Accomplishments

• Healed the sick and injured. Helped to raise the dead.
• Provided emergency medical care to film production crew under pressure and in adverse environments. Maintained set security during high-risk special effects scenes, performed crowd control, and ensured general set safety.
• Developed and tested information management strategies for emergency operations centers.
• Taught and provided emergency prehospital care to the public and other volunteers. Provided public relations services and statistical analysis of patient volumes and demographics. Proposed multiple patient satisfaction surveys not completed due to management problems.
• Constructed database-backed Web sites using freely available tools and software for own amusement and to validate concepts in Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing.
• Built and maintained a multi-center distributed computing environment (Boston, New York, Victoria, Cupertino) using multiple Unix variants (Solaris, IRIX, Linux, HP-UX) for 25 developers. Responded to user complaints and concerns regarding disk space, memory requirements, processor times, and broken routers. Developed resources for remote and automatic monitoring. Made hardware and software acquisition decisions after evaluation of new products. Configured bare hardware following delivery and discovered "solutions" for vendor-supplied problems. Debugged long-distance high-speed dedicated connections with "assistance" from Tier 1 NOC technicians. Discovered new truths about remote Unix system administration. Developed an intense fear of AIX, sendmail, and Cisco routers.
• Performed public information sessions in open fora and retail environments to sell OS/2 to a public that wasn't ready for it in the face of Microsoft's launch of Windows 95. Demonstrated software to corporate customers. Developed thick skin and some retail / public relations savvy.
• Constructed and administered low-load Intel-based Linux systems for private cliants for use as internal Web servers, firewalls, development platforms, and general amusement.
• Instructed sailing cadets, using Canadian Sail Training Association guidelines, in marlinspike seamanship, navigation, radar interpretation, emergency procedures, and general barquentine vessel operation.

Work Experience

British Columbia Ambulance Service Paramedic	July 2001 to present
PacWest Films, Inc; Victoria, British Columbia First aid attendant / production assistant	December 1999
St. John Ambulance Brigade; Victoria, British Columbia Brigade member, photographer, and instructor	September 1997 to present
Level 4 Laboratories, LLC; Victoria, British Columbia and Cambridge, Massachusetts Senior systems / network administrator	October 1996 to July 1998
IBM Canada; Calgary, Alberta Junior sales representative	March to October 1995

Technical Skills

Unix system administration (SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Linux, some AIX, OSF/1, and Ultrix), TCP/IP network configuration and administration, Web site design and maintenance, Internet service administration, HTML authoring. Survival level C/C++ and Java, Common LISP, scheme, Tcl/Tk, and perl. RDBMS administration (Oracle 8, Postgres) and SQL, DNS configuration and maintenance. 35 mm and medium format photography.

Current health-care licensure: British Columbia EMA/FA and OFA 3, CPR-C.
Completed Advanced Trauma Life Support as an auditor.

Languages: English and French at fluency level; survival medical-grade Spanish. ("Soy paramedico. Hablo un poquito de Español. Hay alguien aqui que habla ingles?")

Passport: Canadian

Education

West Island College (Calgary, Alberta): Alberta Provincial Senior Matriculation, awarded June 1996.

University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia): Bachelor of Arts, awarded May 2001.

Interests

Photography, writing, Web publishing, Linux kernel hacking, medicine, and Italian cuisine.

Associations and Memberships

HTML Writer's Guild, Internet Engineering Task Force (USEFOR working group), Linux Advocates, Dogbert New Ruling Class.