Resumé

Mikey Sklar
sklarm__at__screwdecaf.cx

20101206

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 python 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 also have extensive IT experience administrating tens of thousands of systems running Linux/UNIX varients. My skills are most advanced around embedded remote management. I have worked with pretty much all rack mount server systems from Dell/HP/IBM between 2002-2006. I am intimately familiar with blade based systems.

Work History

2006 - Present - fabricator - Embedded Hardware - Algae Control Systems, Custom CNC Fabrication, Biofuel Car Monitor, Battery Desulfator, Irrigation Controller, Efficient Refrigeration Controller, LED Grow Lights

2006 - 2010 - Holy Scrap - Green Builder - PV Solar Installer, Waste Veggie Oil Fuel Shipping Containers as Habitats, Papercrete, Ferrocement, Grey Water, Rain Water, Farming

1999 - 2006 - Morgan Stanley - 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

• Designed fridge controller that can outperform any energy start refrigerator by 2x
• Installed 3 off-grid PV solar systems (200W to 2kW in size)
• Over 20,000 miles on home made biodiesel and waste oil fuel
• Drafted standard for remote management of blade and rackmount firmware from Dell/HP/IBM
• 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