Christopher Messina  -- 3658 Ranchero Dr. Apt 303 Ann Arbor MI 48108
(734)330-6526 -- cmessina@umich.edu

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
Web Applications, Technologies & Solutions, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Systems Administrator, May 2004-Present.

-Lead of project to utilize Radmind, an administration tool that greatly 
streamlines server installation and configuration procedures, as well as 
enhancing security of the server environment.
-As part of a team, responsible for administration of clustered Linux 
and Solaris servers running Ctools, a Java-based web application 
used at the University. 
-Responsible for setup and administration of Nagios monitoring service.


Center for Advanced Computing, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Systems Research Programmer II, January 2003 - May 2004.

- Administered supercomputing resources totaling approximately 800 processors, 
including Linux clusters, AIX parallel systems, and an Irix shared memory 
system. These machines are used by NPACI, an NSF-funded partnership that 
provides supercomputing resources for scientific research, as well as University users.
- Introduced new installation procedures using Radmind software, which reduced 
installation time from days to minutes and ensured consistency and security of 
the clusters.
- Installed, configured, optimized, and maintained Myrinet, Force 10, and 
Ethernet networking hardware.
- Configured and maintained batch scheduling systems such as PBS and Maui.
- Extensive customer interaction with University of Michigan and NPACI users to 
resolve account issues and scheduling problems and assist with data backups.


Research Systems Unix Group, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Programmer I, Spring 1998-July 2002 

- Developed systems administration skills in Linux, Solaris and BSD by building 
and maintaining servers used for software development.
- Developer for the Radmind Daemon, a UNIX based remote administration and 
security tool.
- Worked on the design and programming team for Beepage, an Internet aware, UNIX
based, text-paging package. Developed section of Beepage software that allowed 
it to interact with email.
- Created Technical Documentation for Beepage describing installation, 
configuration, and use of the application.


EDUCATION:  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, August 2001. 
	    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 

-Coursework included: Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, 
    Data structures and Algorithms, Software Engineering, Database Management 
    Systems, Web Databases, Technical Communications, and 
    Directed Study: Handheld computing in K-12 education. 


SKILLS:	
Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, AIX, Irix, BSD, Mac OSX
Programming Languages: Bash, C, C++, PHP, Tcl/Tk, Perl, HTML, XML, SQL
Software: Apache, MySQL, Oracle, Tomcat, Radmind, Tivoli Storage Manager, Nagios, Nmap 
Development Tools: Make, Subversion, CVS, RCS, gdb