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ResumeBrett Roy Pemberton
IntroductionI am a passionate Systems Engineer who has worked in a number of key situations, inclusive of a team, on my own and in a leadership role. In all instances, I have demonstrated an ability to work effectively and efficiently, assuming various tasks and responsibilities with vitality, enthusiasm and focus. Employment HistoryOctober 2013 - Present: MessageMedia, Melbourne, VIC - Senior Systems EngineerMessageMedia is Australia's largest and most experienced business SMS provider, sending over 50 million messages each month
As a Systems Engineer, I oversaw the daily operation of the SMS gateway, providing a reliable, 24x7 service to customers. This includes an on-call support role.
Tools used: Python, EC2, CloudFormation, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, Route53, Kinesis, SES, SNS, SQS, Lambda, DataDog, PagerDuty, Puppet, Bitbucket, Jenkins April 2010 - October 2013 : Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI), Melbourne, VIC - Systems AdministratorVLSCI is a University of Melbourne and State Government funded facility to provide Supercomputing facilities to Life Science projects throughout the state.
As a Systems Administrator, I oversaw the daily operation of several Linux HPC clusters. My major achievements and detailed roles were:
Most service infrastructure was installed and configured at my own initiative, in response to gaps observed. Tools used: Python, Proxmox, Galera, MariaDB, Puppet, Patchman, Icinga, Drupal, Foswiki, xCAT, Panasas, GPFS
2003 - 2012 : Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Melbourne, VIC - HPC Team LeaderVPAC is a non-profit organisation which provides High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities and support to its member universities, industry, and other organisations within Victoria and Australia.
As HPC Team Leader, I oversaw the daily operation of Linux HPC clusters, both internal and off-site. I installed, and mentored others in the processes of installing scientific software for our users. I monitored the system for hardware faults, and oversaw the reporting and repairs of these. I lead a team of 4 helping them perform these tasks and other. My major achievements and detailed roles were:
In addition to the above I also performed duties focused on overseeing a team of 4.
Tools used: Python, Recluse. torque, moab, RT, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SVN, Apple Xserve RAID, IBM FAStT 2000 - 2003 (Full time) / 2003 - 2008 (Part time) : ToggleText, Sandringham, VIC - Systems Administrator and ProgrammerToggleText is a Translation and Linguistics company, specialising in translation of Asian languages, and Machine Language Translation (Creation of software for translating text between different languages).
As Systems Administrator, I oversaw a network of mostly Linux desktops and servers, local and remote, for the use of a small team of programmers. I commissioned a web presence for the company, including online translation services. As Programmer, I wrote C code to interface with the Prolog linguistic code of the translation system. My major achievements and detailed roles were:
Tools used: C, GTK, Guile, PHP, Apache, MySQL, Postgresql, Prolog, Autoconf/Automake, GDB, Aegis 1998-1999 : Western Power, Naval Base, WA - Thesis WorkWestern Power is Western Australia's Home and Commercial Electricity Provider
Designed and installed an alarm filtering system for the Power Station. Gained experience working and programming under VAX/VMS and OS/2.
Education History
Contributions to Open Source projects in spare time:
InterestsI enjoy performing and listening to music, as well as reading, jogging, and beer.
I'm an active member of the Linux Users of Victoria
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