Resumé

Mikey Sklar
sklarm__at__screwdecaf.cx

20100510

I love machines. Whether I am implanting myself with electronics, growing plants with LEDs, or driving my car on waste oil there are plenty of computers to help me complete the task at hand. Nothing pleases me more than to solve a real world dilema with a circuit board, microcontroller, and a little bit of firmware. My work has been featured on every major news program in the US along with many newspapers, magazines, tv shows, and documentaries. I am a professional speaker with poor spelling.

Software

I like to program in C and script in perl or ksh.

I have been working with Linux since pre-1.0 kernels in 1993. I have worked with every major UNIX varient since then. They are all pretty much dead today so no need to elaborate. Since 2005 I have been running on Mac OS/X for my personal machines using almost exclusively open source software for all my hardware developement.

Hardware

Microcontrollers are my love. I have extensive IT experience administrating tens of thousands of systems running Linux/UNIX varients. My skills are most advanced around embedded remote management.

Work History

2006 - Inventor - Embedded Hardware - LED Grow Lights, Grease Car Monitor, Fire Trampoline, RFID doorlock, laminated ferrocement water distiller

2006 - Holy Scrap - Green Builder - PV Solar Installer, Waste Veggie Oil Grease fuel conversion, shipping containers, papercrete, ferrocement, grey water, food growing

1999 - 2006 - Investment Bank - High Performance Computing and UNIX Engineering - Vice President since 2002

1997 - 1999 - Collective Technologies (UNIX SysAdmin Consultant)

Hughes Space and Com. - System Administrator - El Segundo, CA

1996 - 1997 - AT&T Wireless - Help Desk, System Administrator Operations Center - Seattle, WA - Kirkland, WA

1995 - 1996 - University of Washington - Helpdesk, Network

1993 - 1995 - Computer Assisted Learning Center - Ft. Lewis, WA

Education

University of Washington - Philosophy Major - terminated classes 1997 - Seattle, WA

2 year college degree - AA Completed 1995 - Pierce College - Tacoma, WA

High School Graduate - Completed 1995 - Clover Park - Tacoma, WA

Achievements

• Installed 3 off-grid PV solar systems (200W to 2kW in size)
• Over 11,000 miles on home made biodiesel and SVO fuel
• Convinced 50,000 person investment bank to convert 300 million dollar budget of SUN hardware into 30 million a year using Linux.
• Designed, wrote, and rolled out remote management of embedded server hardware for fault prediction, trending, and massive firmware upgrades
• Implanted self with RFID tag to control random electronics
• Simplified embedded hardware development on OS/X by packaging all PIC / AVR related open source software
• Designed dozens of embedded and wearable devices using exclusively open source software