Strata Chalup, PMP

Experience

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  Virtual.Net Inc

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2012

  Owner

  Strategic consultancy with an emphasis on bringing mature IT/IS practices ("best practices") to startups and fast-growing companies. We solve difficult deployment problems for firms of any size. Highly networked and able to draw on solutions from many recognized experts. Incorporated after over a decade as a successful sole proprietorship.

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  BayLISA

  Jan 1996 - Feb 2006

  Member

  BayLISA Board of Directors 1997 - 1999, 2001 - 2005 terms. President 1999, Treasurer 2004, various committees (web, membership, elections, annual picnic). http://www.baylisa.org/[Still member, need to move to Group listing]

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  The System Administrators Guild (SAGE)

  Jan 1997 - Feb 2006

  Member

  Executive Committee, 2001 - 2002 term.Usenix/SAGE LISA Conference, Invited Talks Co-chair 2001, Program Committee 1999 - 2001, Refereed paper reviewer 1998 - 2002, Panel Organizer 1998[Still member, need to move to Group listing]

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  WebOS

  May 1998 - Aug 1999

  Messaging Operations Manager (Consultant)

  (Consultant via Teksystems) Palm.Net, a division of Palm/3Com. Generate project plan, form project team, manage staff; interface with engineering development teams to craft operations-related ECO's and feature requests; interface with outside vendors (Sun, Network Appliance, iPlanet) on client's behalf; create operations processes and production change processes; research scaleability and capacity models for operations response to varied service usage levels; create staged implementation plans and business continuity planning guidelines; liason to Customer Support to develop escalation process and intervention tools for outsourced first-tier support center. Show less

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  Mac.com (Apple)

  Aug 1999 - Nov 1999

  Project Manager (Consultant)

  Consultant via Fortuna, iPlanet Professional Services. Generate project plan & manage team for iPlanet portion of mac.com rollout on very tight deadline; create ECO's for custom application development; negotiate additions & modifications to client Statement of Work; liason to outsourced IT staffing firm to create operations processes for cluster expansion and monitoring of iPlanet portions of application services.

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  IPlanet

  Feb 2000 - May 2000

  Project Manager (Consultant)

  Washington Mutual, February 2000 - May 2000, Project Manager; Negotiate phased implementation plan and deliverables for 30K user greenfields enterprise rollout, develop project plan; expand Statement of Work to include testlab environment; manage client hardware recommendations process; assist client in development of functional requirements document; interface with other vendors.

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  KnowNow

  Jul 2000 - Dec 2000

  Director of Network Operations

  Created project plans for production notification service cluster build-out; assisted in venture funding pitches and mutual-NDA technical explorations with potential partners firms; worked with executive and engineering staff on service planning, specifications, and development lifecyle issues. As contractor in June 2000, generated financial projection spreadsheets for colocation build-out and performed feasibility analysis of implementation concept. Business model changed to software rather than services, regretfully departed. Show less

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  Addamark, Inc

  Aug 2001 - Sept 2001

  Systems Consultant

  Hands-on IT assistance (Linux, Win2K) and systems architecture kibitzing.

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  Mirapoint

  Nov 2002 - Feb 2003

  Messaging Systems Consultant

  Delivered feature comparison analysis and technical sales strategy toolsheets on MTA systems for ISP use, message security gateway products, hosted messaging services.January 2001 - May 2001, Performance testing of competitor's products against SPECMail benchmark; contributed to product feature enhancement and design specifications for MTA, LDAP products.

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  Opsware

  Aug 2003 - Apr 2004

  Customer Solutions Contractor

  Contract position via Fortuna Inc. Ongoing application packaging & scripting (sh, python, csh) for automated software installation & control via Opsware's Intelligent Software Module Development Kit (ISM IDK). Authored initial training course for ISM IDK for both in-house and customer/partner worldwide training. Created hands-on lab material for Opsware Command Core (OCC) Administration training materials for OS Provisioning (Solaris, Windows) Module.

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  Microsoft

  May 2004 - Aug 2004

  Systems Consultant

  Contract position via Certainty Solutions. Create project framework for ongoing operations, track & document problems and solutions, provide hands-on support for EMC Clariion and Sun A5x00 series storage arrays, Veritas Volume Manager.

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  First Databank (via Scriplogix, Fortuna)

  Nov 2004 - Feb 2005

  Project Manager (Contract)

  PM for all phases of pilot project, oversight authority on remote and local teams. Manage functional specification development and recoding efforts for IBM PL/1 to Oracle PL/SQL migration. Coordinate onsite (CA) and remote (NY, India) teams.

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  Micronas USA (formerly WIS Technologies)

  Dec 2004 - Sept 2006

  Consulting Director of IT, Senior IT Consultant

  Provide systems architecture, best practices mentoring, and high-level planning for expansion to new facilities and plans for growth. Assist IT staff in resolving legacy systems and network architecture issues. Provide direction in transitioning department to expanded full-time staffing. Continue to be available to staff & management for problem-solving & process consulting.

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  USENIX Association

  Dec 2005 - Dec 2006

  Program Manager

  Manage member programs and initiatives of the Usenix Special Interest Group for System Administrators ("SAGE"). Perform outreach to other technical groups and to non-members. Work with Usenix Executive Director and staff to create and implement new programs and benefits.

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  Prentice Hall

  Jan 2006 - May 2007

  Technical Author

  Joined existing team of Limoncelli and Hogan for 2nd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration, June 2007 publication.

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  Linden Lab

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2010

  Program Manager, Scrum Master, Second Life Enterprise

  Engineering Project Manager, Jan 2008 - Dec 2010 Built internal cross-functional teams and worked with key vendor partners to bring Second Life Enterprise from internal tool to fully released product. Total of 2 weeks slip on 18 months of development and 4 releases, with a geographically dispersed team in SF, MV, Seattle, and Singapore. Engineering liason to key customers as part of early engineering trials. Gradually transitioned team and project sponsor into agile process (scrum).

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  NetApp

  Oct 2011 - Feb 2012

  Sr. Domain Architect (Consultant)

  Systems architect in multi-tier organization. Distill technical requirements from business requirements, map to IT standards, manage coordination of delivery. Emphasis on Containers, VMs, and provisioning on demand. Work with internal team to design tools and processes to improve efficiency and quality in systems delivery. Placement via Taos.

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  Addison Wesley

  Aug 2012 - Aug 2013

  Technical Author

  Wrote "The Practice of Cloud System Administration" technical book with co-authors Tom Limoncelli and Christina Hogan.

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  Qubera Solutions

  Sept 2013 - Oct 2014

  Project Manager

  Manage client projects in the field of identity management. Work with remote consulting teams and offshore resources. Qubera was acquired by KPMG in Oct 2014.

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  KPMG

  Oct 2014 - May 2015

  Manager, Advisory

  Managing project teams on multiple infrastructure and identity management projects, including India teams.

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  Google

  Jun 2015 - Oct 2023

  Program Manager (L6)

  Jan 2021 - Oct 2023: Provide program management for Core Data as part of the Core Prod SRE PMO. Support ML SRE teams in PGH and ZRH. May 2017 - Jan 2021: Provide program management for the Logs Site Reliability Engineering group within the Google production infrastructure.June 2015 - May 2017: Provide program and project management for the Network Infrastructure & Standards group within Alphabet Access Google Fiber. Lead the Program & Standards Management department, managing a team of program managers, capacity planners, and technical writers. Show less

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  Retired

  Oct 2023 - now

  Human Being

  Happily retired in Eugene Oregon.