Experience
2013–present: Technical Director at ibiblio.org
ibiblio is both a digital library (a collection of volunteer-led, contributor-managed collections) and a lab at UNC-CH where both undergraduate and graduate students develop skills in UI/UX, database systems, digital archiving, linux systems administration, infosec, and contributor relations. The university has a three-part mission of teaching, research, and service. At ibiblio we are a public service in that our collections are public, a teaching space in that we provide learning opportunities for students pursuing a range of degrees and specialties, and a repository for a range of corpora that have been used by scholars both here at UNC-CH and around the world.
- Student hiring and supervision.
- Learning objective development and oversight for students in the Field Experience program.
- University, Contributor, and other stakeholder relationship management.
2011–present: Systems Administrator with UNC Chapel Hill.
- Implement and subsequently replace virtualization and automation solutions three times so far.
- Consolidated and standardized Linux build practices.
September 2008–2010: systems administration and on-call support for The Fire Dog Lake Company.
- Built services.firedoglake.com, integrating trac, cacti and nagios with an LDAP backend.
- Lead and coordinate kernel, apache, and other critical updates for a family of 13 blogs with over 3 million visits per month.
- Implemented ModSecurity 2.x
October 2008–2010: Student Assistant with DocSouth.
- Updated and repaired outdated management scripts.
- Developed simile-based timeline for Going to the Show (Django template and JavaScript).
December 2006–2010: Student Systems Administrator with ibiblio.org.
- Teach and support fellow student staff who maintain internal infrastructure and support contributor sites.
- Updates and re-architecture from RHEL 4.
- Manage mailman instance with 559 lists, over 200 active lists.
- Co-managed migration from MySQL 4.0.27 to 5.0.51 on a primary database host supporting apache virtual hosts and multiple migrations since.
- Implemented SpamAssassin UBE filtering for mailing lists.
- Spearheaded transition to new interface for contributor-facing issue tracker, and later replaced the public help site.
- Modernized virtual host and user creation scripts.
May 2007–2013: Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) vice-chair.
- Advocated for and lead implementation of the first anti-harassment policy.
Spring 2006–2010: Co-president of the Carolina Open Source Initiative (COSI), a student group advocating for increased use of Open Source Software on campus.