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Calabasas, Us

Beverly, Massachusetts, Us

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* Developed ETL processes using AWS services, especially S3, Redshift, and SQS.* Added features to Perl-based web application.* Developed code to synchronize data between internal apps and Salesforce.* Tracked down and fixed data discrepancies using advanced SQL techniques.* Coding process using git, unit tests, and code reviews.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Maintained and enhanced functionality of existing Perl-based web application using the Catalyst web framework with JQuery and ExtJS frontend Javascript libraries and a PostgreSQL database backend.Uncovered data integrity issues with existing database, using PL/pgSQL among other tools, and helped devise a plan to correct duplicate data.Developed code to interact with disparate systems to gather information about users’ CPU and disk usage. This has involved working with Perl, Ruby, Python, XMLRPC and Mysql.Helped develop replacement website, writing modules for the Drupal web framework in PHP.Other technologies I have worked with at MSI include Apache (with mod_rewrite and mod_fcgi), LDAP, Active Directory, Subversion, Git, Debian and CentOS linux distributions, Puppet, shell scripting, cron, and ssh tunnelling.

Maintained and added major functionality to intranet web applications based on Java, Struts, Javascript, Tomcat, and Oracle, and running on Solaris and Linux.Used Scrum Agile development method with a team of five developers.Wrote JUnit tests.Maintained a close working relationship with the users of our code, fostered an environment of collaboration and understanding where we could set realistic priorities and technical solutions to business workflow problems.Used Oracle PL/SQL for web app debugging, data migration and complex reports.Utilized extensive knowledge of W3C XML standards such as XML Schema, XLink, XPath, and XSLT. Wrote programs to manipulate XBRL files for SEC EDGAR filings.Made legacy C code on VMS accessible from Perl by writing XS wrapper code.Embedded Perl in C to produce VMS executables which could be installed with privileges; automated build system for this.Wrote CPAN module VMS::FindFile, an OO Perl wrapper around a VMS system service call. This included writing a test suite as is standard for CPAN modules. (http://search.cpan.org/~forrest/VMS-FindFile-0.91/)Implemented many OO Perl programs, mainly for HTML and XML processing.Designed an RPM package for deployment of a custom Java server I wrote; this included writing init scripts, Perl CGI files to view logs, and the RPM spec file.Helped resolve deployment issues with Apache/Tomcat web applications on Solaris.Maintained and extended C code base on VMS.

Helped users debug DCL command scripts.Resolved printing issues, often requiring knowledge of PostScript.First line of support for system issues.

Msse, Software Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering