Christopher P. Lindsey's Resume

CHRISTOPHER P. LINDSEY

702 W. Vermont
Urbana, IL 61801
lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu (work)
lindsey@mallorn.com (home)

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN , Urbana, IL

Master of Science, August, 2000

Study involved research on software usage patterns of undergraduate students using UIPLANTS, a program developed as part of the study to aid student learning of woody plant material.
Program later converted to Web site instead of a standalone Windows program.
Bachelor's of Landscape Architecture earned with honors, May, 1993.
Coursework in accredited landscape architecture program.

COLLEGE of DUPAGE, Glen Ellyn, IL

Accumulated transfer credit in engineering honors program, June 1990.
GLENBARD WEST HIGH SCHOOL , Glen Ellyn, IL

Graduated May 1988.

EXPERIENCE
Technical Program Manager, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Champaign IL, February 2002 - present.

Manages the Production Services Infrastructure group, responsible for managment and direction of production services at NCSA. Team supports services including Kerberos, SQL, email, Web, FTP, file, and print servers; computer security, UNIX/Mac desktop administration.

Senior System Engineer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Champaign IL, February 2001 - February 2002.
System Engineer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Champaign IL, February 1997 - February 2001.

Responsibilities include management of all email, FTP, and Web server systems and configurations, guiding policy creation for Web presences, computer security, Kerberos and AFS administration. Other tasks include creating and/or evaluating new software for various projects, overseeing student employees and system engineers.

Chief Technology Officer, The Valar Group, Inc. February 2000 - December 2004.

One of four founding members of a consulting group that focuses on computer security issues. Clients include Champaign-based banks and medical insurance companies.
Responsible for on-site training, infrastructure design, and security/policy decisions for clients.
President and CEO, Mallorn Computing, Inc., December 1995 - present.

Started and run a small company geared towards the production of technical solutions for the horticultural industry.
Services include Web hosting, email and mailing lists, secure on-line ordering, site design, database manipulation, community portal and blog management, and e-commerce.
Vice-president, Ithilien Computer Corporation, December 1996 - December 1997.

Vice-president of a computer manufacturing company geared toward high-end PCs as Linux and FreeBSD servers.
Senior UNIX System Administrator, Wolfram Research, Champaign IL, April 1995 - February 1997.

Responsibilities included maintenance of over 100 UNIX workstations and servers in a heterogeneous environment, maintaining email, DNS, NIS, internetworking between PC/Mac/UNIX, and other assorted tasks.

Teaching Assistant, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana IL, Sep 1994 - May 1995.

Lab instructor for HORT 201 and HORT 202, Identification and Use of Woody Ornamental Plants with Dr. Gary J. Kling.
Responsible for teaching leaf, bud, and stem identification characteristics of over 300 woody plant species to undergraduate and graduate students.
Research Assistant, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana IL, May 1993 - May 1995.

Under the direction of Dr. Gary J. Kling, developed and programmed UIPLANTS, a multimedia software package providing full-color images of plant material with detailed descriptions.

Collections Crew, MORTON ARBORETUM, Lisle IL, May 1992 - August 1992.

Responsible for maintenance and care of assigned plant collections for public viewing and social functions.

CAPABILITIES

Strong UNIX networking skills, including heterogenous environments, networking with PCs and Macintoshes, SQL databases, firewalls, distributed filesystems (NFS, AFS client and server administration) and more.
Strong UNIX security experience (Kerberos, ssh, PGP, SSL protocols, incident recovery, infrastructure design, incident detection).
Excellent sendmail, majordomo/Mailman, procmail, bind (DNS), MySQL, news (INN), and Web knowledge.
Operating system experience (from most to least) with Linux, SunOS, NeXTStep, Solaris, IRIX, HP/UX, OSF/1, Sony NEWS, AIX, AUX, Stardent.
Experience with computer-aided drafting, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, video imaging, and computer-aided instruction.

Experienced computer programmer in Assembler (8088/8086 family), UNIX and DOS C and C++ (prefer BSD-style), QuickBasic, Lisp, Perl, and ToolBook for Windows.

Limited experience with Pascal, Python, CLIPS, FORTRAN 77, and Assembler for the IBM 370.

Strong interest and background in computer graphics.

Working knowledge of DOS, Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/XP, and MacOS 9.x/10.x computer operating systems.

Excellent knowledge of over 4000 species of herbaceous and woody plant species, both native and introduced.

Fluent in French (spoken in home since birth, 6 years formal education).

ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

Recognized contributor to many UNIX software efforts including INN, procmail, Mailman, MHonArc, mod_auth_kerb, portsentry, secure bind template.

Named to the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students" during all semesters as an instructor.

Member of the Honor Society of Pi Alpha Xi, Beta chapter.

Member of the Honor Society of Gamma Sigma Delta, Illinois chapter.

Member of the Honor Society of Sigma Lambda Alpha, Psi chapter.

Graduated with honors, Bachelor's of Landscape Architecture (BLA).

Undergraduate American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Honor recipient.

Ryerson Traveling Fellowship First Alternate Award winner.

University of Illinois undergraduate Dean's List three of six semesters.

Earned rank of Eagle Scout.

Interests: Computers, camping, bonsai, nature, gardening, photography, plant taxonomy, cooking, and stamp collecting.