Jonathan Kalbfeld, MBA

Senior Technology Professional with BS degree in Business Administration, MBA in Finance, and a proven track record with two decades of experience in the Information Technology business, encompassing software, hardware, project management, business development, mentoring, staff management, software development and deployment.

Soft Skills

Strong business and inter-personal skills, which include SWOT and Five Forces Analysis, Organizational Behavior Analysis, technical documentation, written and spoken communication, self-management, excellent troubleshooting skills, capacity planning, cost justification, staff evaluation, project leadership, mentoring junior staff, multitasking, excellent rapport with coworkers and superiors, ability to work under stress and in a team environment, project management, cost projections, staff management, business development, business process development, equipment lease accounting, price negotiation, financial planning

Technical Skills

Application Software
Nagios, Joomla, Gallery2, NFS Server/Client, iSCSI, ZFS, MySQL, Apache, Veritas Volume Manager, LDAP, iPlanet, BIND, NIS, AFS, NFS, Asterisk IP PBX, JumpStart, KickStart, OpenVPN, OpenSSH, BIND, Sendmail, Majordomo, Bourne shell, Ruby on Rails, PERL, C, csh, bash, ksh, m4, C++, JAVA, SQL
Operating Systems & Networking
OSI/DoD protocol models, IPv6, TCP/IP, UNIX networking, OSPF, RADB, traffic management, BGP, Red Hat Linux, Fedora Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, SuSE, OpenSolaris & Solaris 10, 7, 8, 9, RTEMS, Wind River Systems VxWorks, Cisco IOS
Hardware
INTEL Core i7 and Xeon systems with virtualization (VT-x), AMD Opteron and Bulldozer systems with virtualization (AMD-v), SPARC systems, including SunFire T21000, T2000, T6530, V440, V210, V880, V890, Enterprise 6800, 6900, SunFire 15000, SunBlade 100, 150, 2000, 2500, Cisco Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, National Instruments GPIB (General Purpose Instrumentation Bus), Single Board Computers

Education

GraduateUndergraduate
MBA, Finance, CSUN School of Business & Economics
Graduated (3.74/4.00 GPA)		BS, Business Administration, Walden University Graduated summa-cum-laude (3.93/4.00 GPA)
Computer Science Studies, University of Michigan

Publication

Kalbfeld, J. R. (2006, November 1). Develop an RTOS on Solaris with RTEMS. Embedded Systems Design, 19(11). 48-56.

Experience

JobAccomplishments
NASA Jet Proplusion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
November 2004 - Present		 ASIS Cognizant Engineer
September 2008 - Present
  • Designed, tested, and delivered ASIS Jumpstart and Kickstart releases D16.0, D16.1, D16.1.2, D16.2, D16.2.1, D16.2.2, D16.2.3, D16.2.4, D16.2.5, D17.0, D18.0, A19.0, and V21.0 for multimission ground software and services (MGSS).
  • Delivered packaged releases of Tracking Telemetry and Command (TTC) V31.2, V31.2.x, V32.0, V32.0.x, V32.1, V32.1.1, V32, V33, and V33.4, as well as Mission Data Accountability Software (MDAS) V3.0, V4.0, V4.1, V5.0, V5.0.1 and V5.0.2, V6, V7, and V8, and SEQ for Solaris 9 & 10 and Red Hat Linux, and Messaging System Provider (MSP) V2.1.0, V3.0.x, and V3.1.0 for Solaris 9 & 10.
  • Worked intimately with other cognizant engineers in the Deep Space Network (DSN) to deliver software solutions to ground stations in Goldstone, California, Canberra, Australia, and Madrid Spain.
  • Authored work agreements, work package agreements, release description documents, and numerous PowerPoint presentations for multimission customers and configuration management.
Senior MIST Systems Engineer
November 2004 - September 2008
  • Supported multi-mission environment including all different phases. Missions include Mars Exploration Rover, Space Interferometry Mission & MSAP
  • Developed, deployed, and supported UNIX configuration for Phase C/D and E for Dawn GDS environment at JPL, Dawn science center at UCLA, Flight Systems Testbed at Orbital Sciences Corp, Astrotech, and ATLO at Naval Research Laboratory.
  • Supported Dawn ORT and launch activities at JPL.
  • Developed, deployed, and supported V29.2.1 & V30.1.1 JumpStart mechanism for delivering new version of GDS 4.2 and beyond, including MSOP components
  • Worked extensively with instrumentation hardware including National Instruments General Purpose Instrumentation Bus on Solaris and Linux
  • Worked with Wind River Systems' VxWorks on Single Board Computers, including radiation hardened systems.
  • Supported departmental mailing list system based on Majordomo using MHonarc for web-archiving behind an Apache web server
  • Built software distributions using pkgmk and other Solaris tools. Helped with software depot release for Deep Space Mission Systems
  • Deployed and supported Cisco Switch equipment in private lab for Space Interferometry Mission, including VLAN configuration
  • Diagnosed JumpStart configuration issues including OpenBoot PROM debugging for OBP versions 1.x – 4.9.x.
  • Supported Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 on many different platforms in a JumpStart environment
  • Supported SuSE 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2 as well as Redhat 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x releases, Red Hat Core and Enterprise Releases
  • Performed troubleshooting using gdb, strace, truss and snoop in order to diagnose system and network problems
  • Built RTEMS compiler tool chain based around GCC, GDB, and binutils
  • Built QEMU 0.8.1, 0.8.2, and 0.9.1 packages for Solaris, allowing Sun machines to run PC Operating Systems
  • Developed hours of audio-visual documentation for MIST SA procedures, allowing anyone with a Flash-capable browser to view the presentation.
ThoughtWave Technologies LLC
Los Angeles, CA
January 1994 - Present
Founder & Sr. Consultant
  • Deployed multi-homed IPv4 and IPv6-based BGPv4 network with peering sessions to AS17139 (Corporate Colocation) and AS6939 (Hurricane Electric) at multiple locations.
  • Built KVM-based cloud infrastructure for small business customers and OpenVZ-based VPS service for small businesses and individuals
  • Built Solaris SPARC-based LDOM cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers and Zones-based service for small businesses
  • Developed sub-$100 per year turnkey consumer service with integrated webmail, Joomla! 3, and Ruby on Rails based on 64-bit CentOS 6.4.
  • Developed advertiser-supported free UNIX training website at UNIXLessons.COM, allowing anyone with a flash-capable browser to easily learn UNIX skills.
  • Built web-hosting infrastructure using Linux, Solaris and high-end Sun equipment, relying on redundant DNS and SMTP servers to eliminate downtime for ThoughtWave mail services. Developed Bandwidth-on-Demand product offering allowing customers with remote offices to have VPN access over commodity broadband connections.
  • Designed and built IPv6 SSL VPN-based WAN Topology with redundant points of presence in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, and Miami.
  • Provided investment capital and technical expertise to Network Liquidity LLC for development of SmartECN, ECN Order Book trading system.
  • Built secure voice and video communications network using SIP, Asterisk, and OpenVPN.
Previous Employment
Ann Arbor
Silicon Valley
San Francisco
Xiamen, China
Hong Kong, China
Los Angeles
1994 - 2004


BBN Planet/BARRNet
Silicon Graphics
Sun Microsystems
Webvan Group
 Specifics employers available upon request
Sr. UNIX Administrator
  • Supported entire enterprise UNIX and Linux environment in Los Angeles and Minneapolis for Walden University as well as Laureate Corporate office. Involved in IT budgeting process, including but not limited to negotiating equipment support terms, collocation facility specifications, and project proposals
  • Developed system and network security policy, including deployment of Security Reporting Center for log analysis and organized and developed IT Operations change request forms
  • Developed PERL scripts to create and manage staff, faculty, and student accounts in real time without manual intervention.
  • Provided 24x7 support for all releases of Walden University PSP (http://psp.waldenu.edu) and Colleague Student Information System, and supported 25 web and application developers. Some travel to remote offices to train, support, and mentor Junior IT staff, middle management, and upper management.
  • Supported DataTel Colleague, WebAdvisor, and IBM UniData 6.0 environments on Solaris, and Pick Systems D3 MultiValue on Red Hat Linux
  • Worked extensively with China Operations Director and other team members to develop business plan for resort in Xiamen
  • Researched equipment requirements for construction, maintenance, and modification to resort structures and developed business proposals.
  • Helped team members research available technology to streamline resort operations.
  • Supported enterprise Solaris and IRIX environment with complete Veritas product line including cluster server and storage migrator, resulting in reduced downtime and higher productivity for scientists and researchers
  • Migrated terabytes of data from old Compaq storage to new EMC storage and upgraded from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8, increasing data access speed by 40%
  • Supported scientists, developers and other system administrators in 24x7 sequencing operations environment
  • Handled backup and recovery of data centers. Brought back entire UNIX data center after power outage.
  • Provided sole support for load balancer systems including F5 BIG/IP and RadWare Web Server Director
  • Wrote many pages of process documentation and mentored others on custom applications
  • Deployed and maintained complete Veritas suite including Volume Manager and, NetBackup, and VxFS on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7
  • Automated most repetitive tasks with PERL, including development of an automatic fail-over system on a shoestring budget
  • Supported EMC and MTI technology storage devices during data center buildout
  • Provided UNIX Administration and network support for every employer including the University of Michigan in 1995, Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics in 1997. Provided Project Management services for Frontier GlobalCenter in 1998
  • Increased reliability of production systems using both commercial and free software for several key firms, including Sterling Software, BBN Planet and CICNet
  • Redesigned high availability environments for such firms as Acropolis Systems, Webvan Corporation, CSAA, and Incyte Genomics, Inc, increasing speed and reducing downtime significantly. Developed applications to automate manual tasks for numerous organizations including all listed employers and clients
  • Developed plan to save several hundred thousand dollars in equipment depreciation expense for several firms including Incyte Genomics and digiGroups
  • Wrote automatic tracking tool which provided weekly automatic mailings of task progress to management, eliminating the need for costly weekly face-to-face meetings, saving many hours of meeting time for all involved. Developed PERL-based document distribution system in use at BBN up until the summer of 2000
Principal Systems Architect
  • Managed and mentored small IT support team in San Francisco office. Worked closely with team to support large Solaris and Linux streaming media environment with custom software and Oracle databases
  • Developed solution to keep over a terabyte of data in sync across a fifty mile wide area network connection, with only fifteen minutes difference at any given time, using only open source tools and PERL scripts
  • Worked very closely with management to develop security policy recommendations for streaming architecture. Worked closely with finance and engineering to build large collocated web presence, including deployment of Cisco routers and Catalyst switches

Political Activities

Democratic Candidate
California’s 28th Congressional District
Primary Election, June 2012		On a shoestring budget, with no political experience other than phonebanking, I ran for Congress in California's 28th congressional district, including the areas of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Glendale, La Crescenta, La Canada, Tujunga, parts of Burbank and Pasadena, and received 2,119 votes, or approximately 2.9% of eligible votes cast.