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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 Zizak

Locale: 38.4383° N, 121.3819° W

Phone number: 9!6.3S9.9494

Website: www.zizak.com

E-mail: john@zizak.com

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

1991

Bacherlor Arts @ Binghamton University

Went the smart route and received my AA at Broome Community College and fulfilled my required credits on the cheap. I then transferred across town to Binghamton University. BU is recognized by US News as one of the best universities in the country. 2 years to graduate BU then off to California!

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Dotcoms Founded

Music Maniac

I can Juggle

1 wife 3 kids 2 dogs 2 cats

Friday, May 11, 2007

Scrumptious.Kylie.Minogue

God, I could watch her walk around all day! Instead, I can watch this... and think about how i could possibly edit something like that together...

Killer StufF!

Enjoy....

ZizakdotRock

Sunday, May 6, 2007

zizakdotAnthrax

Unless you have been living under a rock, you havent heard of perhaps the biggest casualities of the digital age is the bankruptcy of Tower Records. Tower, since I moved out to Sacramento in 1991, has been a weekly visit of mine til it closed last year.

Shame...

These are a couple snaps of one my all time faves, Anthrax, while on stop here in Sacramento with Lamb of God. This is me with guitarist Scott Ian...

NYHC!!!

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King's X - Roseville, CA 8.2.99 - Black the Sky

Check out this vid I recorded when the mighty King's X rocked through Sacramento in 1999. I have the full length vid on video.google.com (soon to be youtube) so make sure you check that out if you already havent!

This is "Black the Sky" off of Dogman. Killer stuff and twice the bonus since its not really one of their staples in their playlist...

Enjoy!!!

zizakdotKX

America's Tire Company! Awesome Customer Service!!!

I would like to congratulate America's Tire Company as being the Winner of the Inaugural zizakdotcom KickAss Customer Service award!!

Hows friggin cool is this?

Brother-in-law notices that the front-right tire on our 2003 Chevy Avalanche is running a little low. i check it out and sure as shit, it is...... and even more so than when he took a peek at it.

So, BIL, (Brother-in-Law) and I get out the air compressor and fill that bastard up with 25PSI... The manufacturer's recommended PSI value.

The next day, Monday, Wifee and BIL take the truck to America's Tire Company to have them take a look. They, ATC, investigate and notice there is a nail creating a slow leak in the inside wall of the front right tire.

(check em out here: http://www.discounttire.com )

They indicate that they will fix it for FREE with the understanding that we come to ATC (America's Tire Company) YESS!!!!! We will be back in flash when our tires run out and we need some new treads. No bout adoubt it... we WILL be back...

Good Customer service gives me a boner and I will do what i can to help the folks that give me great customer service! So I am spreading the word!

So I am going against the ol' business school adage... For every GOOD customer service experience you have you tell 3 people, for every BAD customer service experience you have, you will tell 15 people... on average... So spread the word, America's Tire Company kicks ass!

They changed the tire within 30 minutes and send wifee and BIL on their merry way!... with no hEADACHE!!

So Cheers to you America's Tire Company! Thanks for being kind, courteous, respectful and offering a great deal for price/service weary consumers... Like us.

I encourage ALL vistitors of zizak.com, zizakdotblog and all zizakdot___ services to use America's Tire Company the next time you need new tires or visit them immediately when they have a sick tire or tires in need of care.

Cheers!

Congratulations America's Tire Company!
oh... and don't forget to visit http://www.zizak.com

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