Frank Thompson
11610 Mountain Turtle Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
Cell: (719) 502-6508
frank@killerworld.com
   Summary: Experienced designer with 25+ years developing tools for infrastructure and application data/controls for Shipping company. Highly team oriented, self-motivated, and proficient with computer services. Looking to provide leadership and design skills to improve customer and team members experiences.
Experience
Tool designer for data mining/administering systems. Writing Web UI, Command Line, Rest API calls, and Mail scripting to interface with systems and users to provide central hub of data analysis, and features to perform updates to infrastructure systems to support automation to/from Cloud/3rd party tools. Tools are Account Management support, DHCP, DNS, ILO, Patching, Administrative Password protection, Facility Management, Building Servers, OVO Management, Netbackup Support, and Reporting on Stats/Issues. Job requirements required doing analysis, review, coding, testing, releases, upgrades, enhancements, and future directions of tools.
 
Federal Express, Sr. Engineering Advisor 1998 - Present
  • Designing, developing, deploying, maintaining Grid Inventory System for multiple data centers.( 5 Star Award )
  • Building Centralized yellow book of applications/servers/password UI interface for different access level usage.( 5 Star Award )
  • Creating a Portal site for requesting DNS Records.( Hall of Fame Award )
  • Converting "End of Life" Cold Fusion Application to OS provided software.( Hall of Fame Award )
  • Migrating physical hardware between data centers. ( Hall of Fame Award )
  • Analyzing/Implementing Automation to reduce 12 hour deploy times of software down to 30 minutes.( Hall of Fame Award )
  • Tool to collect emails, rest calls, and spreadsheets of data, and link data sets together in a UI/CLI system.
  • Tool to manage DHCP leases and PXE stanza's.
  • UI Tool to provide patching services to servers via button clicks.
  • Manage Multiple Account tool/teams to control password files, ldap controls, sudo rules, file system mounts, and log maintenance across data centers.
  • Configuration Management Administrator for multiple teams and projects
Computer Skills
OS Platforms
RHEL/Fedora/Centos/Archlinux
Solaris
Windows
 Scripting:
Perl
Unix Shells
HTML
Javascript
Python
Java
PHP
C++
 Databases
MySQL
Oracle
DB2
 CM Tools
CVS
RCS
ClearCase
Subversion
Git
 Microsoft Tools
Paint Shop Pro
Microsoft Office Suite
Pspice
Circuit Maker Pro
 Unix Tools
Apache
Sendmail
Postfix
Gimp
ILO

Bind
DHCP
RPM Manager
CA Technologies
Schooling
Master's of Business Administration - Colorado Technical University Graduated: 2008, March
Master's of Science - Computer Science, focus in Network Security at Colorado Technical University Graduated: 2004, September
Bachelor's of Science - Electrical Engineering at Colorado Technical University Graduated: 2000, March
Clinical Hypnotherapy Degree at Hypnotherapy Training Institute Graduated: 1999, September