Résumé - Chris Whip

email: cpw+r@catenoid.com
Other contact details and references available upon request

Summary

Seattle-based system administrator, programmer and Web developer with eight years of experience

Skills

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, 1999
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Employment history

Systems administrator, Drizzle Internet Northwest - http://www.drizzle.com/
(2002 - 2004)
  • System administration and security (Linux, Mac OS X)
  • Service planning, implementation and maintenance (sendmail, bind, mailman, Apache, MySQL, radiusd, amanda, and more
  • Programming (automation of ISP functions)
  • Developer support for customer applications and Web sites
Network administrator, Open Telecommunications - http://www.opentelecommunications.com/
(2000 - 2002)
  • System administration (Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/2000)
  • Network administration (Cisco routers, virtual private networks)
  • Administered mail, DNS and database-backed web servers
  • Developed Web pages and services
  • Consulted on web development elsewhere in the company
  • Introduced LDAP service
Programmer, Luminova - http://www.luminova.com.au/
(December 1999)
  • Debugged network of 64 processor Windows NT-based image rendering rack
  • Designed and wrote efficient render job submission program, fixing network blockages.
  • Designed and implemented centralized reconfiguration of rendering rack computers
Contract programmer, Web and Internet Facilities, Monash University - http://www.its.monash.edu.au/web/
(October 1999)
  • Designed and implemented a new subject description web page engine which generates descriptions for several thousand subjects from a new database, within the two weeks available. As of 2004 it's still in operation.
Web Assistant, WebDev Group, Business and Economics, Monash University - http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/WebDev/
(July 1999 - September 1999)
  • Generated HTML representations of course materials for online presentation
  • Constructed, edited and compressed images of non-textual elements
University webmaster, Monash University (acting) - http://www.its.monash.edu.au/web/
(November 1998 - June 1999)
  • Managed the university's central Web service, provided by a high-availability cluster of Digital Unix servers running Apache web server software
  • Developed and communicated university web policies, including accessibility, attribution, consistency and style policies
  • Acted as consultant for other areas of the university on Web-related issues, especially Web front ends to existing and new systems
  • Managed, trained and supported Web Resource Group team members
  • Continued to act in the Web Developer role (documented below)
Web Developer, Web Development Group, Monash University - http://www.its.monash.edu.au/web/
(April 1996 - November 1998)
  • Developed web pages and programmed/debugged CGI using HTML, cascading style sheets, and Perl
  • Advised and supported other web developers throughout the Monash campuses
  • Tracked Web-related legal issues and recommended policy to handle them
  • Tracked Web technical standards, recommending and implementing compliance policies
  • Designed and built systems to convert large documents containing book text into web sites automatically, using Perl, make, and other UNIX tools
  • Introduced a fast, reliable search engine for the Monash domain
PC Technician, Library Systems, Monash University - http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/syshelp/
(February 1996 - April 1996)
  • Installed and upgraded PCs for library staff
  • Provided technical support to staff when necessary