Chris Markland Jepeway
809 Ala Dr
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-609-8310
jepeway@blasted-heath.com
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University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1994 Master of Science in Computer Science |
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Rice University, 1985 Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering |
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| Baylor School, 1981 | Chattanooga, TN | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Work History | Blasted Heath provides Unix systems and networking consulting. Areas of expertise include systems integration, system/network administration, systems/network programming, code ports, network analysis, TCP/IP training, and critical network problem resolution. Past projects have included porting parts of a multi-media authoring system from Mac/Windows to Unix; adding TCP/IP networking capabilities to that same system on Unix, Mac, and Windows; designing and implementing a system to collect per-user CPU utilization statistics for 200+ servers running either AIX or Solaris; creating a scalable, enterprise-wide, multi-threaded monitoring system for Unix machines; writing an SNMP sub-agent that provides generic, application-level monitoring; creating a plug-in for Alias|Wavefront's Composer that imports PhotoShop 4.0 files with the ability to pick layers; crafting CGI glue that enables back-end applications to run on the Web; and co-authoring and teaching a course in TCP/IP troubleshooting utilizing traditional Unix tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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July 96 - present Chief Principal Blasted Heath Consulting, LLC Knoxville, TN |
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July 90 - July 96 Senior Computer Systems Specialist Computer Science Dept UTK |
Systems Engineer for the Computer Science Laboratory, a combination of hardware, software, and personnel providing support to the Department's instructional and research endeavors. Responsibilities included technical oversight and training of a group of 10-25 students responsible for day to day system administration of all departmental machines, including over 250 Unix workstations (DECs, IBMs, Suns, HPs, SGIs), 20 servers, 2 supercomputers (CM-5 & MasPar), and sundry micro computers; providing technical support to departmental faculty and staff; hardware and software installation, maintenance, and evaluation; distributed systems administration using YP/NIS, NFS, TCP/IP, DNS, SLIP, PPP, HTTP, MBONE, shell utilities, automounters, and network sniffers; fire-fighting; long-term facilities planning; bid preparation & evaluation; and direction of systems-related research. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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June 95 - July 95 Contractor FNMA Washington, DC |
Member of a team porting financial applications from SunOS-4 to SunOS-5. Applications were written in C and interfaced to Sybase databases via embedded SQL. Enhanced skypage, a TCP/IP-based client/server queuing program to interface w/ SkyTel's 1-800 ASCII paging service. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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October 95 April 96 September 96 Instructor NAF Conference Atlanta, GA Las Vegas, NV |
Invited instructor at the Network Analysis Forum (NAF), held in conjunction with Networld+Interop. With a colleague, developed and presented technical sessions covering the theory and practice of the TCP/IP protocol suite. At the 1995 Atlanta NAF, one session covered the fundamentals of TCP/IP; the other, general troubleshooting of a TCP/IP network. At the Las Vegas NAF, a session on the Domain Name Service was presented in addition to the 2 TCP/IP sessions. At the 1996 Atlanta NAF, the DNS session and a session covering TCP/IP network troubleshooting using OS-based tools were presented. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Jan 95 - May 95 Course Designer Computer Science Dept UTK |
Designed laboratory exercises for Computer Science 594: Unix Network Programming, a graduate level course in the design and operation of internets, focusing on TCP/IP as implemented in Unix. These exercises emphasized the engineering aspects of the TCP/IP protocol, presenting students with concrete problems of measuring, understanding, tuning and developing various network applications. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Dec 94 - Jan 95 Contractor AT&T |
As a sub-contractor to the Advanced Information Systems Group, Inc in Longwood, FL, produced a time estimate for porting AT&T's Routing Manager software written in K&R-style C under SunOS-4 to ANSI-based C under SunOS-5. This software used an OpenLook-based GUI front-end to remotely change customer phone service options and to track customer records in Sybase databases. The estimate suggested porting strategies, gave timelines, and noted bugs. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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April 93 & 94 Instructor NAUG Conference Monterey, CA Washington, DC |
Invited instructor at the Network Analysis and Users Group Conference. With a colleague, developed and taught a 3-hour seminar on TCP/IP protocol fundamentals and how to administer TCP/IP networks. At the Monterey conference, performance tuning was emphasized; at the DC conference, emphasis was placed on debugging tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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March 89 - April 94 Thesis Research Computer Science Dept UTK |
Designed, implemented, and evaluated a distributed computation package which utilizes an XDR-encoded, UDP-based reliable datagram protocol. Results of this study include the package itself, RCalc; the reliable datagram protocol, OCARD; and both analytic and empiric predictors of the efficiency of parallel bag-of-work algorithms. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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March 87 - July 90 Graduate Teaching Asst Computer Science Dept UTK |
Acted as one of 5 graduate student system administrators for 50+ Sun 3's, 30 Sun 4's, 20 IBM RT's, an Ardent Titan, an HP 9000, and two VAX 8200's, all of which were Internet hosts running some variant of BSD Unix. Responsibilities included installation and maintenance of hardware and software; network administration (NFS, YP, nameserver, POP, NNTP, NTP); writing utilities in C, csh and sh; training and advising operators, users, and new system administrators; day to day trouble-shooting. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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March 86 - Sept 86 Programmer Future Design Software Westminster, CA |
Designed and extended accounting packages and forms generation software for the Apple Macintosh. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sept 85 - March 86 Programmer Oil Technology Services Houston, TX |
Participated in design, implementation and documentation of an application to analyze and design oil wells, working on its user interface, high-level file I/O, and pipe catalog. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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May 84 - Aug 85 Programmer Mac Development Team Rice University |
Member of a team designing a micro to mainframe bulletin board protocol; implemented Columbia's Kermit file transfer protocol for the Mac; debugged and enhanced a Visual 200 terminal emulator for the Mac; wrote programs to run psychology experiments over the AppleTalk network. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Jan 85 - May 85 Coursework Rice University |
Participated in the hardware and software design and implementation of a gateway between AppleTalk and Ethernet using 3-Com's Etherbox, a dedicated Macintosh, and a TTL digital logic controller built for the project. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Honors | Rice Merit Scholar | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Honor Roll, Rice University, Fall Semester 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salutatorian, Baylor School 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||