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Employment Skills Education Publications Teaching Honors
- Independent Consultant, Elijah Wright Consulting, Dec. 2007-Present.
- Heavily focused on cloud computing, monitoring, and infrastructure scalability
- Significant time investment in Nagios and custom Nagios development
- Light DBA work (MySQL) and related skills acquisition
- Currently researching Ruby gem packaging practices and means of better integrating gems into Debian-based environments
- Maintaining an interest in social network analysis and R-based processing of social networks
- Focused on the issues and problems that afflict rapidly growing startups attempting to transition into successful businesses.
- Senior Engineer, Brandorr Group LLC, Dec. 2007-October 2009.
- Responsible for system management, maintenance, architecture of a fledgling startup
- Vastly improved engineering responsiveness
- Selected, improved, rapidly iterated technical solutions to improve business and the bottom line
- Independent, constructive activity - "make it work" being the overall goal.
- Dealt with tremendous (2 orders of magnitude) business growth with minimal resource expenditure.
- Service-oriented, dealt with busy and stressed clients on a daily basis with positive outcomes.
- Technical Graduate Assistant / SLIS Technology Staff, Summer
2003 - Jan. 2008
- Replaced a highly skilled, valued system administrator
- Was able to hit the ground running and manage a complex, heterogenous systems environment with a minimum of chaos visible to users.
- Grew the environment from a small set of servers into a busy, complex, highly interactive compute farm with many funded projects and significantly more hardware per user.
- Scope of responsibility across the entire backend - database, backup processing, student-accessible servers, many running services.
- Thrived in a stressful, difficult work environment where staff funding was extremely difficult to acquire.
- Devised the local Linux deployment and management strategy; seriously improved/refactored the existing OSX lab environment.
- SLIS Computer Lab consultant, Spring 2003.
- Computer Lab Consultant and Webmaster, Fall 2001 - Summer 2002
- Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio University English Department, Fall 2000 - Spring 2002
- Network Administrator, Tennessee Technological University Center for the Management, Utilization, and Protection of Water Resources, 1996-2000
- Helpdesk computer lab staff, TTU, 1996-1998
- Editor of The Honors Handbook (orientation text/textbook for Honors freshmen), TTU, Summer 1999 (co-editor, layout) and Summer 2000 (managing editor)
- Editor, Honorable Mention, TTU, 1998-2000
- Operating systems and environments: Top-tier knowledge of Linux, Solaris/OpenSolaris, and MacOSX operating environments, from user, administrator, and developer perspectives.
- Packaging: RPM, .deb, SysV (on Solaris) and IPS (OpenSolaris).
- Infrastructure services: Highly experienced with current web services and publishing tools - web servers, load balancing strategies, RDBMS backends, common deployment stacks (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, PHP, Perl CGI and mod_perl, Python WSGI), memcached, DNS services, mail services, spamfighting, ticket trackers.
- Deployment services: Automated deployments and configuration management expertise. PXE/DHCP/remote install/kickstart/debootstrap/Puppet/Chef/Capistrano/cloud computing.
- Database management experience: Quite comfortable with both PostgreSQL and MySQL environments, configuration, tuning, development.
- Development environments: Ruby, C, R, Shell scripting (primarily bash/tcsh), SQL, Perl, Python, Fortran, XSLT/RDF/SPARQL. Makefiles.
- Community activity: Active in the Debian and Ubuntu LoCo communities. Working on Debian maintainer status and Ubuntu Member status.
- Doctoral Student, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, fall 2002-present.
- M.A. English Studies (Rhetoric and Composition), Ohio University, June 2002.
- B.A. English, Tennessee Technological University, May 2000.
- Herring, S. C., Paolillo, J., Ramos-Vielba, I., Kouper, I., Wright, E., Stoerger, S., Scheidt, L. A., & Clark, B. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. In Proceedings of the Forty Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss07.pdf.
- Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A.n, Kouper, I., and Wright, E. (2006). A longitudinal content analysis of weblogs: 2003-2004. In Tremayne, M. (Ed.), Blogging, citizenship and the future of media. London: Routledge. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/tremayne.pdf.
- Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Wright, E., & Bonus, S. (2005). Weblogs as a bridging genre. Information, Technology, & People, 18(22), 142-171. http://www.blogninja.com/it&p.final.pdf.
- Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., & Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: A social network analysis "from the bottom up". In Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss05.blogconv.pdf.
- Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., & Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discourse construction of weblogs. In L. J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. .http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html.
- Scheidt, L. A. & Wright, E. (2004). Common visual design elements of weblogs. In L. J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/common_visual.html.
- Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., & Wright, E. (2004, January). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. In Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc.
- Paolillo, J. C., Mercure, S., and Wright, E. (2005). The social semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and change from 2004 to 2005. In G. Stumme, B. Hoser, C. Schmitz, and H. Alani (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISWC 2005 Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, Galway, Ireland, November 7, 2005. http://www.blogninja.com/paolillo-mercure-wright.final.pdf
- Paolillo, John, & Wright, E. (2005) Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF. In Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-based Internet and Information Visualization, Vladimir Geroimenko & Chaomei Chen, eds. Available from http://www.blogninja.com/vsw-draft-paolillo-wright-foaf.pdf.
- Paolillo, John, & Wright, E. (2004) The Challenges of FOAF Characterization. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/challenges_of_foaf_characterization/.
- SLIS L571 - Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Summer 2003,
Summer 2004, Fall 2005)
- SLIS L401 - multiple modules each semester between Summer 2003 and summer 2007.
- English 308J - Advanced Composition (Junior level) (Spring 2002, topic: Writing about Identity)
- English 153 - Freshman Composition: Special Topics (Winter 2002, topic: Writing about Visual Rhetoric and American Popular Culture)
- English 152 - Freshman Composition: Writing about Literature (Fall 2001, topic: "Writing about Banned Books")
- English 151 - Freshman Composition: Writing and Rhetoric (Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters, 2000-2001 academic year)
- SLIS Clayton Shepherd Scholarship, 2005.
- Eagle Scout, 1995
- Presidential Merit Scholarship, Tennessee Technological University, 1995
- National Merit Scholar, 1995.
Last updated May 23, 2005, by Elijah Wright
