Caroline Brossi Yates
Telephone: +44/0 1223 704038 Email: caroline@gatekeeper.ltd.uk EDUCATION University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus; BS in Pure Mathematics Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston Campus; BS in Computer Science - Graduated with Highest Honours and a final grade of 3.97/4.0 OS, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE - Linux, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Digital UNIX, AOS/VS, Windows NT - UNIX workstations (Sun, IBM, HP, SGI, DEC), PCs, Macintoshes, Cisco routers, Network Appliance file servers, CDC MV10000 Super Mini - MySQL, Perl, HTML, Gnu C, Borland Turbo C, Borland C++, Microsoft Assembly, MATLAB WORK EXPERIENCE Unix Consultant Gatekeeper Technology 9/00 - present Cambridge, UK - Consultancy involving system setups and administration including Linux clusters, NIS, DNS, FTP, Apache, NFS & CIFS fileservers, RAID systems, Amanda backup, NetBackup, Samba, Nagios, Munin and Ganglia monitoring and sendmail & Exim mail servers. Some scripting in bash and php. Senior Systems Administrator Advanced Rendering Technology 12/98 - 8/00 Cambridge, UK - Primary planner, implementer and caretaker of all aspects of IT. Specifically supporting the following OSes: Intel Linux, Alpha Linux, Solaris, SunOS, Digital UNIX, Windows NT Terminal Server, Irix and Cisco IOS. - Primary caretaker of all services, including mail, NIS, DNS, NFS, web, backup, printing, samba, ssh, ftp, and remote access. - Provide technical support for the user community. - Document systems for users and generate proposals for executives. - Hire and manage contract and permanent systems staff. UNIX Contractor Gatekeeper Technology 9/98 - 11/98 Cambridge, UK - Configured linux systems with RAID-1, HylaFAX desktop faxing, automated clock synchronization and automated backups. - Developed disaster/recovery solutions. - Documented desktop fax management, disaster management, adding and deleting users and general system maintenance. UNIX Systems Administrator/Team Leader The MathWorks, Inc. 3/95 - 7/98 Natick, MA. US - Developed a web database tool for System Administration information which was used by the UNIX group. - Responsible for installing SW & HW and troubleshooting problems on 7 flavors of UNIX workstations. - Groomed as the UNIX team leader with personnel management responsibilities. - Managed vendor support contracts, inventory and was a liaison to vendors for technical support calls. - Developed a web page for users to change their UNIX and NT passwords. Senior Technical Support Engineer The MathWorks, Inc. 3/92 - 3/95 Natick, MA. US - Support all software and hardware aspects of MATLAB, a numeric software package which runs on most machines. - Interact with software developers to test, isolate and fix bugs. Programmer /Consultant Bowers Development Corp. 9/90 - 5/91 Concord, MA. US - Translated 20,000 lines of application code from MPW Pascal to C. - Converted Macintosh Toolbox calls to XVT function calls throughout the application. - Wrote functions to replace Macintosh Toolbox calls which weren't translatable into XVT functions. Member of Technical Staff /Consultant V.M.Engineering 6/90 - 7/90 Cambridge, MA. US - Developed Macintosh user interface for a Monte Carlo Simulation application which consisted of a complex hierarchical and interactive front end of 35 screens using AppMaker software. Database Projects Manager & Senior Programmer Cognetics Inc. 8/86 - 4/90 Cambridge, MA. US - Programmed OS scripts on a CDC/DG MV10000 Super Mini. - Expert with the in-house Tabulator Language developed at M.I.T. - Fluent in Data General Software: AOS/VS operating system, Sort/Merge software and DBR & Dump Backup. - Built and was technically responsible for the 9 million record U.S. Corporate Database (based on D&B DMI file) - Developed and Maintained statistical integrity of The Database. - Responsible (and on 24 hour call) for Emergency System Management. - Managed and was primary tech support for client projects, such as: Aetna Realty, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Amex and AT&T . - Performed in-depth statistical analysis or found significant analytical results in standard and custom products. INTERESTS Falun Dafa, motorcycle touring, trumpet playing, film and writing EMPLOYMENT STATUS Eligible to work in the UK REFERENCES Furnished upon request The material in this CV is (c) Caroline Yates, 2012. Permission to reproduce unaltered is granted. Permission to reproduce in a modified form is explicitly withheld, but will ordinarily be granted if an application is accompanied by the proposed modifications.