Michael Newlyn Blake

Portland, OR

<mblake@frogtown.com>

 

Last Updated: May 4^th, 2008

Most current version available at http://www.frogtown.com/~mblake/resume.php3

More details available at http://www.frogtown.com/~mblake/pdr.doc

 

Objective:

 

To explore wonder of computers and Internet communication. To explore and advance the field of online communities, and related technologies. To solve new and challenging problems with computers. To do cool and exciting things with computers that haven't been done before.

 

 

Education

 

á       Currently studying Business Administration at Portland State Univeristy.

á       Attended Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon.

 

Recent Work Experience

 

Standard Insurance Company. Portland, Oregon.

Senior System Integration Specialist; 2001 to Present.

 

á       Provide technical leadership in the research, design, integration and support of all networked Sun Solaris Unix Servers.

á       Monitor system usage and to plan for and implement capacity and design changes as needed.

á       Design, develop, and maintain monitoring and notification systems for Unix environment at The Standard.

á       Architect and test UNIX part of annual Disaster Recovery exercise.

á       Technical escalation point for all thing DNS, CheckPoint/Firewall, F5/Load Balancing, Internet mail, and paging related.

 

Starwire Corporation. Hayward, California (Startup: Defunct)

Senior System Administrator; September 2000 to June 2001.

 

á       Develop Linux development and production server environments.

á       Help establish build/release standards and procedures.

á       Manage namespace for company and partner sites.

á       Set up and maintain system/service monitoring software.

á       Provide a technical escalation point for junior members of the IT team.

 

LookSmart, Ltd. San Francisco, California

Senior System Administrator; August 1999 to September 2000.

 

á       Maintain a network of Linux and Solaris servers.

á       Document, support, maintain, and enhance legacy site infrastructure and distribution tools.

á       Coordinate service and support tasks with staff in Australia.

á       Maintain DNS service in LookSmart owned domains.

á       Fill in for group manager when necessary.

 

Earlier Work Experience

 

Sun Microsystems. Menlo Park, California

Solaris Software Division, Sun Cluster (Systems Support Specialist);

Enterprise Network Services (Systems Support Specialist);

Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, California

Unix System Administrator; October 1994 to October 1996.

Taos Mountain Software, Inc. Mountain View, California

Unix Software Consultant; August 1993 to October 1994.

Varian Associates, Inc. Santa Clara, California

Consultant; August, 1993.

Portland State University. Portland, Oregon.

Computer Action Team (CAT), Cat Lan Administrative Wizard (CLAW);

 

Hobbies and Interests

 

á       Amateur Radio, Callsign: KE7QPU

á       Defender in FC Standard, corporate sponsored Indoor Soccer team for Standard Insurance Company.

á       Member of OASA (Oregon Amateur Soccer Association)

á       ASCAP registered composer and performer.

á       Computer nerding.

á       Coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

á       Reading.

á       Volunteer ÒdadÓ support for Baby Blues Connection in Portland, Oregon.

á       Notary Public in the state of Oregon.

á       Geocaching Enthusiast

á       Season ticket holder for Portland Timbers Soccer and Portland Beavers Baseball.

 

Technical/Geek Affiliations

 

á       The Electronic Frontier Foundation

á       The Klingon Language Institute

á       The Oregon Historial Society

á       LOPSA (League of Professional System Adminsitrators); Charter Member

á       The SAGE (The System Administrators Guild)

á       American Radio Relay League

 

References

 

 

á       Not available in online version of resume.