<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW" /> <meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days" /> <title>L. Bradley LaBoon</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="index.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/navbar.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <!--#include virtual="include/header.html"--> <h1 id="page-title">About Me</h1> <div id="content"> <div id="left-content"> <div class="segment"> <h3 class="segment-title">Education</h3> <div class="segment-content"> I went to college at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ycp.edu/">York College of Pennsylvania</a>. <ul> <li>Degree: BS, Computer Science</li> <li>Years Attended: 2009-2013</li> <li>Cumulative GPA: 3.20</li> <li>Departmental Recognition Award</li> <li>Dean's List (Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013)</li> <li>Activities: ACM (President), Anime Club (President), CES, WVYC</li> </ul> <br /> I went to high school at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.devonprep.com/">Devon Preparatory School</a>. <ul> <li>Years Attended: 2005-2009</li> <li>National Honor Society</li> <li>Spanish National Honor Society</li> <li>Activities: Computer Club (President), Digital Electronics Club (President), Jazz Band, Stage Crew, Ballroom Dance Club</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="segment"> <h3 class="segment-title">Employment</h3> <div class="segment-content"> Systems Engineer, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linode.com">Linode, LLC</a> (October 2017 - Present) <ul> <li>Build and maintain systems within Linode's infrastructure</li> <li>Automate system configurations using tools such as Salt and Vagrant</li> <li>Responsible for the creation of public-facing distro images</li> <li>Maintain several internal software stacks</li> </ul> Engineer - System Administration and Automation, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (June 2013 - September 2017) <ul> <li>Build and maintain Linux and Unix systems, both physical and virtual</li> <li>Manage over 1000 systems using tools such as Puppet</li> <li>Automate the server build and application deployment processes</li> <li>Provide 24x7 on-call support for mission-critical ecommerce systems</li> <li>Work in a global environment, with teams in many countries</li> </ul> <br /> IT Admin, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metpersnl.com/">Metropolitan Personnel, Inc.</a> (June 2006 - March 2016) <ul> <li>Maintained company networking and server infrastructure</li> <li>Deployed workstations and managed users and group-policy through Active Directory</li> <li>Provided office technical support and assistance</li> </ul> <br /> Unix/Linux Administration Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (May 2012 - August 2012) <ul> <li>Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load</li> <li>Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers</li> </ul> <br /> Web Development Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dataforma.com/">Dataforma, Inc.</a> (May 2011 - August 2011) <ul> <li>Developed an interactive online drawing tool for roof modeling using HTML5 and JS</li> <li>Worked in a small team doing task-focused, agile development</li> </ul> <br /> Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010) <ul> <li>Founded BITS to provide on-site computer service to local clients</li> <li>Diagnosed and troubleshooted computer issues, and installed/repaired equipment</li> <li>BITS = Brad's IT Services</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="segment"> <h3 class="segment-title">Experience/Skills</h3> <div class="segment-content"> I have experience in the following areas:<br /> <br /> Programming and Scripting <ul> <li>C</li> <li>Java</li> <li>C#</li> <li>Python</li> <li>Bash</li> <li>Javascript</li> <li>MPI and pthreads</li> <li>Android SDK</li> <li>HTML5 and CSS3</li> <li>PHP</li> <li>Perl</li> <li>CUDA</li> <li>OpenGL</li> <li>MIPS Assembly (because screw x86)</li> <li>Verilog</li> <li>Visual Basic and VB.NET</li> <li>I dabbled in Ruby on Rails once...kinda, sorta</li> </ul> <br /> Operating Systems <ul> <li>RedHat/CentOS 4, 5, 6, and 7</li> <li>Arch Linux</li> <li>AIX 5.3 and 6.1</li> <li>Windows 95+ and Server 2003 - 2008 R2</li> </ul> <br /> Software <ul> <li>Apache</li> <li>Tomcat</li> <li>WebSphere</li> <li>MySQL/MariaDB</li> <li>Puppet</li> <li>Full VMWare stack</li> <li>Active Directory</li> <li>Subversion</li> <li>Git</li> <li>MS Office/LibreOffice (does this even count as a skill anymore?)</li> <li>SolidWorks</li> <li>Blender</li> <li>Eclipse</li> <li>Visual Studio</li> <li>Xilinx ISE</li> <li>Photoshop</li> <li>Dreamweaver (although real web developers write stuff by hand)</li> <li>FL Studio</li> </ul> <br /> Hardware <ul> <li>PC hardware (I enjoy building custom machines)</li> <li>Cisco UCS</li> <li>Networking equipment</li> <li>FPGAs and microcontrollers</li> </ul> Other Stuff <ul> <li>Circuit design/breadboarding</li> <li>Basic machining skills</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="segment"> <h3 class="segment-title">Interests</h3> <div class="segment-content"> Aside from school, work, and wishing I had magical powers, there are many things I enjoy, including...<br /> <ul> <li>Anything computer- or electronics-related</li> <li>Video games (particularly platformer, RPG, racing, and rhythm games)</li> <li>Also, video game design</li> <li>Artificial intelligence</li> <li>Anime</li> <li>Japanese culture</li> <li>Motorcycles</li> <li>Skiing</li> <li>Model trains</li> <li>Roller coasters</li> <li>Theoretical physics</li> <li>Astronomy</li> <li>Voice acting (though I've never done anything professionally)</li> <li>Photography</li> <li>DJing</li> <li>Instruments (I play saxophone, piano, and drums)</li> <li>Learning new languages (I currently speak Spanish, Japanese, and a little German)</li> <li>Making long, unordered lists of things</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="right-content"> <!--#include virtual="include/navbar.html"--> </div> </div> <!--#include virtual="include/footer.html"--> </div> </body> </html>