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                               Ben Hartshorne

   [1]resume@green.hartshorne.net
   [2]http://ben.hartshorne.net

  Objective

     * To work on exciting, high availability, high profile product,
       solving the problems everybody loves to have.

  Education

     * [3]University of California, Berkeley
       BA in [4]Cognitive Science, minor in [5]Computer Science Dec 2001
     * University of California, Berkeley, [6]Haas School of Business
       [7]BASE summer program, August 2001

  Activities

     * Backpacker, ski mountaineer, equestrian, sailor, motorcyclist,
       SCUBA diver, [8]photographer
     * Amateur chamber music cellist
     * Alumnus, [9]Alpha Delta Phi. Positions include President, Literary
       Chair
     * Wrote [10]Aargh, award winning procmail-based email auto-responder
       for Linux
     * Wrote [11]Skipool, a carpooling assistant for ski addicts
     * Contributed to the [12]Ganglia distributed monitoring project, and
       wrote several [13]gmetric scripts
     * Contributed to the [14]Ambient project, a cooperative office music
       manager
     * Contributed to the [15]Agnostos to-do list manager
     * [16]Certified MySQL 5.0 DBA

  Work Experience

     * [17]Simply Hired, Inc., Mountain View, CA (Nov 2004 to June 2007)
       Sr. Systems Administrator
          + Architected production environment, designing for growth
          + Built scaleable, fault tolerant, secure network to launch
            simplyhired.com
          + Grew simplyhired.com from 0 to >200k UV/day and >1m page
            views per day
          + Principal administrator for all aspects of the Linux side of
            the network (dev, QA, and production), monitoring, backups,
            resource forecasting, repair, etc.
          + Worked with Linux, Apache, MySQL, Memcache, Lucene, php,
            SystemImager, rsnapshot, heartbeat, Subversion, CVS, Nagios,
            Ganglia, Netscreen firewalls, Netscaler load balancers,
            Foundry switches, Ironport appliance
          + Wrote perl, shell, and php scripts to facilitate system
            administration tasks and reporting
     * [18]Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, Pacific Ocean (September 2003
       to June 2004)
       Crew
          + Lived aboard RV Heraclitus, on duty 4 hours out of every 12
            while at sea
          + Worked in dry dock repairing ferrocement and lead dismantling
            / reassembly of technological components (RADAR, SONAR, GPS,
            computer, SSB and VHF radios)
          + Served as radio officer, diver, navigator
          + Built [19]science portion of the PCRF website
     * [20]Adax, Inc., Berkeley, CA (Oct 2001 to July 2003)
       Network Support Engineer: Project engineer, system administrator
       (linux, solaris)
       Programming projects include:
          + Wrote a perl / python web front end to the Adax Tunneling
            Gateway
          + Network API to enable remote testing of Adax hardware in a
            Sun High Availability environment
          + Designed and wrote automated test shell to facilitate product
            QA
          + Lead project engineer for M3UA protocol stack integration
       System Administration projects include:
          + Designed and built firewall, rebuilt main servers
          + Initiated development of intranet web services
          + Led project to replace all office desktops with open source
            solutions
          + Integrated separate departments networks
     * Xpressent, Inc., San Jose, CA (May 2001 to Jul 2001)
       Software Programmer, Linux OS: Wrote an Apache module. Worked from
       home, without immediate supervision. Set and met deadlines.
     * Cooperative Digital, Oakland, CA (Jun 2000 to Aug 2000)
       Telephone Technician: Installed, maintained, and repaired Nortel
       and Panasonic PBX and voicemail systems. Advised on upgrades and
       purchases.
     * LinuxCare, San Francisco, CA (Jun 1999 to Aug 1999)
       Technical Support Intern: Provided second and third level
       enterprise support for Linux. Worked in a rotating call center.
     * [21]UC Berkeley Office of Residential Computing, Berkeley, CA (Aug
       1997 to Jan 1999)
       Resident Computer Consultant: Provided first level support for 250
       residents.
       Platform Specialist: Provided second level support. Planned
       educational events.

  Programming

   Shell, Perl, C, C++, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, Python, Lisp

References

   1. mailto:resume@green.hartshorne.net
   2. http://ben.hartshorne.net/
   3. http://www.berkeley.edu/
   4. http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/cogsci/
   5. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/
   6. http://haas.berkeley.edu/
   7. http://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/BASE/
   8. http://ben.hartshorne.net/gallery/
   9. http://www.cal-adphi.net/
  10. http://ben.hartshorne.net/aargh
  11. http://skipool.hartshorne.net/
  12. http://ganglia.info/
  13. http://ben.hartshorne.net/ganglia/
  14. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ambient
  15. http://xenoclast.org/agnostos/index.html
  16. http://mysql.com/certification/
  17. http://www.simplyhired.com/
  18. http://www.pcrf.org/
  19. http://www.pcrf.org/science/
  20. http://www.adax.com/
  21. http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/