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…
BSD: FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDi, F5, OpenBSD, MacOS, DragonflyBSD
UNIX: Compaq Tru64 / Digital UNIX, SGI IRIX, Hewlett-Packard HP/UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris
CLOUD: Amazon Web Services (AWS): serverless & virtual, lambda functions, API gateways
MICROSOFT: Active Directory, Teams, DHCP & DNS, IIS, and PowerShell automation
NETWORK: layer 2 & 3 devices: Cisco, Ubiquiti, Juniper; design, disaster & recovery, redundancy &
SECURITY: nmap, bettercap, metasploit, nessus, burpsuite, integrity verification
ELECTRONICS: EDA / TCAD: Fritzing, Xschem, KiCAD, component knowledge & circuit building
SCRIPT: Perl, Bourne Shells (bash, sh, ksh, zsh), R, Powershell, Mathematica & Wolfram Language
DIAGNOSTICS: gdb, debugfs, coredump analysis, process traces with strace, dtruss, dtrace, ftrace; app
FIREWALLS: BSD PF, BSD ipfw, Linux NFTABLES, IPTABLES, Cisco PIX
DATABASES: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, memcached
EMAIL: Qmail, PowerMTA, Sendmail, Procmail, Postfix
WEB: kernel-level: TUX, khttpd, etc , application-level: Apache, nginx, IIS, lighthttpd
DNS: DJBDNS, dnscache, BIND 8 & 9, local resolver caches (performance)
Accomplishments
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