Résumé

Skills

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Dedication with an excellent work ethic
• Documentation and Change Management
• Quick and self-motivated learner

Open Source

• github.com/TimidRobot

Experience

Director, Technology

2022 May - current, Creative Commons (CC), Full-Time Remote

• Management
  • Manage technology team (ex. planning, sprints, 1:1s, career development)
  • Provide technical guidance to organizational leadership
  • Cultivate a culture of psychological safety, curiosity, collaboration, and care that pursues positive change
  • Work to minimize risks and ensure business continuity (ex. change management, backup policies, security policies)
• Python Development
  • Develop applications and integrations (Django, Python)
  • Champion Python and guide its use at CC (ex. best practices, packaging, style guide)
  • Maintain a working knowledge of other programming languages in use at CC (ex. Bash, JavaScript, PHP)
  • Improve our code quality through automation, code reviews, and unit tests
  • Deploy and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) (ex. Docker, GitHub Actions)
• Project Management and Collaboration
  • Manage key projects (ex. CC Legal DB, CC Legal Tools, Quantifying the Commons)
  • Participate in oncall rotation
  • Provide support (ex. GitHub Pull Request reviews) and coverage for team members
  • Mentor work program contributors (ex. Google Summer of Code, Outreachy)
  • Champion working transparently in the open and contributing to a welcoming and supportive community
  • Champion free/libre and open source software (FOSS)

Core Systems Manager

2018 Oct - 2022 Apr, Creative Commons (CC), Full-Time Remote

• Systems Administration / Site Reliability Engineering
  • Backend Programming and Application Support (Bash, Python)
  • Cloud Administration (Amazon Web Services [AWS])
  • GNU/Linux and Service Administration
  • Infrastructure as Code (Docker, GitHub Actions, SaltStack, Terraform)
  • SaaS Management
• Information Technology
  • Documentation
  • Project Management
  • Staff support
• Free/Libre and Open Source Software Community Support
  • Mentoring (GSoC, Outreachy, and community submissions)
  • Project Administration

Senior Operations Engineer

2010 Sep - 2018 Oct, Clockwork, Minneapolis, MN

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Bash, CloudFormation, Facter, Puppet, Python)
• Cloud Administration (Amazon Web Services [AWS])
• Hardware Administration (Appliances, Networking, Servers)
• Monitoring and Reporting (Collectd, Graphite, Icinga, logrep, Syslog)
• Teamwork (DevOps Advocacy, Documentation, Mentoring, OpenSource Advocacy, Training)
• Virtualization Administration (DRBD, Ganeti, KVM, Linux)

Director of Information Technology Systems

2009 Oct - 2010 Aug, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, MN

• Manage Linux SysAdmin, Mac SysAdmin, NetAdmin, and Windows SysAdmin
• Project Management, including the research, implementation, and administration of complex systems and services
• Server Administration Coverage (Mac OS X Server, Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux)

Systems Administrator II, Systems Administrator

2004 Feb - 2009 Sep, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, MN

Education

B.A. in Liberal Arts

1998 Sep - 2002 May, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Study Abroad

2000 Aug - 2001 May, Center for Global Education and Experience (Augsburg University), Cuernavaca, MOR, Mexico

• Crossing Borders Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica (first semester)
• Gender and the Environment: Latin American Perspectives (second semester)
• Traveled in Arizona, Sonora, Morelos, Chiapas, Guatemala, and El Salvador

References available upon request