Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115 206.529.8400 / paulbeard@gmail.com OBJECTIVE To bring my experience and enthusiasm to a winning team. Looking for a challenge and an opportunity to build a world-changing service or product. SUMMARY Seasoned hands-on system engineer in media and technology with 7 years experience ranging from individual contributor, lead, and manager in large scale internet operations environment to individual contributor and technical management at internet startup and 5+ years hands-on experience in writing, reporting, design, and production in traditional and digital media. Experience with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS X, system automation with various tools (shells and scripting languages, open source toolkits), system monitoring/instrumentation. Excellent communication skills, written and oral. EXPERIENCE Administrator Jan 2003 - Nov 2003 University of Washington School of Law, Seattle WA Currently employed as the sole administrative staff for the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology, a research and policy center in the University of Washington School of Law. Duties include: * Handling all inbound/outbound communications for the Center, including paper mail, email, phone, and FAX, * Managing all Center projects, * Creating and updating website content, * Planning and scheduling events from Federal Communications Commission field hearings to staff and advisory board meetings and public functions, * Designing and producing direct mail campaigns, * Budget analysis and reporting. Consultant/Student 9/2001 - Jan 2003 Self-employment/student, Seattle WA Worked as a consultant for a private energy consulting firm, researching and writing reports and practical guides to energy management in Information Technology. This is part of the Energy Focus program, owned by Seattle City Light. Researched and documented system administration and integration tips for various flavors of UNIX including Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, publishing on the web, with an emphasis on lights-out monitoring with SNMP-derived tools. Completed a computer-programming certificate at the University of Washington, learning C, C++ and program design. Senior System Engineer/Director, Technical Operations 3/2000 - 1/2001 FizzyLab Corporation, Seattle WA Brought into early-stage startup to kickstart ASP-based operations infrastructure. Moved to hands-on engineering role to focus attention on performance/reliability issues. Accomplishments: * Migrated revenue-bearing infrastructure from Apache/jserv to iPlanet Enterprise for greater reliability and performance. Initiated, instrumented, and documented performance test cycle to validate performance/scalability objectives. * Standardized development work on Sun Solaris (all code was java-based) to eliminate repeated issues with heterogeneous development/build environment and streamline deployment. Development had been in Windows NT; builds were done in Linux (prior to Sun's support of JDK in Linux), and deployment on Solaris. * Recruited and led 24/7 operations team, building from 4 to 10 in 3 months. * Integrated data collection/instrumentation for all environments (development, QA, production) using Sun's SE toolkit and orcallator. * Created incident reporting tools for centralized and standardized reporting of outages or anomalies in production environment. * Initiated and managed Oracle professional services engagement resulting in increased application performance. Manager, Application Services/Senior Systems Engineer 7/1995 - 2/2000 Turner Broadcasting System/CNN, Atlanta GA Held progressively responsible positions from Internet specialist to management. Worked on all aspects of projects from initial project scope to equipment purchase/installation/support. Accomplishments: * Developed webserver access log parsing and reporting tools that generated Microsoft Excel-formatted worksheet files for easier integration into business information flow. * Developed and supported content publishing tools. * Developed Internet postcard/ecard engine (1996). * Supported various internally developed and third-party applications. * Installed and supported all search applications, including UltraSEEK (now Inktomi search) from version 1.0 to 3.x, and Magnifi media search. * Served as technical contact/liaison for non-technical business units, representing their interests to internal service organizations and vendors. * Was part of 24/7 on-call rotation for four years. * Installed and supported early versions of RealAudio encoder/server products, VXtreme encoder/server products (notable uses include Hong Kong handover in 1997, Princess Diana's funeral webcast, and Mars Pathfinder video stream). * Installed and supported first production Linux/Intel servers in CNN production infrastructure for greater price/performance: migrated UltraSEEK and WebX message board servers to Linux. EDUCATION 8/1987 University of Florida, Gainesville FL Bachelor's Degree 10/2002 University of Washington Completed computer programming certificate AFFILIATIONS 1/1999 Ð Present Association for Computing Machinery, Member