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Galen Richards

Systems Engineer
Senior Linux System Administrator with 20 years experience administering co-located and cloud based infrastructure. Management experience as Director of IT/Operations for hypergrowth startup.
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University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Not open to opportunities
  • Profession
    Other
  • Fields
    Cyber Security
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years
  • Management
  • Skills
    Identity and Access Management
    Linux System Administration
    Management Experience
    Open Source Software
    Cloud Computing
    Infrastructure
    LDAP Design
    Management
    Debian
    SSO
    SAML 2.0
    API Automation
    Python
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
    Spanish
    Intermediate
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    System Administrator, IAM Administrator
  • Desired work locations
    San Francisco, CA, USA
    Berkeley, CA, USA
    Oakland, CA, USA
  • Freelance

Work Experience

Systems Engineer, IAM Adminstrator

Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
10 mos
Managed backend IAM/SSO systems. Responsible for maintaining account synchronization between OneLogin, LDAP, G-Suite and Workday. Wrote and maintained Python and Ruby scripts to automate provisioning and maintenance for 20000+ accounts.

Director Of Operations

Jun 2008 - Nov 2018
10 yrs 6 mos
As Senior IT Administrator: Primary architect for IAM/SSO technology stack including evaluation, selection and deployment of PingFederate, LDAP and G-suite. Responsible for migration from PingFederate/LDAP to OneLogin to take advantage of integrated VLDAP technology. Selected, deployed and managed internal MDM system. Wrote automation scripts to streamline provisioning for 500+ devices and accounts. As Director of Operations: Oversaw growth of technology stack from two racks to 100+ Grew operations team to support company in hypergrowth Hired China operations team and launched first Chinese datacenter operations.

Director of System Administration

Jul 2007 - Aug 2008
1 yr 2 mos
Remote datacenter/website administration. Network/systems administrator for multiple Linux distributions. Webmaster for production web service Cisco router/firewall setup/maintenance VPN setup/maintenance MySQL database replication and management

Senior System Administrator

Sep 2006 - May 2007
9 mos
Administered 120+ servers in 2 datacenters Internal Windows/Mac systems support and troubleshooting Network/systems administrator for various Linux distributions Postfix MTA setup/maintenance Zimbra Collaboration Suite setup/maintenance Cisco router setup/maintenance VPN setup/maintenance Perl/PHP programming MySQL/SQL Server/PostgreSQL database replication and management Squid proxy setup and customization

Director of System Administration

May 2004 - Aug 2006
2 yrs 4 mos
Managed operations team. Primary architect for deployment of new servers and technologies. Maintained 120+ machines across multiple datacenters.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Computer Science, Visual Arts
1997 - 2002
Activities and societies
Sailing Team