Software Design

Tom Coppeto

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Profile

. Technology leader with 20 years experience in pioneering, designing,

developing, integrating, and operating complex high-traffic enterprise

systems.

. Outstanding strategic and technical problem solving with strong ability

to master new concepts and skills.

. Demonstrated ability to learn and master a variety of disciplines in

information technology.

. Highly rated instructor and presenter.

Experience

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, 2004-present

Provides strategic design and implementation contracting. Recent projects

include the areas of software design, system integration, authentication &

authorization, data modeling, web development, and digital content

repositories. Significant projects include:

. Chief Architect for MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative. Designed a suite

of software specifications to implement a design-by-contract Service

Oriented Architecture (SOA) fostering interoperability and reuse among

diverse applications and systems collaborating among universities,

publishers and software vendors. Chair global working group meetings

and teach developers interface design patterns. Produced reference

implementations using advanced design patterns in Java for both web and

native GUI applications.

. Architect for the California State University Digital Marketplace.

Produced an architectural framework including identity management to

enable a diverse 23-campus school system to integrate among an array of

third-party publishers to manage content delivery using federated

identity management.

. Lead Architect for AcrossWorld, Inc., a startup developing integrated

educational software solutions for emerging countries.

. Presented at the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP), IMS

Global, Open University of Catalonia, Institute for Electronic

Governance of Andhra Pradesh, JA-SIG, OpenIWorld, and the World

Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and

Higher Education.

ARCHITECT, MIT ARCHITECTURE GROUP, 1998-2004

Established policies and best practices. Defined and developed the roadmap

for the enterprise architecture, performed design reviews, and consulted

on enterprise IT and research projects to maximize integration with the

infrastructure. Emphasis in the areas of single sign-on authentication,

web application development, data integration, service bus, and data

warehousing.

. Managed growth or campus network from 5K to 35K nodes and led

enterprise infrastructure planning projects. Designed network,

established standards, championed roadmaps, managed $3.5M capital

budget, maintained vendor relationships, managed RFP processes, managed

facilities and capacity planning.

. Led institutional infrastructure projects working with architects and

project managers to achieve targeted standards.

. Advisor to the CIO and led effort to produce cost models and pricing

structure to manage MIT's $18M IT service center.

SYSTEMS ARCHITECT/OPERATIONS MANAGER, MIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 1999-2004

Managed team of engineers and programmers who manage daily operations of

network and computing infrastructure including maintenance, development and

security in an open network environment for 24,000+ users and 52,000

alumni.

. Designed and implemented campus wide systems including electronic mail,

directory, file sharing and web services.

. Designed and managed new data center for lights-out operation.

Relocated staff and data center through design and extensive

negotiation.

SENIOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPER/PROJECT LEAD, MIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 1995-1999

Technical lead for network and server operations and developed web and

database applications.

. Led cross-functional process improvement teams to streamline work,

improve quality and communication in the areas of software development

and network installations.

SYSTEMS DEVELOPER, MIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 1990-1995

Developed network and system management software.

. Launched mit.edu web site that currently ranks as the most popular

university web site in the world.

. Planned, managed, and executed customer-facing network upgrade

projects.

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, MIT PROJECT ATHENA, 1988-1990

Developed client/server applications and a user help system. Initiated new

platform integration into the Athena Computing Environment (1,000 centrally

managed UNIX desktops across campus).

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - B.S. Aeronautics & Astronautics,

1989

Other Employment

computer security CONSULTANT, SYSTEMEXPERTS COrporation, 1996-2004

Investigated and authored security findings reports for various companies

including IBM, Fleet, Morgan Stanley/Discover, Vanguard, and Cisco Systems.

Scopes included network security, data management, organizational

structure, and work processes.

Instructor, networld+interop, 1994-2000

Taught workshops "Network Architectures & Protocols" and "Introduction to

AppleTalk"

Instructor, Usenix/LISA, 1996

Taught workshops "Introduction to the World Wide Web" and "Programming with

CGI"

Contractor, openvision technologies, 1996

Implemented a unit test suite for their Kerberos V product.

boston by foot, Inc., 2005-present

Volunteer for a non-profit organization promoting the history &

architecture of Boston. As chairman of the Public Relations Committee,

initiated and developed an Internet Marketing strategy and implemented new

web site resulting in a customer increase of 86%. Also serve as an

instructor and coach for new docents. Currently serving on Board of

Directors.

Hands-On Expertise

. Software Development: C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl, XML

. Web Development: Apache, JSP, CSS, REST, Javascript (Ajax), PHP,

RSS, SEO, X/HTML

. Web Accessibility: Section 508, W3C, IMS AccessForAll

. Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, data warehouse

. Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux, NetBSD, OSX, Solaris)

. Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, POP/IMAP, SMTP, SNMP,

Cisco

. Security: GSSAPI, JAAS, Kerberos, OpenID, Shibboleth, SAML, SSL,

X.509

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