You've reached the third, and probably least garish, incarnation of my web page. Gone are the Gazelles, out of date personal information and hopefully most of the things which caused me much embarrassment.
I'm a 6 foot,3 inch male; being born on May 29, 1976 I am currently 29. As far as I know, there are no publicly accessible pictures of me available on the net, so if you're a voyeur of some sort, you'll have to stalk me or something.
While born in San Diego, California, my family moved out to the Boston area when I was only 2 weeks old. Eventually we settled in Wellesley, a snotty little suburb of about 30,000 people (It's probably grown by now). After graduating from Wellesley High School, I matriculated to Carnegie Mellon University as an undeclared Humanities major before transferring to the Computer Science Department, from which I received my Bachelor's of Science in May of 1998. I also double-majored in Logic & Computation in the Philosophy Department.
During my stay at CMU I interned at Mercer Management-Consulting after my Freshman and Sophomore years. After my Junior year, I interned for Oracle Corporation's OLAP products group, Express Server division in Waltham, MA. During the school year I also worked for Clusters for several gruesome semesters, an experience I don't recommend to anyone. Eventually I ended up in the Computing Services Help Center leading a much more satisfying existence as a PC services consultant under Drew Potratz.
Upon graduation I joined the Cult of Larry and went to work for Oracle full-time. After a few reorganizations, we're now the OLAP Solutions Division, or something similar (it seems to change weekly) after the discontinuation of Express Server as a separate product line with the advent of Oracle 9i. I'm principally responsible for the Aggregate subsystem, ALLOCATE, the import/export integration and a lot of the glue which let Express be rehosted into the RDBMS Kernel in Oracle 9iR2. Currently I'm a Senior Software Developer, or "Software Developer III" if you prefer silly titles with numbers in them.
My two main interests these days are soccer and, unsurprisingly, computers.
I'm typically, when not injured, playing on between 1 and 5 soccer teams, depending on the time of year and my work load. Unfortunately, injury happens more regularly as time goes on. Besides playing on the local Oracle team in various BSSC soccer leagues and the ``Boston Commoners'' (formerly known as ``Why Work?'') in the more competitive (?) BSSL, I also frequently manage or play on other miscellaneous teams in both BSSC and independent leagues (mostly indoors).
In the past I've variously been a fan of the Apple ][, MS-Dos and OS/2. These days I've given myself wholly over to the crowd of UNIX and UNIX-alikes, preferably Linux. In the past I've run Slackware(1994-1996), Redhat(1996-1999) and am now a Debian fan, due to its completeness and the ease at which you can install new packages without even having to download them first. Other strains I've run in the past or are currently using have been IBM AOS 4.3, BSD 4.4, NetBSD and Solaris.
I have casual interests in systems programming, computer security, networking and administration. To this end I'm reasonably proficient in C, C++, Perl, shell scripting and any of a number of other languages, as well as Kerberos, most standard Unix utilities, Zephyr, Emacs, and numerous other things. I tend to put my skills to use with useless tasks, such as graphing the amount of email I've gotten over the years.
I'm mostly responsible for the organization known as snurgle.org. It provides web, email, ftp, zephyr, and shell services for its members, who mostly tend to be CMU alums.
I find myself watching a lot of movies these days, although I tend to be a bit picky. I've taken to rating movies by year, go ahead and see what I recommend. I've also made a stupid graph of the number of movies I've watched, by year.
My resume (somewhat outdated) is available as HTML or text. If you're a headhunter, note that I'm only interested in system-level programming in C or C++. I am not interested in Java or web programming. If this is what you're looking for, make me an offer I can't refuse.
If you're at CMU, one of the relevant CMU-affiliated organizations, or MIT, you can zephyr me as griffon@SNURGLE.ORG. Otherwise, either use my home email address, or cell phone.
| Home | Work | |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | 781.744.0214 | |
| chris@chiappa.net | chris.chiappa@oracle.com | |
| Cell | ||
| AIM | ||
| Address |
56 Mystic Street #3 Arlington, MA 02474-1153 |
Oracle OLAP Products 10 Van de Graaff Drive Burlington, MA 01803-5146 |
If you're one of those hyper-paranoid people you can use PGP to mail me. You can get my key either here or at the keyserver at http://www.es.net/hypertext/pgp/pks.html. Key fingerprints:
| PGP v2 | B1 D2 68 61 D7 9E 62 B3 DE 11 75 2E 1D 63 DD A6 |
| OpenPGP/GPG/v5+ | DCAD 159D FA01 1C02 BCEE 9C75 AF05 EB25 FE24 73F5 |
I also have various other deprecated email addresses like griffon@snurgle.org , chris@alumni.cmu.edu and chris.chiappa@oracle.com. "Dead" email addresses which no longer work include griffon+@CMU.EDU, griffon@club.cc.cmu.edu, griffon+@andrew.cmu.edu and even the archaic cc8m+@andrew.cmu.edu. If you are a former member of the Massachusetts-based Argus Computerized Exchange you might even remember griffon@ace.com.
You can also get all of this information by fingering griffon@snurgle.org.
| http-ssh-tunnel | Tunnel ssh over https (perl) |
| Linux on the BP6 | FAQ about dealing with the BP6 under Linux |
| Linux Tivo Extraction | Outdated guide to extracting video from the Tivo Under Linux |
