GREGORY JOHN PRYZBY

11694 Bennington Woods Road Reston, Virginia 20194-1610 703-880-4979

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Energetic and motivated engineer and technology specialist with twenty years experience on a variety of hardware and Unix-based operating systems, including Linux and *BSD. Highly proficient in full life cycle development of complex applications. Experienced in designing and building operational infrastructure to support complex applications. Quick study in new situations and able to quantify and solve problems quickly and efficiently. Active and visible member of the Open Source Community for over 14 years. Dynamic and entertaining public speaker and Open Source advocate.

EXPERIENCE

Developer/Consultant

Assisted clients architect and implement vitualization in their environment to save money and improve service level agreements.

Worked with clients to solve their problems using Open Source software. This included gathering the requirements, finding, tweaking or writing an application, installing the application and training the customer on how to maintain the application.

Modified Open Source applications to meet the needs of the client. One project involved integrating xfig with satellite data and geographical coordinates.

Wrote numerous client/server applications in C in a Unix environment.

Worked on an Orange Book, SQL compliant RDBMS for the United States Air Force.

Ported software (proprietary and Open Source) between Unix flavors (Solaris to Linux, for example). Rewrote drawing engine for maps from Windows to Unix.

Operations

Responsible for Kerberos infrastructure in production environment that supported over 12,000 hosts and 3,000 users. Expanded the system from 3,000 hosts and 1,000 users over 3 years.

On call engineer responsible for quickly determining and resolving problems.

Built process for web presence at SallieMae. Implemented processes and procedures for developers, quality assurance engineers and system administrators to move the content between the different environments. Built a pre-production system that was used for final test and debugging of production problems. Implementedconfiguration management.

Management

Led a team of 3 System Developers and 6 System Administrators in a 24x7 Operations environment at America Online, Inc. Reshaped the team and added 3 head count in 3 years.

Sales

Over 6 years as a Sales Engineer.

C.V.

Novell, Incorporated, Provo, Utah

September 2004 - Present

Technology Sales Specialist

Senior Architect

The College Board, New York, New York

February 2004 - September 2004

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

AOL Incorporated, Dulles, Virginia

May 2001 - February 2004

Tech Manager

VA Linux Systems, Sunnyvale, California

February 1999 - May 2001

System Engineer

SDDI/CleanScreen, Sterling, Virginia

June 1998 - February 1999

Senior Systems Consultant

Sallie Mae (Student Loan Marketing Assn.), Reston, Virginia

December 1996 - June 1998

Principal Internet Engineer

System Design and Development, Inc., Sterling, Virginia

June 1993 - February 1999

Senior Systems Consultant

GeoSystems, Falls Church, Virginia

February 1994 - August 1994

Senior Developer

Virtual Technologies Consulting, Inc., Clifton, Virginia

September 1993 - February 1994

Senior Software Consultant

Northern Virginia's Linux Users' Group (NOVALUG), Chantilly, Virginia

October 1993 - Present

Founder

Virtual Technologies, Inc., Dulles, Virginia

Sept 1991 - Sept 1993

Senior Software Consultant

Jonathan Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia

April 1990 - September 1991

Software Engineer

SYSCON Corporation, Washington, D.C.

June 1987 - April 1990

Programmer

EDUCATION

B.S.E., Computer Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1987

References available upon request