jeff vier boinger@gmail.com
650 453 8256
Executive Summary
Operations Manager with fifteen years experience in a variety of information technology functions ranging from designing and planning cloud/grid computing infrastructures to programming, from system engineering and administration to IT/IS team leadership and management. Articulate and creative with a talent for solving problems at the technical and communicative levels. Experience working with development teams as well as customers representing the financial/banking, large-scale Internet, SaaS, broadcasting, VAR, marketing/consulting, and manufacturing industries.
Qualifications/Critical Skills
Platforms: Abilities: Languages:
Achievement Highlights
Professional Experience
Manager of Operations, Services
Mozilla
September 2010 -- Now
Mountain View, CA
Duties Include:
  • Manager of operations team for Mozilla's hosted product division, in which Firefox Sync is the primary project.
  • Review and scouting for next data center location
  • Evaluated and implemented several new hardware vendors
  • Involved in platform architecture decisions
  • Capital Expenditure budgeting
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning
  • Puppet system management
  • Zeus Traffic Manager (load balancer) administration
  • Extensive shell (Bourne and bash) scripting
  • Enhanced system build automation
  • Data center overhaul and reconfiguration

Sr. Services Engineer - Advertising services team
Yahoo!, Inc
September 2009 -- September 2010
Santa Clara, CA
Duties Included:
  • Primary point-of-contact for next generation ad-serving system
  • Close work with developers on projects at all stages of project (from early code discussion through launching live product)
  • Comprehensive documentation written for several projects
  • Extensive Perl scripting, including enhancements and bugfixes to widely-used internal tools
  • Expanded system metrics and graphing (internal rrd-based system)
  • Considerable bash scripting
  • Coordinated work and hand-offs with overseas teams
  • Rotating on-call duty (covers all projects the team handles)

Infrastructure Manager - [started as Senior Systems Engineer]
LiveOps, Inc
February 2007 -- September 2009
Santa Clara, CA
Duties Included:
  • Manager of four teams: Systems Engineers, Database Administrators, Operations Tools Developers and Lab Engineering (7 full-time employees, various contractors)
  • Initially also managed Network Engineers (2 people) before spinning them off as an independent team
  • Passed PCI DSS (v1.1 and v1.2) compliance audit
  • Reviewed, scouted and selected data center location
  • Re-architected (in conjunction with Network Manager) systems infrastructure and built out new, high-density data center (and stayed in budget)
  • Expanded platform to two new data centers
  • Gracefully shut down three old, outmoded data center installations, migrating functionality to other locations
  • Evaluated and implemented several new hardware vendors
  • Architected platform hardware overhaul
  • Architected and implemented office/lab consolidation and move (involving 300+ servers)
  • Architected Virtualized QA Lab (Citrix XenServer & VMLogix LabManager), providing a flexible 'cloud' infrastructure
  • Oversaw MySQL upgrade (70+ node replication tree)
  • Capital Expenditure budgeting
  • Re-engineering and implementation of Nagios-based monitoring system with custom front-end
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning
  • Part of Hadoop/MapReduce architecture team. Oversaw implementation.
  • Distributed Splunk implementation
  • System metrics and graphing via custom tools
  • Implementation of Puppet system management
  • F5 BigIP/LTM (load balancer) administration
  • Some F5 3DNS/GTM (geographic load balancer) administration
  • Extensive shell (Bourne and bash) scripting
  • Part of the management team driving Scrum [Agile derivative] in Operations

Manager - [started as Senior Unix/Linux Administrator]
Trading Technologies, Inc
August 2003 -- February 2007
Chicago, IL
Duties Included:
  • Manager of Unix Administration, Internal Development and Monitoring Teams
  • Lead Unix (Solaris) and Linux server administration and engineering/design
  • Engineering, planning and on-site (physical) deployment of data centers (located in Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Singapore)
  • Extensive remote server administration
  • Security planning and implementation (vulnerability assessment and policy delineation)
  • Passed SAS 70 (Type II) audit
  • System hardening
  • Extensive system automation
  • VMWare Infrastructure 3/ESX planning, implementation, and administration
  • Wrote a centralized system tracking system in PHP using a MySQL database back-end
  • Distributed system monitoring with [modified] Nagios (with heavily modified APAN and custom scripts) - several Nagios patches accepted into the main source tree
  • System metrics and graphing with MRTG (customized Cacti GUI on the front end)
  • NetFlow collecting and graphing with flow-tools (Cacti GUI on the front end)
  • Cacti administration and hacking (source patches accepted into the main source tree)
  • RRDTool administration and hacking (source patches accepted into the main source tree)
  • System forensics planning, implementation and administration (crash analysis, user action auditing)
  • qmail planning, implementation and administration
  • BIND/DNS engineering, implementation, and administration (with encrypted transactions between master and slaves)
  • Extensive shell (Bourne, bash, and ksh) scripting
  • Perl coding/hacking
  • sed & awk coding
  • squid administration (including http and https acceleration)
  • Apache administration and performance tuning
  • PHP scripting of internal admin interfaces
  • Oracle server administration and database design
  • PL/SQL scripting
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL server administration and database design

Unix Administrator
Transora/ECPG
(now 1SYNC)
June 2001 -- August 2003
Chicago, IL
Duties Included:
  • Unix (Solaris) and Linux server administration and engineering/design
  • Remote Unix/Linux server administration
  • Solaris Jumpstart design and implementation (traditional method and Flash Archive)
  • Security planning and implementation (vulnerability assessment and policy delineation)
  • System hardening
  • High-availability and fail-over planning, implementation and administration (VCS Clustering, content switching, and low-tech "warm" failover solutions)
  • Extensive system automation via scripting/cron
  • System forensics planning, implementation and administration (crash analysis, user action auditing)
  • iPlanet/Netscape LDAP Server administration
  • qmail planning, implementation and administration
  • BIND/DNS engineering, implementation, and administration (with encrypted transactions between master and slaves)
  • custom build of OpenSSH (CVS core with hacks)
  • OpenSSH/OpenSSL rollout planning and implementation
  • Extensive shell (Bourne, bash, and ksh) scripting
  • Perl coding/hacking
  • sed & awk coding
  • scotty/tkined design/implementation (OSS SNMP monitoring tools)
  • squid administration (including http and https acceleration)
  • iPlanet/Netscape Enterprise Server administration and performance tweaking
  • Apache administration
  • Siteminder administration
  • BEA WebLogic administration
  • ht://Dig administration
  • ATG administration
  • i2 Discovery administration
  • AMSE administration
  • Ariba administration
  • Syncra administration
  • Veritas Volume Manager and NetBackup administration
  • PHP scripting internal admin interfaces
  • Unix skills training
  • Scripting training

Systems and Network Administrator (Externally Contracted)
Taos Mountain, Inc.
April 2000 -- May 2001 San Francisco, CA
Duties Included:
With TechTV (now G4):
  • Unix (Solaris) and Linux server administration and engineering/design
  • Unix team management
  • Two "lit" data center moves
  • Vignette StoryServer administration
  • iChat ROOMS and BOARDS Administration
  • Extensive shell (Bourne, bash, and tcsh) scripting
  • Apache web server administration and custom compilation
  • Elaborate mod_rewrite configuration in apache
  • Remote Unix/Linux server administration
  • Internet/Intranet strategy consultation
  • Hardware recommendation, ordering, installation and troubleshooting (Sparc and Intel)
  • Veritas Volume Manager and Clustering

With Audiobase (no longer in business):
  • Solaris server administration and engineering
  • Extensive shell (Bourne, bash, and tcsh) scripting
  • Remote Solaris server administration
  • System build/config automation (scripted, not Jumpstarted for internal reasons)
  • Security auditing

VP/Web Systems Administrator
Bank of America
(formerly NationsBank)
September 1998 -- April 2000
Chicago, IL
Duties Included:
  • Unix (Solaris and HP/UX) and Linux server administration
  • NT server administration
  • Web server administration - Netscape Enterprise Server
  • Remote server administration (Unix and NT)
  • Internet/intranet strategy consultation
  • Netscape Proxy Server administration
  • Netscape Communicator administration (configuration, distribution, etc. v4.04-4.7)
  • Developer tool integration (NetObjects TeamFusion, NetDynamics)
Independent Writer
Chicago Tribune
September 1999 -- Summer 2000
Chicago, IL
Duty was:
Writing a column for a monthly magazine published by the Chicago Tribune ("Silicon Prairie") pertaining to Linux, specifically how to accomplish various technical tasks under Linux.
Some of the article titles:
  • "Connecting Linux via Modem to an ISP"
  • "File Sharing with a MacOS Computer"
  • "Connecting a PalmOS Device to a Linux Desktop"

Interactive Developer / Network & Systems Administrator (Contract)
Ethos Interactive
(now Eviciti)
January 1998 -- March 1998
Cincinnati, OH
Duties Included:
  • Network (LAN) and system management/maintenance (server and client -- Windows and Mac)
  • Server administration (NT)
  • Hardware installation and troubleshooting (Windows and Mac)
  • Intranet design and programming
  • Internet strategy consultation
  • Database design, management and interfacing (MS Access)
  • Software evaluation and implementation

Internet Developer / Interactive Designer / Webmaster
Millennium Marketing, Inc.
(now Celestia)
April 1997 -- January 1998
Cincinnati, OH
Duties Included:
  • Network (LAN) design, engineering, and management (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
  • ISDN maintenance (Netopia 435 Router)
  • Hardware installation and troubleshooting (Mac and Windows)
  • Software evaluation, recommendation, implementation, troubleshooting and desktop support
  • Database design / management (MySQL and mSQL)
  • Web conceptualization, design, and programming (Linux- and NT-hosted)
  • Distance learning systems development (web-based training)
  • Site maintenance (DNS acquisition, daemon maintenance, etc.)

Senior Programmer
Unius, Inc.
(no longer in business)
May 1996 -- March 1997
Cincinnati, OH
Duties Included:
  • Web design and programming
  • Site maintenance (DNS acquisition, server maintenance, etc.)
  • Network (LAN) management and maintenance (Windows and Mac)
  • Hardware installation and troubleshooting (Mac and Windows)
  • Technology implementation (video feeds, multimedia servers, etc.)
  • Database management (Informix, mSQL, Butler, some Oracle)
  • Software evaluation, recommendation, implementation, troubleshooting and desktop support

Independent/Contract Work ~1993 -- Present
Duties/Projects Include:
  • Co-founder, sole programmer and system administrator of ServiceSheet, Inc.
  • Occasional programmer for several open source projects.
  • Server engineering/design and administration (Linux, Sun/Solaris, NT, Netware and Mac)
  • Distance learning system development (web-based training)
  • Network (LAN) and system management/maintenance (Server and Client -- Linux, Mac, and Windows)
  • Hardware installation and troubleshooting (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
  • Internet/Intranet strategy consultation
  • PERC Social Psychology research interface in Tcl/Tk for Win32 systems.
  • Database design, management and interfacing (MySQL, PgSQL)
  • Apache/Tomcat configuration
  • Large-volume qmail implementation (notably not used for SPAMming)
Education
University of Cincinnati 1994-97
  • Electronic Media in the College-Conservatory of Music (1995-97)
  • Foundation Design (Fashion) in the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (1994-95)
Professional Certifications/Memberships
  • PL/SQL v9i Certified
  • Solaris 9 Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
  • NetDynamics v3 & v4 Administration Certified
  • Member of the Association of Macintosh Trainers (AMT)

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