Ben Kochie

Google Inc.

Mountain View, CA

http://www.google.com/

Bit Plumber - Site Reliability Engineering

• GoogleBot team - infrastructure specialist
• Global cluster and storage team
• Master of distributed computing infrastrucutre
• Maintain in-house software stack on global scale computation clusters.

 

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

http://www.umn.edu/

Linux Cluster/UNIX Systems Administrator

• Design, implement, and maintain Linux-based, high-performance computing clusters
• Install and maintain GFS filesystem server cluster
• Perform OS upgrades and rollouts (Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9, Red Hat Enterprise 3)
• Maintain MyriNet clustering interconnect
• Administer PBS Pro and Maui/Moab job scheduling system

 

Assistant Systems Manager

• Maintained Linux mass-installation, rollout, and upgrade systems
• Migrated database application from MacOS to Linux
• Supported staff, faculty, and student users
• Maintained custom, in-house Linux distribution
• Supported mathematics environments: Matlab, Mathmatica, Maple, and LaTeX
• Installed and maintained Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Samba PDC systems

 

Westling Manufacturing

Princeton, MN

http://www.westling.com/

Systems Administrator

• Designed and installed networking and telecom in a new manufacturing plant and two-story office building
• Rebuilt and upgraded entire network infrastructure in a manufacturing plant
• Installed wide-area wireless network between multiple manufacturing plants
• Expanded and maintained Fujitsu Series 3 campus phone system
• Implemented and maintained Linux (alpha, x86), DG/UX (SysVr4), and Windows NT systems

 

Damark International

Brooklyn Park, MN

http://www.damark.com/

Systems Administrator

• Designed and implemented a network-based, mass-installation system
• Upgraded communications infrastructure between package-handling robotics and UNIX systems
• Implemented and maintained HP-UX (10.20, 11.0), Solaris 2.6 (sparc, x86), IRIX 5.3E systems