Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo

Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 · 0 mo

Jan 2006 – Mar 2013 · 7 yrs 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Apr 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I was in charge of telling people, "Maybe it would be a good idea not to poke your eyes with sharp sticks". My greatest accomplishment was getting the company to use only blunt sticks. I feel that if I had been there 10 more years I may have convinced the company that they shouldn't poke their eyes with sticks at all.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

• Author of Time Management for System Administrators

Dec 2003 – Feb 2004 · 2 mos

• I joined right before the campaign fell apart. I had enough time to help with internal IT issues (helpdesk, networking, security), rework some of the email processing/CRM issues they had, and I traveled to some of their remote sites to help shut them down one the campaign was over. Most importantly, I learned a lot about politics and organizing. Working on a presidential campaign is extremely educational... like looking "under the hood" at how our world works and seeing how it works for real.

Oct 2000 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• One of the original 7 employees. Started at the incubator level. Build the IT infrastructure and hired people to take it over. Worked to productize a security scanning appliance, performed PSO duties, and more.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2013 · 14 yrs

Jan 1999 – Jan 2007 · 8 yrs

• Co-Author of The Practice of System and Network Administation, 1st and 2nd edition

Jun 1994 – Oct 2000 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Drained the swamp.

Jan 1992 – Jan 2010 · 18 yrs

Jun 1991 – Jun 1994 · 3 yrs

• Supported 100+ unix users when that was a big deal.

Jan 1988 – Jan 2010 · 22 yrs

Jan 1987 – Jan 1991 · 4 yrs