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Certifications
· Zend Certified PHP Engineer
· BB Certified Perl Developer
· BB Certified Network Administrator
· Certified Systems Administrator, Linux Administration (NASA Skills bench)
· Certified IT Security for System Administrators as part of NASA's Skills Bench certification process.
Relevant Skill Summary:
· 10 years of PHP (Current to PHP 5, started with PHP 3)
· 12 years of Perl (Current to Perl 5 started with Perl 3)
· 10 years of MySQL (Current to MySQL 5, started with MySQL 2)
· 12 years of BASH (Competent at the command line in most shell versions provided with common Linux distributions)
· 12 years of Linux(Competent with Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, SLES (SUSE) and Ubuntu
· 10 years of Tech Lead / Project Management
· Advanced proficiency with HTML, Java Script, Microsoft Operating Systems, Internet Development Tools, Relational Databases, TCP/IP/NetBIOS Networking, & Internationalization
· Knowledge, experience and training in Capability Maturity Modeling (CMM) practices, ISO standards, Six Sigma, SCRUM, TQM and other corporate quality and productivity methodologies.
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aDedicated.com Consulting Firm Continuous Operations since 1992
President, Founder, Chief Consultant
Personally founded and still leading a successful software development and general technical services firm whose full service offerings include both self-delivered premium consulting expertise as well as vendor and sub-contractor provided services and products with experience in prior engagements including 1099 and W2 full-time and part-time consulting services roles focused on technical consulting for the information age, the Internet, e-Business and e-Business technologies, project planning, design and analysis, software development and implementation and many other technical services.
While directing others in a remote fashion, or even in some cases while placing aDedicated.com clients in the care of a trusted partner during full time engagements, personally contributed to more than 300 web sites over the past 16 years and served in the following positions and organizations in a career spanning nearly two decades as a self directed technical service consultant, company owner, executive office, manager, team leader and team participant:
Enterprise Media Group, Inc (Ziff Davis Enterprise) August’08 to November ‘08
Senior Software Developer
· Primary Software developer for a multi-domain single sign on & community membership management application built using PHP, MySQL, XML, SOAP, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
· Programmed new site features and performed maintenance operations on websites and web applications using PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript.
· Integrated sites to 3rd party API’s such as Google Custom Search.
· Extended and maintained customized multiple Joomla installations each handling millions of hits per month.
· Developed new functionality and managed maintenance of sites, including both internal intranet and management console applications, as well as public facing media sites.
· Responsible for programming reports and other internal data manipulation tasks.
· Reported directly to the SVP of Technology, and the CIO.
Environments: Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, JavaScript
Lexis Nexis April ’08 to August‘08
Software Developer (Contractor via Modis International)
· Primary Software developer for a multi-component internal accounting application built using web services provided to a PHP front end application from a .NET webservices API.
· Programmed new front end modules, components and features using PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript.
· Responsible for programming reports and processing graphical data for client notifications and warnings during system, site or device monitoring operations.
Environments: Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, JavaScript
Boca Internet Technologies January ’08 to April ‘08
Software Developer
· Software developer for AlertSite.com where security devices, alert services, and network monitoring applications were developed.
· Programmed new front end features and maintenance updates as well as patches using Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript.
· Responsible for programming reports and processing graphical data for client notifications and warnings during system, site or device monitoring operations.
Environments: Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, JavaScript
Panorama Solutions, Inc. September ‘07 to January ‘08
Senior (LAMP) Developer
· Lead Developer for ProjectBreakout.com and its associated network of websites. Project Breakout is a "video competition community" with a network of contest websites both internally marketed and white labeled for external partners.
· All sites were built utilizing Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) with some BASH scripting and other related open source technologies.
· Involved in all aspects of supporting the technologies involved in this project. Duties included design, coding, requirements gathering, business analysis and reporting, training and documentation development.
· Design/Architect for the front and back end architecture. Converted a previous attempt at building this platform from Ruby on Rails to LAMP based technologies.
Environments: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX, SOAP, DHTML, XML, XSLT, MVC
World Avenue July ‘06 to September ‘07
Senior (LAMP) Developer, Team Lead
· Served as a Lead Developer for one of the world's largest internet lifestyle and relationship marketing companies in a LAMP environment with some BASH scripting and other related open source technologies.
· Involved in all aspects of supporting the technologies behind World Avenue's enterprise scale e-mail, search engine and web site based marketing efforts. Duties included front and back end system and interface design, coding, requirements gathering, business analysis and reporting, training and documentation development.
· Position reported to a project manager and directly to the CIO. All work performed using the widely accepted Agile "Scrum" development process.
Environments: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XSLT, MVC
SAIC Onsite @ NASA Marshall Space Flight Center May ’05 to July ‘06
PHP Developer / Analyst
· Supported Civil Service customers by assisting the project manager with all phases of assigned front and back end web application development projects including business analysis and customer requirement gathering, as well as extensive Open Source development on a daily basis.
· Utilized AJAX creating Search Engine for Marshall Space Flight center to replace current engine (R&D Project).
· Achieved Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Linux System Administrator and IT Security Administrator certifications while in this role.
Environments: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX, MVC
Progeny Marketing International, Inc. March ’05 to May ‘05
Software Developer
· Perl developer on a support team for a large enterprise scale mailing production facility.
· Assisted with daily operation of large batch Perl-driven production processes, including break/fix work on existing code and development of new code for new products.
Environments: Perl, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Batch Processing
(Independent Contractor) September ’04 to March ‘05
PHP/ Perl Developer
Managed and completed five distinct client web application development projects for three distinct clients using PHP, Perl, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and other related web technologies. They were each comprised of tight deadlines with difficult technical specifications and in one case required that I hire two additional resources as sub contractors.
SAIC at NASA September ‘04 to December ‘04
PHP Developer
· PHP Developer on a small, specialized project team reporting to the Office of the CIO at NASA Redstone.
· Implemented a site wide NASA custom software inventory, dashboard and reporting tool for the CIO's personal use. This system maintained an inventory of the hundreds of custom software development efforts underway at NASA, and provided a window into resource management, duplication of efforts and opportunities related to software development within the NASA organization at Redstone.
· Supported the project manager with all phases of the project from analysis and customer requirement gathering, to managing the actual hands on development on a daily basis. This project primarily consisted of work using PHP and MySQL.
· This project was initially started with Perl by other developers but aborted when their team encountered other priorities, then was given to our project team to continue. First with Perl and then later conversion of the initial Perl applications to PHP became a requirement to adhere to newly released NASA web application coding standards. Our small team was responsible for this code conversion in accordance with the project manager schedule and task requirements.
Environments: LAMP, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript
American Technology Group (Formerly Nashville Nerds) February ‘01 to September ‘04
Internet Development Project Manager
· Primarily developed in Perl, PHP and MySQL Open Source Applications but also involved in legacy customer technologies as required, including Microsoft, Oracle and other office platforms.
· Performed project based software development, enterprise support, and business process engineering.
Clients included:
o Deloitte & Touche (Perl, Java, Oracle),
o Vanderbilt University (Perl, Cobol, Oracle, BASH Shell Scripting, Linux, batch processing),
o Atec Consulting LLC (Perl)
o PC Driver (Perl, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Hardware),
o Tailor Made Solutions Corp. (Perl, Oracle, SQL-Plus)
Lead Perl developer, as well as managing version control and platform configuration management for an initiative consisting of a small team of myself and three others responsible for porting all COBOL applications on Vanderbilt's HP3000 mainframe to Linux compatible code running on standard Linux Red Hat SE Servers.
· Implemented Perl code used to batch process large data files, and to handle replicable tasks such as COBOL program conversion and platform port translations.
· Recreated over 400 HP3000 MPE job control scripts into shell compatible scripts utilizing a combination of Perl code and Linux shell code in a Bash shell environment. Much of our code conversion for these programs was managed and implemented using Perl scripts.
Environments: PHP, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, and JavaScript, Java, HTML, Linux, MVC
General Electric - Global eXchange Services (GE/GXS) September ‘98 to February ‘01
Internet Application Lead Developer
· Lead Perl/Oracle/Internet Developer in which the position required Perl, JavaScript, HTML and a small amount of Java development.
· Assisted with direction, design, development and commercial deployment of the world's first fully Perl driven, Internationalized and Localized, enterprise-scale, web-based Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) application into five national languages and localized currency/date formats supporting many thousands of subscribers in more than a dozen countries.
· Received mention in an upcoming O'Reilly Publishing "Nutshell" book on the topic of Software Internationalization to be published in mid-2001.
· Architect of two Perl import/export functions for a pair of windows based desktop application products allowing them to interface in real time with the GE/GXS internet based EDI application described above and then batch transfer EDI document files into back end systems located on offsite customer networks. These functions were being considered by GXS and the US Patent Office for the award of a proprietary software patent.
Environments: Perl, Linux, Oracle, HTML, JavaScript
Internet Development Project Manager December ’97 to September ‘98
Netspacers Internet Services Netspacers.com (Site no longer available)
· Supervised project teams in developing interactive web sites and multimedia applications for corporate clients and non-profit associations.
· Produced complete sites, online catalogs, search engines and e-commerce applications using Perl, Unix, Linux and Windows based technology.
· Performed project management tasks for team projects as well as supporting development and consulting requirements for projects and clients not requiring a multi-resource team. The majority of projects for our more than 100 clients were done with Perl against Oracle, or SQL server. Largest projects completed were: 1) A JavaScript wysiwyg web based chemical equation editor and publication tool utilizing greek and mathematical symbols not ordinarily produced in fonts or on keyboards not unlike modern web based embedded wysiwyg HTML editors, An online marketing demographics tool and an annual conference trade show registration/online virtual trade show system for the American Association of Clinical Chemists which was later also used for the Asian, Pan American Pacific League; and 2)A complete web site for the National Business Aviation Association and 3) A large zip code driven lobbying tool for a well known lobbyist group.
Environments: Perl, Linux, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript
Columbia Services Group, Inc. February ‘97 to December ‘97
Online Systems Analyst/Developer
· Served as on-site systems analyst, intranet administrator and web developer for the United States Federal Highway Administration for Human Resources.
· Created a Perl-based highly secured Intranet for the FHWA human resources department and implemented the Agency's first trials of electronic forms and digital signatures for the delivery of interoffice documents via internal networks. Project work also done for the US Coast Guard.
· Created an educational web site covering the topic of "Careers in Transportation" to support a Government-wide Presidential Educational Initiative, garnering an award for the design from the United States Secretary of Transportation & Presidential cabinet member, Rodney Slater.
· Directed and produced a national "Chat with the Secretary" day, involving fifty elementary schools nationwide in an online live chat room environment. The Secretary joined the chat room and spoke back to the students via a typist from a podium, while on stage in front of 1500 Washington DC school children visiting a career day at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. This event was televised live on location by CNN.
L&L Flooring, Inc. Corporate Offices May ‘96 to February ‘97
Information Systems Specialist
· Provided all types of corporate information systems support including warehouse and inventory management systems for nearly 20 distributed East coast warehouse locations as well as two central supply depot warehouses.
· Managed and maintained vendor EDI connectivity.
· Performed Internet and web application development, database design and support.
· Provided custom code development, worked with remote networking systems, and provided end-user support.
· Responsible for creating training materials and providing classroom instruction for staff. Also responsible for hardware/software/network purchasing, remote field and onsite systems administration, and end-user support for approximately 100 employees at 9 locations in 5 states.
Hunter Associates Laboratories, Inc. August ’95 to May ‘96
Customer Support Engineer
· Supported international and domestic clients with support and service of computerized production equipment. 25% overnight travel was required.
· Created a database driven product service and warranty customer support management reporting database, first in Paradox RDBMS and later ported to MS Access.
· Led design and implementation teams for company's first web site.
· Served as informal consultant to Executive staff regarding information technology decision-making.
C Win Laboratories Computers, Inc. May ‘95 to August ‘95
Computer Factory Production Manager
· Served on Factory Management team overseeing production of approximately 3000 PC computer systems per month.
· Directed area of responsibility included all production personnel (approximately 60 staff), administrative duties related to staff, production and engineering quality control.
· Supervised the entire lifecycle from receipt of inventory "build" kits, to the production floor, and on through delivery to the shipping department for packaging and delivery.
Education:
· Presently enrolled in an adult education Bachelor of Computer Information Systems degree program at World College, a nationally accredited Online institution affiliated with the Cleveland Institute of Electronics.
· Approximately 2.5 years completed.
· Currently maintaining a 3.75 Grade Point Average (GPA).
Associations & Memberships:
· MENSA (no longer actively paying dues.)
· Moose International