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View My VisualCV Online: http://visualcv.com/tom abpr2h@r.postjobfree.com TOM COPELAND 13515 Floris Street Herndon, VA 20171 United States abpr2h@r.postjobfree.com My Blog: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com w: 703-***-**** m: 703-***-**** Work History InfoEther Herndon, VA, United States Feb 2002 - Present Consultant Three years Ruby/Rails consulting Still the RubyForge sysadmin; now hosting 8K projects and 40K users. Received "Ruby Hero" award at RailsConf 2008 for my work on RubyForge. Helped Beanstalk migrate from Engine Yard to Rackspace. Configured complex Sphinx (full text searching engine) installation; used the Riddle API. Wrote militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com - a Rails application to let folks track which books they've read from various military reading lists. Uses Sphinx with the thinking_sphinx plugin. Worked with an application that used backgroundrb with monit to handle background jobs. Fixed a bug in the rcov native code. Stood up railsonpostgresql.com where I post about interesting Rails + PostgreSQL technical details. Wrote "GForge Sites" - a little Rails application to track GForge installations. Wrote lots of "back end" Rails code; e.g., controllers and models. Rewrote proprietary content management package resulting in 10x performance gain and much better manageability. Integrated Rails app with open source "Beast" forum package. Set up numerous Rails deployments; wrote Capistrano tasks, used Capistrano multistage, configured mod_proxy_balancer, wrote mod_rewrite rules, set up virtual hosts, troubleshot Mongrel, converted many applications over to Passenger. Many hours of Linux sysadmin work - OS installations, security tweaks, application installation, Puppet configuration, etc. Wrote Rails log analysis plugin that reported on database query usage and times. Integrated Rails app with SilverPop email service Wrote a book: Generating Parsers with JavaCC. One year Ruby product development Wrote a book: PMD Applied. Wrote Ruby BitTorrent client library. Wrote Ruby extension for Evolution. Wrote Amazon S3 client library. Wrote several Rails apps and services, including a set of AJAXy admin pages. Three years DARPA consulting - Ultralog System administrator for RubyForge. Oracle Open Source Programmer of the Year, 2003. Wrote popular open source Java code analysis tool PMD Page 1 of 2 View My VisualCV Online: http://visualcv.com/tom CVS administrator, introduced continual builds. Wrote Ruby utility to generate DOOM maps. Translated C artificial intelligence examples into Ruby. Realeum Alexandria, VA, United States Jul 2001 - Jan 2002 Programmer Worked on J2EE app (WebLogic/Oracle/Solaris), member of core team, fixed bugs, implemented features, etc. Wrote Swing client for customer support folks to use with production applicationn. Delivered it via Java Web Start. Used JavaCOM bridge to generate Excel reports. Introduced Ant for cross-platform builds. Roku Technologies Chantilly, VA, United States Sep 1999 - Jun 2001 Programmer Replaced large RNI codebase with JNI. Wrote Java servlet-based web site/service. United States Coast Guard Washington, DC, United States Aug 1996 - Aug 1999 Project Manager Managed bar code program; wrote C utilities, tracked hardware, resolved problems, traveled to customer sites. Managed inventory data warehouse; wrote SQL queries, Korn shell scripts. USCG Astoria, OR, United States Aug 1994 - Jul 1996 Deck Watch Officer Stood deck watches Boarding officer qualified; conducted over 100 at-sea boardings Helo control officer qualified; was HCO for many, many helo landings both day and night. Served as communications, classified materials, and weapons officer. Education United States Coast Guard Academy New London, CT, United States Jun 1990 - Jun 1994 B.S., Mathematics Go Bears! This next-generation resume was created using VisualCV Page 2 of 2

Tom CopelandHerndon, VA - US

AVAILABILITY:

I'm not looking for a job

WORK TYPE:

Full-time

JOB TITLE:Programmer

INDUSTRY:

Other

SUMMARY:

Junior developer.

COMMUTE:

Up to 35 miles

Not willing to relocate

CREATED:

Monday, February 14, 2011

UPDATED:

Monday, February 14, 2011

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