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I plan and deliver strategic business initiatives for large organizations. I often leverage technology to do so. I thrive in roles where multiple parties’ interests must be balanced to ensure a successful outcome. I take a values-based and ethical approach to my work, taking into consideration the well-being and success of my clients, staff, employers, family, and the community in which I live.
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Large Scale Scrum: Employ a Product Mindset for Better Multi-Team Collaboration
Author’s Notes: The Lean Product concept is hot right now – but it primarily focuses on getting the customer-product fit right. This article has a different focus — application of  product concepts to scale scrum. If you’ve been Scrumming for … Continue reading
Default Route Ping and Failover Script [Solaris/Ruby]
Wrote this for my squid boxes. They’re built with lots of redundancy – I can fail over to a different NIC/IP address in the event of a connectivity failure. Written and tested on Solaris, runs as a Ruby daemon. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby … Continue reading
Oracle Database Create Script, In Ruby
You can find this script anywhere written in bash. I decided to bang one out in Ruby. Most importantly, it’ll show a way to invoke sqlplus and pass in SQL as an argument. sid.conf ############################################################################################### $oracle_version="11.1.0" $sid="orcl" $oracle_base="/oracle/apps/oracle/oracle" … Continue reading
Very Basic REST and the Google Provisioning API In Ruby
In this post, I’m walking the user through an app that talks to Google via their Provisioning API. I’ll be talking about the following: – Ruby/Rails – HTTP Basic Authorization – REST – Google GData and Google Provisioning API This … Continue reading
Bombproofing: “Bonding” Multiple NICs to One Network Interface
Concept: Two network cards backing one IP address. One card fails, you’re still up. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-modules-bonding.html Example will show bonding of 2 network cards to one IP address (macs and IPs changed to protect the innocent). Step 1: Create /etc/modprobe.conf entries … Continue reading