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Mountain View, CA, US

Leading technical engagement with customer developer communities.

San Francisco, California, US

Creating healthy communities by advocating cultural and technological change.Playing with Cloud Foundry, a powerful Open Source Platform. http://cloudfoundry.org/

San Jose, California, US

Software Architect and team lead responsible for sweeping change and modernization across the organization. Acted as a strong, hands on technical lead and change agent to bring modern development tools and processes into Engineering and affected positive change in IT, development, QA, release, and design. I worked very effectively as a technical leader.

Building software that makes the world a better place for clients and ourselves.

I deliver expert-level results for excellent clients.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Served as developer and project manager for sweeping upgrades to infrastructure. Coordinated upgrades across three technical teams and several hundred thousand lines of code.Successfully advocated unit testing among product engineers. Unit test coverage was expanded from 0% to 10% in just a few months. Ease of use was a primary concern, and helped adoption.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Software development, HR, team management, developer advocacy, sales engineering, on-site customer management, technical account management, system design and architecture, influencing technical strategy and company direction, and contrarian.

Lead the Perl Monger group in Pittsburgh. Fostered from a dormant state to a thriving, monthly meeting.

• Design, build, and maintain new and existing applications. Projects:
• pairNIC: Only full-time programmer for pairNIC domain registration system. Designed and implemented new features.
• Database Clustering: Managed full development cycle of database clustering system for read-only access.
• Electronic TimeCard System: Designed and implemented electronic time card system that fuels payroll and aids human resource management.
• Wrote system utilities for thousands of servers. Achievements:
• Implemented PostgreSQL replication.

• Build large scale commercial applications. Projects:
• Credit Card Processor: Wrote an asynchronous credit card processing system.
• Domain Registrar: Designed and implemented software libraries and APIs for a new domain registration system.
• Designed new email related services and developed execution strategies.

• Develop scalable ISP services. Projects:
• LDAP Management: Built tools to allow clients to manage LDAP information.
• Maintained web hosting and email services built on distributed systems.
• Wrote bug fixes and new features for existing services.

• Provide software automation and processing tools to aid design projects. Projects:
• Automated Publishing: Created processing system to convert books from SGML markup to a static website using Perl and Grove techniques.
• Team Development: Converted team to use mod_perl from per-process compiled CGI scripts. Advocated Template Toolkit as a standard templating system.
• Wrote bug fixes and new features for existing services. Achievements:
• Built site architecture described as "The easiest system to use that AMS has ever created."
• Designed network map for new development system.