PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: Software Developer, Database Programmer, Web Developer, or closely related position.

SYSTEM RELATED EXPERIENCE:

• Developing with Perl since 1992 (version 4.019) including 6 years of CGI in a web environment 4 years of DBI and a year of LWP and Mason and modperl, Unix since 1991 (Solaris, Linux, AIX), familiar with all the major databases (Informix, Oracle, Mysql, SQL Server, Sybase), Shell Scripting, Unix utilities (AWK, sed, vi, emacs), Source Control (CVS, RCS, SCCS), Apache Web Server, and 6 years experience with HTML.
• Windows: Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/NT, Excel 1.5-5.0 w/Macros up to 4.0, Microsoft Word, ActivePerl, Dreamweaver
• UNIX: Perl, CGI, DBI, LWP, Mason, templating, AWK, Sed, Vi, Emacs, Informix, Oracle8i, Sybase, MySQL SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Wingz, C-Shell, SUN-OS, Solaris, AIX, Linux, JavaScript, HTML, Apache, CVS, RCS, SCCS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Comtech Mobile Datacom - Germantown, Maryland, 5/3/04 - 9/7/04

Software/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.

Perl 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.

Sr. Search Developer

• Search Relevancy Enhancement - Builing 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 had 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 times. The environment was: Linux, SQL Server 2000, Perl 5.6, and Texis/Vortex.

Software Engineer

• Web Spider Project for Cisco Systems - Built a MySQL database, a Perl script to spider their intranet, a Web interface for configuring the spider 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 a 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, and Apache.

Software 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: Solaris 8 &s; 9, AIX, Perl 5.6, and RedHat Linux.

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

Freelance 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 5.6
  
• Filter 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 program 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 system 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.

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.
  

Regional Software Engineer
• Call Search Query - A Perl program 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.
• Infrastructure Emulator - A collection of 100+ Perl programs 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Regional Department Intranet Page - Reengineered web page to reflect new region and consolidated numerous pages from various sources.