End Point Team

Our team, headquartered in New York City, has developed, maintained, and hosted ecommerce and other web solutions since its founding in 1995. We combine web application development, database and hosting expertise with understanding clients' objectives to excel in client satisfaction.

Adam Vollrath

Adam Vollrath

Systems and network specialist

With End Point Since: 2009
Location: Asheville, North Carolina

Adam's primary interests are researching, designing, exploring, and troubleshooting complex systems and networks. He has experience maintaining a wide variety of systems in mixed Windows and Linux environments. Past projects include virtualization, security, collaboration systems, high availability and load balancing.

Coauthor: "Using Virtual Machines for Teaching System Administration"
Published December 2004, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges This paper was a product of an undergraduate independent study, in collaboration with a former End Point employee. We overhauled our university's Systems Administration lab and grading system, enabling lab assistants and professors to grade assignments quickly after students have left their workstations. This was accomplished through manipulation of VirtualPC drive files and configuration, orchestrated by a customized management system written in Python.

Network Services Engineer from 2006-2009. Member of three-person team responsible for all networks, servers, applications, and other infrastructure relied upon by a software development team, phone support team, traveling technicians, and others in a value-added reseller of 74 employees, as well as customer sites and a co-located data center.

BS, Computer Science, East Tennessee University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2006.

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 2007.

Adam enjoys sailing, hiking, cooking, writing, and live music.

Recent Blog Posts By Adam Vollrath

February 9, 2010

Building and installing the Ruby mysql gem on freshly-installed Red Hat based systems sometimes produces the frustratingly ambiguous error below: # gem install mysql /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking ... (MySQL Ruby Gem CentOS RHEL 5 Installation Error Troubleshooting cont.)

November 4, 2009

I attended DjangoCon this year for the first time, and found it very informative and enjoyable. I hoped to round out my knowledge of the state of the Django art, and the conference atmosphere made that... (DjangoCon 2009: Portland, Ponies, and Presentations cont.)

June 16, 2009

It's unfortunate that past versions of Ruby have gained a reputation of performing poorly, consuming too much memory, or otherwise being "unfit for the enterprise." According to the fine folks at Phus... (Packaging Ruby Enterprise Edition into RPM cont.)