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Boston, Massachusetts, US

Technical Lead of the Platform Engineering Development team.Evangelize benefits and best practices, using IaC, among many teams in development and operations.Support and mentors less experienced team members and colleagues.Pursue and practice collaborative development with other teams, providing guidance and developing solutions to new.

Helped create an alerting platform based on Grafana/Graphite capable of alerting on any metric defined in a graph.Automated builds and deployments, leading to the adoption of continuous deployment in the Automation Engineering group.Created tools to manage load balancers, allowing for the dynamic creation of VIPs and automated population of service groups.

New York City, NY, US

Architect for NBC.com Social projects and Team leader for several high profile projects.Created the backend service architecture for a new publishing system powering NBC.com show site pages.Lead a small, focused team of developers to build many crucial backend systems, including the above mentioned publishing system.Developed schema and backend systems.

US

Added support for RSS 2.0 enclosures and MRSS 2.0 to generated RSS feeds to internal publishing tools. This allowed content producers to easily add multi-media content to the RSS feeds.Implemented client-side and server-side targeted advertising system for search and content.Created video site maps used by Google and Bing to index video content.Refactored.

Created a proactive monitoring system for wireless radio units to react to signal quality problems and configuration errors, reducing calls to technical support and increasing customer satisfaction with wireless services.Streamlined the VOIP signup process, allowing customers to fill out a form online which automatically emailed necessary forms and created.

Anaheim, CA, US

Streamlined communications with support and sales by providing a clear communications path to engineering.Worked with clients to resolve technical issues and to help clients integrate products.

Created software to extend and add to the capabilities of the Titilewave website.Introduced MVC (Model-View-Controller) paradigm to the development team, allowing for greater flexibility in interface design and improving developer efficiency.Introduced the use of the perl Template Toolkit to abstract out user interface code from business logic.Wrote and.

Created software to manage passwords for the company login system with a strict password policy checking system.Created software applications to generate customized sales summary, projection and trending reports.Completed SSL/TLS versions of application programming interfaces, allowing client software to communicate securely with Jettis’ proprietary systems.

Created perl scripts to migrate data from MySQL to Oracle database.Ported the existing perl code base from MySQL to Oracle database.Developed tools in perl for use in migration efforts.Wrote a custom jail in C for use with securing application installations.

Created OO Perl modules to access an Oracle database.Re-implemented wireless feeds for maximum performance while ensuring all feeds were valid XML.Developed C libraries for use with Perl modules using XS.Created database tools and testing scripts with a team of developers.Extensive use of mod_perl, Template Toolkit and Apache::DBI.

Wrote a multithread daemon to control administration tasks for the web server cluster and application servers.Wrote a custom OO perl API for client applications to interface with an administration daemon.Developed software for use with an administration daemon to control internal systems, such as NIS+, NFS, user email accounts, FTP access, shell access and.

Created applications with a team of developers to read and write various radar and IR sensor data formats for use with online data analysis tools. Included the ability to plot all sensor data and to compare any data to any other data in a set. Plots could be saved in any of eleven different graphics file formats. Written in C and perl.