CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT PEAKE
tel: +44 07548 566 961 // e-mail: robert@peakepro.com
43 Eversleigh Road ¤ London ¤ N3 1HY
TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP
Overview
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Hands-on technologist experienced in major project implementation at all levels
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Experienced manager capable of recruiting, building, and motivating great technical teams
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Forward-thinking executive with solid financial experience
May ’11 – Present
London (UK)
BRAVENEWTALENT (INTERNET STARTUP)
Chief Technology Officer
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Grew Product and Engineering teams from 4 to 16, hiring top talent
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Reported monthly to Board of Directors, providing all KPIs for the company
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Elected to move on after 6-month trial period; working on a seamless transition
THE DAVID ALLEN COMPANY (MANAGEMENT CONSULTING COMPANY)
Chief Information Officer
Jul ’08 – Apr '11
Ojai, CA
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Secretary of the Executive Committee (includes CEO, COO, VP Sales, and VP Education) responsible for
finance, brand, and company culture at all levels across $8M corporate consulting firm.
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Facilitated diverse, cross-functional team in implementing a new sales-oriented CRM to run the core
business
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Combined a light touch with results orientation to implement a deep change initiative praised by
senior leadership as surprisingly painless and effective
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This initiative became the subject of a Gartner case study on the effective use of cloud computing
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Widespread efficiencies, including on-demand financial visibility, made it possible for the
organization to weather the economic downturn more much gracefully, and respond to new
opportunities with increased agility, transparency, and customer focus
Consulted with customers including top-tier investment banks, innovative software companies, and highprofile individuals about the application of technology to personal and team productivity
Jan ‘05 – Apr '11
Chief Technology Officer
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Designed and implemented online membership business for the GTD ® community from ground up
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Key elements include building a dedicated, scalable server farm from bare metal, including all
aspects of systems architecture and hands-on systems administration, design specifications, and
developer support
A highly profitable diversification of the core consulting business that has contributed
significantly to the continued success of the business in critical economic times
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Built a team of developers, engineers, and systems administration staff from scratch, and managed them
with a practical blend of Agile methods and a good-humored leadership style emphasizing the
importance of delivering excellent results while having fun writing code
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Maintained an outstanding track record of system security, uptime, and transactional accuracy while
responding to the unique needs of a community passionate about productivity and “life hacking”
TRUSTCOMMERCE (LEADING OPEN SOURCE PAYMENT PROCESSOR)
Interim CTO
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Jun ’04 – Dec ‘04
Irvine, CA
Architected a large-scale eCommerce solution for a leading national radio network on a LAMP stack
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Designed to scale for extreme traffic spikes promoted by calls to action during national
broadcasts
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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT PEAKE
tel: +44 07548 566 961 // e-mail: robert@peakepro.com
43 Eversleigh Road ¤ London ¤ N3 1HY
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Praised by senior engineers and executive management alike
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Refactored critical components of the company infrastructure using open source technologies
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Recruited and hired technical staff including engineers, system administrators, and project managers
PEAKE PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING (CONSULTING COMPANY)
Owner and Lead Consultant
Jan ’04 – Dec ‘04
Los Angeles, CA
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Built content management, eCommerce, and corporate training sites; partnered with design and film
production companies to provide a white-label programming force for Fortune-500 companies, cottageindustry startups, and non-profits
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Ran a reliable web, email, and DNS hosting business for clients using exclusively open-source
technologies
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Contributed significantly to the open source community through written publications (see list, below)
and source code contributions to the PEAR (PHP) source code repository and other community projects
MSIA (LARGE FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION)
Manager of Information Services
2003 - 2004
Los Angeles, CA
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Managed leading-edge online strategy and implementation for this large-scale international organization
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Overall IT manager for over a dozen web properties with thousands of pages, including tithing.org
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Developed systems including membership, eCommerce, subscription services, audio/video delivery,
catalog distribution, and marketing programs
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Responsible for all staffing in Information Systems Team
Network Administrator, Web Developer and Webcast Systems Manager
2000 - 2003
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Built world-class live and on-demand streaming media infrastructure on top of the Akamai CDN
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Built reporting systems to monitor system effectiveness and use as well as audience feedback
mechanisms to improve experience
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Responsible for site-wide Network Administration of the inter-organizational WAN
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Implemented industry-standard security and routing using Cisco routers and firewalls
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Web Developer: Built and maintained thousands of pages of content on dozens of sites
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Web System Network Administrator: Responsible for uptime and availability of all web sites, web
applications, integrated web components, and database backend
TransBay.NET (leading early market bay area ISP)
Systems Administrator
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Systems administration and management on the UNIX platforms
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Developed new business opportunities for the company
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Developed a value-added reseller relationship with major hardware vendors
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Negotiated with U.C. Berkeley about outsourcing their then-extensive modem pool
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate Educator, Self-Paced Computer Science Center
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1998 – 1999
Berkeley, CA
1997 - 1998
Berkeley, CA
Taught undergraduate students learning new programming languages such as Scheme/Lisp, Java, and C
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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT PEAKE
tel: +44 07548 566 961 // e-mail: robert@peakepro.com
43 Eversleigh Road ¤ London ¤ N3 1HY
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages:
Operating Systems:
Relational Databases:
Network Protocols:
System Scalability:
System Security:
C/C++, PHP/Perl/Python, Java/JavaScript, Lisp/Scheme, AppleScript, Shell Scripting
Linux (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian and others), UNIX
(Solaris/HP/BSD), Mac OS X, Windows NT/200x Server
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL
Cisco IOS, TCP/IP Packet Debugging (Wireshark), HTTP/S (including
cookies/sessions), SMTP, SNMP, DNS, PPTP, IPSec, SSL/SSH tunneling
Radware Load Balancers, RRDNS, Cacti/RRDTool monitoring, memcached, rsync
CISP/PCI compliance, OWASP standards, Snort, Tripwire-equivalent IDS, chkrootkit,
McAfee security scanning
Open Source Software Contributions
PHP PEAR Repository
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2004-Present
Lead Developer, Net_Monitor Network monitoring library
Contributing Developer, Payment_Process module for TrustCommerce payment gateway
Other Open Source Projects
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2004
Project K++, system for Flash-based computer-generated art, featured on Slashdot
Dialogs, early-stage precursor to forum-based educational systems like Blackboard/Moodle, written in C
loopedArray class, PHPClasses library
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts – English
1996 - 1999
Berkeley, CA
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Graduated as both a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar and an Alumni Leadership Scholar.
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Strong emphasis in Computer Science – coursework included:
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CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
CS 61B: Data Structures and Advanced Programming in Java
CS 9E: Productive UNIX use
CS 24: How the Internet Works
PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
International PHP magazine
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2004-2005
"Introducing Design Patterns: Practical, Reusable Solutions To Common Web Development Problems"
(2-part series)
"Farming PHP: An Introduction To PHP Web Server Farms"
"Geopositioning In PHP: Finding The Space Behind Cyberspace"
"PHP Cryptography: An Introduction Using Mcrypt"
"The Pleasures Of Ming: Dynamically Generating SWF Content In PHP"
"Optimizing, Staticizing, and Caching PHP: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Precious PHP Code"
"Contributing To Pear: An Insider's Look At The Process Behind The Packages"
"Queue It!: A Better Way To Send Mail Using PHP"
"Enterprise PHP Coding Standards: Bringing Quality Control To Business Critical PHP Applications"
"Inside The Zend Certified Engineer Exam: Bringing PHP To The Enterprise, One Test At A Time"
"Shopping For Carts: Choosing The PHP Shopping Cart That Is Right For Your Application"
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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT PEAKE
tel: +44 07548 566 961 // e-mail: robert@peakepro.com
43 Eversleigh Road ¤ London ¤ N3 1HY
Zend.com DevZone
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2004
"Recursion In PHP: Tapping Unharnessed Power"
"The Best Tool For The Job: OO versus Procedural Programming in PHP"
Sitepoint
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2004
"Get Seen The Easy Way: Simple, Practical Search Engine Promotion"
OTHER INTERESTS
Reading and writing poetry (Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Pacific University, Oregon 2009)
Classical music
Hiking, surfing, fencing
International travel
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