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Objective:

Computer programmer with design and administration responsibilities.

Summary of Qualifications:

Fifteen years experience programming a wide range of high-level languages

Expert programmer in Perl, JScript, and shell scripting

Well-versed in C/C++ and standards-compliant HTML and CSS

In-depth real-world experience with Linux, Solaris, and MS Windows

Designed, created, and managed very large MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Education:

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL4) September 2005

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY May 2002

Dual Degree: BS Computer Science and BS Management

Overall GPA: 3.51

GPA within major: 3.59Cisco Certified Network Associate March 2002

Work Experience

Texterity, Southborough, MA

- Manager of Publishing Technology June 2008 to Present

I managed a group of four developers who focused on internal data conversion software and

employee-facing tools.

Constantly consulted with operations to prioritize feature requests and gathering

detailed business requirements.

Spent half of my time continuing to fix bugs and write features.

Introduced an Agile process to technology and spearheaded closer integration between QA

and development.

Texterity, Southborough, MA

- Software DeveloperMay 2006 to June 2008

I maintained web-based applications for end users, employees, and offshore contractors.

Maintained the central product: a web application for end-users to read magazine

replicas.

Redesigned and rewrote an old internal system for employees day-to-day workflow

management.

Gathered requirements and communicated with customers for feature requests.

Priceline.com, Norwalk, CT

- Unix System AdministratorNovember 2004 to May 2006

I built, configured, and managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on more than a hundred servers

for several different groups.

Setup seventy servers in five environments in my first three months.

Migrated several websites from external hosting locations to in-house servers.

Pioneered the use of wiki for documentation company-wide.

Wrote shell, expect, and Bladelogic scripts to simplify system tasks and documented both

their use and internals.

Priceline.com, Norwalk, CT

- Associate NOC EngineerJune 2002 to November 2004

I wrote well-documented, flexible, and simple to maintain applications from the ground up

for the use of NOC specialists to manage and monitor thousands of servers.

Developed software for long-term tracking of SiteScope monitors with Perl, HTML,

JavaScript and MySQL.

Managed all SiteScope monitor changes, including a monitoring standardization project and

24/7 support.

Rewrote NOC home page and applications in JScript ASP with MySQL and Oracle.

Other Experience

RemembeerProgrammerFebruary 2010 to Present

I wrote an Android application with a friend for our personal use, and distributed it in

the Android Market to hundreds of other users. We are implementing some of the dozens of

suggested features, including a JSON API for a centralized library.

WEBoggleProgrammerApril 2004 to May 2004

I wrote an AJAX game from scratch, starting with no knowledge of DOM or AJAX, and very

little of JavaScript. This pre-dated many similar uses of the web, so I had few patterns

and hardly any documentation available. The traffic quickly overwhelmed my webhost and I

was forced to hand it to another developer.

Crux LinuxPackage MaintainerSeptember 2003 to April 2004

I helped modify scripts and support applications and created packages for the community.

For the first time, I felt like I really understood how Linux worked.

Go MetricProgrammerApril 2002 to Present

I taught myself Python and Expect to create a measurement conversion website using the

free GNU units tool.

Science and IndustryAssistant ProgrammerOctober 2001 to May 2002

I worked on a ten-person international team on a 120,000 line C++ Half-Life mod.

Honors

References

Available upon request.

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