System Administrator Resume Example

• Purchased, designed & built, renovate investment properties.
• Embarked on entrepreneurial initiative to exercise and enhance project and resource management skills as well as creating a challenging yet rewarding service opportunities.
• Managed a wide variety of projects from small residential to commercial and dealing with constrained budgets to complete fixed scope.

• Collaborated w/ closely w/ the CTO to set company's technical strategic strategy.
• Developed technical solutions to facilitate the production of feature films & television.
• Delivered digital dailies via satellite for Path To War at Santa Clarita Studio.
• Provided remote scoring & Audio Dialog Recording sessions via satellite for Hart's War at MGM.
• Provided remote editing sessions via high speed terrestrial fiber link for DreamWorks.
• Architected on studio lot desktop streaming digital dailies to Warner Bros. Studio for Harry Potter.
• Installed satellite link at Brookheimer Studio in Santa Monica to the Mill in London for post-production work on Black Hawk Down.
• Produced/directed 5 minute promo on NeTune services.

• Designed & implemented a realtime ATM centric hybrid national broadcasters network for CNN from Hollywood to Atlanta offices.
• Provided direction on circuit provisioning required bandwidths, worked w/ backbone service and local loop providers such as WinStar, Genuity, Vyvx/AT&T, Pacbell, Qwest,…
• Used wireless microwave radios in line-of-sight local loops which maintained 99.999% reliability.
• Architected demo facility that involved realtime live feeds of video source from HD & SD decks, DDR, and digital cameras for high quality video conferencing.
• Proposed transfer of large digital content via a store-and–forward private network that offers security, archiving, and storage plus digital-cinema solutions.

• Designed and implemented client/server architecture in a UNIX environment using IRIX as the server OS. IRIX and NextStep as the client OS.
• Hardware consisted of Challenge XLs, Onyxes, Indigo2s, Octanes, O2s, and Windows workstations.
• Beta tested ATM network protocol w/ manufacturer, then implementation ATM, HIPPI, ethernet and fast ethernet using FORE Systems and Cisco switches in a live production environment.
• Build a 100+ CPU renderfarm consist of SGI custom designed Challenge S'es, O2s, and Onyxes.
• Designed custom backup/archive software to operate Ampex DST tape library.
• Installed/configured/hosted Netscape's web server, SuiteSpot.
• Developed applications in CGI, AWK and PERL scripts, tools for render wrangling.
• Evaluated then procured majority of systems.
• Developed software file locking mechanism for version control in C and PERL w/ GUI.
• Coordinated, managed, and moved entire studio's technical infrastructure from Glendale to Sherman Oaks.
• Supervised technical support for the production of feature length animated films.
• Managed & tuned networks using HP Openview & ForeThought utilizing SNMP agents.
• Directed operations to perform backups, archives, and recovery of production data.
• Consulted other divisions & multiple film projects on production system requirements.
• Provided costs on equipment needed for job bidding non-in-house projects.

Supported productions: Space Jam, Quest for Camelot, Eraser, Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones

• Implement the transition from a traditional film making studio to incorporate a digital workflow infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented a network using FDDI, 10BaseT, and 2BaseT.
• Setup systems including SGI Challenge Ls, Indigo2s, Indigo1s, Iris'es, Sun SparcStations, and Power Macs
• Installed and licensed software consisted of Maya, Wavefront's suite (Composer, Director, Paint,…), Softimage, Electric Image, Photoshop.
• Managed allocation and deployment of systems for the multiple simultaneous short-term productions.

Supported productions: Hunt for Red October, The Mask, The Crow, Shaw Shank Redemption, Jekyll & Hyde

• Provided technical support to digital photography studio.
• Implemented point-of-sale system using MAS*90.
• Worked w/ Konica color film printers.
• Build lighting rig and blue screen set.

• Launched Sun products at MicroAge.
• Conducted direct sales efforts.
• Provided pre-sales and post-sales technical support.
• Hosted technical marketing seminars for Sun based solutions.

• Provided computing services for the Law Center
• Conducted research of individual department computing needs, then designed the technology infrastructure based upon the needs.
• Managed a team of system analysts to provide front line support.