EVAN D.

HOFFMAN
evanhoffman@evanhoffman.com SUMMARY I'm a technology generalist with a penchant for solving problems, and a love of computers or any device with a USB port or IP address. I run Linux, Mac, and Windows at home. Technology Operations Director: Didit Search Marketing Mineola, New York. November 2006 April 2012 Responsible for all servers and systems related to Didit and PowerProfiles.com, as well as all technology purchasing, from user workstations to servers. Migrated all production servers to a new datacenter to increase reliability and allow for future growth. Consolidated server storage from local disks onto SAN to facilitate creation of a disaster recovery site. Standardized server hardware platform and operating systems across production systems, significantly simplifying administration. Planned and executed migration from obsolete physical servers to virtual machines using VMware. Migrated the organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 with minimal downtime. Migrated PowerProfiles.com from private hosting to Amazon EC2 and Google Apps, resulting in an 80% cost savings. Managed a mixed Windows/Mac/Linux environment, including modernization of all user workstations in 2012. Software Engineer: Didit Search Marketing Rockville Centre, New York. March 2005 - November 2006 Rearchitected and rewrote significant portions of the click tracking system, used to track and optimize online ad spend and revenue for hundreds of clients, including Match.com and AT&T. Rewrote the entire tracking front-end, originally written in PHP, in Java 5 on Tomcat 5.5, resulting in a 2000% improvement in performance and a significant improvement in scalability and stability. Worked with clients to ensure proper implementation of our codes within their sites. Ensured 24/7 operation for production systems. Programmer / System Administrator: Linenplace.com, Inc. New York, New York. October 2001 - April 2004 Built a bridging firewall running Linux to protect company's web and DNS servers from attackers Set up and maintained DNS (BIND 9) and Mail (Sendmail / IMAP-SSL) servers Maintained office computers on a domain-based Windows NT4/2000 network with IP printers Rewrote company's entire e-commerce site from scratch using PHP and PostgreSQL Optimized websites for search engines, significantly boosting their positions in search engines. TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages Java, PHP, Perl, Bash, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/NodeJS, Ruby Databases PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB Operating Systems & Platforms Linux (CentOS/RedHat Enterprise, Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Debian) and FreeBSD VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 Windows 95 through 2008 Server R2, Windows 7 MacOS X through 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Amazon EC2 EDUCATION Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Major in Computer Science

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