SUMMARY:

• 20 Years of overall IT experiences
• Able to recognize better ways to accomplish business objectives
• Focusing on Open Technologies (LAMP tools and Web 2.0 concepts) that can improves your day - to-day business bottom line.
• Strong experiences with Unix/Linux, Bash, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, Apache, Perl, Python, CSS, Unix Shell Scripting, and Web Services.
• Main focus consists of teamwork, integrity and flexibility within many types of working environments.
• Well organized to achieve short term objectives and long term goals.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to train first-time users and aid power users.
• Multi-lingual: English, French and Dutch.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX / Linux, SGI IRIX HP-UX, Sun Solaris Sun OS, Debian Ubuntu, Red Hat FreeBSD, Mac OS X

Databases: MySQL Oracle, Currently looking into PostgreSQL

Programming languages: PHP Perl, C Python, PL/SQL JavaScript, Shell scripting CGI, JQuery/dhtmlxSuite/YUI HTML/CSS, XML/WSDL/JSON

Frameworks: Joomla CodeIgniter, WordPress

Software Tools: Gcc Make, Sed / awk SSH, Rsync Bind / tinyDNS,MRTG Snort IDSM, Apache/mod-perl OpenSSL, SQL*Plus PHPmyAdmin, Postfix Dovecot, Horde JungleDisk, ESXi / VirtualBox OpenFiler, Samba VPN, SpamAssassin mdadm

Perl tools: DBIx, Class, Catalyst, Mason

Python tools: pygame, pandas, numpy

IDE: Vim Coda, Komodo 5 Dreamweaver, Aptana Studio 3

Hardware: RAID / LVM DMZ setup, Arduino

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Sr. PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development a Paperless Workflow & Electronic Routing System using PHP, MySQL jQuery, Apache and Subversion on AIX and (recently) Redhat.
• The web-based application processes Medicare and Medicaid claims in AR, LA, MS, NM, RI, OK and MO and ties in to various systems across Confidential divisions
• Microsoft .net services, IBM Mainframe, proprietary claims applications.

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Open Technology Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup and maintained Linux based servers used as backbone systems for newspaper data (MySQL, PHP, PDFlib, gv, ImageMagick, Samba).
• Setup and hosted mail server using Bind9/tinyDNS, Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, Spamassassin, Razor & Pyzor, ClamScan, Horde groupware/webmail.
• Virtualized servers with VirtualBox and/or VMware ESXi using OpenFiler as Network Storage Device.
• Upgraded current web applications to be Web 2.0 look & feel using PHP, Perl and dhtmlxSuite/YUI
• Monitored DMZ servers using MRTG, Snort IDS and AWstats reporting.
• Setup contingency plan with daily offsite data updates using tools like rsync and ncftpput.

Environment: PHP, MySQL, Apache, SSL, VPN, Ajax using YUI/DhtmlXSuite, Perl and shell scripting, Postfix, Dovecot, Horde groupware, SpamAssassin, MRTG, VirtualBox, ESXi, Bind9, OpenFiler, RAID, Debian Linux, MAC OS X.

Confidential, Santa Barbara, CA

Perl Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed web tools to connect advertisers and publishers and assist them to improve their internet advertising targets.

Environment: Perl, mod perl, MySQL, Apache, Mason, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Linux, XP.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Call Processing/VoIP Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Application development (Perl + Expect) supporting production monitoring and call processing
• Reported daily user registration changes.
• Ensured high availability of all SIP Proxies (90 systems), RTP systems (400+ boxes) and reliable database replication.
• Traced failed SIP calls and update phone routes.
• Trained & educated Customer Care, NOC, QA and Tier 3 departments.
• Deployed, monitored and advanced troubleshooting of SIP network.
• Increased Confidential SIP IQ by a significant improvement of production monitoring, detecting and reporting anomalies using my tools. Thanks to these tools the production environment was turned into the well managed and reliable SIP network it is today.

Environment: SSH, SSL, Perl, Expect, MySQL, SIP, RTP, Shell scripting, PHP and C, Red Hat, CentOS

Confidential, Clinton, NJ

UNIX/Linux System Administration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided UNIX/Linux System Configuration & Administration as well as Confidential Cluster Administration running PBS queuing system.
• Installed, upgraded, patched UNIX/Linux systems through makefiles, yum and rpm.
• Configured non-modular kernels from scratch.
• Installed & Configured Scientific Applications (Matlab, Star-cd, NMR) and provided support
• Developed & maintained UNIX automation scripts (Perl, Python, sh, bash, C).

Environment: SSH, SSL, Perl, Python, C, R, Tk, Yum, rpmbuild, PowerBroker, Remedy ticketing, Shell scripting, Apache 2, Tomcat 5, XWin32, Exceed, Arkeia backup, Veritas NetBackup, Red Hat Enterprise, SGI, HP, AIX, SUN Solaris, SUN OS, Windows NT.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Perl Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Website development using Perl & MySQL.

Environment: Perl, mod perl, MySQL, Photoshop 6, ImageMagick, SSH, SSL, WinXP, Red Hat 7.

Confidential

Unix admin - Scientific Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Served as Team Lead ChemInformatics R&D software development.
• Managed Project Management scientific programming team (3 people). Intrasite WebMaster Oracle v7, v8, 8i DBA.
• Nominated for innovative IT use in a pharmaceutical R&D environment.
• Designed, implemented and maintained a Chemical Attribute and Related Objects database ( Confidential ) using Oracle in a SGI Unix environment for the Confidential ChemInformatics R&D department .
• Daily Perl mechanism for automatic updating of the Confidential database with new compounds and their calculated properties.
• Properties are calculated on the fly using 3rd party software .
• Perl daemon for clustering the Confidential compound database into compound families used by the Confidential Cerberus client software (PerlDBI/DBD, 10-day number crunching routine, load-balanced on a 32 CPU SGI server).
• Perl RPC routine to keep parts of the Confidential database in memory for rapid similarity search purposes (heavy shared memory usage, IPC communication with daily Perl update routine).
• This automation package is currently used by Confidential Spain, France and Belgium and consists of Unix shell scripts, Bruker-NMR macros, C and Pro-C routines. Unix-Vax-NT communication (exec commands) was based on socket library.

Environment: 3rd party ChemInformatics software (MSI, Daylight, BCI) & chemistry file formats (MDL, SD, TDT, SMI), Perl, Python, Tk/Tcl, C/C++ programming language, Shell scripting, Web technology, JavaScript, cgi-bin, SSL, Oracle DBA/Developer skills (SQL*Loader, SQL*Net, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL), MS Project, SGI Irix (O2, Indy, Octane, O200, O2K, O3K), Win2K, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT.