Paul Theodoropoulos
7621 Melody Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
707 280 8472
paul@anastrophe.com

Seventeen years experience managing systems small, medium, and
large. Ridiculously committed to reliability and availability.

Mamasource, Inc., San Francisco, CA Senior Systems Administrator, June
2007 - Present Social Networking Site 
Designed, built, and deployed high availability infrastructure for
national parenting community and group-buying service with 4 million
members.  Maintained Production, Corporate, and QA systems
infrastructures. Deployed cloud initiatives via Joyent and Amazon
EC2. Supported team of RoR developers through rapid, continuous growth
and agile development cycles. Production infrastructure of MySQL with
replication, memcached, Phusion/Passenger, RabbitMQ cluster (DRDB,
Corosync, heartbeat), LDAP.  QA environment employing SVN, Git, Trac,
Bamboo, JIRA, LDAP. 70 servers across three locations. Scaled
subscriber email deliveries up from 200k/day to 6M/day. On call
24x7x365. Solo Administrator. Environment: CentOS.

Giftcast, Millbrae, CA
Systems Administrator, January 2010 - January 2011
SaaS  social marketing platform experiment
Designed, built, and deployed cloud infrastructure for innovative
social marketing platform experiment. Solo Administrator.
Environment: Solaris and Debian.

Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, Tomales, CA
Systems Consultant, August 2007 - Present
Provide IT and systems administration planning, advice, and assistance
as-needed for small non-profit. Windows and Linux environment.  Pro
Bono.

Smile Internet Networks, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
President, November 2002 - August 2006 
Specialty Internet services, email and webhosting.
Designed, built, and deployed infrastructure for high availability
email and webhosting for small businesses. Global customer
base. Responsible for all systems administration and customer
service/support. On call 24x7x365. Solo Administrator.  Environment:
Sun SPARC/Solaris, Linux (Redhat/CentOS, Fedora), FreeBSD.

Vista Broadband Networks, Inc., Petaluma, CA
VP Operations, April 2002 - November 2002
Regional Wireless Broadband provider, email, webhosting, ftp, etc.
Designed, built, and deployed infrastructure for regional wireless
broadband startup. Brought together customer service/support
team. Responsible for all systems administration; managed operations
group. On call 24x7x365. Solo Administrator.  Environment: Sun
SPARC/Solaris.


Advanced TelCom Group, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
Senior Unix Systems Administrator, October 1998 - April 2002
National CLEC, Business Telco and Internet; dialup, DSL, wireless,
email, webhosting, ftp, etc.
Designed, built, and deployed national server infrastructure to scale
into the millions of customers. All systems redundant with
failover. Scalable storage, CPU, bandwidth. RAS exceeded 99.995%
consistently over four years under my leadership. Grew technical
support team and provided “the buck stops here” answers for
same. Responsible for all systems administration. On call
24x7x365. Solo Administrator first three years - one Junior admin
after that. Environment: Sun SPARC/Solaris, Netapp (F740 cluster),
Big/IP, Linux.

Verio, Inc., Rohnert Park, CA
Unix Systems Administrator, October 1997 - April 1998
National ISP, formed entirely of syndicated regional ISP's.
West Coast Online purchased by Verio; continued administration and
integration of WCO systems into Verio infrastructure. On call
24x7x365.

West Coast Online, Inc., Rohnert Park, CA
Vice-President, October 1994 - October 1997 
Regional ISP, dialup, Frame Relay, T1, T3, email, webhosting, UNIX
shell, ftp, etc.
Designed and built server infrastructure, including planning,
configuring, installing, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting
all systems and services. Oversaw technical support operations. On
call 24x7x365.  Solo Administrator. Environment: Sun SPARC/Solaris.

References available upon request