Director of IS&T at Alibris
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Director of IS&T at Alibris
- Past
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- VP Engineering at PUREmail
- Founder at WebReactor Networks (Sole Proprietorship)
- Consultant at Alibris
- Systems Engineer at Internet Frontier, LLC
- Consulting Systems Architect at Dantz Development Corporation
- Consulting Senior System Administrator at EDS
- Consulting System Administrator at Intraware, Inc.
- Enterprise Administrator at Pacific Bell/SBC
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John Shearer’s Summary
Infrastructure technologist with 10+ years experience drawing business value from technology assets. Extensive experience in business process improvement, systems integration and people management.
Proven ability to operate in multiple perspectives from high-level to minute detail, open communication philosophy, analytical, creative, innovative, and congenial.
John Shearer’s Specialties:
Management, Process & Procedure Development, Systems & Network Architecture & Engineering.
John Shearer’s Experience
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Director of IS&T
Alibris
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Managing a team of engineers to operate one of the worlds largest on-line media exchange platforms. Developing enterprise-wide work-flow process. Redesigning automated monitoring to integrate with the enterprise work-flow.
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VP Engineering
PUREmail
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Transformed startup spam filtering business into a viable service platform with enterprise-grade infrastructure using Open Source tools. Managed software developers, application design, systems & network architecture and administration, database administration. Also maintained reseller and customer relationships.
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Founder
WebReactor Networks (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
March 2001 — May 2005 (4 years 3 months)
Designed, developed and operated a Dynamic DNS and mail forwarding service to empower individuals and small businesses by allowing them to be their own Internet hosting provider.
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Consultant
Alibris
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2004 — March 2005 (6 months)
Provided Unix system and Cisco networking support for internal and customer facing applications.
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Systems Engineer
Internet Frontier, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2003 — March 2004 (11 months)
Advanced and maintained infrastructure for an Internet Service Provider; automated billing data collection; streamlined provisioning of new services; deployed authenticated wireless network.
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Consulting Systems Architect
Dantz Development Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — August 2002 (2 months)
Streamlined Quality Assurance lab environment; advanced product by exploring new features; enhanced communication between engineering, QA and marketing groups.
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Consulting Senior System Administrator
EDS
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EDS; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
August 2000 — February 2001 (7 months)
Advanced and maintained corporate Development lab; created infrastructure to make computing resources rapidly deployable; trained junior administrators.
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Consulting System Administrator
Intraware, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ITRA; Internet industry)
November 1999 — August 2000 (10 months)
Developed system management infrastructure to install and configure for over 100 systems; maintained existing customer facing production environment; deployed enterprise backup solution.
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Enterprise Administrator
Pacific Bell/SBC
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SBC; Telecommunications industry)
November 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Managed enterprise-wide automated monitoring system for seven states; arbitrated between adjacent workgroups to establish cooperative agreements; integrated new systems with existing infrastructure.
