Summary of Qualifications:

Systems, Languages, and Technologies:

• UNIX (Solaris, SunOS, Linux, NCR/MP-RAS), MS-DOS, MS Windows-2000/NT/9x, VeriFone telecommunications devices, Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Perforce, Test Environment Toolkit (TET), InstallShield, Package For The Web, Make, Ant, Gnats, Wrapper.
  Exposure to: MVS, Visual Source Safe (VSS), PVCS, TeX/LaTeX, Sendmail.
• C, Rexx, Tcl (for VeriFone), PCL, Bourne shell, Sed, Awk, Tcl (Tool Command Language), Expect, NT Batch, Perl.
  Exposure to: C++, JCL, Java, JavaCC.
• SCM, CGI, NFS, Faircom C-Tree Plus, Wiki.
  Exposure to: NIS/NIS+, DNS, SQL, embedded SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, XML, XSLT.

Work Experience:

• Owned the build system which spanned multiple products. Ownership included:
  • Designed and implemented enhancements to the Ant build system to support automated continuous builds and releases, which includes email notification and web posting of results.
  • Built and maintained the build environment running on both Linux and Windows.
  • Maintained Perforce version management system and SCM policies.
  • Built a number of tools for monitoring systems and maintaining branches.
  • Documented procedures for setting up new development environments.
• Co-owned the QA system. Tasks included:
  • Designed and implemented a test system that works for developers, the automated build system, and the stand-alone test environment.
  • Built and maintained the test environments running across both Linux and Windows.
  • Documented procedure for working with the test system and setting up new environments.
• Worked on application issues such as:
  • Modified projects to launch Java RMI internally to ease application launch issues.
  • Researched and implemented solution for cross-platform start up, including support for Unix-sytle daemons and NT services.
  • Researched and prepared report on licensing issues surrounding third-party products.
  • Worked with ensuring cross-platform compatibilities, including Unix/Windows issues, as well as various databases such as Oracle, MS-SQL, Postgres, and a variety of JDBC connectors.
• Assisted in assorted system administration issues, especially for Unix based systems, including web server setup and configuration.
• Some maintenance of the bug tracking part of the Siebel installation.

• Engineered an automated build process that allowed for unattended nightly builds.
• Developed a sub-system for the build process that allowed for precise specification of components used to build the system that facilitated the accurate generation of Bills Of Materials.
• Designed install packages using InstallShield's Windows Installer and Package For The Web tools that allowed for seamless installations and updates.
• Created system to automatically monitor for new releases of third party, components which allowed for a timely and uniform notification of updates.
• Led a problem tracking system evaluation task force that resulted in the implementation of a Gnats-based system providing web and email interfaces for both internal and external consumers.
• Maintained Perforce version management system, including managing upgrades and system resources.

• Automated the majority of a test suite using the TET harness and TCL to submit JCL requests using FTP, resulting in approximately a 75% decrease in testing time.
• Researched solutions for various change requests, wrote various design and test documentation which was used to implement the solutions.
• Effectively facilitated inter-departmental communications by acting as liaison between the technology group and the systems administration group.

• Lead migration of existing stand-alone payroll application to a multi-tier implementation.
• Designed and implemented APIs for configuration items, unified file name generation, and database access methods which yield greater performance.
• Documented reasons for not using Visual Source Safe (VSS) and performed the resulting conversion to Concurrent Versions Systems (CVS).
• Performed software configuration management and release engineering functions.
• Installed the Gnats problem tracking system.
• Assisted creating end-user documentation using LaTeX.

Additional Relevant Experience:

• Systems administrator for company (UNIX, NT).
• Installer and technical assistance for approximately 30 sites nationwide.
• Assisted porting applications from Solaris to Linux.
• Developed C++ classes for accessing MS-Windows multimedia functions.
• Wrote tools to stress test systems, perform network traffic analysis, and program network equipment.
• Initiated documentation procedures for internal processes.
• Designed specifications for a turnkey scanning system.
• Represented company at trade shows and industry functions.

• Developed new reports,user interface enhancements, fax engine and installer.
• Performed technical support functions.
• Installed and managed office LAN.
• Initiated software configuration management process.

Independent projects:

• Maintains a personal Linux distribution, with an emphasis on NFS based configuration. Including monitoring for software updates, network installation, and a build system. Active since 1994.
• Contributes bug reports, patches and enhancements to a wide variety of open source projects.
• Current maintainer of the GNU Queue load-balancing system.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science,
University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO, May 1996