Engineer Software

DamienMascord

A talented and ambitious architect with

a focus on networks, servers and related web technologies

Sydney, Australia

Mobile +61-414-***-*** ~ Email: ******@******.***

PROFILE & Objective

. A confident and innovative software engineer and programmer, now investigating opportunities with dynamic, creative and well managed organisations offering career path potential.

. A fast learner, adaptable, motivated, able to work independently or as a member of a team.

. An excellent communicator with strong people skills and the ability to relate to people on all levels.

. A focused and dedicated professional with a strong work ethic and a sharp analytical mind.

. Very keen and efficient problem solver, willing to go the extra mile to ensure problem resolution.

Professional History

April 2005 to present

CTO GPLHost http://www.gplhost.com

GPLHost is a global hosting company, which specializes in VPS and cloud technologies. The focus of the company is to write all of the tools used to run it s own business in GPL/LGPL, so that the hosting community can benefit from the experience our company gains from managing customers throughout the world.

GPLHost has points of presence in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; Haifa, Israel; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Singapore; Sydney, Australia; Barcelona, Spain; London, UK; Paris, France; and Zurich Switzerland. These points of presence enables GPLHost to deliver services to a wide variety of customers and solutions.

As CTO for GPLHost, my technical expertise and skill push the company forward, and ensures it s technical success.

May 2008 to presentProduct/Solution Architect Datalex USA http://www.datalex.com

Datalex is a global software development company originally from Dublin, Ireland, focusing on the travel and tourism industry. The USA office caters for companies in both American sub-continents.

As my experience and knowledge of the industry and of our product grew, the natural progression in this company led to increased responsibility.

This role has enabled the opportunity to work alongside Frontier Airlines, SITA, and Copa Airlines, delivering their online business needs by positioning our product in the most effective and efficient way.

In addition to the Architect role, there has been significant sales support exposure, to airlines such as Hawaiian Airlines.

April 2002 to May 2008Senior Software Engineer Datalex Singapore http://www.datalex.com

Datalex is a global software development company originally from Dublin, Ireland, focusing on the travel and tourism industry. The Singapore office caters for companies in the South East Asia region.

My role inside Datalex continues to be related to Singapore Airlines, with ongoing support and maintenance, as well as development work for new projects. My role also includes a team leadership component, in which I oversee the other developers from Datalex, inside Singapore Airlines, in a technical and development capacity.

This role has given me the opportunity to work even more closely with Singapore Airlines, and has strengthened my client-side communication ability.

The use of JBuilder Enterprise and Eclipse were used in the Java development for this role.

December 2001 to December 2001Java Programmer (Contract) CHEP Australia http://www.chep.com.au

CHEP is a multinational company who specialise in equipment pooling systems and pallet distribution. It was founded in 1946, and in 1974, Brambles and GKN joined the company to bring it to where it is now.

The project that I was working on for CHEP was working on a unified JDBC approach for their client facing systems. It involved the database pooling for both Oracle and HP Image databases, and rewriting a lot of their system to support this new module.

I was also involved in recommendations to make their development and deployment environment more industry standard, and also recommendations for future development for their client facing websites.

The use of JBuilder 5 Enterprise was used in the Java development for the role.

October 2000 to December 2001Software Engineer Datalex http://www.datalex.com

Datalex is a global software development company originally from Dublin, Ireland, focusing on the travel and tourism industry. The Sydney office was a dedicated software development house before it was closed due to global economic conditions.

My role at Datalex involved me in various projects, the two largest being for Singapore Airlines and Abacus. These were the development of J2EE middleware booking systems, using JDBC, XML, RMI, JINI, Servlets, JSP and many other J2EE technologies. The booking system for Singapore Airlines was deployed on Weblogic on HPUX, and Abacus was deploying on Tomcat on Windows 2000.

The Singapore airlines project lasted the whole duration of my employment, giving me opportunity to develop, and then to consult with the client in regards to support of the product, and for bug fixing issues. The Abacus project was a 5 month project, and I was also involved in internal product support with co-employees.

The use of JBuilder 5 Enterprise was used in the Java development for the role.

December 1999 to October 2000

System And Network Administrator Galexia - http://www.galexia.com.au

& Java Developer

Galexia is an information technology and security professional services company with a focus on the legal sector.

During my time with Galexia, I was involved in the support and system administration for both the Law Society of NSW and the Law Institute of Victoria. I was involved as a core developer in the Online Precedents Distribution system for the Law Society of NSW, this was a Java J2EE based project, lasting most of my time at Galexia, using Servlets and JSPs, utilizing a Model View Controller architecture, backed by an Oracle database which I was a DBA for. This role also gave me the opportunity to mentor Junior Java programmers.

For the system administration side of this position, I administrated multiple Solaris machines, running on both Intel and SPARC. It also involved extensive system documentation, and system performance monitoring, and maintenance.

April 1999 to December 1999

Student IT Assistant DIS> The Disconnect Helpdesk is a normal ISP support desk, supporting the students who use the service.

Apart from the standard professional level support for the students, I have developed the pain-free installation CD that is distributed to all students, including the compilation of documentation.

Additional Professional Experience

1997 (ongoing)

Hardware & Software Sales & Support Self Employed [disorder]

The work that I have done privately during the years, from Database systems, to web hosting has given me unique experience with the whole Software Development Life Cycle.

Education& training

University of NSW

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) 1998 till completion

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering 1997

(1 year completed with credit average)

Concord High School

Higher School Certificate 1996

Computing Skills & Exposure

. Programming

Java - JDBC (Oracle, MS SQL Server & HP image allbase) Servlets, JSP, XML, J2SE, J2EE and JINI.

Perl, Python, PHP

. Other Areas of Expertise

VPN/VPS/provisioning/cloud computing

Shell Scripting

Database administration

Secure computing

MS Office / Open Office

Cisco switch/routers

. Operating Systems

Windows / NT (3.1-7)

Solaris for SPARC & x86

Linux, HPUX, SCO, AIX

. Servers / Engines / Networking

TCP/IP, IPX/SPX networking

Apache, Zeus, iPlanet, IIS

Servlet Engines/Application server Resin, Tomcat, ServletExec, Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss

SQL DBMS Oracle, mySQL, mSQL, MS SQL Server, Postgresql

Professional Assets

. High skill levels in Java programming and web based technologies.

. Ability to manage IT/programming related projects from inception to completion.

. Significant exposure to system development, support and administration.

. Internet tutoring in Java.

. Multi-skilled, well suited to the challenge and responsibility in computer programming for multi-media environments.

. Capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Key Areas of Experience

. Developing and re-writing Java solutions for customer facing websites.

. Java programming and development of systems for a range of organisations including Frontier Airlines, Copa, Singapore Airlines, Law Society of NSW, NSW Attorney Generals department, Law Institute of Victoria etc.

. Development and implementation of web based solutions using JSP and Java Servlets, PHP, Python.

. Experience with project management via assisting with the organisation of SecCon 98, a security conference with 60 delegates from around the nation.

. Compilation of project and procedure documentation.

. Management of network and software operating environments.

. Analysed, designed and implemented network and phone systems.

. Troubleshooting and general code maintenance of client products.

. Maintenance, monitoring and installation of client and internal web servers.

. Security policy development and implementation.

Additional Data

Status: Married, Australian citizen

License: Singapore, USA, Australian Driving License

Memberships: Past member of UNSW Computer Society

Interests: Music - plays piano, trumpet & guitar, Sport Frisbee,

References: Available on request

Confidential

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DamienMascord

Sydney, Australia

Mobile +61-414-***-*** ~ Email: ******@******.***

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