Clay Fouts' Resume (Last updated October 26th 2007)

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CLAY FOUTS

503-752-5156

Portland, Oregon 97212 - US

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon

May 2006 - Present

Network Test Engineer
  • Design test scenarios capable of reproducing network problems reported by customers.
  • Assist development engineers to determine root cause by minimizing the required criteria to reproduce the issue and narrow investigative focus to a particular subsystem or component.
  • Create custom test platforms, including base hardware, network infrastructure and services, and OS (Linux and Microsoft) installation.
  • Update and modify BIOS and firmware contents on PCs, NICs and embedded systems.

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OneCall Concepts, Inc., Portland, Oregon

March 2005 - April 2007

Database Administrator
  • Administer Postgres and MySQL databases on Linux servers.
  • Write Perl and Bash scripts to manipulate database contents and maintain data integrity.
  • Write C software to import and manipulate geographical map data.
  • Guide member utility companies through the process of maintaining standards-compliant plant data.

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FrogNet, Inc., Athens, Ohio

July 1998 - August 2002

Chief Technology Officer
  • Direct corporate affairs by identifying future industry trends and coordinating financial and technical measures required to adapt current services to those projections.
  • Design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure for a regional IP transit network spanning two states, using various network protocols and facilities and multiple national IP transit providers.
  • Oversee a staff of assistants, including hiring, discipline, and periodic review processes.
  • Install, maintain and troubleshoot Linux, Solaris and Windows workstations and servers.
  • Work extensively with LECs for ordering and troubleshooting telephony products and services.
  • Design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure elements (hardware and software) for user services such as email and web site hosting.
  • Develop and implement security policy for managing network authentication, authorization, and accounting services.
  • Create network firewalling/filtering policies, VPNs and other encryption services, and server hardening.
  • Create policy for mitigating potential security breaches via social engineering techniques.
  • Develop applications for users, staff, and internal automation purposes using a variety of languages, environments, and user interfaces.
  • Act as highest level technical support for priority customers and internal staff.

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FrogNet, Inc., Portland, Oregon

August 2002 - February 2005

Network and Systems Consultant
  • Write programs and scripts to automate networking and systems administration tasks.
  • Audit company subscriber information to find errors in accounting data.
  • Automate network error status alerts and response to minimize requirements of human intervention.
  • Custom design SQL queries to assist and streamline finance department's bookkeeping practices.

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FrogNet, Inc., Athens, Ohio

November 1998 - Present

Vice President of Technology, Board of Directors
  • Act as a liaison between corporate officers and stockholders.
  • Oversee activities and evaluate performance of corporate officers.

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Ohio University Communications Network Services, Athens, Ohio

September 1996 - July 1998

Network Applications Developer
  • Distribute information systems research and development including data warehousing for statistical and historical purposes.
  • Network and systems security consultation including the uncovering and reporting of system and network weaknesses, creation and installation of preventative measures, and detection and recovery mechanisms.
  • Develop user interfaces for statistical and topological network information through WWW framework using Apache, C, and Perl.

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Ohio University Communications Network Services, Athens, Ohio

July 1994 - September 1996

Systems Consultant
  • Perform Solaris/Linux/HPUX systems administration including system setup, user accounting, FTP, WWW, E-Mail, SQL Database service, and distributed information base integration.
  • Manage, install, maintain and troubleshoot network hardware infrastructure.

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SKILLS 

  • Operating Systems: Unix (Linux, Solaris), Cisco IOS, RedBack AOS, Windows 9x/2k/XP/2k3/Vista
  • Networking: T1, DS3, DS0, ATM, Frame Relay, 10/100/1G/10G Ethernet, VLAN, 802.11b/g Wifi, DSL, OSPF, BGP4, RIP, VPN/IPSec, DHCP, PXE, iSCSI
  • Software: SSH, SSL/TLS, iptables, LDAP, Apache, RDBMS database administration and application development (MySQL, Postgres, Informix, MS-SQL Server, MS-Access), POSIX, Object-Oriented Programming, Threaded Programming, Email (sendmail, qmail), DNS (bind, dbjdns)
  • Languages: C, C++, Perl, SQL, Bourne Shell/BASH, Java, PHP, HTML

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EDUCATION 

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1992 - 2002

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering

 

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CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS 

  • Treasurer of Sekhet-Maat Lodge, May 2007 to present

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