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Born in New York. Made in California.

I was born and raised in upstate New York. That means good pizza and miserable weather. After graduating from Binghamton University in 1991, I left the green pastures of upstate NY for the "Greener Pastures" of Northern California. The rest, I guess you can say, is History. Peruse the Social Icons above to find out more.

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John C. Zizak

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John Zizak

Locale: 38.4383° N, 121.3819° W
Phone number: 9!6.3S9.9494
Website: www.zizak.com
E-mail: john@zizak.com

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Employment

  • 2006-future

    Security Compliance Engineer @ Planview

    Built and deployed worldwide infrastructure for Innotas' SaaS PPM solution. Migrated worldwide presence from physical infrastructure to 100% AWS Cloud-based infrastructure with zero downtime. Created and Managed internal controls to support successful SOC2 attestations for 6 consecutive audit periods. Certified ISO-27001 Internal Auditor

  • 2000-2006

    Sr. Unix Administrator @ First American

    Built and supported systems for FirstAmerican's highly successful Metroscan and Metrolist products. Streamlined operations and implemented several cost cutting measures. So much so, I was asked to be successful elsewhere.

  • 1995-2000

    Lead Unix Administrator @MCIWorldCom

    Supported the CampusMCI product serving Internet services to colleges and universities across the country. Moved to State Gov't group and supported 100s of UNIX systems for various products ranging from SMOG Check II to California Firearm Licensee Background check system.

  • 1991-1995

    Systems Matter Expert @ GTE Data Services

    Cut teeth learning Operations supporting IBM 390 Mainframes. Provided application support for GTE employees Nationwide. Promoted to Systems Matter Expert supporting all Infrastructure components and online applications. Introduced to UNIX, never looked back.

Education

Details, Factoids and Minutiae

photo info: Portland, Maine
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Dotcoms Founded
Music Maniac
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I can Juggle
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1 wife 3 kids 2 dogs 2 cats

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

In the midst of today's commute home, a time I usually like to chill out, veg out, space out and enjoy the monotony of the car hummin along at 70mph... on the way home to CampZizak, I was caught offguard.

I was scanning through my presets, going from commercial to commercial, a little bummed because I only had 10 more minutes of commute to listen to the tunage. I perfectly hit that time when all the stations were in "commercial-mode". Damnit!

Finally I hit 93.7, JACK-FM, and caught one of the most killer songs of all time, Frankenstein. One of my favorites! Unfortunately I missed the beginning, but I nailed it right before the heavy-synth part 3/4 towards the end!

Holy Shit!

I promptly blasted the synth part, pushing the envelope of what my stock VW stereo could produce. All the while, paying homage to the song and thinking back to when I was 7-8 years old listening to the vinyl 45RPM with my older brothers and me 'acting' like Frankenstein. Walking around with my arms extended and stiff in front of me, doing the zombie walk. And the eldest of the Zizak Brothers pretending to shoot me when the main groove kicks in after the killer synth bridge!!!

UGHGUGUHGHUGGUHG!!!

So here I post Edgar Winter's Frankenstein in a special performance from 1973 (I was freakin 4 years old then). This is for all the amateurs who need a little dose of what true Rock and Roll is all about. RAWK and ROLL!!!!!

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Thank me later.

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Twenty Five plus years in the Hi-Tech Trenches.

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Locale

38.4383° N, 121.3819° W

Phone number

9!6.3S9.9494

Website

zizakdotcom