Engineer Developer

SeaPerl Development

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: Software Developer, Database

Programmer, Web Developer, or closely related position. In short I'm looking for an employer who will give me opportunities to explore my talents and build great systems.SYSTEM RELATED EXPERIENCE:Developing with Perl since 1992 (version 4.019) including CGI in a web environment since 1997, DBI since 1999 and a year of LWP, and Mason, Unix since 1991 (Solaris, Linux, AIX), familiar will all the major databases (Informix, OracleDB 8,9,10, PL/SQL, Oracle Clinical, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase), Shell Scripting, Unix utilities (AWK, sed, vi, emacs), Source Control (CVS, RCS, SCCS), Apache Web Server since 1997, and HTML/XHTML/CSS since 1996.

Windows: Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/NT/XP/2003, Excel from 1.5 using Macros and VBA, Microsoft Word, ActivePerl, PL/SQL, OracleDB, Oracle Clinical, Strawberry Perl, cygwin,Dreamweaver, Toad, AJAX, MySQL, SQL Server

UNIX: Perl, CGI, DBI, LWP, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Mason, templating, AWK, Sed, Vi, Emacs, Informix, OracleDB 8-11, PL/SQL, Oracle Clinical, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C-Shell/Bash/Korn, SUN-OS, Solaris, AIX, Linux, JavaScript, HTML, Apache, Ruby on Rails

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield - Seattle, Washington, 4/11- 7/11Perl Developer

RITS Document Systems - Reworked several perl scripts they are using to process specific customer input that doesn't work in the conventional way their original systems did. Also had to create a new process to determine if particular input streams had been previously seen and processed.

The environment was: Windows 7, Perl 5.10, SQLite, svn.

Ionzero - Ft Collins, Colorado, 11/10- 6/11Catalyst/CGI Developer

Catalyst/CGI Developer for Airline Booking System - Full development in Catalyst applications for client from Workflow to converting templates to Template Toolkit to integrating Paypal or making updates to legacy systems. Working remotely with a team of about a dozen around the U.S. and the world.

The environment was: RHEL/CentOS, Apache, MySQL/Postgres, git, svn, Perl 5.12.2 (perlbrew), DBIx::Class, Template Toolkit, Catalyst 5.8, PSGI/Plack.

Classmates Online (now MemoryLane) - Seattle, Washington, 4/08 - 8/10Configuration Management Engineer - 12/09 - 8/10

Classmates.com - Primarily applications support, config changes, trouble shooting server issues for QA/Stage/Production, monitoring issues through systems like Gomez, Jira, Zabbix, and Monit, being on-call as either the Primary or Secondard to resolve production issues.

The environment was: RHEL/CentOS, Apache, Oracle/MySQL/Postgres, git, svn, cvs, puppet, rpmbuild, Zabbix, Gomez, and some custom in-house perl scripts.Developer/SysAdmin/DBA/etc - 4/08 - 12/09

NamesDatabase.com - Maintain, support, and add new features to the NamesDatabase.com website as well as generate performance reports and do special one-off information collecting on how various parts of the system are running. Keep existing legacy code functioning while adding enhancements and developing abilities to support. Very small tight knit team including anothyer Developer/SA/DBA, Businessn Analyst, and Email Manager running sort of autonomous to get the site back into growing mode. Was converting it from a Perl Catalyst/Mason/Mod_perl site to Ruby on Rails requiring complete rebuild from the ground up of models, views, and controller development as well as actionmailers and building library functions essentially being the know-all do-all for the site..

The environment was: RHEL/Fedora/SuSE, Apache, Postgres, Javascript, XHTML/CSS, Perl 5.8, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Mongrel, Postfix, Catalyst, Mason, & monit.

BioPharm Systems - San Mateo, California, 9/07 - 4/08Perl Developer

Simple Forms Development - Correct bugs and program in enhancements to existing version of Simple Forms (SF) (a proprietary enhancement/emulator of Oracle Clinical). Deal with customer requests as well as implementing special enhancements to SF for companies doing clinical research and drug trials for the pharmaceutical industry. Also do releases where a self-executable installation program is used as well as integrating with Oracle Clinical and including DB upgrades, scripts for upgrading, package documentation as well as enhancing existing technical specifications. Also support installation process and help clients with specific issues as they arise.

The environment was: Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Apache, Oracle 9i, 10g, Oracle Clinical, PL/SQL, Javascript, AJAX, XHTML/CSS, Perl 5.8.

TrendTRACK - Chicago, Illinois, 1/06 - 8/07Texis Developer

Texis/Vortex/Webscript - Performing back-end scripting, web scraping via the Vortex WebScripting language, and add enhancements to the TrendTRACK system used by lobbyist and interest groups to monitor legislative activities throughout the country.

The environment was: Texis, Vortex, RedHat Linux, Apache, and Perl 5.8.

XLTech - Dublin, Ireland, 6/05 - 1/06Texis Developer

Document Processing Project - Performing back-end scripting and additional development to extract transform and load data into a Texis/Vortex configuration. Convert current system to Texis/Vortex platform for simplified high-end text searching.

The environment was: Texis, Vortex, Windows XP, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache, Excel, VBA, and Perl 5.8.

Backcountry.com - Park City, Utah, 11/04 - 2/05Systems Analyst

Interchange - Performed back-end scripting and web development for the Interchange Ecommerce platform.

The environment was: Interchange, RedHat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, mod_perl, and Perl 5.8.

Comtech Mobile Datacom - Germantown, Maryland, 5/3/04 - 9/7/04Software/Network Engineer

Blue Force Tracking System - Performed back-end scripting and web development for a Network Monitoring System to control a Network operating around the world 24x7.

The environment was: FreeBSD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, amd Perl 5.8.

mTrack Services - West Sussex, England, 1/26/04 - 5/20/04Perl Developer

Customer Support Management System - Builing a Customer Support system for Operators to signup new customers and manage existing customer accounts and then to integrate it with the rest of the system. Built an initial prototype to determine the functionality and then built the dynamic side of the system.

The environment was: Linux, MySQL, Apache, and Perl 5.8.

Corbis - Seattle, Washington, 9/03 - 12/31/03Sr. Search Developer

Search Relevancy Enhancement - Building in functionality to a Texis full-text search database to provide customers with more relevant results when querying the more than 4 million on-line photos. Texis is a product from Thunderstone that is basically a bare-bones database that has dramatically enhanced the full-text search capabilities far beyond what conventional RDBMS systems will do in a fraction of the time. Also had to learn on the fly the Vortex scripting language that is used by Texis to handle the logic. Vortex like Texis is basically a bare bones Perl language without Hashes, references, and some of the more elegant powers of Perl again to allow faster search response time.

The environment was: Linux, SQL Server 2000, Perl 5.6, Texis/Vortex.

The Laxmi Group, Inc - Huntington Beach, California, 7/03 - 9/03Software Engineer

Web Spider Project for Cisco - Built a MySQL database, a Perl script to spider their intranet, a Web Interface for configuring the spidering operation, and a Reporting interface to review what the spider found. The spider was designed to fish thru a company intranet and discover what content was available and indicate what new content had appeared since the last running. The Reporting functions had the ability to give an execution summary and to drill down to the actual file. There was even a custom search utility that allowed a user to query for specific content. The spider would search thru their intranet looking for content that they wished indexed and would store locally the content they pre-selected for downloading. The Laxmi client had an intranet with potentially 300,000 urls to search thru so the system was made highly scalable and flexible.

The environment was: Linux, Mysql, Perl 5.8, Apache.

Encode, Inc - Manalapan, New Jersey, 3/03 - 6/20/03Software Engineer

UMI Project for IBM - Perl and Korn Shell scripting to aid in finishing up their 1.1 Release. Fixed several existing scripts to close out open defects. Project cut short by client acquiring another company and a software package that already did what their UMI Project did without the heavy development effort.

The environment was: AIX, Solaris 8 & 9, Perl 5.6, RedHat Linux.

DiscoveringMontana - Helena, Montana, 4/1/02 - 2/1/03 (now MT.gov)Software Engineer

Correctional Offender Network - A site where people in Montana can go to look up individuals that have served prison time in Montana. Developed for the official state web site at .

The environment was: AIX, Oracle and Perl 5.6. This site can be viewed

at http://app.discoveringmontana.com/conweb/Child Support Enforcement Division - A site where people who owe child support payments in Montana can go to verify what their account shows. Developed for the official state web site at .

The environment was: AIX, a CICS interface and Perl 5.6. This site can be viewed at http://app.discoveringmontana.com/csed/ and choosing The Demo.Montana Historical Society - A site for the Montana Historical Society where new members can join. Developed for the official state web site at .

The environment was: AIX, Oracle, ecommerce, and Perl 5.6. This site can be viewed at http://app.discoveringmontana.com/mhsmembers/ and choosing The Demo.Registered Principals Search - A site for the Secretary of State's Office where registered users can look up companies and people incorporated in Montana. Developed for the official state web site at .

The environment was: AIX, Oracle, a CICS interface, and Perl 5.6. This site can be viewed at http://app.discoveringmontana.com/rps/ and choosing The Demo.Searchable Properties Service - A site where people who looking for land or building space in Montana can go to see what is available. Developed for the official state web site at .

The environment was: AIX, Oracle and Perl 5.6. This site can be viewed at http://app.discoveringmontana.com/properties/ and choosing The Demo.

SeaPerl Consulting - Riverside, Calif, 9/99 - 5/01 St. George,

Utah, 5/01 - 3/02Freelance Software Developer

Price Comparison Web Spider - A Perl program that retrieves an HTML document from a company for a specific product and parses it down to the point where the price for a specific item can be found. Running it against several companies allowed the client to see their product prices as compared to others in their industry.

The environment was: WindowsNT and Perl 5.6Filter and Transaction Screen - A Perl/CGI program that queries a SYBASE table and based on that produces a HTML table page dynamically that in turn calls another Perl/CGI script that produces another HTML table page that allows the end-user the ability to edit and process a large table form and process it further from that point.

The environment was: AIX, Perl 5.6, Sybase, Apache Web Server.Lock Module - A Perl module that queries a SYBASE to determine if a lock point for a table is locked or available so that multiple users are not changing the same database table.

The environment was: AIX, Perl 5.6, Sybase, Apache Web Server.Paginate Message Board - A Perl program that used an existing board.html document for a message board and split it into individual pages so that each page was only 40 or so messages keeping them at a manageable size.

The environment was: Solaris, Perl 5.6, Apache Web Server.Dice Page Web Spider - A Perl that retrieves the Dice Jobs Web Page then interacting and then filtering the output so that it sould then pull the specific pages that fit certain criteria so that they could then be reviewed off-line then in addition it fishes thru each posting and extracts specific info and puts it into a spreadsheet format to make reviewing even easier.

The environment was: Windows 98, Perl 5.6.Billing System - Built from scratch a billing for a web hosting company. Used MySQL on a Linux system to handle all parts of the billing from handling the creation of new customers in the system to the billing of customers for monthly fees and even the rebilling of those who didn't pass on the first few tries. Interacted with a Credit Card Clearing House (over the net) and even had to improvise ways to handle communcation problems when no response was returned by the clearing house. Developed many reports and also used HTML::Mason to create dynamic web pages which drove me more into Apache's configuration. For a Two-way paging company I built another Billing System from scratch using MS SQL Server 7.0 that ran on a Unix system with Apache. Unfortunately it had to be almost a complete redesign of what I'd previously done as no two companies seem to want the same kind of functionality.

The environment was: Linux, Perl 5.6, modperl, Mason, MySQL, Apache Web Server on the first and Linux, Perl 5.6, SQL Server 7 on WinNT, Apache Web Server on the second.

Maxim Group - Jacksonville, Florida, 5/01 - 11/01 (consolidated into TEKsystems)Freelance Software Developer

Applicant Tracking System - Gulfstream Aerospace firm in Georgia had a very urgent need for a Resume Input System so that thousands of resumes could be loaded into an Oracle 8 database. With little info from Human Resources and very limited support from Web Group a system was built within a week that allowed data entry clerks to input resumes that could then be searched using Boolean search for keywords against numerous entry fields. The results also could be refined even further and could even show most relevant results and keyword highlighting like on many sites (dice, monster, etc). After delivering the urgent portion I then worked with and supervised 5 Data Entry Clerks to make sure the entry process got off to a good start. Worked on the initial planning and building more of a team together in order to build a very robust Applicant Tracking System in 3 months. Some of the basic functionality was to initiates job requisitions, automatically forward them through the approval process, create open jobs on internal job board, create open jobs on internet site, allow Human Resources and the hiring manager to track and manage open jobs in the hopes of interviewing and hiring applicants, and keep track of EEOC required statistical data.

The environment was: AIX, Linux, Perl 5.6, Oracle 8I, Apache Web Server, LDAP, Internet Explorer, XML.

AirTouch Cellular - Irvine, California, 10/88 - 9/99 (now VerizonWireless)Regional Software Engineer

Call Search Query - A Perl that allows custom SQL searches of call records regardless of OS the user is on so that they can search by any field and get any or all fields as output and made configuration support for future changes childs-play. Accompanied by documentation that was accessible by web. Most advanced Search Utility in the company and the most reliable. Their only alternative has been data warehousing.

The environment was: SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.5.1, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7.Infrastructure Emulator - A collection of 100+ Perl that emulates the cellular infrastructure system so that the user does not have to learn a new command syntax and yet dramatically improves the available information to populate an improvised database. It downloads, filters, updates, audits, slices and dices automatically daily and has been running without significant interruption for 4 years. Saved the company over $250,000 per year.

The environment was: SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.5.1, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7.Performance Reports - Reengineered a vendor database, with Perl, so that performance statistics on a new digital cellular system could be provided to all levels of management both inside and outside of engineering as reports from MIS were about a half-year in the future.

The environment was: SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.5.1, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7.Database Auditing System - Provided management with audited information from various databases, again with Perl, in preparation for a submission to Federal and State regulatory agencies.

The environment was: SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.5.1, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7.Trouble Ticketing System - Created a ticketing system, with Perl/CGI where the user initiates a ticket from a web page and the system sends an alphanumeric page for the ticket to the appropriate person with vital information about the ticket.

The environment was: SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.5.1, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7, Apache Web Server, Netscape.Regional Software Support - Provided seamless functionality between various operating systems so that end user didn't notice a difference in functionality between programs running on unix, windows, sun-os or solaris. Develop and manage new programs, mostly Perl and CGI and projects as needed and support several 100 existing programs most of which I specifically wrote for Engineering.

The environment was: SunOS/Solaris, Windows 95, Perl 5.005, Oracle 7.Regional Department Intranet Page - Reengineered web page to reflect new region and consolidated numerous pages from various sources.

The environment was: SunOS/Solaris, Windows 95, Netscape.

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