Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Earthquakes, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, radio telemetry, GPS, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, network administration, unix/linux system administration. I work as a network engineer for the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. I help maintain the earthquake monitoring networks for the State of Utah and the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. We run about 250 stations, using a variety of telemetry: digital radio, FM radio, cell modems, phone lines, wifi and wired ethernet. Everything we do with seismic telemetry requires precision timing, so we've GPS at almost every station. We've deployed over 100 Raspberry Pi computers to increase the reliability of our networks and provide ways to ensure storage of seismic data even if telemetry fails. I designed and deployed a redundant earthquake processing system outside of the Wasatch Front, originally on Sun/Solaris and now migrating to Linux. I'm a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator, KB0LQJ. That radio experience heavily overlaps with my work. Outside of my earthquake job, I teach scuba diving and train scuba instructors. Following my interest in emergency management, I spend a lot of time focusing on scuba-specific emergency response including in-water rescue and diving first aid, and risk management for dive professionals. I'm a PADI(Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Course Director (Instructor trainer) and a DAN(Divers Alert Network) Instructor trainer.
Coolest job in the world (next to teaching Scuba). I take care of the network of 200+ earthquake monitoring instruments in the Utah region; particularly continuity of operations and disaster planning. Experience with Sun/Oracle, Linux, Raspberry Pi in remote locations, Arduino, Intuicom digital radios, Freewave digital radios, Mikrotik and other firewalls.
Worked on California State University Oracle/Peoplesoft implementation. Developed & tested disaster recovery plans for State of Louisiana medicare pharmacy point-of-sale unix systems.