Matt Tharma


Quote of the day: “Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed”

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OBJECTIVE:

To contribute my creative Systems Engineering skills along with the years of Linux, Networking, Embedded system development experience to collaborate with a team that enhances your organizations success.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2014 Aug – Present Aequitas Innovations Inc., Toronto, Ont
Application Engineer/System Administrator

  • Being part of the technology and operations team which is responsible to make sure all the systems (100+ Linux/Oracle/Windows Server) are up and running.
  • Analyze/troubleshoot/fix any issues related applications or systems or network.
  • Deploy new applications, patch systems with the latest security updates.
  • Develop system modules (scripts/applications) to interact with the existing system level components.
  • Automate tasks to minimize operational errors.
  • Maintaining the internal JIRA/Confluence ticketing/CRM system.
  • Working closely with other teams to achieve deadline requirements.
  • Document new operational process & procedures for the existing/new systems.
  • Work with the business operations team to identify and troubleshoot customer issues (Level 3 support).
  • Write ad hock scripts/programs to analyze and model data.
  • Troubleshooting Order Entry (Fix 4.2), Market Data (ITCH, NITCH, STAMP), Replay/Recovery, Drop Copy gateways/process

2008 Oct – 2014 July Penguin Engineering Systems Inc., Brampton, Ont
Senior Systems Engineer (Independent Consultant)

  • End to end Software developer. Task involves the development of the firmware development for the custom hardware designs and the controller/server/GUI components.
  • Server/Controller customization to make a real-time responsive system that guarantees the communication to the devices and to the end user interfaces.
  • Development of various test suites for regress testing scenarios to evaluate the best/worst cases of the hardware/software models.
  • Evaluation of various hardware components to minimize production costs.
  • Working closely with customers to implement new features and improve the existing system.
  • Developed & deployed Condo management software (CondoClicks.com) for day to day activities of a condominium hosted on a cloud environment using LAMP.
  • Designed an electronic elevator display system using iMX53 & LAMP. It has eliminated the use of printed notices, display real time news feeds along with live weather, slide show of the building and a news ticker for quick notices.
  • Implemented various encryption technologies throughout the hardware/software models to keep the system secure and proprietary.
  • Administering all the PESIplex’s servers and remote controllers.
  • Implemented iptable firewalls on all servers and controllers.
  • Currently maintaining various web based products hosted on Linux servers running the LAMP stack.

2002 Dec – 2008 Oct Condoplex Monitoring Systems Inc., Etobicoke, Ont
Senior Systems Engineer

  • Managed, Proposed and implemented various Linux based Embedded solutions. Solutions including the implementation custom kernels, custom system configurations and various diagnostics tools using shell scripts.
  • Invented and implemented new feature sets for the applications to satisfy customer needs. Solutions ranging from MySQL database design/optimization, picking the right hardware to implementing various network solutions.
  • Improved & Enhanced the Graphical User Interface [PHP, Tcl/Tk, VNC, IceWM].
  • Employed various procedures for efficient product development and testing, which has accelerated sales volumes. [Custom scripts, automated tasks managements, etc].
  • Successfully migrated the entire company from a Microsoft Windows based storage system with a Linux server. Also implanted live and scheduled backups with Linux based open source tools. [RSYNC, Samba, Software and Hardware RAID]
  • Build, configured the company’s Web, Mail, dialup, firewall server using various open source components [Apache, Sendmail, IPTables & CalmAV]
    Hands on experience with remote upgrading/monitoring of customer sites.
  • Created a Service Tracking utility using LAMP, which is used by the technical support, development & RMA teams.

2000 Mar – 2002 Dec Navtech Systems Support Inc., Waterloo, Ont
Installation Manager

  • Managed more than 60 Linux, Windows & Sun Servers in a mission critical environment.
  • Developed a variety of system monitoring tools using Perl, bash & PHP to monitor remote servers. These tools were configurable to generate reports of various formats [graphical, html & email]. It is still used by the Technical support teams. It is also displayed by the Sales teams at many trade shows to promote company’s service levels.
  • Played a key role between the Sales team and the customers in defining standards and implementation tasks.
  • Implemented various WAN, LAN, VPN & PPP Solutions & failover network methodologies. Worked closely with AT&T on implementing Frame Relay/ISDN circuits.
  • Improved the server installation procedure to minimize the installation time from weeks to hours.
  • Ad hock code development/fixes [C, Perl, PHP, bash, ksh & sed].
  • Implemented various backup solutions [RAID, NAS & Custom Scripts], implemented disaster recovery procedures.
  • Implemented high availability Linux based clusters & achieved 99.999% uptime.

1996 Jan – 2000 Jan University of Guelph CCS Guelph, Ont
Systems Admin, Web designer, PC & LAN Specialist

  • Successfully administered the UofG library pool computers & print-systems.
  • Assisted and trained library members with various computer applications.
  • Diagnosed and developed solutions for enterprise wide network issues.
  • Designed web pages for businesses [HTML, Java Script, Perl, CGI, and Apache].
  • Developed custom software solutions for a Video Store [Visual Basic 6, MSAccess].
  • Setup, maintained & supported Engineering Student Club’s web/email/ftp servers.
  • Instructed and tutored students with Linux related projects.

PROJECTS CURRENTLY INVOLVED:

  • Working with an open source project called SIMPL (Synchronous Inter process Messaging Project for Linux).
  • Created my own version of Linux LiveCD using Slackware 11 & 2.6.X.

EDUCATION:

University of Guelph Guelph, Ont
Engineering Systems and Computing, BSc, (Eng)

SKILLS:

  • Experimented almost every major version of Linux distributions since 1995.
  • Administration of Apache, MySQL engines
  • Setting up Sendmail, IPTables based firewalls, SVN version control on various Linux Servers.
  • Clear understanding & Hands on training on Preemptive Linux Kernels.
  • Strong network routing skills & Hands on training on various WAN, LAN, Serial protocols [TCP/IP, Frame relay, PPP, Ethernet, RS232 & RS485].
  • Versatile shell scripter with bash, csh, ksh, Perl & Php for system level automations.
  • Performance analyzing and tuning of Servers and Embedded Controller (under Linux).
  • Have successfully managed a team of engineers with various projects from ground up to deployment.
  • Have implemented 3 tier-securities in various products (system level, communication level & application level).
  • Have done numerous sales presentations, technical product training as well as onsite installation & integration of proprietary products.
  • Proficiency in C, C#, .Net Framworks, Java, Turbo C, Visual Basic, 68000 Assembly, shell scripting and IC [Interactive C] for the Motorola’s HC11 Micro controller chipset, CCS & Hi-Tech compilers for Microchip.
  • Excellent knowledge of HTML, Perl, PHP, Java Scripts. jQuery
  • Experience with design/setting up MySQL databases, replication and backup.
  • Hands on training on, FreeBSD, IBM’s RISC 6000 & AIX, Unix Sys-V, DOS, Windows 2000, XP Embedded, Vista and Windows 7.
  • Clear understanding of the operating system internals.
  • Hands on experience with data encryption/decryption (i.e. 3DES).
  • Excellent knowledge of embedded technology & kernel preemptions.
  • Hands on experience with Windows to Linux connectivity.
  • Have evaluated various virtualization products including VMWare and VirtualBox.
  • Played a major role in selecting the right database for the job by installing Oracle & Mysql under Linux and some C programs to gather information, which were then plotted on to a MRTG graph for easy analysis.
  • Clear understanding & hands on experience with Linux print & mail sub systems.

PERSONAL SKILLS:

  • Ability to learn and adapt to any environment quickly.
  • Ability to work in a group oriented infrastructure and motivate users acquainted with new tools.
  • Ability to think critically, act logically to evaluate, solves problems and makes decisions.
  • Possess exceptional listening skills with an excellent command of English language
  • A highly professional, organized, decisive, result oriented and committed individual with high energy.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Alumni member of the Guelph School of Engineering.

HOBBIES:

  • Photography (Member of Brampton Photo Club)
  • Reading, evaluating open source products for Linux
  • Involved with a group of Engineers who teach kids electronics and robotics

REFERENCE:

  • Available upon request.
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