Linux system administrator, site reliability engineer, system engineer.
Wrote test-driven object-oriented Python code every day.
Served as mentor and ad hoc teacher.
Engaged in data analysis.
Wrote, ran and managed programs running on cluster-scale systems.
22 Years at Emory University (1985–2007)
Programmer analyst, supervisor of consulting, senior consultant, senior and lead UNIX system administrator.
Supported desktop Mac, Windows and UNIX.
Supported mainframe systems from IBM, DEC VAX, BSD and Sun UNIX. Later Redhat and other flavors of UNIX.
Highlights at Emory
Brought up TeX typesetting system on BSD UNIX, IBM VM, DEC VAX, DOS and Mac, and large data center Xerox printers.
Built team of up to five professional consultants plus grad student employees.
Helped to make them experts on all platforms, particularly UNIX.
Wrote call tracking software in Nextstep to allow analyzing customer service.
Administered servers running UNIX, Novell, and Windows NT.
Provided consulting on AIX systems to the libraries' Beck Center for electronic texts.
Worked to stabilize email and web services amid massive growth in usage and data.
Converted systems platform from Solaris to Red Hat Linux.
Wrote account management software to synchronize password changes across the enterprise and to integrate with account provisioning.
Helped select, install and operate a new 1024-core high performance computing cluster for research computing.
4 years as graduate lab assistant at Georgia State University (1993–1996)
Taught astronomy 101 and 102 labs.
10 years at the Museum of Arts and Sciences and Mark Smith Planetarium (1975–1985)
Two engagements as interim planetarium curator.
Three years as part-time observatory curator.
Five years as director of astronomy.
Highlights at the planetarium
Produced several public planetarium shows per year.
Ran a complete schedule of K through 12 shows during the week for visiting school groups.
Staff consisted of one part-time assistant and part time staff up to 12. Senior part time (weekend) staff included a college professor and two full-time engineers. Other part time staff were college students and high school students.
Focused all programs on scientifically accurate and well-explained and interpreted astronomy.
Built a low-voltage control system for projectors by printing our own circuit boards and building components.
Wrote software in Turbo Pascal to program complex slide sequences across multiple dissolving slide projectors.
Purchased a photometer and started an astronomical research group with a team of area astronomers.
Systems and Lanuages
Python and Perl with current focus entirely on Python. Many other past languages.
A little bash shell, C, and Java. Recently some Scala, Go, and Javascript.
Linux OS, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Many other past operating systems.
Many different hardware systems including Sun, HP/Compaq, Egenera, EMC.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology BS physics.
Georgia State University, all course work, most research and exams toward PhD in astronomy.
