Ed Blackman Email & Phone Number

Cary Nc

I work in the install group at SAS, currently focused on the Solstice and COSMOS initiatives

Operating Systems - Linux (including Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHCE #803004912811290), Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE), AIX, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, OpenVMSLanguages - Java, Perl 5, C, C++, shell scripting, Python, PHP, SQL, JavascriptTechnologies - HTML/XHTML, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, Ant, DOM, SAX, JNI, JUnit, JAXBMiddleware - IBM DB2, Oracle database, PostGres SQL, MySQL, Derby, WebSphere Application ServerSkills; Excellent at analyzing the "flow" of a code base, both for debugging and to insert fixes and new features in the least disruptive way. Currently serve as the webmaster for the Raleigh Jaycees website (http://raleighjaycees.org), requiring HTML web design including CSS layout, maintenance and new development of Perl and PHP dynamic contentContributed, and had accepted, bug fixes and feature enhancements to multiple open source projects: TMDA, CastPodder, StormSirenKey skills acquired: development for a production environment; retrofitting a project with unit tests; source management in Eclipse Filled an unmet need for data-driven tasks in the Maintenance Install Tool (MIT) by creating a plugin architecture to allow the Ant-derived tool to react to events instead of requiring manual changesEvangelized test driven development practices by presenting a primer on unit test practices and the red/green/refactor cycle. Implemented unit testing in the MIT and advised my colleagues on good unit test practicesLed the adoption of agile software development practices by being an early adopter and evangelist of key agile practices, going beyond my required work to drive changes that enable all developers in my department to produce higher quality code

An all-volunteer civic organization that runs over 100 community service and leadership development projects each year.

Responsible for overseeing a 200 member leadership development and community service organization, including a 20 member board of directors and a $200,000 annual budget

As Director of Fundraising, I'm responsible for raising money for the operation of the two 2010 HOBY North Carolina seminars.

HOBY-NC is a 3 day leadership seminar for over two hundred rising high school juniors from all across North Carolina. As the chair of the seminar, I lead a 20 member committee and ensure that all of the planning, preparation, and training for the seminar is completed on time and under budget, and lead activities during the seminar.

Created an internal IBM open source project to centralize development and maintenance of the Depchecker rules engine, and served as the lead developer.Key skills acquired: working with a large code base in a team environment; refactoring code to enhance maintainability; creating and maintaining functional tests in JUnit; working with Eclipse EMF to generate object models from an XML Schema; programming with Ant scripts including creating custom Ant tasks; developing a custom grammar in ANTLR; validation of XML with XML Schema; creating a custom XML SchemaDeveloped and maintained a 100KLOC+ Java/C deployment application, Deployment Engine (DE), which required substantial refactoring of existing code base, creation and maintenance of unit tests, and new developmentPorted the DE make/ksh build system to Ant, including enhancing the build automation system to support Ant, and created custom Ant tasks to enhance and simplify buildsCreated multiplatform (primarily Windows and Linux) Ant scripts as a wrapper to DE, including writing custom Ant tasks and Ant macros to enhance maintainabilityServed as the primary center of competency for porting that application to Linux/x86 and Linux/s390, and as primary developer of fixes and enhancements on multiple Unix platformsCoordinated with customers internal to IBM and external to quickly diagnose, work around, and permanently address defects, including documenting my work and updating functional verification test cases to ensure that problem would not recurRefactored a Windows platform support DLL (C/JNI) to enable 64-bit Windows support, address defects, and improve maintainability

Key skills acquired: cross platform HTML markup; large scale Perl developmentDesigned and implemented a test status and reporting database with HTML and Swing frontends and a Perl/DB2 backend

Developed and implemented the OS/2 compatibility test plans for IBM desktop systems, including coordination of testing with other teams

Stress tested IBM desktop systems, including initial diagnosis of failuresInstalled and configured various server and client operating systems for network testingWrote scripts to automate and enhance the above testing

Key skills acquired: large scale Java development; programming for a multiplatform execution environment; multithreaded programming in Java; globalization and internationalization of Java programsDeveloped and maintained the WebSphere Payment Manager install/uninstall programPorted Payment Manager build process (make, ksh, perl) and install/uninstall program (Java) to LinuxServed as Globalization Focal Point for four major releases: prepared translatable materials for translation, coordinated translation and translation test

Tested and evaluated PC hardware components (mainboards, memory, cases, peripherals, etc), including communicating with vendors about problemsBuilt and maintained software utility kits for use by other Intrex techniciansMaintenance of internal PCs and networkSupervised the assembly of "barebones" PC system kits for resale

Education record

Education record

Education record

Education record