and organization assets.
Provided development operations and software development support to an open source e-learning platform
- Wrote enhancements to 3rd party modules to improve platform functionality for the organization and the larger open source community.
- Architected and deployed virtual development environment which reduced regression bugs and decreased the time to completion for new issues.
Provided custom secure voice infrastructure, network and systems operation support, and custom software development services to support the growth and distribution of premium cannabis clones.
- Developed, monitored, and supported a secure VoIP network allowing for secure communications for staff and customers via law enforcement resistant network.
- Wrote customer lead tracking software integrating Zoho and public data sources to facilitate the expansion of sales from the bay area to the entire California region.
- Architected, configured, monitored, and proactively responded to issues with all site networks to provide highly available secure access to the internet and organization assets.
Supported systems operations and custom sftware development for a radical web development co-operative.
- Wrote a real time vhost monitoring solution that detected broken deployments switching the organizations response from reactive to proactive and improving the organizations SLA.
- Custom WordPress and Drupal development that provided clients with needed functionality on time and under budget.
- Monitoring infrastructure architecture and management support with custom interfaces to ease on call scheduling for team.
Managed the direction of custom IT solutions as lead developer of a 12 person team
- Built customize-able secure voice conferencing system leveraging Linux, OpenVPN, and Asterisk to create turn key solution ad hoc networks for surveillance resistant communication.
- Led cross platform mobile application development team that provided real time resource mapping apps to customers using Drupal, Swiftriver, Twitter API, Kohana, Ushahidi, and Appcelerator.
Resolved RF bugs and wrote custom firmware to support remotely configureable transmitters for this low power FM fabrication shop.
- Developed transmitter firmware for network interface via a Lantronix Xport that allowed for getting and setting of transmitter settings and status remotely via an on board web server.
- Used Oscilloscope and logic analyzer to verify transmitter quality control and to debug firmware issues at line level voltage.
Systems developer and member of large scal systems administration team of operators for the Radio@AOL streaming service.
- As a team member managed 1200+ host network comprised of Solaris and Linux systems to provide streaming radio service.
- Developed tools to perform network and host security audits, log aggregation analysis, and report generation as needed to verify system integrity.
- Contributed as Oracle database administrator supporting the data store for the entirety of Time Warner’s music archive.
Systems developer for a multi platform software development lab that maximized the autonomy for CS students.
- Architected and managed centralized authentication for a heterogeneous development network based on Linux and OpenLDAP.
- Developed web front end that allowed non-technical staff to manage student access to lab resources.
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Publications
As a member of a digital security collective I supported the writing, editing, and publishing of Hack This Zine