# Career of Paul Terry Walhus

## Experience

- 2026 to now: WholeTech network, Founder and builder. About 198 registered domains and 534 public sites from one desk; the AME and AWE engines; small-business rebuilds; six tribute sites; the free AWE Concierge. Live April 1, 2026.
- early days to now: Office Hours Global (Alex Lindsay), Producer; question and prompt writer. 1,420-plus episodes of the daily live show for 5,000-plus media and event professionals: crafts the questions and prompts, supports live production, helps coordinate panels.
- 2007 to now: AustinSpring.com (formerly Spring.net, Spring.com), Senior web developer and consultant. 250-plus websites designed, built and run; austen.com reached more than 8 million hits a month.
- 2007 to now: TexasCoworking.com, Cedar Creek, Texas, Founder and managing member. A 5,000-square-foot live-work-cowork facility with six-plus kitchens, about six miles from SpaceX, The Boring Company and Starlink, serving the Silicon Hills tech community.
- 2008 to 2009: BHI / BuilderHomesite, Special projects consultant.
- 2006 to 2007: Hotel San José, South Congress, Austin, Video production and IT project manager; the IT guy. The IT guy at the Hotel San José on South Congress, working for its owner, Liz Lambert, the Austin hotelier behind the San José and the Bunkhouse hotels. He kept the hotel's wifi up, ran the reservation system, ran the point-of-sale systems for both Jo's Coffee locations (the famous South Congress stand and the one downtown), and looked after Liz Lambert's own Mac laptop and iPhone, a detail he is still proud of. Rock bands stayed at the hotel, the Talking Heads among them, and everything had to keep working for guests like them. He also ended up at parties with the cast of The L Word. His summary of the era: pretty wild.
- 2002 to 2007: WholeTech.com, Senior Unix systems administrator. Unix and Linux administration, Verity search, video production and uplinking for clients including Bloomberg News.
- 2000 to 2002: Various clients, Unix systems administration lead.
- 1998 to 2000: IBM / Tivoli, Austin, System administrator, User-Centered Design; webmaster; software verification engineer. On the Burnet Road campus, with complete autonomy to research whatever he pleased.
- 1997 to 1998: TradeWave Corporation, Contract SQA engineer. E-commerce security testing.
- 1996 to 1997: Haystack Labs, System administrator and SQA. Security products, including WebStalker and NetStalker.
- 1990 to 1996: International Computer Systems / The Spring, Technical support manager; ISP founder. Founded The Spring, a virtual community of 5,175 members; built the website and the dial-in server. It went onto the Web as spring.com in 1996.
- 1988 to 1991: Sematech, Austin, Manager, PC Support. Worked hand in hand with Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and Sematech's founding leader, to devise the hardware, software and network platform for 700-plus assignees from a dozen semiconductor companies: more than $10 million of equipment (IBM, Compaq, HP, NEC, Sun), the first Sun Microsystems dealership in Austin, a seven-technician service team. Sematech's fourteen original members held about 80 percent of U.S. semiconductor capacity; the goal was to help the American industry regain its edge. It did.
- 1987 to 1990: ComputerLand / Entre / MicroAge, Sales and consulting. More than $7 million in CAD and network sales. One of the calls was Sematech's.
- 1984 to 1985: Whole Earth Software Review and the Whole Earth Catalog (Stewart Brand), Reviewer and contributor. Wrote reviews for the Whole Earth Catalog and its 1984 to 1985 offshoot for personal-computer software, the Whole Earth Software Review. The Whole in WholeTech traces to this ethos: access to tools, whole-systems thinking.
- 1977 to 1987: BPI Systems, Austin, Customer support and maintenance programmer. Accounting software. BPI was one of the early software companies to go public, in 1983.
- 1970 to 1979: City planning departments, Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, Urban planner.

## Education

Bachelor of Urban Planning (Honors), University of Illinois, 1966-1969; Andrew Mellon Award; valedictorian.

## Skills

- Systems administration: Linux (RHEL, Fedora), AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, Unix, Windows Server; TCP/IP, shell scripting, EMC and Veritas clustering.
- Web development: LAMP, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, XML, AJAX, Apache and IIS, e-commerce.
- Media production and live streaming: Adobe Premiere, Vegas, Avid; Zoom broadcasting; question and prompt creation for live shows.
- Social media: Early Twitter influencer (2007), podcasting, blogging.
- Also: Software QA testing, hardware, technical writing, GIS and CAD.

Contact: walhus@gmail.com, terry@austinspring.com, 501.365.1001, @springnet. Austin and Cedar Creek, Texas.