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SUMMARY:

A UNIX/Linux guru with two degrees in Linguistics, is both an author and enterprise architect. My current focus is on data & systems architecture for delivery of predictive analytics using R, Python and Drupal. Currently, it is available in the AWS Marketplace. In past lives, I have served as the RDF expert to Eastman Kodak for a multi - million dollar digital asset management software product that leveraged semantic web technologies. Other engagements involved focusing on Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement needs by implementing and driving data standards for data & knowledge representation.

CORE SKILLS:

Operating systems : Most POSIX System V and BSD variants (UNIX) - Sun Solaris/SunOS, *BSD, Linux Databases Virtuoso, 4Stor, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Allegrograph, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SyBase, BDB Languages R, Perl, C & Bourne shells, PHP, Tk, Java, Sed, AWK, SQL, Pascal, C, Basic, LISP, Prologue Internet & Web expert Drupal 6&7, Perl, CGI, HTML, XML/RDF(S)/OWL, CSS, Javascript, search engines, database, intelligent agents, knowledge representation, security, firewalls, IPTables, data conversion, squid cache, TCP/IP, SIP, VOIP, QoS, Asterisk, Configuration Management, Virtualization (VMware and Virtualbox). Entire GNU UNIX Shell, shell scripting, administration, security, tuning, disk management, application development, full software life cycle, configuration management, technical documentation, service level agreements, content management, knowledge representation.

Participant : W3C Government Linked Data Working Group (invited expert), W3C Social Web XG (invited expert), W3C GRDDL Working Group (invited expert), StratML Working Group, W3C Social Web Incubator Group (invited expert status), Contributing Editor- Financial Information Services Division of the Software & Information Industry Association.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Clients Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Designed Cloud based Predictive Analytics Framework leveraging python problem solvers, highly optimized R, robust Drupal capability, and Resource Description Framework visualization.
  • Recommended and implemented automation of RedHat STIG hardening and best practices across a large government agency's Identity, Credential and Access Management component.
  • Assembled and lead team for rapid development of advanced crowd-sourcing social media framework, with SMS & gamification running under LAMP stack.
  • Architected and deployed automated machine configuration capability for multiple versions of Redhat & CentOS running under VMWare. Improvements to operating system security for PCI Compliance.
  • Architected, managed and implemented trust based system for determining information veracity (Drupal).
  • Responsible for data model for multi-million dollar project's data sharing product using RDF storage.
  • Extensive work testing, implementing and tuning of Open Link's Virtuoso RDF database.
  • Designed and implemented financial forecasting website for Reserve Studies (Drupal).
  • Contributed to the design of cutting edge white hat security methodologies.
  • Invited expert in good standing in the W3C's Social Web Incubator Group.
  • Developed system for alignment of sentiment in SEC filings.

Confidential

Lead Client Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and Implemented distributed sentiment analysis framework used for the analysis of 800 thousand Reuters articles.
  • Promoted and shaped the StratML standard.
  • Implemented controlled vocabularies for sentiment adjectives, verbs and nouns.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for product packaging and delivery throughout North America.
  • Promoted SKOS compliance as a supported format.
  • Forged an enterprise approach to thesaurus management.
  • Responsible for new domain thesauri

Confidential

Staff Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Tasking under Executive Order 13356.- Technologies include XML, RDF, OWL, XSLT, VMware, Authority Files, Requirements, Design, Development, Security, COTS, Validation, Standards.
  • Develop Strategies and Standards for data sharing for 16 Intelligence Communities.
  • As technical Lead for Controlled Vocabulary Management System responsibilities included:
  • Forumulation of detailed formal requirements.
  • Review and selection of COTS product for vocabulary management.
  • Creation of use cases, test cases, quality control, access control, workflow, documentation, data models, concept of operations, accreditation, integration, and deployment.
  • Standards based vocabularies using Z39.19 and Zthes specifications.
  • Extension of system to include Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) format.
  • Modeling of International Standards Organization and OASIS standards.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Data warehouse of law enforcement data from a plethora of agencies. Brought in a team of contractors to re-architect and implement J2EE application front ended by Tomcat, Sun Application Server, Web Logic. Technologies include XML, SVG, BPML, L&C, MS Windows, PVCS, Ulytix, Oracle, Sun Solaris, Intalio, Initiate, OpenSTA, Quality Control, UAT,SSL, Certs.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Re-Engineered 100+ node network and all supporting services - NFS, NIS, DNS, Raptor Firewall, HTTP, NetScreen VPN, CVS, Clearcase, Ntop, AMANDA. Redhat, Solaris, IRIX.
  • Integration & testing for major components of Terrorist / Total Information Awareness (TIA) software.
  • Created comprehensive documentation for the implementation of Structured Discovery Thread - Analysis of unstructured data - Latent Semantic Indexing, JBoss, JMS, RSS, Oracle, data conversion, metrics.
  • Proposed environment and security standards for RDEC Program Redhat AS systems.
  • Designed and implemented application for semantic analysis of unstructured data using Tokenization, Stemming, Self Organizing Maps, and Wordnet:: Similarity in Perl.
  • Created tool to convert XML Topic maps and RDF into Scalable Vector Graphics.
  • Designed and Developed NISPOM security compliance strategy adopted by Future Combat Systems.

Confidential

Project Leader - MINDLAB/MINDSWAP

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and deployed web site using PHP & Redland RDF Application Framework.
  • Created online search engine for searching across the DAML ontology library.
  • Created Windows software for converting Excel spreadsheets into RDF format.
  • Designed and deployed entire online infrastructure.
  • Designed and deployed complex data conversion procedures for Parka database.
  • Attained World Wide Web Consortium membership status.
  • Prepared Parka research for presentation at First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).

Confidential

Director of Web Architecture

Responsibilities:

  • Designed process for web publication from Adobe Framemaker.
  • Designed and implemented corporate Intranet.
  • Designed, documented and implemented 2 tier web publication architecture.
  • Designed and implemented search engine for Mailman (mailing list software).

Confidential

Principal Information Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and implemented complex system and process for the publishing of technical information.
  • Designed and implemented scalable system for web representation of infrastructure topology.
  • Drove corporate data standards - WWW publishing standard, Network File and Directory Naming.
  • Designed and coded scalable robust solutions for textual navigation and organization.
  • Firefighting, Y2K network readiness, Collector, billing systems, contract/document management.
  • Perl 5, Sun & Solaris, BMC, Linux, BSD, Samba, TCPD, Apache, GNU toolset, Python/Zope, Frontpage97, Frontpage98, Word 7.0 & 7.0a, Excel 7.0, Excel 98, Word 98, AutoCAD R14, Paintshop Pro, Adobe Photoshop.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Earned Sun Enterprise and Workgroup Certification, BMC Patrol Certification.
  • Sun high-availability Oracle cluster tuning.
  • Corporate Intranet lead architect (170 sites), WWW standards and content management.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and implemented system for making snapshots of operating environments.
  • Designed migration path for re-engineering infrastructure - security, network, backups.
  • Configured and installed Sendmail, TCPD, HTTPD, SSHD, GCC, GNU tools.
  • Electronic Commerce and recovery of United States Information Agency from HACKER attack.

Confidential

Webmaster and Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Jurisdiction in both Universal Licensing System and FCC Auctions.
  • Designed and implemented standards for development, staging, and production environments in accordance with Inspector General guidelines.
  • Designed, coded, and maintained web and system security, web metrics.
  • Key encryption, advanced networking, firewall, proxies, security standards.
  • Sapphire, Netscape, Sybase, Jaguar, Java, TCPD, rsh, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS.

Confidential

Director of Online Services

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and deployed system for the population of legal forms from MS Access.
  • Designed and implemented Legato/ORACLE hot backups for STANDARD & POOR'S 2M dollar webfarm.
  • Designed, coded, and maintained web security, database, metrics, and searching systems.
  • Designed and supervised Legacy extraction task from MUMPS using NeXt web objects.
  • Designed, coded, and maintained real-time reporting systems for modeling environment.
  • Staged systems development, security, SSH, SSL, PGP, NFS, DNS, Sendmail, PERL.
  • TCP/IP, Apache, Netscape, Open Market, Solaris 2.6, NeXt, FreeBSD, Linux, TIS Firewall.
  • Web publishing, data conversion, scalable architectures, and COTS integration.

Confidential

Senior Technology Expert

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, coded, and maintained web security, database, statistics, web publishing, text searching systems for 150+ Bureau websites.
  • Designed, coded, and maintained web publishing systems for sites up to 225 pages.
  • Data conversions, proprietary log parsing, web monitoring of fax server and system errors.
  • Designed, coded network monitoring system that aided in recovery of $17K from our ISP.
  • Staged Solaris 2.5.1 environment for development in Java, Perl, and UNIX shell with GNU tools.

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