Russell Perkins

I offer IT consulting and contracting services to companies and organizations of all sizes. With more than 9 years real world experience I have been able to work with and help implement almost all modern technologies used today.

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Skills

Linux Amazon Web Services Linode VPS Server Architecture Web Development Web Servers Apache nginx Entrepreneurship mongodb Software Project Management Puppet CSS3 HTML5 Web Services & Applications JavaScript JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries nodejs jQuery Perl Python PHP PHP Frameworks & Libraries Bash Shell Scripting git SVN Unix Networking Unix Administration Unix Software Data Design Database Administration Relational Databases MySQL MariaDB phpMyAdmin MSSQL sqlite Redis NoSQL / Document Based Storage Facebook Graph API Google APIs Foursquare API Twitter API PayPal API Stripe API oAuth Object Oriented Design Product Management Business Strategy Project Implementation & Execution Business Operations Management Business Management Internet Marketing SEO/SEM Google Analytics Google Adwords Google App Engine Sublime Text 2 Photoshop Flash

Experince

Senior Systems Administrator

Listener Approved LLC

October 2011 – Present (1 year 7 months)

Built and managed Linode and AWS cloud hosting for highly scalable node.js apps and apache farms. High availability via load balancers. Setup and managed databases in MySQL, Amazon RDS and MongoDB with redundant replication.

Systems Administrator

MBS Textbooks

May 2010 – August 2011 (1 year 4 months)

Supported a large apache web farm and primary support on over a hundred servers and vSphere virtual machines. Used puppet for server configurations.

Head of IT

Communications for Research

September 2006 – May 2010 (3 years 9 months)

Network and server administrator of two locations and 200 computers. Web developer and survey programmer (PHP, apache, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl)

Workstation Anaylst

Phelps County Regional Medical Center

March 2005 – August 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Helpdesk lead responsible for 1,400 users and 800 desktop. Manage applications and installations via Microsoft SMS and Active Directory. SharePoint portal administrator and rollout coordinator.

Owner

PIXL8ED (LAN gaming center)

December 2003 – February 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Owner, Network Admin, Web design, Manager