Developer Development

Overview

I am an exceptionally-experienced Perl programmer and talented leader of

development teams, with exceptional skills in various disciplines. My

experience ranges from operating as a one-man web shop to my current role,

in which I manage 8 employees. Having led my most recent development team

through a major transition, I am ready for my next challenge.

Work History

Informatics Corporation of America Director of Development / Product

Manager

Nashville, TN Jan 2008-Present

ICA produces an HIE (Health Information Exchange) product called

CareAlignTM Suite. I manage the team that produces this application. I

directly supervise a 5-person development team, a business analyst, a web

designer, and a 3-person QA team.

In two and a half years at ICA, I have completely turned around the

Development Group, bringing that organization "from worst to first". We

inherited a very old fashioned Perl CGI application with no separation of

code. I led the process of bringing that application into the 21st century

and we now have an application to be proud of. It's fully MVC'd, using

Mason, Rose::DB::Object and MooTools.

In addition to the massive improvement in the code itself, I have lead the

team through an extensive reorganization. Through effective turnover and

recruiting, extensive overhauls to processes, and lots and lots of

documentation, this team is ready to go and has now become the group for

the entire company to emulate.

CBT Nuggets Senior Developer / Architect

Eugene, OR Sep 2003-Dec 2007

CBT Nuggets is a producer of IT certification training videos, which they

sell primarily on a website that I created in Perl. The customer side and

an extensive administrative interface for the sales team and order

processing staff, as well as reporting tools for management. In additional

to normal e-commerce functionality, this company (like a lot of others) has

a lot of unique requirements that required various custom solutions.

As of May 2010, over 8 years after the site was originally developed, and

over 2.5 years since I left the company, CBT Nuggets continues to operate

entirely on the site that I developed for them.

Self-Employed Web Developer

Woodstock, GA Sep 1999-Sep 2003

Freelance development for a few different customers, including one customer

that became my next employer. I worked mainly from home, and almost

exclusively with Perl and PostgreSQL.

IBM Global Services Solutions Architect

Marietta, GA Sep 1999-Oct 2002

Working in the Atlanta Center for E-Business Innovations, I led technical

teams of various sizes during development of very high profile, high volume

web sites, usually specializing in e-commerce functionality. At the project

level, I reported to the Producer, who works directly with the creative

team and the customer. I was involved in the full life cycle of the

project, from early estimates and contract drafting, to requirements

gathering and detailed design, to development and QA testing, to deployment

and transition to maintenance.

Synergistics, Inc Senior Developer

Alpharetta, GA Sep 1997-Sep 1999

I developed Lotus Notes/Domino applications and advised the product

development team on web-related issues at this Notes Consulting firm. I was

one of two developers certified by IBM in their Net.Commerce product. I

also served as the Network Administrator, setting up a complete Linux-based

firewall and handling networking-related issues.

Previous Employers

This list takes us back to the beginning of my IT career, but the details

of these positions are less relevant than those already mentioned. Of

course, more information is available upon request.

Tarkenton Net Ventures Web Developer

Marietta, GA Jul 1997-Sep 1997

Blueshift, Inc Webmaster

Norcross, GA Aug 1996-Jul 1997

Telemate Software, Inc Technical Support Representative

Norcross, GA Mar 1996-Jun 1996

Military Service

United States Air Force

Active Duty

Feb 1991 - Mar 1996

Software and Platforms

. Perl

. Various web servers, particularly Apache

. Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, OS X)

. Desktops: Windows, Mac, Linux

. Database Servers (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2)

. SVN and Trac

. Jira and Confluence

. Photoshop

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