Owain Davies

owain@armchairautosport.com

604-839-4564

About

I have many years of experience working with server, desktop and networking hardware and software, both virtual and bare-metal including purchasing, configuring, testing, installing, monitoring and troubleshooting.

Mainly I specialise in Linux and internet-facing technologies, but am also proficient with Windows, Mac, Android and iOS operating systems.

I pride myself on being able to maintain stable and fault-tolerant environments so that coworkers can reach their and the company’s goals.

Skills

Operating Systems

Ubuntu

Debian

Mint

CentOS

Arch

Windows 11, 10, 8, 7

MacOS

Network Technologies

DNS

SSL

DHCP

SNMP

Amazon AWS

EC2

RDS

Route53

S3

Cloudfront

Elasticache

IAM

Web

Nginx

Apache

MySQL

Perl

PHP

HTML

Astro

Databases

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

SQL Server

Email

SPF

DKIM

Google Workspace

postfix

qmail

Exim

Strongmail

Mailchimp

Mandrill

Email Reputation Management

Server Config Management

Puppet

Ansible

Version Control

Git

Subversion

Voice

Asterisk

VOIP

Server Monitoring

Nagios

Munin

Cacti

Mon

MRTG

Scripting

Bash

perl

php

python

Experience

Overinteractive Media Inc / The Coup Company / m56 Studios / Caravan Studios

Systems Administrator

2011 - 2024

  • As sole admin, design, configure and maintain all infrastructure and services in office and on Amazon Web Services for multiple customer websites/webapps, including desktop/testing hardware and software
  • Setup and maintain development environments and configurations
  • Test and maintain backups, create disaster recovery plan

The Internet Marketing Center

Senior Systems/Network Administrator

2007 - 2010

  • Manage and maintain local/remote servers, network infrastructure
  • Configure, install, maintain all office services including web, email, firewalls, routers, switches, testing environments, desktops and phone systems at multiple offices, colocation, cloud
  • Virtualize server environments using EC2 and S3 for cost savings and office independence
  • Spec, purchase, test, provision server hardware, network infrastructure, voice and data circuits

Startec Canada - Vancouver Telephone Company

Systems Administrator - Database Administrator

2001 - 2007

  • Configure, monitor and maintain mission-critical IBM RS/6000 Unix server
  • Design, code and maintain customer-facing account info, payment website using php; internal customer maintenance site using asp.net; data reporting applications using Access VBA
  • Configure, maintain and support network infrastructure, servers, desktops, printers
  • Configure and maintain SQL Server infrastructure, ensure data integrity as DBA

Stormix Technologies

Internal Systems Administrator

2000 - 2001

  • Desktop support for Linux and Windows
  • Configure and maintain internal desktops, web servers, databases, network infrastructure, printers

Specific Mechanical Systems

Mechanical Designer

1995 - 2001

  • Purchase, configure, maintain office computer systems, software, network
  • Create mechanical design and drawings for brewing vessels, pressure vessels and grain handling equipment, plan, elevation and detail drawings for brewpubs and microbrewery layouts

Education

C Programming, SQL Server Administration, Network Security

Night classes - BCIT, Langara - Vancouver BC

2004 - 2007

Senior Network Specialist - NetPrep

Camosun College - Victoria BC

2000

Diploma Mechanical Engineering Technology

Camosun College - Victoria BC

1996