Music: composition, production, performance
FRANK O’NEILL
Systems Administrator
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
"...took us twice as far with only half as much..." reflected Aber Whitcomb on my contribution as the sole systems architect / engineer / administrator at the legendary ResponseBase LLC of Santa Monica, CA.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Technical Installer
Elevate Technologies / Robert Half International
Reno, NV
01.2023 - 02.2023
- Installed computer hardware, staged multi-user desktop environments utilizing best practices of cable management
Political Canvasser
CADC
Reno, NV
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Knocked on the doors of registered voters and gathered data regarding the November 8, 2022 election.
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR & DATA MANAGER
Crisis Support Services Of Nevada
Reno, NV
01.2001 - 07.2022
- Replaced single-point-of-failure infrastructure with Linux High-Availability, virtual machine cluster with kvm on
- Debian Linux
- Migrated storage arrays to NVME SSD hardware RAID
- Migrated legacy virtual machines to new cluster, including their MS-SQL server
- Automated with R-Studio Server and R language daily chart of call-agent performance based on VOIP phone-statuses queried from their Microsoft SQL Server database
- Automated in
- Powershell various aspects of onboarding new hires: user-account creations in Active Directory & Office 365, creating team in Teams for their timesheets, personalized-welcome, Word document with user’s passwords and access codes, etc
- This gave CSSNV the critical capability of scaling-up the hiring of personnel in order to qualify for the federal 988 grant: my automation reduced the time cost of onboarding one person from 2 hours to less than 5 minutes
- Administered VOIP (3cx) system, network and server infrastructure
- Implemented OpenVPN on their Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to enable VPN access outside of the office
- Resolved help desk issues.
PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE
Tesla
Sparks, NV
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Inspired by the ‘flying buttress’ of Medieval, Gothic architecture, I developed a novel method of stacking multiple levels of the heavy bandoliers of batteries so the aggregate stack is stable for long-term storage
- My method became the canonical standard at the Gigafactory in Sparks, NV
Field Laborer
Private Ranch
Reno, NV
08.2020 - 01.2021
- Field labor – cultivated and harvested medical-grade hemp.
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT & CONTRACTOR
LOS ANGELES
01.2009 - 08.2020
- Designed, deployed, maintained network and server infrastructure in rack and cage allocations at numerous colo facilities: Disaster and data recoveries, relocations, performance analysis and tuning migrations of database / hardware / software.
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
SPINMASTER STUDIOS
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Converted MySQL to innodb tables to enable transactions
- Sharded monolithic database
- Offloaded highly-recurrent read operations onto a distributed, memory-cached keystore
- Implemented an undocumented storage engine described in the MySQL source code for a six-fold ( 6x ) performance boost
- Optimized SQL queries.
PROPERTY MANAGER
AZTEC REALTY, ANGELES
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Repaired & maintained a block of commercial properties, 2 restaurants, 18 residential units
- Collected and deposited rental incomes, negotiated leases
- Stucco, concrete, asphalt, drywall, roofing, structural repairs
- Invited and negotiated with film crews to ensure the owner and tenants received compensation for filming events
- Attended festival planning-committees, community meetings
- Graffiti removal, commissioning murals, washing parking lots.
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Topica
San Francisco, CA
01.2005 - 12.2005
- Diagnosed and resolved their mysterious and long-running data corruption ( kernel-level filesystem bug in a specific kernel version )
- Audited and rewrote PERL and UNIX shell-scripts for security and performance
- Achieved a twenty-fold ( 20x ) increase in email delivery performance across the entire server farm
- Trained the systems administration team
- Advised the CFO, CTO, CEO, and Oracle database teams.
SABBATICAL @ VIENNA
01.2004 - 01.2005
- The fallout from ResponseBase injured my trust and desire to enjoin another team
- I needed to re-rez, heal personal wounds, and adjust to unequivocal betrayal, insult, and injury.
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
RESPONSEBASE LLC
SANTA
01.2001 - 01.2003
- Architected, deployed and maintained network and linux infrastructure which made this company the undisputed leader worldwide in opt-in email marketing
- My work only ever engendered confidence, amazement, pride
- Gratitude, however, touches only the humble… Authored in PERL 5 the email-generation and delivery backend
- Implemented kernel-space web servers for performance
- Analyzed process traces and profiles of email delivery to develop a means of augmenting twenty-fold ( 20x ) the number of email deliveries per hour
- Crafted packet filtering rulesets: Cisco PIX, Netfilter / iptables, BPF and F5
- Authored mod-perl URL rewriting for domain re-routing
- Authored in PERL a multiprocess, concurrent monitor and alarm to alert IT team if servers or services fail.
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMIN
ALLEGIANCE TELECOM
LOS ANGELES, CA
01.2001 - 12.2001
- Served as the highest tier of support for FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, and Linux servers at numerous colocation facilities worldwide
- Audited and rewrote PERL and UNIX shell-scripts for security, performance, and reliability
- Resolved the most perplexing and persistent issues which had resisted resolution by tiers 1 and 2 systems administrators
- Researched, exploited, and patched security flaws in order to gain remote access to infrastructure the company purchased abroad…
UNIX NETWORK ENGINEER
ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, ANGELES
01.2000 - 01.2001
- Served as the ultimate authority / responsible party for mission-critical, high-performance computing architectures: ALPHA and SPARC
- Administered servers containing 128 processors and running Compaq’s Tru64
- UNIX
- Designed and deployed Linux Beowulf clusters for game development and external, movie-studio collaborations
- Traced asset leaks via firewall logs.
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
HOSTPRO
01.1999 - 01.2000
- Administered MIPS-architecture SGI servers running IRIX UNIX as well as Linux and FreeBSD
- Administered DNS records for hundreds of thousands of domains.
UNIX TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SYMARK SOFTWARE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE
01.1999 - 01.2000
- Guided the installation and evaluation of security software on all flavors of UNIX and Linux
- Wrote custom scripts for clientele
- I served Disney Studios as their designated support for implementation and custom scripting for the software.
Education
BACHELORS OF ARTS - FRENCH
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles 09.1992 - 05.1995
Skills
LINUX: Artix, Garuda, Arch, Kali, Parrot, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Void, Slackware, Ubuntu…
undefinedAccomplishments
The Wolfram company published my Mathematica notebook which I authored with tools I find useful to creating microtonal tuning files (Scala) which then allow one to use non-standard tunings for musical instruments within modern, digital audio workstations like Bitwig Studio or Ableton Live. It remains a demonstrable fact that the epimoric ratios provide the foundation for consonance and harmony.
https://notebookarchive.org/tuning-perfect-consonance2023-03-9pmra0l/
Or more recent versions at https://github.com/froeberger/epimoric
Interests
Timeline
Technical Installer
Elevate Technologies / Robert Half International
01.2023 - 02.2023
Political Canvasser
CADC
07.2022 - 11.2022
PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE
Tesla
01.2021 - 01.2022
Field Laborer
Private Ranch
08.2020 - 01.2021
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT & CONTRACTOR
LOS ANGELES
01.2009 - 08.2020
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
SPINMASTER STUDIOS
01.2008 - 01.2009
PROPERTY MANAGER
AZTEC REALTY, ANGELES
01.2006 - 01.2008
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Topica
01.2005 - 12.2005
SABBATICAL @ VIENNA
01.2004 - 01.2005
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR & DATA MANAGER
Crisis Support Services Of Nevada
01.2001 - 07.2022
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
RESPONSEBASE LLC
01.2001 - 01.2003
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMIN
ALLEGIANCE TELECOM
01.2001 - 12.2001
UNIX NETWORK ENGINEER
ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, ANGELES
01.2000 - 01.2001
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
HOSTPRO
01.1999 - 01.2000
UNIX TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SYMARK SOFTWARE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE
01.1999 - 01.2000
BACHELORS OF ARTS - FRENCH
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
09.1992 - 05.1995
Similar Profiles
Shelann JonesShelann Jones
APU Integration/Accounts Payable Analyst at Robert Half InternationalAPU Integration/Accounts Payable Analyst at Robert Half International
ROSE SORCIROSE SORCI
Tax Preparer Assistant at Robert Half InternationalTax Preparer Assistant at Robert Half International
Victor HuangVictor Huang
Customer Experience Professional at Robert Half InternationalCustomer Experience Professional at Robert Half International