Christopher Weiss
Senior Systems Administrator
Ogden, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Weiss is a Senior Systems Administrator with 14+ years of experience architecting and protecting mid-sized enterprise infrastructure for supporting 3,500 users. He manages VMware, Red Hat Linux, Windows, SAN storage, and Veeam-based disaster recovery across ~100 physical platforms and 500 servers, and led the ERP migration from HP/UX to an RHEL HA cluster. Known for pragmatic, resilient designs, he pairs hands-on operations with vendor management and PowerShell automation to keep systems secure and recoverable. An educator-turned-practitioner, he has taught networking and systems administration and brings that mentorship mindset to operations. He also contributes to open-source front-end work—improving Chart.js color handling—demonstrating curiosity beyond back-end infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ba, Information Technology - Systems Administration, 3.8, Ba, Information Technology - Systems Administration, 3.8 at Ensign College
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
html10
javascript10
canvas10
charts10
graphing9
graph9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chartjs/Chart.js
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the chart library's functionality related to color handling within doughnut charts. They introduced a `hue()` function and then refined it through multiple iterations, ultimately replacing it with an `hsl()` implementation. Additionally, the user created a sample HTML file to test the new color features of the doughnut chart. These changes improved the chart's visual representation and provided a test environment for the developed functionality.
chartscharthtml5-chartscanvasjavascript
cmweiss/geomagJS
Mar 2012 - Jan 2018
A geomagnetism calculator
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 10 months
calculatorgeomagnetismgeotoolsgeodesy
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