Chris Thompson

513-685-0198

chris@cthompson.com

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Experience and Skills

Overview

Expert Experience

Employment History

Director of Online Systems

Student Loan Xpress

February 2006 to Present

Responsible for seventy websites within the Student Loan Xpress and Xpress Loan Servicing brands, team lead managing both internal and customer facing web sites and applications, developed in perl/CGI, HTML::Mason, Java and Coldfusion. Direct coordination between web, engineering and data services teams with marketing, business, legal departments, as well as managing technical needs and requirements of individual college Financial Aid departments and directors.

Unix Systems Administrator

Procter and Gamble

April 2005 to February 2006

Installation, consolidation, and upgrade of new servers. HPUX installation and configuration to written spec, including filesystem, app configuration and kernel tuning. Member of global disaster recovery team, participating in disaster recovery drills, simulating total data center failure including rapid reconfiguration and deployment of replacement systems.

Unix Systems Consultant

Comair

October 2004 to February 2005

From scratch design and implementation of all new web infrastructure. Administration of HP-UX 11i servers, maintaining Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, MySQL, and BIND services.

Web and eProducts Manager

Sallie Mae

July 2001 to May 2004

Customer integration and pre-sales support for a suite of web based financial aid products. Product design, implementation, testing and support. Manager of development team, as well as acting as the primary liaison coordinating business and development agendas.

Senior Enterprise Developer

Headland Digital Media / Learning Network

October 1998 to April 2001

Design and implementation of redundant, scalable enterprise web architecture with Apache, Jakarta and Oracle on Solaris and Linux server farm. Design and development of back end web initiatives including Intranet, Trouble Ticketing and System Failure Monitoring frameworks in perl and HTML::Mason.

Unix Systems Consultant

SquareD

October 1997 to October 1998

Responsible for administration and maintenance of over one hundred IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX, Lotus Notes and Sybase. Redesigned and re-implemented WAN DNS systems. Implemented new SMTP and Internet DNS Architectures. Key member of Unix Y2K compliance team, responsible for upgrading and certifying all Unix boxes to full Year 2000 compliance.

Internet Systems Engineer

ENTEX Information Systems

June 1995 to October 1997

Responsible for from-scratch implementation and design of new Internet infrastructure for this 8500 employee company. Including SMTP architecture, DNS Architecture, and Firewall systems.