Phone: 508/243-8341
E-mail: ericx@ericx.net
169 Oak Lane
West Tisbury
Massachusetts
02568-0055

Eric W. Bates

Objective
Seeking a position contributing to cutting edge web projects in ways that take advantage of my significant breadth of skills and allows me to continue to learn and grow.
Functional summary
Extensive experience in TCP/IP and Unix system, cisco, CGI programming and webserver administration, wireless network management, and small business administration. Fluent in Perl, PHP, Bash, MySQL. Conversant in Python, Ruby, C. Practical experience with Catalyst, Drupal, Plone, Zope, Rails. Extensive experience with FreeBSD and CIOS.
Employment
Vineyard Haven, MA
1995 – current
Co-Founder, President & Owner, Vineyard.NET, Inc.
  • Established Vineyard.NET, the Vineyard’s premiere ISP.
  • Grew company at 50% per year for five years.
  • Managed company’s reseller program.
  • Maintained company’s proprietary accounting and web-based administration system.
  • Trained technical staff and oversaw multiple overlapping projects.
  • Wrote and executed multiple contracts for customers, resellers, and consulting engagements including mysql driven web sites, firewalls, security audits, VPNs, etc.
  • Designed and maintained company's mail system using postfix, Cyrus imap, SpamAssassin, policyd, AMaViS, procmail, dkimproxy, and batv-proxy.
  • Built and maintained company's cisco network using bgp, ospf, eigrp, and tacacs.
  • Built and maintained company's certificate authority.
  • Vineyard.NET revenue: $500K for Y2000, no debt.
Boston, MA
2000 – 2001
CIO, Broadband 2 Wireless
  • Built and managed BB2W’s IT and Information systems.
  • Specified and negotiated purchase of BB2W’s internal hardware systems; including Sun and Compaq mid-level enterprise systems, EMC2 Symmetrix & Connectrix, etc.
  • Oversaw physical layout and installation of machine space.
  • Managed relationship with PriceWaterhouse Coopers during 12 month implementation of their New World Networks OSS.
  • Designed and managed implementation of BB2W’s web services; including implementation of internal certificate authority.
  • Designed and managed implementation of BB2W’s IPSec infrastructure.
  • Participated in design of BB2W’s nationwide network infrastructure.
  • Designed and oversaw implementation of BB2W’s NMS.
  • Oversaw implementation of distributed customer authentication system.
  • Oversaw small team of developers implementing internal tool sets including data filters, snmp tools, executive document sharing tools, hardware configurators, etc.
Oak Bluffs, MA
1993 – 1996
System Administrator, Town of Oak Bluffs
  • Designed and deployed heterogeneous TCP/IP network in Town Hall with Windows 3.1, NT 3.5, MacOS System 7, and SCO UNIX servers.
  • Wrote, defended and implemented municipal IT budget.
Education
Hanover, NH
1979 – 1983
AB, Dartmouth College
  • Major in Physics
  • President of mountaineering club (climbed above 20,000 feet)
Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom
1978 – 1979
Clifton College
  • English Speaking Union exchange program
Lakeville, CT
1973 – 1978
The Hotchkiss School
References
  • Available upon request.