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Grant K. Rauscher
http://www.geekier.com/
geekier7@gmail.com

Education

Wesleyan University                                       Middletown, CT
      Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry                                    May, 1995

Hamilton High School                                        Hamilton, NY
      NY State Regents Diploma                                      June, 1991

Employment

BigID Inc.                                                  New York, NY
      Senior Services Delivery Engineer                        11/18 - present

Support installation and administration of supervised
         ML application indexing personal data by identity.  API
         development of Data Subject Access Requests and Records
         of Processing Activities.  Linux, docker, JSON/AJAX, git,
         Python, PostgreSQL, Samba.

Achieve3000 Inc.                                            Lakewood, NJ
      Senior Development & Operations Engineer                     8/15 - 9/18

develop & administer reading curriculum software used by
         students, teachers and administrators.  differentiated
         literacy instruction for nonfiction reading and writing
         that's precisely tailored to each student's Lexile(R)
         reading level.  AWS (CLI, VPC, ELB, ASG, EC2, Aurora RDS,
         DynamoDB, S3, Glacier, ElastiCache, CloudFront, CloudWatch,
         Route 53, IAM, Lambda, EFS), Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP,
         Zend, JavaScript, JSON/AJAX, git, phabricator, chef,
         Clever, SAML, New Relic.

Smarty Ants Inc.                                          San Rafael, CA
      Chief Technology Officer                                    11/11 - 7/15

architect, develop & support reading curriculum software used
         by students, teachers and administrators. optimization and
         scaling to allow C10k usage and near real-time reports with
         AWS (VPC, ELB, Auto-Scaling, EC2, RDS, SES, S3, CloudFront,
         CloudWatch, Route 53), Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, perlbal,
         memcached, Java, JSON/AJAX, Subversion, git and proxy caching
         hardware.

Sony Television                                          Los Angeles, CA
      Internet Engineer                                         4/02 - present

architect & administer secure infonet for remote production
         management, publishing dynamic media associated with each
         shoot, emphasizing 3D venue/stage/set model within existing
         process of planning, building & recording.  install, configure
         & administer Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Python, ZOPE, PIL, GD,
         ffmpeg, AWStats

2C Productions & Studio                                   San Rafael, CA
      Internet Engineer                                         6/00 - present

system, network and information engineering for variety of projects
         including network/server hosting, software application architecture
         and deployment, project/organization management, media and event
         production, landscape and physical modelling, artist/musician & small
         business/organization promotion via web sites, mailing lists, print
         design & publication, audio/videography & live performances

GX Studios, Inc.                                            New York, NY
      Internet Engineer                                            9/07 - 6/09

systems admin, net-app architecture, messaging, integration,
         SVN build/release management, automation, development, design
         integration, deployment optimization including redundancy with
         failover, monitoring, documentation, testing.  manage node-based
         service pools using Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PERL, perlbal,
         MogileFS, memcached, memcacheq, SmartFoxServer, Java, ant, monit

ACM SIG-CHI Bulletin                                        New York, NY
      Internet Engineer                                            6/04 - 5/07

build intuitive content management system according to spec
         for Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group's
         collaborative public site, integrate static design template &
         apply subsequent updates, support production use of its live
         editing/publishing framework, host/admin/deploy dynamic web
         application with role-based permissions as replacement for
         static site, assist in live migration to ACM servers

Maynard Institute for Journalism Education                   Oakland, CA
      Internet Engineer                                            5/01 - 3/09

lead server architect including dev/admin, deploy SiteBoiler
         content management system for MaynardIJE.org, ReznetNews.org,
         BlackCollegeWire.org, AAJA.org, NAMME.org, NAJA.org and
         support MKMedia in third-tier client projects. install,
         configure & administer Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL,
         Python, ZOPE, Drupal, WordPress, AWStats, Zorum

Broadband Mechanics, Inc.                              San Francisco, CA
      Internet Engineer                                           10/99 - 9/00

lead server developer architecting distributed multimedia systems
         primarily developed using JavaScript, XML-RPC/SOAP, XML/XSLT
         evaluate object- & xml-DBMSs for RPCs by distributed runtimes
         design, develop, test & refine distributed software components
         manage development of software components by internal and remote
         teams, encapsulate modules for integration, e.g. Salesforce.com,
         subscribe to services contextually, e.g. Google Search API, FedEx

Millward-Brown Interactive                             San Francisco, CA
      Internet Engineer                                            6/99 - 9/99

market research technology development and administration
         deployed and managed web-based market research studies
         adapted & maintained web solicitation engine (JavaScript/Perl)
         exported survey results from Oracle 7 for further data analysis
         scripted real-time reports from live survey data in Oracle DB

Maus Haus                                                  San Mateo, CA
      Internet Engineer                                            9/98 - 5/99

media   design   content   architecture

directed technology research and usage for 12 to 15 designers
         architected web projects, building web pages from graphical comps
         content-managed web projects using templates to improve efficiency

San Francisco Design Center                 www.sfdesigncenter.com
         eFax.com                                              www.efax.com

Mountain Lake Software, Inc.                           San Francisco, CA
      Internet Engineer                                            7/97 - 8/98

Webmaster of Young Composers, Cyberteens Zeen, Cyberteens Art
         Gallery, Vivian Rose's celebrity interviews & movie reviews, and
         advertising (on Cyberkids & Cyberteens).  Page layout designer of
         Cyberteens Zeen (Issues 9, 10 & 11), corporate advertising & press
         kits, and Vivian Rose's celebrity interviews & movie reviews.
         Technical and product support, sales and marketing assistance,
         software design and development, web design and maintenance.

Scholastic Inc., Instructional Publishing Group             New York, NY
      Technology Marketing Assistant                              10/95 - 5/97

Technology Marketing Assistance :
            strategic navigation of educational software market
            creation and revision of promotional content
            review and analysis of competitive software
            identifying and mailing to target customers

Leadership Experience :
            sales presentations, live and as transparencies
            in-service training of student and teacher software users
            providing product-related and general technical support
            management and administration of mailing lists

Wesleyan University                                       Middletown, CT
      Computer Consultant                                            1991-1995

technical support, helpdesk management
            software and hardware trouble-shooting
            Mac, Windows, Novell Network, VAX/VMS and UNIX environments

Colgate University                                          Hamilton, NY
      Research Assistant                                            1992, 1994

participated in physical organic chemistry research
            programmed a computer model of chemical reactions
            performed computer-assisted calculations

Computer Skills

Platforms & Operating Systems
       UNIX(GNU/Linux, MacOS X), Windows, DOS, VAX/VMS
   Langages & Environments
       TCP/IP, HTTP/CGI, XML/XHTML, XSLT, XML-RPC/SOAP,
       XMPP, RDF, RSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby,
       Smalltalk, Java, SQL, C/C++, Pascal, Scheme, SML,
       ActionScript, ASP
   Internet/Communication
       Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle, ZOPE, Django, Drupal,
       Group-Office, Joomla, Mailman, PHP-Nuke, WebGUI, Wordpress,
       XOOPS, Zorum, MediaWiki, TikiWiki, AWStat, IMAP/POP3,
       Sendmail/Postfix, Jabber, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Mumble/Murmur,
       Red5, Chrome, Mozilla, Explorer, Opera, Safari
   Utility/Programming
       Webmin, phpMyAdmin, memcached/memcacheq, MogileFS, Perlbal,
       nginx, monit, Munin, Nagios, Puppet, Subversion, Git
   Desktop Publishing
       QuarkXPress, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver & Fontographer,
       PageMaker, PhotoShop, Illustrator & GoLive
   General/Office
       FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Hobbies & Interests

distributed systems, object/xml databases, scalable content/workflow
        management, swimming, water polo, nature, camping, hiking, mountain
        biking, surfing, sailing, snowboarding, games, puzzles

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