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Jerome Harrington

PO Box 232 Altoona, FL 32702
jerome.harrington@gmail.com
321.945.1337

Employment

PEER 1 Network, Inc. May 2002 - Present. System Engineer.

• Internal advancement from Tier 1 Technical Support and System Administrator
• Work in a small team to design, maintain, and provide advanced support for a large network of UNIX and Windows web, database, and e-mail hosting platforms
• Responsible for researching and deploying 3rd-party solutions
• Develop and maintain custom internal applications when necessary
• 24x7 monitoring of and emergency response to failed network services
• Currently developing a CRM to be used by internal and external customers for billing, ticketing, and server operations management. This is being written in Java and interfaces with multiple backend systems via web services and direct database connections

Donavan Williams. June 2005. Application Developer.

• Short-term contract development scenario
• Prototyped a web application for Washington, D.C.-based Aristotle, a political data analysis firm
• The application integrated Google Maps with campaign contribution data provided by Aristotle, creating a geographical visualization of contributions made

University of Central Florida. January 2003 - October 2003. IT Manager.

• Build and maintain Windows lab workstations and Active Directory services
• Manage Linux servers to provide network services
• Provide support to Digital Media faculty and students
• Configure, maintain and support a Linux-based production lab including workstations and servers utilizing NIS and NFS for single sign-on as well as shared software installations (Renderman, Shake, Maya, etc)

Education

B.S. Digital Media: Computing for Media. University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL. August 2006.


Achievements

• Co-authored a paper considered for inclusion in IEEE INFOCOM 2007 entitled A BitTorrent-Driven Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack.

Skills & Technologies

Personal Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting and analysis skills
• Able to learn new tools and skills quickly and efficiently
• Strongly prefer working directly with code over WYSIWYG environments
• Comfortable in individual and team scenarios

Operating Systems

• Linux (including RedHat/Fedora, Debian, Slackware and Gentoo)
• OpenBSD
• FreeBSD
• Solaris
• Apple Mac OS X
• Microsoft Windows

Database Systems

• MySQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• PostgreSQL

Programming Languages

• PHP
• Perl
• Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Java / JSP
• C / C++

Web Server Software

• Apache Web Server
• lighttpd
• Apache Tomcat
• Microsoft IIS

E-Mail Platforms

• qmail
• Sendmail

Virtualization Software

• VMWare Workstation, Server
• Parallels Desktop