SUMMARY:

Will no longer respond to inquiries if you have not read my profile. Contact me via email and provide a job description.) Results oriented software developer with over 14 years experience in numerous industries. Experienced at identifying problem areas. Able to think outside the box and design simple, sustainable, and sound solutions that streamline work flow and cut company costs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications/Tools: Apache, cron, Eclipse, gawk, grep, iptables, Libre office, Microsoft Office, nmap, sed, Snort, SSH, sysctl, tcpdump, VIM, Wireshark.

Databases: Access, DB2, FoxPro, MySql, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, sqlite, Sybase.

Languages: Bash, C, HTML, Korn, Perl, Python, regular expressions, Ruby, SQL, VB, VBA.

Operating systems: FreeBSD, linux - Centos; Debian; Gentoo; Red Hat; Ubuntu, Unix, Windows.

Security: IDS (Intrusion detection system), scanning, firewall rules, penetration testing.

Technologies/Skills: ETL, network protocols (OSI model), OOP/OOD, packet crafting, RDBMS, system administration, UnixODBC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Englewood, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Consultant- Dev-ops automation deployment. Technologies; Python, LXC. Operating systems- Red Hat, Centos, Virtualbox.
• Design and develop dev-ops automation tool for complete environment creation and application installation, and testing using LXC containers.

Confidential, Greenwood Village, Colorado

• Consultant- Created dev-ops automation deployment tool. Technologies; Ruby on Rails, Python, Mysql, Bash. Operating systems- Red Hat, Centos, Vmware.
• Designed and developed dev-ops automation tool for application installation, testing, and promoting to various environments.
• Design VM layer for automatic creation of individual servers and environments for new applications.

Confidential, Centennial, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Founder- Enterprise engine development and marketing of 3 engines for data collection, distribution, and load including gui tool for configuration. Technologies; Python; API's for most major RDBMS- Mysql, Postgresql, Oracle; Ruby on Rails 3.2, git, VM, JSON, sysctl, . Operating systems (VM installed for compliance testing), Ubuntu, Centos, FreeBSD, Gentoo.
• Design and develop pipelining engines for data collection (active/passive), distribution (load balanced), and insertion (most major RDBMS).
• Develop gui front end for engine configuration using traditional security (user/roles) model.
• Design and develop pipeline support for custom modules to allow for business logic.

Confidential, Golden, Colorado

• Consultant- Open source development including Python; regex; HTML; and SQL, Linux infrastructure configuration and tuning, Data migration from SQL Server. Technologies; Python, Mysql, SQL Server, Invenio, VM, Apache, git, HTML, SSL, Bash, sed, gawk, regex. Operating systems- Red Hat, Mac OSX.
• Designed and developed end to end processes for data migration of 20,000 hi resolution images- approximately 36 gigs, icon generation, and meta-data to an open source product Invenio.
• Developed ETL tools using Python to scrub data, and provide integrity and trackability for migration.
• Installed, configured, analyzed, and debuged Invenio product to determine functionality and limitations.

Confidential, Englewood, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead- High Performing & Reliable collection platform development, Unix/Linux infrastructure application development including performance tuning and trouble shooting. Technologies; Ruby, Python, Oracle, Linux- Red Hat; Centos; Ubuntu; Bash, Korn. sed, gawk, regex, iptables, ssh.
• Developed software framework used for event collection encompassing all Confidential business lines. Framework includes stream and file collection- push/pull, proxying, distribution, and load balancing.
• Used Collection framework to replace a $7 million dollar 3rd party Video On Demand system and $8.2 million back office system. Application supports over 345 million transactions per week with 2/3’s of the markets rolled out. System footprint is less than 150M of memory and work load of less than 1.2.
• Used framework to create data Collection for Interactive TV system. The application proxies user interactions from the set top box to content providers. System is currently in trial with approximately 20 million transactions per week.
• Framework was put against commercial/vendor applications in a performance test. Framework collected streamed data at a rate of 5-6k per second with the nearest competitor at 4.4k.
• Used framework to create the Canoe system for national voting and polling. Confidential was recognized as the first MBO nationally to complete an end to end test with Canoe Ventures using this application.
• Utilize sysctl’s, ulimits and other tools to profile and performance tune applications at the OS, kernel, and network level.
• Trouble shoot across all spectrums from application, environment, OS, network, hardware, and security using various linux tools ranging from traceroute to tcpdump.
• Created a virtual test environment using Apache, iptables, and other software to mimic real system failures ranging from network to service level.
• Provide technical guidance and solutions on software, hardware, security, and networking to department and throughout Confidential .
• Components from the framework exist in every major Confidential business line.

Confidential, Englewood, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Consultant- application prototype. Technologies; Ruby on Rails (ver 2), VBA, Access, OLE/ActiveX, Oracle 9g and OS/390.
• Created prototype application for tracking points to actual dollars in the national “Thankyou” point’s credit card product line.
• Product replaced manual process and provided for increased accuracy and accountability.
• Used regular expressions and business rules for processing transactions.
• Created a simple macro language to allow business users to modify, add, and delete rules.

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Consultant- data migration and reporting. Technologies; Eclipse, Python, Ruby, Perl, VBA, Access, OLE/ActiveX, linux, Unix, Oracle 10g, and PLSQL.
• Created applications to automate monthly reporting workflows for highly visible dashboard reports.
• Created an application for pulling data from multiple sources, and scrubbing routines using regular expressions.

Confidential, Englewood, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Migrated data from 60+ hospitals into a central Java application.
• Provided data scrubbing algorithms for a wide range of data formats using a blend of rules based processing with regular expression pattern matching.
• Created applications to interface varying systems ranging from custom, commercial, to opensource.

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Consultant- provided maintenance and development for 2 related projects. Technologies; linux, Unix, Java, Ant, Korn, Python, Perl, Lex, C, Pro C, regex, sed, awk, grep, Oracle 9/10i, XML, and PLSQL.
• Fixed bugs and enhanced Sunsolve software- the next generation of “self-healing” software.
• Designed and created an enhanced data process flow using staging areas.
• Analyzed, created, and tuned existing regular expressions to increase application processing speed. Benchmark tests showed an almost 20% speedup in the regex engine.
• Trouble shoot and fixed existing customer facing web gui allowing for a better customer experience.

Confidential, Arvada, Colorado

• Training database- upgraded functionality including tables, relationships, SQL, and coding. Database provided an effective system for achieving nuclear regulatory compliance.
• Litigation software- developed an intricate data evidence collection viewer. Product played a key role in federal monetary settlements and litigation of over $1.1 million against many corporations.
• GIS system- developed GIS database software providing visual pattern recognition.
• Developed image archiving software utilizing VB, C++, and Adobe COM. Application converted 650k image files to multi-page PDF’s. Company saved $30k from upgrading legacy software.
• Utilized Java, JDBC, Perl, and views, to create a data scrubbing and report utility. Utility saved $1k/day in temp work, and will provide a general mechanism for enterprise critical data cleanup.