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I N F O R M A T I O N |
Richard FrostUtah Valley University graduate offering a strong academic background in IS/IT and years of industry experience.
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E X P E R I E N C E |
Apr 2016 - Present
DevOps EngineerMXI have several responsibilities which include hardware installation and maintenance, architecture planning and implementation, configuration management, provisioning and decommissioning of VMs to support our highly distributed platform, which includes over 70 different services working together to meet our customer's needs. I also participate in a weekly rotation for dealing with escalated support issues and platform performance. In addition to those responsibilities I also perform DBA activities and am directly responsible for 6 HP Vertica clusters (columnar data store) and 30+ PostgreSQL servers. Our platform is powered also entirely by open-source software, so I am very familiar with several open-source technologies. Jan 2014 - April 2016
Data EngineerSkedunaAs the second full-time member of Skeduna, I have been able to help build the organization from the ground up. I have been called upon to work in multiple capacities, though my main area of focus is technology. I worked on building our platform with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. I have worked heavily on database design, business logic, and data acquisition. We built a system to integrate with Student Information Systems (SIS) APIs. I also helped design and implement our platform's API, which is compliant to the JSON API spec. I am also involved in various front-end projects involving HTML, CSS, and AngularJS. Other responsibilities include network management, virtualization, Microsoft Azure management, and other IT related tasks. Nov 2012 - May 2014
IT AssociateNetDocumentsAs a member of the NetDocument's IT team I helped support and maintain corporate networks, data-centers, and servers. My main areas of focus were Windows Server management, HyperV virtualization, Linux administration, Physical server maintenance and configuration, networking. Participated in implementing a large-scale deployment of SOLR for searching. It involved planning, installing hardware and software, developing deployment plans and methods, as well as performing the actual deployment. Nov 2009 - Nov 2012
IT SpecialistMultiLing CorporationResponsible for network, server, and website administration. Other duties include helpdesk support, providing technology training to employees, and overseeing the IT needs of 6 international offices and over 200 employees worldwide. In this capacity I also helped plan and implement large technological projects such as upgrading several production servers from Windows Server 2003 R2 to Windows Server 2008 R2, moving the company’s infrastructure to a new location, and virtualizing the data center using VMware’s ESX platform. Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
Network TechnicianQeNETSProvided outsourced IT solutions to over 35 local organizations. Tasks ranged from network configuration, performing backups, and virus removal. Services that were offered included security audits, consultations, email, VoIP, and web hosting. I also managed Ubuntu and CentOS servers running Apache and Postfix. Responsibilities included maintaining MySQL databases, installing system patches, and user management. |
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E D U C A T I O N |
December 2011
B.S. Information Systems, minor in Business ManagementUtah Valley Unviersity - Orem, Utah - GPA 3.77/4.0 (Cum Laude)My studies focused on advanced technology topics in the fields of networking, security, relational databases, systems design and administration. To supplement these courses I also participated in business oriented courses such as accounting, economics, business law, and organizational behavior.
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S K I L L S |
I have had the opportunity to work with many different individuals, organizations, and networks. This broad experience has helped me gain a better understanding of how things work, and the different ways that people think and communicate. I have also been able to identify technological advantages and disadvangates from these different applications and approaches. The following sections outline some of the more prominent skills that I have developed.
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