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Senior Vice President of Platform Engineering

One of the Boston area's fastest growing technology companies, Jobcase is the only social media site dedicated to empowering America's workforce. Available online and through an app, Jobcase provides one place to manage all things job-related, especially access to the knowledge, connections and wisdom of 63 million other Jobcasers. Jobcase is an industry affiliated partner of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL, and Jobcase technology powers over 100 job sites in the Jobcase Network, connecting more than 63 million workers and employers.

SaaS and IT Director with over twenty five years of experience and a Masters Degree in Computer Information Systems.. My background started in Education with over five years of experience working for a major institution and moving onto several large corporations including Lycos, Iron Mountain and Exodus. Supporting multiple type of business from financial , social networking, advertising, e-commerce and SaaS. Working on all aspects of support from implementing help-desk systems to maintaining customer facing servers and all corporate infrastructure. Recently working for several small start-ups and managing data center operations and information technology groups. Excellent understanding of contracts and vendor management. Ability to lower overall costs by making intelligent technology decisions and working with vendors to get the most out of existing contracts. Implemented SAS70 type II for Exodus communication data centers. Supported Exodus communications from 1999 -2004 where I had the responsibility of approximately sixty employees in total. Support of Multi-site installation in different geographic regions and management of remote employees. Specialties: Storage Area Network Technologies Netapp,SUN Storage Arrays (SAM-QFS) , Winchester iSCSI storage arrays, Terragrid, EMC Clarion, CX, VNX series Virtualization Technologies VMWare ESX Databases Mysql 4 & 5, Oracle 10g, 11g Oracle RAC, Microsoft Open Source Technologies (Linux) - RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux, Apache, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS