I spent two years working at a startup called
Pangea Systems, now called
DoubleTwist. They're a growing
company that provides a search tool and database for biotechnology
companies who have DNA sequences they want to analyze and store.
I'm not currently looking for work!
In June of 2006 I have started working for IronPort as a member of the Systems Operations team. They build gateway appliances- chiefly an email gateway that includes virus and spam filtering. They're working on a web gateway product that does content and spyware and virus filtering. I'm on the team that keeps the back-end servers running to support them.
I spent two years working in EDI as an application support person, as a Northrop Grumman employee. This position reunited me with some of the Procinct crowd, and gave me a chance to work on my scripting skills, as well as my people skills.
I had a job I was very excited about, working as a Unix admin and concentrating on Security, for Procinct Security, formerly known as RSL, or Responsible Solutions. I worked on setting policy and reviewing proposed changes for one of Procinct's clients, as well as doing some basic Sysadmin work on the side.
Unfortunately, Procinct wasn't earning quite as much as they needed to be earning to keep most of us around, so they shut their doors,
I worked for eighteen months at Taos Mountain, a consulting company that hires out its staff of contractors for short-term or long term employment as System Administrators or Network Administrators. I think this was a terrific chance to learn all kinds of computer skills, while not having to job hunt every three or six or nine months in the process.
I spent two years working at a startup called
Pangea Systems, now called
DoubleTwist. They're a growing
company that provides a search tool and database for biotechnology
companies who have DNA sequences they want to analyze and store.
I spent three months contracting for
Sybase, doing internal tech support triage. I wondered
sometimes if, in moments of extreme distraction, I would answer
my home phone with "Good afternoon, may I have your email login?"
I used to work for the
Dendrome Project, a tiny
part of the U.S. Forest Service, which is dedicated to making the
results of research into forest tree genomes available to the
public. I very much liked working there. After all, anyone who
pays you to learn Perl
can't be all that bad (even if it is a part of the
Government).