Michael T. Halligan 634 Laguna St. Apt A San Francisco, CA 94102 415-722-1101 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mhalligan http://www.datacenterjunkie.com/ Summary: - 15 years of IT administration and consulting experience for dozens of organizations worldwide - Extensive experience establishing and scaling IT infrastructure for Silicon Valley startups - Entrepreneur with extensive experience in IT, Managed Services, and Datacenters Objective: I am open to any interesting career or consulting opportunities with early-stage startups in San Francisco. Professional Interests - High growth startups - IT infrastructure design and management - Rapid scaling solutions - Configuration Management - NOC process development - Monitoring systems - System and network administration Technical Skills - For large, complex, redundant server farms of 500+ nodes -- Network architecture, analysis, evaluation, design, implementation, operation, and management -- Security architecture, analysis, evaluation, design, implementation, operation, and management Technical Knowledge - Cisco Network routers and Switches - Operating systems including UNIX (especially Linux, FreeBSD, OS X) - Provisioning systems (Autoyast, Kickstart, RHN Satellite, Jumpstart, FAI) - Servers (Intel, AMD, Sun) - Network Appliances including load balancers, firewalls, storage) - Virtualization (VMWare, Xen) Professional Organizations - USENIX member - SAGE member - LOPSA member - BIZNIK member Technical Training: - Red Hat - RH401 February, 2005 - Check Point Firewall Management I May, 2004 - Check Point Firewall Management II May, 2004 - IBM (Attended several WebSphere classes, and an introduction to AIX Administration course in 1998) - Tivoli (Attended several Tivoli Management courses in 1998) Professional Experience NetworkWorld (http://www.datacenterjunkie.com/) Blogger 06/2008 through Present - Freelance blogger for NetworkWorld covering the Hosting, Colocation, and Datacenter industries BitPusher, LLC (San Francisco, CA & Seattle, WA) Chief Technology Officer 11/2001 through Present - Successful migration of our datacenter including all managed hosting customers from San Francisco to Seattle - Process development for customer deployments - Architected and implemented scaleable server platform currently managing the development and production infrastructure for over two dozen arly-stage Web 2.0 start-ups, and web applications for several medium sized corporations. Kontiki, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) Sr. Systems Consultant 5/2001 - 12/2001 - Specified and implemented QA and development labs - Purchased and implemented tape library backup solution, using Veritas Netbackup - Designed and implemented a deployment system using CVS, CVSup, Redhat kickstart, Solaris jumpstart, and cfengine to create simple deployment and updates. Napster (Redwood City, CA) Sr. Systems Administrator 8/2000 - 5/2001. - Sole production systems administrator - Managed a server farm 500+ servers - Managed a multi-homed, BGP network pushing 2gb/s of text based data queries - Doubled the physical footprint, number of services, and network throughput - Built static download cluster handling, at it's peak, 7 million downloads per day - Engineered mailing list system to deliver company newsletter to 12 million+ recipients eLease (idealab! subsidiary, Sunnyvale, CA) Sr. Systems Administrator 1/2001 - 8/2001 - Implemented fully redundant multi-head NetApp 740 cluster - Designed and implemented highly-available network with Foundry Routers, Foundry Switches, F5 BigIP Load balanacers, Cisco Firewalls & VPNs - Extensive documentation and preparation for PriceWaterhouse Coopers Security & Process Audity Register.com (New York, New York) Systems Administrator (7/1999 - 1/2001) - Developed RedHat Kickstart processes for mass deploying new servers in DNS and Hosting divisions - Managed 7-person Jr. Systems Administration team for on-call rotation - Designed rack layout and cable management for our 4 datacenters spread out over the NJ/NY area - Wrote scripts to compare the acuracy of our registry with ICANN's database Internet Unlimited - Hostme.com division (now Fast.net Bethlehem, PA) Linux Systems Administrator (3/1997 - 7/1999) - Documentation for new hires - Responsible for Physical assembly of servers from component purchasing to racking and stacking - Managed 400+ RedHat Linux servers, and a dozen Solaris Servers - Wrote Perl based central configuration management system for maintaining hundreds of different customer web and mail servers - On-call support - Tech support usbusiness.com hosting (Stroudsburg, PA) Systems Administrator (7/1994 - 3/1997) - Maintained 6 servers in our production server farm - Deployed and managed 3 Linux and 3 BSD/OS servers - Wrote web based sign-up, domain management, billing, and email scripts for virtualhosting customers - Managed virtual hosting environment for 1,000+ customers