Summary of Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing multi-tiered, web-based applications with various backends including relational databases, LDAP and object storage
• Five years of Java programming experience
• Twelve years of Perl programming experience
• Ten years of Unix system administration experience
• Linux Professional Institute Certified System Administrator, Level 1
• Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin

Technical Skills (years)

Professional Experience

• Worked on team that developed UnWired Buyer, a web-to-voice gateway that allows eBay users to monitor and bid on items during the closing minutes of the auction
• Wrote web-scraping library in Perl for logging into and placing bids on eBay.com
• Created web sites for UnWired Buyer users to manage their auction phone calls and UnWired Buyer customer support employees to manage user accounts
• Converted existing Perl auction monitoring daemon to Java
• Installed and configured Nagios monitoring software to monitor the UnWired Buyer system
• Helped develop voice notification platform in Java and VoiceXML, allowing client companies to make interactive phone calls with their customers using Voice over IP (VOIP)
• Implemented Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) logging system throughout voice notification platform
• Developed web application that lets customers search and retrieve information about calls placed by their applications using the voice notification platform
• Created example VoiceXML applications for the voice notification platform

• Worked on team that developed QCast/GameShark Media Player, a Playstation 2 application that allows users to stream multimedia content from their computers to their PS2s for playback on their TV and home stereo system
• Developed virtual filesystem server in Java and XML that serves applications and media to the Playstation 2 and dynamically updates PS2 modules using remote method invocation (RMI)
• Wrote backend server in Java that interfaces with MySQL (via JDBC) and virtual filesystem server client (via RMI) to perform customer authentication, updating of Playstation 2 modules and logging of Playstation 2 media player usage
• Added internationalization and localization to PC software component of QCast/GameShark Media Player
• Wrote FAT 12/16/32 filesystem driver for the Playstation 2

• Developed templating system for generating dynamic PDF documents based on user input
• Created estate planning web site with HTML-based wizards and dynamic PDF document generation
• Designed Linux-based interactive kiosk
• Setup diskless workstations using the Linux Terminal Server Project

• Designed and developed LDAP-based, intranet-wide single sign-on system, including password management tools and custom LDAP authentication and authorization modules for the Apache web server
• Wrote custom Apache module for proxying content from remote servers and adding headers and footers on the fly
• Developed LDAP-based organization chart with multiple views and search capabilities
• Built web-based discussion forums for beta-test programs
• Researched, tested and recommended new and emerging open-source technologies and applications

• Created searchable databases for movie, restaurant and club listings using RDBMS and persistent object storage
• Developed web forums and chat rooms for Austin360.com and Hookem.com
• Administered Linux and Solaris file and web servers

Education

Linux Professional Institute Certified System Administrator, Level I, January 2002
Intermediate C/C++, Austin Community College, Fall 1997
Introduction to C/C++, Austin Community College, Spring 1997

The University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication
Bachelor of Journalism, December 1994
Department of Journalism: Public Relations Sequence
Business Foundations Program, December 1994
Concentrated studies in Computer Science

Honors & Achievements

• Published three perl modules (Apache::DBILogConfig, Apache::AuthenCache, Apache::ProxyStuff) on Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
• Speaker at The Perl Conference 2.0, Apache, mod_perl & Databases, August 1998