Home: 972-712-6563
Mobile: 214-403-4609
Email: ccox@endlessnow.com
8506 Emerald Glen Ln.
Frisco, TX 75033
O B J E C T I V E
Seeking a challenging position where I can exercise my skills in overseeing teams, planning, designing, developing and/or implementing solutions surrounding Unix/Linux and complex challenges in cross platform integration and software development. Specialties include intranet web portals, secure multiple source authentication, Windows to Linux/Unix seamless integration, secure remote desktop solutions and network inventory/asset management. Ideal job would involve the ability to create and code new solutions to solve “impossible” integration problems.
K E Y W O R D S
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Linux, Red Hat, SUSE, RHEL, SLES, openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu,
Windows, Active Directory, LDAP, OpenLDAP, NIS, Samba, Apache, PHP, PmWiki, Shell, C, Tcl/Tk,
Make, BIND, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SSH, NX, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL, BIG-IP, F5, Qlogic,
Nexsan, SAN, NAS, HP BladeSystem, IBM BladeCenter, ProLiant, PowerEdge, xSeries, pSeries,
Avocent, PowerVM, Zones, Containers, lxc, Integrity VM, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, Xen Server,
Linux KVM, RHEV, Virtualization, VDI, Cloud, Nessus, Nagios, Cacti, SNMP, Dovecot, SMTP, POP,
IMAP, NTP, PAM, RPM, Cvs, Rcs, Rsync, Proxies, Firewalls, D2D Backups, Deduplication, System
Administration, Network Security, Release Management, Inventory Management, Software
Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Budgeting, Planning
B I O G R A P H Y
My career path started in software development in 1985 with an emphasis on C++ object oriented development in 1988. I transitioned to doing software configuration management and release management for companies like Texas Instruments Inc., VISystems Inc., CARE Systems Inc., Sabre
Desicision Technologies and BEA Systems, Inc.. While working for BEA Systems, Inc. I managed 12 people doing quality assurance, release management and systems administration. When BEA closed their first development site down in Plano, TX, I remained in the area and retooled myself by teaching my own developed course curriculum at Collin County Community College. There I taught
Introduction to Unix Using Linux and Unix System Administration I and II. For the past 10 years I have been doing many tasks in support of a software development lab of 250 servers at Sterling
Commerce Inc. (which was acquired 1 year ago by IBM Inc.). Details follow...
R E C E N T A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S
 Regained the trust of a software development team with regards to working with a System
Administration team.
 Created a custom portable disk to disk backup system using rsync and SAN technologies.
 Created a network device query and automatic inventory tool that worked across Windows,
Unix, Network, Storage and other network devices and operating systems.
 Created the authentication architecture for Unix/Linux hosts.
 Created seamless file storage access between Unix/Linux and Windows hosts.
 Created dynamic DNS/DHCP solution and ease of use tools.
 Created intranet portal and wiki solution based on PmWiki for our site with custom plugins for calendaring, document format translation and corporate back office integration.
 Served as adjunct Network Security Engineer and adjunct Windows System Administrator.
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D E G R E E S , A W A R D S , C E R T I F I C A T I O N S
 BSCS Texas A&M University, 1987, GPA 3.2
 GNU/SAIR Linux Administrator/Trainer
 Winner O'Reilly Open Source Best Tclet 1999 (for ImPress)
 Author of ImPress Graphics Editor (4 cows at Tucows, 97% popularity), PmCalendar,
PmGraphviz, PmFeed, PmDocConvert
 President, North Texas Linux Users Group , 1999 – Current
E M P L O Y M E N T H I S T O R Y
IBM Inc. (formerly Sterling Commerce, Inc.), June 2001 – Current
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator, Software Developer
Administration of multiple Linux and Unix operating systems. Created cross platform authentication, shared SAN/NAS storage areas, websites, corporate portal, backup system, asset inventory system.
The Endless Now, 2001 – Current
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Consultant
Taught Introduction to Linux, System Administration I and System Administration II, Collin County
Community College (2001-2002). Occasional contracting and consulting work.
BEA Systems, Inc., 1996 – 2001
Sr. Manager of Quality Assurance
Developed budgets, schedules, processes and tools for Testing, Software Configuration
Management/Release Management and Systems Administration. Managed and hired 8 QA Engineers, 2
SCM/Build Engineers and 2 Systems Administrators. Member of BEA Founding Team.
Sabre SDT/SCS Teams (contract), 1995 – 1996
Test Integration Engineer
Developed build process for 5 tier web based reservation system project known as Sabre 2000. Wrote tests for all stages of Sabre 2000.
CARE Systems Inc., 1994 – 1995 (9 mos.)
Software Release Manager
Managed and developed processes and tools for source code control and code builds. Hired and trained a new person to aid in the role of build and release management.
VISystems, Inc., 1990 – 1994
Software Release Manager and Systems Administrator
Managed process and tools for Systems Administration, Porting and Software Configuration and
Release Management. Hired Systems Administrator and CM Engineer to aid in workload.
Texas Instruments, Inc., 1985 – 1990
Software Developer
Developed programmatic interface requirements for the Generic Object Oriented Database (GOOD) schematic capture and ASIC/IC design parameters. C++ developer (rare skill at the time).
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