Kai Young Pak

An integration engineer and IT Consultant from Portland, Oregon. I'm a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for all things science and technology.

Adaptive IT professional experienced and knowledgeable in large, complex environments that encompass a multitude of technologies including OSes, middleware, applications, architecture design, networking, and development.  Flourishes in fast-paced environments and quickly able to adapt to rapidly changing business needs.  Well-regarded for ability to digest and quickly assimilate copious amounts of technical literature and ideas  I enjoy complex projects and look forward to learning about exciting new technologies out on the horizon.     I currently specialize in UNIX/Linux system administration, backup and recovery architecture and server virtualization.  Although I don't get to do it much with my current position anymore, I really enjoy programming/coding/hacking (hacking in the oldschool 50s-70s sense, not the blackhat understanding of it).   I also happen to be a bit of a physics/science geek and am currently pursuing a BS degree in physics at Portland State University.  Hopefully, someday, I'll get to mesh my interests in technology and physics together and do something with computational physics.   -Kai Young Pak

Senior Technical/IT Consultant at Con-way Enterprise Services

September 2010 - Present | Portland, Oregon

System Integration Engineer, VMware Subject Matter Expert, Backup and Recovery Subject Matter Expert. Unix System Administration. Work on redesign and redeployment of entire virtualized VMware infrastructure comprized of 100 HP blades.

UNIX/Linux System Administrator at Con-way Enterprise Services

October 2006 - September 2010 | Portland, Oregon

Unix/Linux system administration. Backup and recovery systems. Awarded 2008 Q2 Innovation Award. Design and manage enterprise backup environments at Con-way Enterprise Services consisting of Symantec NetBackup and 40 Master/Media servers on various *NIX platforms (RedHat Linux, Solaris, AIX) backing up over 2 petabytes of data per month on multitude of heterogeneous backup and client types including Windows 2000-2008, RHEL, CentOS, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Oracle client-free (shadow), SQL Agent, Exchange Agent, Flash, NDMP, and VMware VCB.

Field System Administrator at Menlo Worldwide

September 2005 - September 2006 | Irvine, California

Created Python application using MySQL backend that automated organization and slotting of warehouse inventory. Application interfaced into HP-UX box with an Informix database. Yes, it was a complicated hack, but it worked!

Portland State University

2009 – 2013

Candidate for Bachelor of Science

Concentration: Physics

Activities: Phi Kappa Phi honor society, President's list.

Columbia University

2000 – 2002

Concentration: Computer Science

Besides my penchant for all things science and tech, I also enjoy a lot of non-geeky activities. I love to travel and go on adventures to strange, new places (high preference for beaches). I'm also an avid runner training for my first marathon in 2013. It's something of a form of mediation for me to shut off my brain for a while and blast music on my iDevice while running along the many beautiful trails in Portland, Oregon. I really enjoy reading although given my current schedule, it's tough to read outside of assigned stuff from work and school; but I try to squeeze in what I can. I'm also an avid gamer and science fiction reader/movie watcher (fine, those last things were geeky ;)).