Software Engineer Developer

CAMERON LAIRD

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Executive Profile

Director-level developer & manager - Broad business background - Experienced in cloud-native and embedded implementations

Deeply knowledgeable about mission-critical software security. Award-winning software developer, 20+ years' experience in all programming phases, both as team member and manager of departments as large as 25 persons: design, coding, system administration, network management, documentation, developer experience, quality assurance, technical support, training, estimation, and process refinement. Strong bottom-line ability. Functional in French and Spanish. Expert witness in database and network management programming patent litigation. Peer reviewer for international scientific journals.

Author of 1800+ professional publications including monthly columns and articles in IEEE Computer and Spectrum, Linux Magazine, and IBM’s developerWorks. Invited speaker to multiple North American and European trade conferences. Invited Expert to SVG Interest Group, official maintainer of FAQ for Perl/Tk, moderator for Tkinter mailing list, publisher of “Tcl-URL!” and “Python-URL!”, elected member of Python Software Foundation, recognized expert author on HTML5/JavaScript and database standards, owner of open-source PyPDF4 project, contributor to more than twenty open-source projects. OpenText, Inc. February 2019-May 2025

Lead Software Engineer of OpenText Legal Technology and Artificial Intelligence Business Unit:

● Process architecture for specialized machine-learning service for litigation support, with emphasis on continuous integration (CI), cross-team co-operation, hardware efficiency, and continuous deployment

(CD). Multiple migrations to Jira, GitHub/GitLab, TeamCity, CodeClimate, Clubhouse, Black Duck, Fortify, ValueEdge, and related devops platforms.

● Daily programming focused on Python, with occasional forays into JavaScript, C#, and Bash, backed by MarkLogic, Redis, Postgres, SQL Server, and MySQL.

● Year-long migration to an AWS virtual datacenter.

● Multiple assignments to organization-wide projects on engineering security, compliance, standardization, and education goals.

● Cultivation of close relations with teams in Hyderabad and Europe for specific business and engineering targets. Sponsorship of recurring meetings to promote cross-department understanding and cooperation.

● Rework of software assets to permit use in distinct products on radically-disparate platforms.

● Ongoing embodiment of analytic results in practical, reliable, and measured products. Catalyst Repository Systems August 2012-January 2019 Team Manager and Senior Software Engineer of Catalyst Repository Systems with emphasis on high security, high-reliability, and high-performance networking applications in eDiscovery.

● Construction and leadership of small team focused on data-cleaning and -management at the terabyte scale.

● Daily implementations in Bash, PowerScript, and Python, complemented by episodic excursions into JavaScript, C#, PHP, Perl, PowerScript, and Ruby, backed by MarkLogic, Redis, Postgres, SQL Server, and MySQL.

● Migration of litigation support operations to Web-based applications while improving hardware utilization by factor of more than twenty. Replication of products in an overseas hardware datacenter.

● Daily mentorship of more junior programmers to accelerate their own careers and recognize fundamental SDLC tooling as aids, rather than barriers, to customer satisfaction.

● Construction of systems to manage on-call, incident, and monitoring operations. Phaseit, Inc.June 1997-August 2012

Technical Lead and Project Director of Phaseit, a boutique development house.

● Senior Support team contributor for leading fintech, with emphasis on promotion of efficiency and rapid learning for developers in cloud-native application projects. Creation of innovative reports that bear on key management decisions for Support operations.

● Programmed new release of complex manufacturing control system, with emphasis on design and validation of XML schemata.

● Coded DocuSign-based PHP Web site to replace regional realtor’s paper-based operations.

● Coded Perl and PostgreSQL to consolidate complex nation-wide Web-based medical database, including CSV interchange.

● Composed executive-level cyber-security strategy for international consultancy.

● Automated database-backed GIS for training vendor hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

● Migrated portfolio of MATLAB-based mechanical engineering analyses to Web and Octave-based applications at California university. Persistent formats included XML and CSV. Dramatic reduction in project launch latencies.

● Designed and implemented large distributed Web-based workflow systems for government agencies with over 15,000 users, coded in JavaScript, Python, Java, and Perl. Frequent preparation of CSV-formatted results. Complete replacement of earlier FAX- and USPS-based workflows.

● Led long-term, multi-discipline team responsible for successful real-time Postgres-backed Naval Hazard Manager.

● Coded complex refinery simulation in C++.

● Implemented multiple operations engineering dashboards, including for satellite communications, harbor management, and pipeline control.

● Upgraded complex point-of-sale automation to an Oracle database management system.

● Designed and constructed multiple telecomm deliveries from back-end reliability to handset forensics.

● Delivered application for specialized printing of CAD products. Education

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Master of Science, Mathematics

Additional Information

Awards: ActiveState Tools' Active award for Tcl programming. Frank Willison Memorial Award by O'Reilly Media & the Python Software Foundation for outstanding contributions to Python. Deliveries involve Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, OpenVMS, MPE/iX, OS/400; C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, Perl, Tcl/Tk, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Python, R, Ruby, PHP/Zend, Lua, Go, Erlang; Plone, WordPress; SNMP, LDAP, SOA, SOAP, WSDL, CORBA, COM, DDE; Apache, Plone, Mason, Django, Turbogears, Drupal, CherryPy; SQL with Oracle, Informix, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Metakit, SQLite, MarkLogic; Lucene; G2, LonWorks; SGML, XML, XSD, RNC; CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Clearcase, Perforce, and more proprietary technologies.

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