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Tom Vachon

Linux, Windows, Networking, Administrator and Security Expert

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Operations Engineer at Kayak.com
  • Chief Information Officer at INNgenuity Software LLC
Past
Education
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
Connections
81 connections
Industry
Computer & Network Security
Websites

Summary

Computer security and forensics.
Advanced system administration on *Nix and Windows.
Network Design and Implementation.
Large Scale server deployments in geographic diverse data centers.

Specialties:

Server and network design and implementation

Experience

  • Operations Engineer

    Kayak.com

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    February 2010 — Present (2 months)

  • Chief Information Officer

    INNgenuity Software LLC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2005 — Present (5 years 3 months)

  • Staff Engineer

    GameLogic

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008 — February 2010 (1 year 6 months)

    I deployed an EC2 based RoR application for data gathering (registration forms, etc) as well as an EC2 based ad serving network.

    I implemented a 3rd party massive online poker system a s a new facet of business for the company.

    I deployed and maintained a new SAN running NexentaStor (Open Solairs Kernel in Ubuntu userland)

    Also all the normal corporate stuff...

  • Systems Administrator

    Zvue Corporation

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

    February 2008 — September 2008 (8 months)

  • PartnerNet Portal Administrator

    Xerox

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; xrx; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    May 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Education

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

    BS , Applied Networking and System Administration , 2008

    Minor in Criminal Justice
    Concentrations in System Administration and Information Assurance.

    Activities and Societies:
    2008 RIT Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team, Member

Additional Information

Websites:

Interests:

Large Scale Computing Infrastructures, Datacenter Design and Technology, Baseball, Any other new gadgets or gizmos

Groups:

Infragard

  •    Information Security Community
  •    Cloud Computing, VMware, Virtualization and Enterprise 2.0 Group
  •    InfraGard National Members Alliance [READ Directions for Joining Carefully]