Project Manager High School

Benjamin Kahn

*** ****** ***

Watertown, MA ***72

*****@*****.***

http://www.zoned.net/~xkahn/

Experienced computer programmer with

success in both the public and private sector.

Functional experience includes educational software,

multi-user 3D environments, groupware applications, and

database design.

Objective

To solve problems creatively through software. (Research and Development)

Job Experience

October 2000 - Present Novell (was Ximian Inc.) (was Helix Code, Inc.)

(http://www.ximian.com)

Positions heldLead Researcher for the desktop Product Design Team

Project Manager

Business Development

Head of Technical Support

1995 - October 2000 CyberSites, Inc.

(http://www.cybersites.com/)

Positions heldHead of Research and Development

Head Programmer -- web division

Joined the Open Source Jabber Instant Messaging Project

Wrote PAM authentication module for Jabber.

Conceived and managed the creation of ODBC module for Jabber.

Extended the HTTP interface to Jabber to help make it a fully usable for web sites.

Wrote an Open Source PHP API to the HTTP interface.

Integrated Jabber into an existing web site to give instant messaging, chat, and presence which is compatible with all other Instant Messaging systems including AOL's.

Instant Messaging system compatible with the IETF's IMPP working group's initial recommendation

Designed, wrote, implemented rock solid stable, threaded, multi-platform, distributed instant message/chat system.

Wrote PHP APIs to this chat system.

Wrote RAGE APIs to this chat system.

Wrote Python APIs to this chat system.

Started downloadable client for this chat system.

Integrated chat/IM system into a developing web site which is being used today.

Database work

Using the Object Store database maintained a database modification server which allowed changes from a web site.

Discarded old database modification server and wrote my own which served as a database connectivity kit for the RAGE programming language.

Evaluated available databases and chose Informix based on features, availability, and ease of working with the company.

Helped port the object database schema to a relational schema for the Informix database.

Took the Apache web server and used that to create a new database connection kit for the RAGE programming language.

The RAGE programming language

Conceived, designed, implemented, and maintained a web programming language starting in the days before Perl's web CGI functions which was used for many years by CyberSites, Inc. to write such advanced web site features as: Automatic publishing system, BBS, Instant Messaging, Individual homepages, and Private Messages.

Started work on a complete reference and users guide for this language.

Trained people in the use of this development tool.

Coded many web applications in the RAGE language including a web page editor, templated web pages, global web site configuration changes, and a web game called S.P.Q.R.

Designed and coded a subset of RAGE called RAVE which can be found in a book titled .

Actively working toward getting RAGE Open Sourced.

Development Support Work

Helped design, and implemented company development system including CVS repository, Emacs based coding environment including custom code colorization routines written in eLISP, a code tracker, an code cross reference tool, automatic code management and review system, and an advanced web based database query and discovery tool, and a code staging system which allowed for better testing.

Started work on integrating CVS and database schema management. (As changes are made to SQL files, they are compiled into the database automatically.)

Wrote CVS code management scripts which allowed CVS branching to working seamlessly and without trouble.

Maintained Linux workstations used to keep development working smoothly.

workS.P.Q.R. is an online game which was originally hosted at Time Warner's Pathfinder during it's heyday. This award winning web game eventually spawned a of the same name published by .

Wrote the RAGE engine upon which all online chapters of this award winning game is based on.

Designed user interface for game redesign for online .

Wrote online and .

PHP work

Extended PHP's so that it supported .

Sysadmin work

Managed UNIX web/ email/ ftp server (Linux, SGI Irix)

Managed Object Store Database

Monitored web site health

1995 - 1996 Globalearn

(http://www.globalearn.org/other/bsne.html)

Was the main engineer, programmer, and HTML coder on the Black Sea

Nations Expedition. This included custom cgi's, protocol development,

and page design. (This archived site is different than it once appeared.)

Mar - Nov 1995 Gateway Coalition

(http://www.ece.sc.edu/gateway/)

Managed the web pages for this multi-university organization.

1995 - 1996 Gateway Labs

(http://www.seas.columbia.edu/gateway/)

Teaching Assistant (TA) for the Freshman class. (Web programming,

Presentation software, and 3D CAD modeling.)Lab Consultant. (Answering questions and helping people in the

lab.)Webmaster (Designing and publishing the web site dealing with the

Lab)Co-system-administrator Account Creation, Software Installation, system

maintenance

Summers of 1994, 1995 LEAP

(http://www.leap.yale.edu/)

Summer 1994: Aid to the head of the computer center. (Teaching, buying

components, repair, network admin., and course design.)Summer 1995: Head of Technicals. (System Administrator for Linux box,

MACs, and IBMs. Web designer. Software consultant, T1, etc.)

1990 - 1995 AD2000

(http://www.ad2000.com/ad2000/)

Assembly and Shipping (preparing holograms for world-wide shipment.)Computer Consultant/Programmer (Keep all company computers running

smoothly. Also, software advisement, and authoring for company use.)

1989 - 1995 The Eli Whitney Museum

(http://www.eliwhitney.org/)

Head of Computer Exhibits (design and upkeep of computer related projects.)

Consulting

May 1997 - Present CBS Radio

(http://www.cbsradio.com/)

Custom job posting software for available jobs

Semi-automatic authoring system

Summer 1993 Shawmut Bank

Freelance Programmer (Wrote a program which would help the bank manage

their databases more efficiently.)

1992 - 1994 New Haven School System

Wrote class scheduling software which assigned classes to students.

Helped manage computer lab.

Started the Lunchtime Computer Club.

1992 - 1995 Classroom Consulting

Worked with teachers to integrate computers in the classroom. (see awards)

Summer 1993 Choate

Wrote software used to teach geometry at this high school.

Private Consulting

1996 - Present Columbia University Professors

General system management tasks.

Core Skills Languages

C, C++, LISP, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, BASIC, BASH, TCSH, RAGE, SQL

Platforms

UNIX, Linux

Databases

Informix, MySQL

Open Source Work,,,, Mailcheck (no online source found)

Honors/Awards

Awarded because of work at CyberSites, Inc.

Magellan 3-star site

PC Magazine Top 100 Web Sites

1996 New Media Invision Award Finalist

LightSpeed Media: Tomorrow's Site of the Day

School Awards

Grant to use computers to help teach evolution and literature in a single

class.

UNH Book Award.

Education College Education

(Graduated Spring 1998 with a BS)

Major: 5 courses taken.

High School

High School in the Community, New Haven, CT

High Honors

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