Geoff White's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Site Reliability Engineer (Taos) @ Box Integration of Calico SDN framework into various in-house projects including working with vendors, writing functional tests, bare metal etcd cluster configuration and everyday SRE duties. From November 2016 to August 2017 (10 months) Redwood City, CaliforniaSr. DevOps Engineer @ StubHub/eBay Implementing Continuous Delivery of Virtual Environments that support the ongoing Development Process. From June 2012 to August 2014 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco CaliforniaPrincipal:Network/Server Engineer @ Virtual Sites This is the web hosting and connectivity company that I founded in 1996. I build, configure, deploy, program and administer several Sun Solaris, OpenBSD, W2K and Linux servers that provide DNS, SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP and other services to over 200 domains. Daily duties include compiling and installing numerous OpenSource packages, security monitoring and countermeasures and general scripting and programming tasks, building Windows desktops, virus clearing, general computer repair and upgrades. From April 1996 to December 2005 (9 years 9 months) San Francisco CaliforniaSoftware Engineer @ Enterprise Integration Technology I performed basic research investigating unique ways of serving distributed knowledge bases created using the PROLOG language over the Web. I created a network server, xsbd in C and C++, which allowed knowledge bases created in XSB PROLOG to interact with existing WWW servers and clients in a seamless manner. I also investigated various new technologies in secure authoring and serving of data using SHTTP and SSL as well as new ideas in micro-payment technology From January 1996 to March 1997 (1 year 3 months) Menlo Park CaliforniaDirector of Network Operations @ InterNex Information Services As co-founder and the first Director of Network Operations, my duties included specification, acquisition and deployment of various network components that comprised the first large scale commercial ISDN based ISP in the state of California. I worked intimately with vendors of routing and bridging hardware, often on beta releases of their products. I worked with Telco personnel to "turn up" ISDN PRI circuits, T1 clear channel circuits and Frame Relay circuits. I managed network administration staff, technical support staff and field support, as well as supervising summer interns. I also maintained various network databases including routing configuration files, RADIUS databases and DNS configuration. I also performed long range planning and budget-cost analysis. From January 1993 to January 1995 (2 years 1 month) Menlo Park CaliforniaMTS 4 @ Sun Microsystems Inc. Member of Technical Staff in the Window Systems Group. Ported SUN's Pixrect raster op code to the Intel x86 architecture. Worked on the X11/NeWS server. Performed research in Working Set Size reduction for small memory foot print machines. From April 1987 to June 1991 (4 years 3 months) Mountain View CaliforniaMTS @ INTERACTIVE Sr. MTS porting UNIX applications to the Apollo DOMAIN Operating System From January 1986 to March 1987 (1 year 3 months) Boston MassachusettsSoftware Engineer @ Olivetti Sp.A Series of UNIX scripts to support the release engineering process From 1980 to 1981 (1 year) Ivrea ItaliaSoftware Engineer @ MIT Plasma Fusion Center Designed and implemented a Data Acquisition Display and Control system for the LHRF experiment. Deployed with CAMAC subsystems, written in C under RSX-11/M From September 1978 to January 1980 (1 year 5 months) Cambridge, MassachusettsGlobal CRE Lead @ Blameless Inc Kickstarted Customer Engineering/Success organization. Responsible for initial triage of incoming customer incidents, tracking feature requests and being the customer advocate to product and engineering. Proven success in early customer happiness and retainment. Currently operating as an SRE focusing on Product Reliability and Resiliency. San Mateo, California, United StatesSr. Systems Engineer (Taos) @ Workday Worked on a team as one of two Sr. System developers to Evaluate, Specify and implement a contemporary MFT solution to replace a legacy customer data ingestion system based around SFTP. This new system was designed to be more secure, more flexible and more resilient. An offshoot of this project was a fast logfile parser that was used to gather data on potential security violations in the legacy system, allowing SecOps to track down unauthorized access by rogue laptops and accounts. From October 2017 to June 2018 (9 months) Pleasanton, CaliforniaDevOps/SDN Solution Architect (Taos) @ Autodesk Consultant to EIS Network Transformation team. Providing architectural guidance, engineering support, and mentoring in all aspects of DevOps and Software Defined Networking. Solution Architecture for the VMware NSX product line along with OpenStack SDDC. Deploy Ansible automation and various open-source packages to implement Automation for provisioning, diagnostics, and monitoring. Built an OpenStack vertical to deliver virtual NSX-T dev environments to the Cloud Team. From September 2014 to August 2016 (2 years) San FranciscoCustomer Engineer @ Aspera, an IBM company From November 2011 to June 2012 (8 months) Emeryville, CASr. Solution Architect @ Nicira (acquired by VMware) Lead the initial buildout of the support organization helping it to transform into a world class Customer Engineering department.I worked with Engineering, QA and Product Marketing to ensure that NVP would be a stellar product from the beginning.Created prototype diagnostic tools to assist customers in utilizing the NVP API, Log retrieval automation. Mentored support engineers in deep level troubleshooting, of a complex distributed product which drastically shortened troubleshooting time and therefore decreased downtime for our customers. From July 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 5 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaSr. Technical Support Engineer @ VMware Sr. Technical Support Engineer at VMware in the elite Business Critical Services unit. BCS was the highest tier support offering, providing enterprise-level support for fortune 1000 companies, and government agencies. Specific areas of expertise are Performance, Networking, SDK/programming issues, and Social Engineering. Author of explot, a cross-platform visualization tool for vSphere performance data. From January 2007 to July 2010 (3 years 7 months) San Francisco CaliforniaSOC Engineer @ Verizon Business (Taos) Level II SOC Engineer for the former Totality e-commerce infrastructure construction and management company. Daily duties included WebSphere, Dynamo and ATG operation and management, troubleshooting DNS, NTP and SNMP problems, restarting systems, coordinating hardware swap-out, various systems management tasks on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows 2000/3 Server, diagnosing network reachability issues. From January 2006 to December 2006 (1 year) San Francisco CaliforniaConsultant to Sun Professional Services, Thailand @ Sun Microsystems I have traveled to Thailand six times in the last three yearsfor Sun Professional Services. The first three times I worked on the rollout of several ISPs. The remaining trips were to perform security related projects, including security audits, NIDS installation and training and Penetration testing. From November 1998 to May 2004 (5 years 7 months) BRC Ranger @ Burning Man Functioned as a Black Rock City Ranger.1997 - Sr. Ranger1999 - Shift Commander From August 1996 to September 1999 (3 years 2 months) Black Rock City Nevada