Nicholas Berry

Objective

A position that would benefit from my background to help maintain and plan the technology future for a company with growing opportunities.

Relevant Skills

Application Services Operating Systems Certifications Knowledgeable in

Work Experience

LinkedIn

2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043

Professional social network

Apr 2014 - Current

Director, Site Reliability

Responsible for leading four teams, >40 individuals, that define Infrastructure SRE: Security, Monitoring Infrastructure, Traffic and Edge Performance.

Oct 2012 - Apr 2014

Sr Manager, Site Reliability

Responsible for managing Traffic, Security, CORE (Identity, Growth, Education, China) SRE teams.

Aug 2011 - Oct 2012

Lead/Manager, Site Reliability

Responsible for managing CORE and CNC SRE teams. Built and scaled the initial Traffic infrastructure which ultimately replaced Citrix Netscalers at LinkedIn.

Yahoo, Inc.

701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Premier digital media company

Oct 2007 - Aug 2011

Principal Service Engineer

out of date

Managed Open Content Platform for global RSS feed caching and data normalization on the scale of 14+ million feeds across eight data centers. GSLB management (through Akamai DNS + load feedback), hardware/software load balancing, data replication and validation (yahoo-specific technology plus MySQL replication), system/application tuning for web services and MySQL, custom application level monitoring/reporting use for troubleshooting and capacity planning. Improved ops insight for service impacting events to identify sources.

Managed User Profile Service for middle-tier application providing consistent client interface for multiple backend datastores. Dealt with monitoring challenges of +12,000 service checks along with application-level metric aggregation and reporting, building infrastructure for Yahoo's APT product (600+ servers) to scale beyond 200,000 queries per second coupled with a 25ms response SLA.

Currently responsible for Frontpage (www.yahoo.com). Maintained GSLB configuration and load distribution, enhanced application-level metric aggregration/reporting/alerting to maintain Frontpage's ability to have the lowest service impact in the event of an outage. Improved deployment/release process from 2.5 hours down to ~20 minutes. Worked on a tight knit team w/Engineering and QA, on new Frontpage implementation. Implemented application-level metrics to graph/alert.

Walkers Office Supply/Internet49

687 Placerville Drive Placerville, CA 95667

Office supply focused on small-medium businesses, also providing dialup/DSL internet access

Dec 2002 - Oct 2007

Senior Unix Admin

Designed/documented/implemented L4-balanced Qmail with Vpopmail on FreeBSD systems which included custom SpamAssassin/ClamAV/GreyListing performance tweaking to handle 1,000,000+ emails per day. Set up dns, mail, and web hosting automation.

Managed/upgraded unix web hosting and upgraded/tuned centralized NFS server used for email, web and log storage. Implemented network-based monitoring utility, Nagios with NRPE to check service and server availability as well as notification when services/servers fail.

Contracted out to United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) to provide IT management as well as desktop support. Supported a small office environment of 50-70 employees with group policy management, management/implementation of Symantec Corporate AntiVirus, and monitoring all servers and network connections between four offices. Environment included two domain controllers, Exchange 2003, Veritas BackupExec, and PowerSchool + Destiny used for the tribe's school district.

Copart, Inc.

4665 Business Center Drive Fairfield, CA 94534

Auction salvaged title vehicles on the behalf of insurance companies over the internet

Aug 2004 - Dec 2006

Senior Unix Admin

Responsible for managing 200+ Solaris/Linux servers across two data centers. Services provided include web, java web applications (resin/tomcat), mysql, monitoring (cacti/nagios/custom scripting), ldap, cvs + cvs automation tools (CruiseControl/Fisheye), as well as several internal web-based applications written to support other departments within the company.

Managed Solaris Jumpstart automation using FlashArchive and the linux-based counterpart, Kickstart. Managed NetBackup by automating backup image verification and media auditing, as well as Vault configuration and implementation for off-site rotation. Rewrote NetBackup's distribution script to use SSH instead of RSH.

Designed and implemented several internal tools to automate various tasks and reports. Logviewer, provided socket-based access to log files on remote servers with the ability to perform a variety of tasks on log files (including list, get attributes, get the file, search with regex, and perform head/tail) while providing several degrees of security to limit access to defined log files. Transparent watermarking system integrated with Netcache to display appropriate watermark based on HTTP referrer. VB² Monitor, track/monitor/display status of all auctions for Copart providing near real-time status on auction completion, website health-checks and the ability to auto-join any running auction. VB² Plotter, displayed a map of the earth with points plotted throughout to represent active connections to Copart's auction servers based on data from GeoIP. Support Contract Manager, a repository for all support contract/contact information as well as notification for contract expiration.

Sacramento SPCA

6201 Florin-Perkins Road Sacramento, California 95828

Non-profit providing shelter and adoption services for abandoned/unwanted pets

May 2005 - current

PHP developer

Working on a volunteer basis, currently support existing web infrastructure (LAMP). Worked on several e-commerce interfaces from accepting donations to registering for classes online. Introduced the use of unobtrusive Javascript and AJAX to improve the user experience with new projects as well as the existing management interface.

RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc.

PO Box 348060 Sacramento, CA 95834-8060

Enterprise-class data center co-location located in Sacramento, CA

Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

Systems Engineer

Designed/documented/implemented all system infrastructure using Solaris 8 on 18 Sun servers ranging from Netra T1 to SunFire 4800 as well as helped design network infrastructure to provide complete redundancy. System infrastructure included HDS Lightening 9960, 3Par Inserv, NetApp F840c filers (clustered, using NFS and CIFS), Veritas NetBackup 4.5 (upgraded from 3.4) using Spectra Logic Gator 64k robotic library, load-balanced and replicated LDAP for Solaris authentication, BIND for DNS, load-balanced Apache, load-balanced and replicated MySQL, as well as remote access capabilities (MS RRAS for VPN and Lucent Max for dialup using MS IAS).

Managed the clustered Exchange environment and handled all improvements to Exchange ranging from migrating Exchange database to a larger volume to adding capabilities to Outlook Web. Managed and defined Active Directory users/user roles/security policy, implemented roaming profiles/folder redirection within the domain policy for specific departments. Designed/implemented intranet website based on PHP and ported employee information into a centralized Oracle database.

Wrote several management scripts to automate tape duplication and rotation with Veritas NetBackup for off-site storage to improve disaster recovery plan. Implemented Qmail spooling server to identify spam and provide a localized buffer in case Exchange became unavailable. Wrote procedures to perform any administration task within Solaris, NetBackup, NetApp and SAN storage. Provided level 3 (end-of-line) support for the Operations department.

Scurvy.net

3345 Mission Avenue Carmichael, CA 95608

Web programming/design/hosting service

Oct 2000 - Current

Systems Admin

Built web/email hosting solutions under Debian Linux. Utilized Qmail with Vpopmail for email infrastructure, tied in qmailadmin to allow customers control over their email administration. Built several automation scripts to minimize time spent building and managing websites and email.

Designed and coded an online photo gallery with the abilities of assigning photographer, description and people of each photo with full search capabilities for all fields :: CANDIDv2 (http://candid.scurvy.net)

Designed and coded a template based mailto CGI which allows users to process information from a HTML form, process the input and send an email with the information formatted to a specified template. Additional features include timezone translation and script execution for further processing of data.

Wavve Telecommunications

9332 Tech Center Drive Sacramento, CA

Large data center co-location located in Sacramento, CA

Mar 2000 - Jan 2001

Systems Engineer

Designed redundant services solution covering Radius, Web, FTP, DNS, News, and Mail. Worked with EMC in designing scalable storage solution for over 30 Sun servers.

Designed, implemented and administered systems interacting with MS-SQL, Oracle 8, L4 switches, and Cold Fusion. Secured all Linux servers; optimized (and fixed) DNS servers. Designed and implemented VLAN setup/configuration on BigIron 8000 to decrease broadcasted/unnecessary traffic. Responsible for security auditing of Linux and Windows NT servers.

JPSNet, a OneMain.com Company

595 Menlo Drive Rocklin, CA

Internet Service Provider offering service primarily in California (with limited national service)

Dec 1999 - Mar 2000

Network Admin

Managed nation-wide network - which included Cisco routers (25xx,72xx,75xx series), Catalyst (26xx,29xx,55xx series), PIX 520, Ascend SA 100 and 600 CSU/DSU bridge, Ascend TNT (1/2/3 generation), Ascend Max 4000-4048, NetApp; managed Netcache via WCCP. Managed point-to-point connections (from DS0 to DS3). Managed unix shell hosts on BSDI (3.x-4.x). Managed several unix web and DNS servers. Responsible for BIND 4->8 migration and cleaning up zone file management. Created Perl web interface to allow technicians to administer web servers and DNS servers. Managed RADIUS, SMTP, POP3, and HTTP servers. Created custom scripts to monitor bandwidth usage reports via SNMP.

Ulink Internet

451 Parkfair Drive Sacramento, CA

Small Sacramento-based Internet Service Provider

Feb 1999 - Nov 1999

Systems Admin

Managed DNS and responsible for BIND 4->8 migration. Migrated several services from Windows NT 4 to Linux (RedHat 6) including web, email and radius authentication. Implemented and managed hold music server via developed CGI interface with Perl. Implemented conversion to new billing software (Quickbooks to ISP Companion) through a series of Perl scripts. Also administered Livingston Radius 2.3, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, and IIS 4.0.

Consulted and assisted in converting an NT based ISP to UNIX, as well as configured Ascend Max 4048s. Advised and implemented current network layout for increased security and performance. Assisted with the creation of a web-based user management interface to create/modify/delete users from the system. Set up Lucent RADIUS, BIND, Qpopper, and Sendmail.

Mission Ave Open School, San Juan School District

2925 Mission Avenue Sacramento, CA

K-6 Elementary School

Jan 1999 - Jun 1999

Systems Admin

Managed and upgraded 89 Macintosh and 4 PC (running Windows NT) computers, supporting a staff of 20+ teachers and 5+ office staff. Performed system support for teachers to help them and students to improve their skills for multimedia presentations and usage of the network resources (network drives and printers). Managed all systems through remote applications (ANA, Timbukto). Optimized network layout of school for frame-relay T1. Worked with HP Procurve switches for interconnecting all computers within the location.

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