Ulysses Somers' Job History

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REAL NETWORKS, INC. Seattle, WA 2000 Present
Title: Senior Systems Administrator Wrote and maintained web-based reporting, monitoring, and administration system. Wrote Perl and PHP scripts for various tasks. Installed, set up, monitored and troubleshot several farms of servers, including RealServers, web servers, and FTP servers. Monitored usage and performed tape backups for a 20TB content array. Trained junior and associate systems administrators. Carried a pager for 24/7 support. 2004 Present
Title: Systems Administrator As above. 2003 2004
Title: Associate Systems Administrator As above. 2002 2003
Title: Junior Systems Administrator (contractor through Comforce) As above. 2000 2002
 
CUCINA HOLDINGS, INC. (Caravali Coffees) Kent, WA 1996 2000
Title: LAN/Computer Administrator Maintained local area network. Performed daily backups. Supported 12 users at the Kent facility. Maintained Novell fileserver. Troubleshot network problems. Fixed desktop and laptop systems. Restored files as needed.
These responsibilities were in addition to my primary job of quality control (below).
1999 2000
Title: Quality Control Maintained and enhanced coffee quality. Conducted daily cuppings with roasting staff. Sample roasted and cupped green coffee offerings and approvals. Established grind levels. Modified blends, roast curves, and roast colors as necessary. Tracked green coffee purchases. Fixed green coffee tracking spreadsheet. Wrote coffee information database in Lotus Notes. 1998 2000
Title: Roaster Lead Oversaw roasting area, directly supervising 4 people. Maintained and enhanced roast quality and consistency by setting curve guidelines and conducting daily cuppings with roasting staff. Roasted coffee. 1996 1998
 
STARBUCKS COFFEE Seattle, WA 1992 1996
Title: Roaster Lead Trained roaster technicians. Ran graveyard roasting shift, supervising 3-4 people at a time. Made coffee quality decisions. Roasted coffee. 1995 1996
Title: Roaster Roasted coffee (hand roasting). 1995 1995
Title: Roaster Technician Roasted coffee (computer roasting). 1994 1995
Title: Production Lead Production Lead 1993 1994
Title: Machine Operator Ran coffee packaging machines. Took leadership role in packaging line. Trained other operators. 1992 1993
Title: Production Specialist Packaged coffee. 1992 1992
 
Manus Temps Seattle, WA 1991 1992
Title: Temporary Worker Had a variety of assignments, including packaging coffee for Starbucks, operating mail-collation machines in the Manus mailroom, and pulling up carpet. 1991 1992
 
7-11 Bellingham, WA 1991 1991
Title: Graveyard Clerk Clerked, stocked, cleaned, received inventory. 1991 1991
 
DIS Bellingham, WA 1990 1990
Title: Data Entry Technician Data entry. 1990 1990
 
Bellingham Frozen Foods Bellingham, WA 1989 1989
Title: Production Worker Production line. 1989 1989

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