541-846-9092 541-499-5022 PO Box 133 Williams, OR 97544
Experience
2004 – Present
Musician’s Friend - Medford, OR
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Gathered requirements, designed, coded and maintained software in perl and ruby for a top 50 e-commerce retailer with 20+ front end servers. The software included: backend software for the website, and utilities for maintaining and auditing the various data flows to and from the web portion of the business.
Lead large projects for implementing features including international sales capability and interfacing with internal and external services such as tax calculation software, address validation services, and Filemaker servers.
Mentored and advised junior team members.
Participated in design and code reviews for all projects from minor bug fixes to complete rewrites of various systems.
2002 – 2004
Self Employed - Eugene, OR
Freelance Web development and IT services
Designed, coded and maintained client websites.
Advised clients regarding hardware, software and networking choices.
Purchased, built, installed and configured client workstations and servers.
Worked with clients to keep business workstations safe by removing viruses and updating computers with the latest patches.
Taught clients proper practices for keeping computers safer from attacks.
2001 – 2002
Premierelink Communications - Eugene, OR
IT Director/Lead Programmer/Sysadmin
Managed several in-house and contract programmers on multiple concurrent projects.
Managed multiple Linux based Apache+SSL, Bind, Sendmail, ColdFusion and PHP servers hosting over 250 clients.
Prepared technical bids for, designed, and lead programming on multiple web applications for client and internal projects using ColdFusion, MySQL, perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript and other tools.
Maintained company workstations and networks.
2000 – 2001
Qwil - Eugene, OR
Lead Programmer
Built 500 million record database in PostgreSQL.
Designed process and programs for efficient data mining.
Built and managed Linux web and database server for a public records site.
1999 – 2000
Courtlink, Inc - Bellevue, WA
Lead Programmer
Maintained and improved a 50,000-line Perl backend for a major public records oriented web application.
Implemented proper programming process using CVS and Razor (a CVS front end)
Mentored and advised junior programmers
1998 – 1999
HL Yoh (assigned to Microsoft) - Redmond, WA
Performance Tester
Designed and implemented a performance-testing suite for Internet Explorer 4.01 service packs, and Internet Explorer 5.
Designed a profiling plan for Internet Explorer Service Pack source code.
Verified, tested and reported Internet Explorer performance issues and bugs as found by my testing suite or reported by consumers and other teams.
Skills
Programming
I am proficient with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Bash, SQL and PHP. I have had at least passing experience with Java, ECMA Script (JavaScript and ActionScript), AppleScript, Filemaker, ColdFusion MX, PowerBasic, C and others.
Operating Systems (user and admin)
OS X, many flavors of Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, PalmOS
RDBMS
MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, MS SQL Server, Filemaker 9
Network and Application Servers
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, Sendmail, Jabber, Bind, IMAP/POP3, Subversion, ColdFusion MX, and many others.
Other
Code maintenance, Code optimization, process automation, build processes, software and system design, 3rd party integration, data mining/munging/mashing and mangling, multitasking, learning new software and programming languages, and internet research.
Education
1980 – Present
Self-taught - Multiple locations
All of the above
References available upon request.
