| 64 Mar Vista Ave #107 Pasadena, CA 91106 USA |
rae.yip@gmail.com (626) 463-3135 http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~ryip |
| Bachelor of Science, Mathematics | June 1998 |
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| California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | |
| High School Top of Class, International Baccalaureate | June 1993 |
| Sir Winston Churchill H.S., Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Notable Course Work: | ||
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| RedHat Enterprise Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE #803004576912516) | ||
| Learning Systems | Information and Complexity | Mathematical Logic |
| Microprocessor Systems | Computer Simulation | Econometrics |
| Seismic Network Administrator (Caltech Seismo Lab, Pasadena) | February 2007 - Present |
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| Spear-headed upgrade of Southern California Seismic Network's (SCSN) real-time seismic data acquisition and detection system, involving integrated changes to hardware, custom scientific code, Solaris, and Oracle. Performed network management, capacity and disaster planning for this highly visible system that publishes 24/7 earthquake data for SoCal, and which withstood the data flood from a M7.2 seismic sequence. | |
| Developed code in Bourne shell, perl, and python for various configuration, clustering, monitoring, and data collection tasks. Performed defect analysis on C/C++ source code for the AQMS seismic system. | |
| Technical Specialist (Telus Communications, Burnaby) | October 2005 - Jan. 2007 |
| Supported migration of legacy telecom billing and provisioning systems from mainframe to J2EE three-tiered environment, by managing Solaris and Weblogic clusters, and scripting deployment of software. Participated in sysadmin and middleware pager rotations, troubleshooting Unix and Java/C++ code. | |
| Worked in a cross-functional team to design security hardening procedure and user management system. Was responsible for architecting and documenting company-wide Unix standard solutions. | |
| Unix Systems Administrator (Cisco Systems, San Jose) | August 1998 - Sept. 2005 |
| Hosting of Cisco's e-commerce and intranet websites, and related development and staging environments, totalling roughly 500 hosts. 24/7 pager rotation involving troubleshooting of stray Java and Perl applications, hardware problems, and operating system issues, requiring coordination of vendor support from HP, Sun, Veritas, EMC, and NetApp for highly visible applications. | |
| Oversight of Data Replication (BCV and SRDF backups), storage and CPU capacity planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery planning, Change Management and trouble ticket triage. Load-testing and performance troubleshooting of infrastructure such as Cisco's LDAP clusters used for web authentication, and NFS clusters used for web content storage. | |
| Y2k migration of Cisco's web application environments. Design and maintenance of Jumpstart automated build system and Unix software repository. | |
| Unix Systems Administrator (University of Calgary) | Summer, 1997 |
| Responsible for troubleshooting and documenting Unix systems and PCs for the Infrared Astronomy Lab at the U of C. Maintained software tools for lab researchers. | |
| Undergraduate Summer Research (Caltech) | Summer, 1996 |
| Worked on the design and development of a hierarchical visual scripting system. Prototyped new graphical flow control mechanisms modelled after state machines. | |
| Computer Laboratory Assistant (University of Calgary) | Summer, 1995 |
| Developed WWW interface to Fortran code for a star database at the Infrared Astronomy Lab at the U of C, with output in various graphical and data formats. Worked with astrophysics equations in MathCAD. | |
| Computer Systems Manager (Caltech) | October 1994 - Dec. 1995 |
| Managed Macintosh desktop environment and created web pages for the Caltech Women's Center. Compiled survey data, fixed printing issues, and wrote documentation. |
| Computer Languages: | ||
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| Bourne shell | Python/SciPy | Perl |
| Pascal | Forth | C |
| Basic | 6502 and 80186 Assembly | Mathematica, Sage |
| Natural Languages: | ||
| English | French | Russian |
| Japanese | Chinese (Cantonese) |
| Sun: | Enterprise 6500, E10k, SunFire 4800, T2000, T5140, X4140, L11000, SVM, ZFS, Zones, Dtrace, Jumpstart, JET, Sun Cluster |
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| Unix Flavours: | Solaris 10, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux (RedHat, Debian, Fedora, SuSE), HP/UX (11.x + ServiceGuard), MacOS X |
| Storage: | EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays, PowerPath, TimeFinder, BCV, SRDF, NetApp, ONTAP |
| Veritas: | Volume Manager, Filesystem, Cluster System, NetBackup |
| Open Source: | Apache (httpd & Tomcat), MySQL, Net-SNMP, Subversion, Big Brother, Zenoss, Bugzilla, Trac, DokuWiki |
| Familiar With: | Network security (iptables, tcpwrappers), NFS, SAN, NIS, DNS, TCP/IP, sendmail, postfix, Xwindows, Cisco load balancers (LD, CSS, CSM), Weblogic, Squid, HTML, Oracle, Samba, BMC Patrol, BladeLogic, Opsware, VMware, numerical algorithms, cryptography, statistical analysis. |
| Caltech Glee Club | September 2008 - June 2010 |
| Vice-President of Caltech Anime Society | October 1995 - June 1998 |
| Volunteer Tutor for the Caltech Y | September 1994 - June 1995 |