Charles K. Chear's Resume | Resume #18020219 |
OBJECTIVE | Looking to apply my management and information technology experience, working within an administration and/or management department as a consultant or director. |
TARGET JOB | Desired Job Type: | Employee, Temporary/Contract/Project |
Desired Status: | Part-Time |
Site Location: | No Preference |
Description of my perfect job: My ideal job is pretty simple. I can pretty much get along in any reasonable office environment, and be with people who are willing to teach and learn from each other. |
Career Level: | Mid Career (2+ years of experience) |
Date of Availability: | Less than 1 month |
TARGET COMPANY | Company Size: | No Preference |
Category: | Information Technology |
TARGET LOCATIONS | Relocate: | No |
US-PA-Philadelphia |
WORK STATUS | US | I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. |
EXPERIENCE | 11/2001 - Present | CONFIDENTIAL | Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia |
Content Administrator |
Basic administration of news content at http://www.hackinthebox.org, a general and very popular technology/security portal. |
12/2000 - 7/2001 | Okayplayer, LLC. | Philadelphia, Pa |
Systems Administrator and Consultant |
Secured linux services and applications on main webserver. On a daily basis, was responsible for patching, logging, and system redundancy (average of 100,000 unique requests per day on webserver). Handled in-office and server application requests and managing daemons/services. General Server conditions: Redhat Linux, SSHd, WU-FTPd, Apache, and Sendmail. |
3/1999 - Present | CONFIDENTIAL | Upper Darby, Pa |
General Manager and Consultant |
Doing general technology and security research, and applying studies to the actual industry field via consulting and lectures. Worked mostly with Linux (various distributions), OpenBSD, and Windows NT/XP. |
7/1998 - 7/1999 | AntiOnline | Beaver, Pa |
Journalist |
Write and contribute articles relating to the IT security scene, both industry wise and underground. Investigated cases and spoke with people within the security scene. |
1/1993 - 12/1998 | RN Diamonds | Philadelphia, Pa |
Inventory Manager |
Assisted with customer and inventory archiving. Handled floor sales when needed to. |
EDUCATION | 6/2001 | Upper Darby High School | US-PA-Upper Darby |
High School or equivalent |
Public high school in Philadelphia suburbs. Relevent activity would be writing for school newspaper (The Acorn). Relevent courses: Systems Engineering and Networking, Academic Programming (C Language), and the Business/Finance program. |
Drexel University | US-PA-Philadelphia |
Bachelor's Degree |
Dual major in Computer Information Systems and Business. Currently still attending. |
SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
C | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
SQL | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years |
PHP | Beginner | Currently used | 1 years |
Linux | Intermediate | Currently used | 4 years |
Solaris | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 2 years |
OpenBSD | Beginner | Currently used | 1 years |
Windows NT/XP/9x | Expert | Currently used | 6 years |
Chinese (Chiu Chow) | Expert | Currently used | 18 years |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | Meritable efforts: -Accepted to Drexel University *solely* of faculty recommendations and IT experience. -Assisted Upper Darby High School in the implementation of Unix oriented studies |