Years Experience Customer Service

Christopher Kit Peters

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Kansas City, MO 64109

843-***-****

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Summary:

Twelve years experience with Linux

Four years experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL) development

Four years experience in developing web applications

Five years experience in Perl development

Experience in database management and development using MySQL 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x

Experience in database management and development using Oracle 10g

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005

Experience in Object-Oriented development in Java, Python, Perl, and PHP

Experience with Javascript, JSON, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS, HTML, AJAX, and

generating HTML by means of applying XSLT to XML.

Experience with Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, and Windows 2000.

DNS management using BIND

SMTP management using Postfix

Ten years experience with PC hardware

Graduated College of Charleston, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2006,

minors in Physics and Mathematics

Technical Skills:

Programming Experience:

Languages: Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript, Python, Common Lisp

Tools: Eclipse, Subversion, CVS

Packages: Catalyst Web Development Framework, DBIx::Class (aka DBIC) database

abstraction layer

Database Design/Management:

MySQL 3.x, 4.x, 5.x

Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005

Oracle 10g

Internet Software:

BIND 9

Postfix

Procmail

Monit

Munin

Operating Systems:

Mac OS 8-10.4; Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP Professional, Server 2003; Linux Red Hat,

Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, CentOS

Professional Experience:

Saicon, Inc., Overland Park, KS, August 2008 to Present

Contract PHP Developer

Taking over and completing an existing municipal data management application used by

Kansas City emergency services agencies, primarily fire and police

Corrected SQL injection and XSS (Cross- Site Scripting) vulnerabilities in existing

application code

Implemented Smarty templating system in further application development in order to

foster code reuse.

Technisource, Inc., Overland Park, KS, March 2008 to present

Consultant

Contract: Virtumundo, Inc., Overland Park, KS, March 2008 to August 2008

PHP/Perl Developer

Redesigned and reengineered a core business application that parses, validates,

stores, and removes duplicate information from client-submitted opt-in

demographic data, making that data available to Virtumundo staff and affiliates

for targeted e-mail marketing campaigns.

Increased application performance to 300+ records per second parsed and

inserted into the database.

Application developed using a client-server model.

Server developed in Perl using Catalyst Web Development Framework using

MVC (Model-View-Controller) principles

Designed entirely new database schema in Oracle 10g for the server.

Client developed in PHP using OOP (Object Oriented Programming) principles.

DST Systems, Inc., Kansas City, MO, July 2007 to January 2008

Implementation Specialist

Installing DST products (primarily AWD, AWD/BI, and AWD/RIP) on customer sites

and integrating them with existing customer infrastructure.

Developing applications using Java, XML, and XSLT to allow clients to quickly deploy

and configure DST products.

Tools Used: HTML, Java, XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005,

Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional

Monolith Software Solutions, Charleston, SC, May 2003 to July 2007

Senior Programmer

Developed both front-end and back-end software in PHP and Perl to interface with a

MySQL database. This software allowed operators of Pizza Hut restaurants to view and

manage accounting information (e.g. nightly deposits, labor costs) for all of their units

via a web-based interface. Assisted in the development of a back-of-house system to

aggregate and process data from the point-of-sale system that my company developed.

I was responsible for all of the Perl code, including the primary data processing

component, on the the back-of-house system. Assisted in modifying our existing back-

of-house/point-of-sale database structure to remove unneccessary fields and tables,

adding and modifying tables as appropriate to work with new software that I developed,

and adding referential integrity to the database.

Served as systems administrator for several in-house Linux servers. Served as systems

administrator for all Linux servers in the field until a dedicated systems administrator

came on board

Developed a system for rapid deployment of new Linux servers and workstations in the

field.

Extended Debian package management system to automatically distribute new versions

of our software to servers and workstations in the field.

Assisted CTO in administering our in-house production server. Served as first point of

contact when problems came up with field systems. Diagnosed problems with field

systems remotely and in the field where appropriate.

Built both servers and workstations on the x86 platform.

Tools Used: Subversion, MySQL, Linux (Debian, Slackware, and SuSE), Apache, PHP, Perl,

Javascript, CSS, XHTML, HTML

A World of Difference, Inc., Charleston, SC, August 2000 to November 2002

Customer Service Representative

Developed Perl applications running on a FreeBSD server to assist in common customer

service tasks.

Supervised a ShoutCast server that rebroadcasted Charleston RiverDogs baseball games

over the Internet.

Tools Used: Perl, PC hardware, Windows 2000, Windows XP, FreeBSD, ShoutCast, dial-up

Internet connectivity tools

Personal Business Experience:

Inksome LLC, Kansas City, MO October 2007 Present

Responsible for all day-to-day business operations of Inksome

Responsible for administering a web site with over 9000 individual accounts

Responsible for maintaining Inksome s Debian Linux-based servers.

Installing and maintaining Apache HTTPD 1.3 with mod_perl, and MySQL 5.

Maintaining DNS with BIND 9

Maintaining SMTP services using Postfix

Developing and implementing a database backup system for Inksome.

System monitoring and reporting using Monit and Munin.

Tools Used: MySQL, Apache, MySQL, BIND, Monit, Munin

Education

College of Charleston, September 2002 December 2006

Graduated with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Minors in Physics and Mathematics

Added non-positional numeral support and an implementation of the Common Lisp

Ratio type to CLforJava (http://clforjava.cs.cofc.edu/), a Common Lisp interpreter

written entirely in Java. This was done as part of an independent study with Professor

Jerry Boetje.

Catalogued spectral lags for gamma-ray bursts detected with the BATSE (Burst And

Transient Source Experiement) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory under the

supervision of Dr. Jon Hakkila.

Publications

Nut.pm, a Perl module to communicate with the UPS monitoring software Network UPS

Tools.

Are Long-Lag GRBs Different than Other Long GRBs? with Dr. Jon Hakkila, et al. in

the proceedings of the 2006 annual conference of the American Institute of Physics

A Gamma-Ray Burst Database of BATSE Spectral Lag and Internal Luminosity

Function Values with Dr. Jon Hakkila, et al. in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement

Series, March 2007

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