CV/Resume

This is extremely out of date!  I don’t have a current resume at the moment, I’ve been too busy to update it.  In a sentence I work on the largest computing systems in Europe providing consulting, training, deployment, design for large (1000 cores – 250,000 cores) HPC installations and Cloud Computing projects.  If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Regards,

Christopher Vaughan

Cambridge, UK

For contact information please email me at vaughanc at gmail dot com

Objective

Work in a challenging environment to help that organization improve efficiency, innovation, and gain a competitive advantage.

Education

University of Maine at Orono, USA

2005

• B.S. Business Administration in MIS

Relevant Experience

Systems Engineer, Cluster Resources Ltd.

Cambridge, UK 2006-Present

• • • Launched first international office

    • Developed Linux high performance clustering tool Escalante in partnership with Novell

    • Built support relationships with tier 1 vendors

    • Provided regional support and training for customer and partners

    • Implemented service level agreements and & quality of services polices on various Grids and Utility Computing based environments

    • Advised various academic and fortune 500 companies on cluster management and best practices

    • Developed several in-house customer tracking tools

    • Other expertise includes; high availability clustering, virtualization, dynamic provisioning

Associate Supercomputer Sys Admin, University of Maine

Orono, ME, USA 2006

• • • System administration on a variety of platforms

    • Research into technological areas related to the engineering of computer hardware and software (e.g., advanced component technologies, software tools and methods)

    • Analysis of system requirements to establish functional requirements and identify performance of hardware/software trade-offs

    • Audited internal and external systems for security vulnerabilities

    • Documented existing systems and practices

Web App Developer, University of Maine

Orono, ME, USA 2004-2005

• • • Co-Developed Open Source project; MyPBS an accounting package for high performance computing centers http://my-pbs.sourceforge.net

• • • Created MonitorX a web based alternative to OS X Server Monitor http://sourceforge.net/projects/monitorx

• • • Re-designed website http://www.clusters.umaine.edu

• • • Built a 512 node, Apple Xserve G5 cluster

    • Other duties included cluster maintenance, database, web server administration and regular security audits using Nessus

IT Student Manager, University of Maine

Orono, ME, USA 1999-2000, 2002-2004

• • • Scheduled house call repairs for residential and staff customers

• • • Phone support for residential and non residential network

    • Repaired computers and worked with customers towards solutions

    • Developed, “Your Digital Rights” http://ithelpcenter.umaine.edu/digitalrights/index.htm which was complimented by US Senate Sub-Committee

Skills

• • Programming:

PHP, C++, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Bash Scripting

• • Database:

MySQL, Oracle 9i SQL, Oracle 9i Developer Suite

• • Operating Systems:

Unix, Linux, Windows Compute Cluster Server, OS X Server

• • Software:

Moab Utility Computing, Grid & Cluster Suite, Torque Resource Manager, Xen, VMWare, Nessus, Nmap, Ethereal, Syslogd, Bind, CVS, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access MS Visio, LDAP

• • Language:

Spanish 3 years

• • Citizenship:

UK

Activities/Interests

Various Computer Technologies, Writing, Skiing, Football, Music and Meeting New People

Other

Mentioned in Scientific Computing World: December 2007/ January 2008, Putting the user first