United States citizen available in person in the greater Chicago, Illinois area or to telecommute elsewhere.

Objective: Apply software development skills to develop or enhance software products and/or realize process improvements.

• Developed an online directory and marketplace SAAS product for parent-teacher organizations. [MySQL, PHP, Zend Framework]
• Wrote scripts to download weather data and make desired elements available via CGI. [shell, Perl]
• Created a custom URL, keyword, and page-description rewriting module and management interface to improve search-engine optimization for a Perl-based travel agency booking-engine. [MySQL, Perl]
• Added file quota support to an ISP's custom hosting control panel. [PHP]

Incorporating JFM Management, Inc

• Developed a centralized, web-based application configuration utility allowing authorized users to make configuration changes. [MySQL, PHP]
• Developed web-based receiving and picking module extensions for forklift operators, adding pallet-level inventory tracking not natively supported by client's ERP package. [MySQL, Perl, PHP, JavaScript]
• Developed custom file transfer management and format conversion scripts to interface ERP and EDI-over-FTP systems. [Perl, shell]

All work at client location(s)

• Ported Java-based single-sign-on client library to Apache mod_perl to make sign on transparent and eliminate effort and cost of porting non-Java applications.
• Developed system monitoring and business continuity verification tools for chat infrastructure, improving incident response time and averting world-wide deployment of Chicago engineering staff for Y2K. [Perl]
• Developed a chat load server simulating tens of thousands of users using "action probability profiles", saving hardware costs and network bandwidth compared to actual connections. [C++]
• Rewrote chat logging system stored procedure to process multiple rows in parallel for better performance. [Sybase SQL]
• Enhanced usability of "historical chat" web application by incorporating boolean search facilities, an interactive calendar, and flexible result sorting [Perl, SQL, JavaScript]

Incorporating Cypher-Sage and Tripcom Systems

• Developed scripts to handle automated fail-over and recovery in redundant firewall configurations. [shell]
• Developed scripts to reset software training labs, reducing classroom setup time. [Winbatch]
• Created software foundation for a commercial service to process firewall log files by developing scripts to automate retrieval and processing of logs from multiple remote client sites. [Perl]

• Wrote scripts to allow HP OpenMail system to exchange messages and attachments with legacy NeXTMail system, satisfying interoperability prerequisite for email platform migration. [Perl]

• Developed custom directory synchronization scripts for Boston Software Works’ InterOFFICE Gateway to support differing user names in Lotus cc:Mail and HP OpenMail and multiple gateways bridging the same networks. [Perl]

Incorporating Interactive Systems Corporation; all work performed at client location(s)

• Created filters for converting between electronic mail attachment encoding schemes in SMTP/NeXTMail, Lotus cc:Mail, and HP OpenMail [Perl]

Other Work

• Contributed to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). [Perl]
• Contributed to Ruby Gems. [Ruby]
• Enabled bi-directional hardware flow control on Sun Microsystems built-in serial ports via modifications to Sun’s device driver. [C]
• Developed solution for HylaFax fax package to allow modems to support both FAX and data connections on models that can't distinguish the incoming call type. [C++]
• Fixed bugs and enhanced features in a free dial-up PPP implementation for Sun Microsystems computers running SunOS. [C]
• Developed a UNIX device driver and supporting libraries for a DEC VT-11 graphics display. [C, PDP-11 Assembly]
• Various UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows system administration

• B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; University of California, Berkeley, CA; 1981 - 1985

• Co-developed U.S. patent 5274807 awarded to AT&T in 1993 for an efficient tape-backup technique for disk file-system images
• Awarded "Extraordinary contributions to quality as recognized by peers" for test automation tools (AT&T, 1987)

Operating Systems:
BSD UNIX/Linux/Oracle (Sun) Solaris, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Programming Languages:
C, HTML, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Ruby, shell, SQL

Other:
Apache, MySQL