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 08/23/2009

Tony . Li . Chang
San Francisco, CA •

Profile
 Senior-level Systems Engineer specializing in the design, deployment, and on-going administration of highly available infrastructures. Nine years of production experience with a successful track record in 24x7x365 hosting environments. Served as implementation and pre-sales engineer for premium customers and corporate partners. Created revenue generating products aimed at the managed services market. Built utilities and systems specific to high volume, heterogeneous hosting environments.

Operating Systems
Linux 2.4-2.6 (RHEL, Debian, SuSE), Windows 2000/2003, BSD, Cisco (IOS/CatOS), ScreenOS, TrafficWorks (Foundry), TMOS (BigIP)

Programming Languages
Batch, Bourne shell, C, C++, Expect, Perl, PHP

Software
Apache, BIND (4.x, 8.x, 9.x), Ethereal, exim, Flash Media Server, IIS, iptables, LVS, SQL Server, mySQL, Nagios 2.x, postfix, PXE, sendmail, snort, SSH, tcpdump, WANSync DR/HA, Windows Media Server

Services
Akamai (eDNS, EdgeSuite, WAA, DSA), Gomez, LimeLight Networks

Recent Experience
 Adify                                                                        06/2006 - Present
Manager of Production Systems
Responsible for the overall availability and scalability of the Adify production environments. Managing a team of production systems, network, and database administrators supporting a very high-volume (40-80mm hits/day) web environment.

  • Interface with hardware and services vendors to ensure performance based SLA.
  • Designed an application acceleration framework for enhanced end user delivery.
  • Work closely with Dev to ensure operational and platform scalability.
  • Implemented various CDN services to ensure scalability and end user satisfaction.

    • ServePath, LLC / ColoServe / UpStream Networks       06/2004 - 06/2006
    Senior Engineer
    Served as final-tier escalation for high-density data center with 2,500+ machines, maintained availability of internal production environment (100+ servers), and built the Professional Services (PS) department. Developed processes and workflows aimed at the provisioning and support of new products and services. Designed and implemented a muilti-vendor streaming platform aimed at the hosted streaming services market. Attained Microsoft's Windows Media Hosting Provider status with an A+ rating.

  • Served as pre-sales and implementation engineer.
  • UpStream Networks architect and launch team member.
  • Built and ran the only profit center within Engineering (PS).
  • Acted as technical resource on company partnerships and relationships.

    LogicSouth, Inc.                                                        06/1998 - 06/2002
    Systems / Network Administrator, End User Support
    Performed administrative duties on production environment (Compaq, Cisco, Ascend) serving a customer base of 15,000+.

    Education
    University of South Carolina
    CIS - Computer Engineering, Class of 2002

    Languages
    Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

    References
    Available upon request.