Tools for managing and classifying defects in masks used for chip fabrication.• Designed and implemented Web UI for portions of new product, DPM (Defect Progression Monitor) using PHP, HTML, jQuery, MySQL.• Fixed bugs in existing code.• Refactored existing code into libraries in order to reduce code duplication, simplify code base. Thelibraries facilitated improvements in performance, eliminated bugs, and eased the implementationof new functionality.• Designed and implemented an internal auditing tool to track performance of automated defectdetection/classification over the lifetime of a chip mask.• Analyzed and improved performance of common MySQL queries.

http://gpsprot.org - A web-based tool for mapping Human-HIV protein interaction networks.Maintain and update website, using PHP, jQuery, MySQL and a Java applet: • Bug fixes, migrate servers, new search features.• MySQL database administration.• Import/update data from new sources.

Flurbit.com Event search engine, ticket sales (later became eventguru.com)• Designed and implemented system allowing users to post events, sell tickets and pay commissions to affiliates using PayPal API, LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python), HTML5 and jQuery.• Developed interface to back-end search engine allowing event search and micro-payments to users for verifying spidered events using PayPal API and LAMP stack.

Connecting restaurants to potential customers via social networking.• Developed an interactive tool for restaurants to create, manage and view reports for customer sur- veys using XHTML and jQuery. Based on supplied Photoshop screenshot mockups.• Implemented several restaurant websites based on Photoshop screen mockups.• Created a tool using PHP and jQuery to assist creation/testing of XHTML template chunks, whichthe proprietary backend would use to create custom pages for restaurant websites.

Social networking website with emphasis on realtime business collaboration, based on LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL, PHP)• Database design/administration (MySQL).• Developed, enhanced tools for online communication (realtime chat, videoconferencing) usingjQuery, Flash and PHP. (Both server and client side scripting)• Developed a dynamic desktop window layout system using PHP and jQuery.

Embedded system for government contractor.· Developed code for 8051-based USB interface controller on proprietary peripheral device.· Worked with software team to develop linux host interface to USB device.· Worked with hardware team and specs to control device components.

High-performance search engine solutions.Enhanced and expanded core offering:· Systemwide support for Unicode· Boolean query engine.· Contextual summary generator.· Language recognition.· Blog page identification, parsing, sectioning.· High-volume targeted web spidering optimizations.· RSS/Atom feed support.· Maintained and administrated production clusters.

Weather risk analysis tools for energy traders.· Developed and maintained system for fetching and ingesting weather observation data (METAR) and raw forecast data from multiple sources and formats.· Developed tools for generating weather map graphics from gridded data or text forecast/observation data.· Developed tools to generate location based numerical forecasts from gridded data.· Developed tools for graphical analysis of historical forecasts and generation of custom statistical forecasts.· Maintained and administrated production clusters.

Developed media control systems for schools.· Developed system for controlling remote media resources such as TVs, VCRs, DVD players, digital media filesor Broadcast TV using a variety of interfaces, including IR, serial and TCP/IP.· Worked with hardware engineer to develop controller code for 8051-based set-top box.· Developed scheduling software to reserve media devices or schedule playback.· Developed GUI client applications for for device control, media scheduling and administration for Windows,Mac OS, Unix (Novell UnixWare, Linux, X11, Motif) and web browsers (Perl, Apache, Javascript).