Also known as: gallifreyan
I am a senior level Silicon Valley systems operations professional with nearly years (different years, even) of production UNIX system administration in multiple varieties of UNIX (Solaris, Linux, BSD) as well as some experience in other desktop and server platforms. I am also experienced in high uptime LAN administration including design, deployment, troubleshooting, and security. I have a proven history of delivering enterprise class scalable server, network, and disaster recoverybusiness continuance environments within stringent budget and time restraints. I'm also a sporadic blogger... visit my blog at rsts.com to see random andor semi-random thoughts on my work, my home lab, vendors and products I wander across, my Tech Field Day encounters, and infrequent technopolitical rambles. If you have a project you think I'd be interested in, feel free to contact me, but make sure you mention something that shows you've read my profile and understand what I do. If you're looking for a command line trivia guru or a WindowsExchangefacilities admin, I'm not your man. (If you're tired of losing in the company Trivial Pursuit(tm) tourneys, though, you definitely want me.) Specialties Linux system administration, hardware planning and management (even clouds need hardware), Hadoop, written English (documentation is your friend and mine), UNIX-based email systems, blood sacrifices to hardware, coffee preparation and procurement, operations team building and sustaining, quoting Monty Python's Flying Circus and SondheimLapine book, installing and configuring Nortel LAN hardware and VPN (AccelarPassport, Contivity), naming over actors who have played the Doctor in licensed television productions of the BBC television series Doctor Who, admitting that I don't know something, and finding it out if I need to.
Also known as: gallifreyan
Benjamin Throop lives in Raleigh, NC. Techno, Pop, Shania Twain , Cascada, Tears For Fears, Pet Shop Boys and Eurodance are his favorite bands. He's a big fan of Doctor Who. Superman, Dracula, Batman Begins, Mystery Men, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Spaceballs are some of the films Benjamin loves.
