Chris Thompson *** Staghorn Dr. Cincinnati, OH ***45

abpj13@r.postjobfree.com 513-***-****

Experience and Skills

Overview

Nineteen years Unix administration (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, OpenBSD, OS X)

Sixteen years Perl development (Catalyst, POE, Moose, KiokuDB, Mason)

Fifteen years Web administration (Apache, lighttpd, nginx, Tomcat, ColdFusion)

Thirteen years Web development experience (Perl, JavaScript, C, PHP, ColdFusion)

Thirteen years Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MySQL)

Expert Experience

Perl, Moose, Catalyst, POE

CPAN author:

JSON::Any

Net::Twitter

AxKit::XSP::LDAP

Games::Roshambo

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, DOM

Revision Control, Subversion, Git

Linux systems administration, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE

Employment History

Developer and Operations Consultant

Tamarou March 2009 to Present

Founding member of Perl consultancy providing Catalyst, Moose, and KiokuDB development

services. Infrastructure design and implementation for Amazon EC2 based scalable hosting

infrastructure. Development of in-house Catalyst app framework for both web and mobile

endpoints.

Director of Online Systems

Student Loan Xpress February 2006 to Present

Responsible for over seventy websites within the Student Loan Xpress and Xpress Loan Servicing

brands, managed development team for both internal and customer facing web sites and

applications, developed in perl/CGI, HTML::Mason, PHP, Java and Coldfusion. Direct coordination

between web, engineering and data services teams with marketing, business, legal departments,

as well as managing technical needs and requirements of individual college Financial Aid

departments and directors.

Systems Administrator

Procter and Gamble April 2005 to February 2006

Installation, consolidation, and upgrade of new HP/UX, Solaris and AIX servers. Developed Perl

framework to aggregate and monitor system events which could cause contractual penalties.

Member of global disaster recovery team, participating in disaster recovery drills, simulating total

data center failure including rapid reconfiguration and deployment of replacement systems.

Chris Thompson 898 Staghorn Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45245

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Systems Consultant

Comair October 2004 to February 2005

From scratch design and implementation of all new web infrastructure. Administration of HP-UX

11i servers, maintaining Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, MySQL, and BIND services.

Web and eProducts Manager

Sallie Mae July 2001 to May 2004

Customer integration and pre-sales support for a suite of web based financial aid products.

Product design, implementation, testing and support. Manager of development team, as well as

acting as the primary liaison coordinating business and development agendas.

Senior Enterprise Developer

Headland Digital Media / Learning Network October 1998 to April 2001

Design and implementation of redundant, scalable enterprise web architecture with Apache,

Jakarta and Oracle on Solaris and Linux. Design and development of back end web initiatives

including Intranet, Trouble Ticketing and System Failure Monitoring frameworks in perl, mod_perl,

and HTML::Mason.

Systems Consultant

SquareD October 1997 to October 1998

Responsible for administration and maintenance of Lotus Notes and Sybase infrastructures across

six-continent global enterprise. Redesigned and re-implemented global SMTP routing and DNS

Architectures. Key member of Unix Y2K compliance team, responsible for upgrading and certifying

AIX systems to full Year 2000 compliance. Developed tools in Perl for distributed regression

testing of systems Y2K exposure across entire global enterprise.

Internet Systems Engineer

ENTEX Information Systems June 1995 to October 1997

Responsible for from-scratch implementation and design of new Internet infrastructure for this

8500 employee company. Including SMTP architecture, DNS Architecture, and Firewall systems.

Designed and developed Intranet and external website presences.

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