City of South San Francisco Boards and Commissions
This form may be used to apply for one or more Board/Commission positions. * Board/Commission of interest (select all that apply)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)
* Are you interested in participating in the Citizen's Academy? No
* Full Name
Philip Hollenback
* Street Address
* City, State Zip
South San Francisco CA 94080
* Preferred Phone Number
Cell phone/alternative contact number
* Email
* If you selected more than one Board/Commission of interest, please rank your preferences here, starting with your first choice.
BPAC
* How many years have you been a resident of South San Francisco? 7 * Have you attended any meetings of the commission/board for which you are applying? If so, which one(s)? No
BPAC
Are you a resident of South San Francisco?
Yes
If no, are you employed in South San Francisco?
Number of hours employed in South San Francisco:
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Housing Authority Tenant Commission
Are you a resident of the Housing Authority?
Youth Commission - (Ages 14 to 22)
If not a resident of South San Francisco, are you a student of SSFUSD? Current School:
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Conference Center Authority Hotel Representative
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Which hotel within the City of South San Francisco are you representing? **SKIPPED**
South San Francisco General Plan 2040 Community Advisory Committee What is your District of Residency?
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Click here to locate your District.
* Why do you want to be a member of a Board or Commission? What do you feel you could contribute to the Board or Commission? I want to joint the BPAC because I think I can make a difference locally and improve walkability and ridability in SSF. * What qualifies you for this appointment?
I'm a passionate cyclist and I am very interested in improving our city. I'm a proponent of alternative transportation in general. * What is your vision for growth in South San Francisco? Growth is good as long as factors such as pedestrian and bicycle access are accounted for. * Are you currently receiving any form of compensation from the City of South San Francisco for work performed? If yes, please explain.
No
* Do you have any relatives serving on Council, Commissions, Boards, and Committees or otherwise employed by the City of South San Francisco? If yes, include name, position and relationship.
No
* EDUCATION - Please include name and location of college/university/technical or trade school with dates attended and major.
University of Montana, Bachelors of Computer Science, 1991-1995. * What community activities are you presently involved in, or have been in the past? I'm an Eagle Scout and I was heavily involved in scouting when I was younger.
MILITARY SERVICE - Please include dates and branch.
None
* WORK EXPERIENCE - Please include dates employed, employer and position.
See resume. I'm currently employed as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn.
Attachment Resume
resume-phil.pdf
Please list any other background information (business, education, personal) that might be useful in determining your eligibility. **SKIPPED**
* By typing my name, I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, all statements in this application are complete and true. I agree and understand that any misstatement of material fact will cause me to forfeit all rights to the appointment to a Commission, Board, or Committee.
Philip J. Hollenback
The interest of the City is served best by actual and regular participation by Board and Commission members. Thus, upon the second absence from a regular meeting within any rolling twelve-month period, a member shall receive a written communication from the Mayor requesting that the member respond to the Mayor with an explanation for said absences within one week of the member's receipt of the written communication. The Mayor shall report to the City Council the reasons provided for the member's absences. If the City Council determines that the absences occurred for legitimate reasons, the City Council may excuse both or one of the absences.
Members are also encouraged to give advanced notice of their absence from meetings.
Applications are accepted on a continuous basis and will remain valid 1 year from the date of submission. If you are selected to serve on a Board or Commission, you may be required to file an Annual Statement of Economic Interest (FPPC Form 700) and bi-annual Ethics Training (AB1234).
Once this form is submitted, you will receive a response from the Office of the City Clerk within three business days to provide you with information regarding the next steps. Please keep an eye out for this email. If you do not receive an email, please call us at (650) 877-8518.
THIS FORM IS A PUBLIC RECORD, DISCLOSABLE PURSUANT TO GOVT. CODE 6250 ET SEQ.
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Philip J. Hollenback
[email protected]
San Francisco Bay Area
http://www.linkedin.com/in/philiph
Overview
I'm a senior operations engineer and team leader with a focus on DevOps. I love working with Linux and writing scripts to manage large-scale deployment issues.
Experience
Oracle, San Francisco, CA
Senior Security Operations Engineer - November 2016 to Present I was brought on to the new Oracle Cloud to be a technical lead in the Security Operations group.
I was responsible for the technical direction of the team and in general for defining Security Operations for Oracle Cloud. This included work such as implementing our first vulnerability scanning system and scaling out a yubikey-based authentication solution for internal users.
Much of my development work revolved around our software patching system. I took an initial system based on Fabric and scaled it up to patch several hundred servers on a monthly basis (with a comprehensive health check mechanism to avoid outages). This included both Python and Bash scripting. I also did reverse engineering work on our yubikey programming system to both document and improve it (that was in Ruby).
I also managed metrics and alerting for the team, in our in-house system. It used a Grafana front end and I was responsible for designing and implementing dashboards.
I also ran a biweekly team operational excellence meeting, focused on ensuring that we took proper steps to correct outages and improved our general operational ability.
Lookout, San Francisco, CA
Senior Production Engineer - July 2015 to November 2016 I was part of the Production Engineering team. My responsibilities included designing deployment and automation services.
I worked on a lot of deployment automation using NixOS, a declarative Linux OS which allows you to precisely specify the deployment state of a service. For example, I wrote a a completely automated deployment process using NixOS to install Artifactory to Amazon EC2.
I also managed other developer services like Jenkins and Gerrit, and assisted with various other duties involving our build pipeline.
Goodreads, San Francisco, CA
Senior Systems Engineer - April 2014 to July 2015
I was part of the DevOps team and I wore many hats. I handled everything from writing scripts to automate Mysql server failovers to overseeing our monitoring setup.
One thing I loved about this job is how many new technologies I was able to learn. This was the first time I ever wrote any ruby scripts for system administration and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Yahoo, Sunnyvale CA
Manager, Release Management - September 2011 to April 2014 I managed a team of three people who are responsible for software releases across all of Yahoo Communications (including Mail and Messenger). My team set standards for software releases, planned the releases, and pushed the software to production servers. We regularly pushed changes to 10,000 servers a week. I covered everything from planning our strategic projects to writing perl scripts to analyze install logs. I also coordinated the activities of our Sunnyvale and Bangalore Release Management teams.
Highlight: Wrote a series of perl scripts to analyze mail farm software release quality. Trained Release and QA teams to use these scripts to automate release testing, resulting in a 75% reduction in QA support requests to my group.
Tech Lead, Release Management - July 2008 to September 2011 Responsible for assembling, verifying, and scheduling software releases for approximately 10,000 servers. Develop release and monitoring scripts in Bash and Perl. Perform all types of Linux and FreeBSD system administration from remote installs to performance tuning. Act as liaison between Mail operations and development. Debug and fix large-scale user mail problems.
Highlight: Technical lead on year-long project to convert all 7000 mail front end systems to a new rules-based configuration management system. This involved extensive scripting, tracking down dependencies, and validating system installs of several thousand software packages.
Schrodinger, New York, NY
Senior System Administrator - August 2005 to July 2008
Support 30 users and 100 mixed Linux, Unix, and Windows servers and workstations. Install, configure, and administer several cluster systems running ROCKS, PBS Pro, and SGE. Install and administer United Devices GridMP grid computing system.
Highlight: Planned and implemented office and network move between floors of midtown Manhattan office tower. This included designing and configuring a server room for several hundred systems (including two clusters) with full AC and UPS support.
Schrodinger is a leader in developing chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
previous positions listed in my linkedin profile
Skills
Well-versed in network and system security. Proficient with programming and administering security tokens (Yubikeys). Very skilled in all kinds of scripting for linux system administration and orchestration / cloud management. Experienced in administering a wide range of systems, with an emphasis on all flavors of Linux. Very comfortable working with CI/CD, large scale deployments, and all the automation associated with those systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Montana. Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence. Minor in English Literature. Graduated 1996.