Andy Lester Email & Phone Number

Palatine, Il, Us

Mchenry, Il, Us

Responsible for development of the company's website, Titlewave.com, responsible for 90+% of all revenue.

Author of "Land The Tech Job You Love".

I speak on technical topics to conferences such as the O'Reilly Open Source Conference and Yet Another Perl Conference, and user groups around the country.

I've been involved with various open source projects for years. I've contributed to the Perl 5 core, released many Perl modules including WWW::Mechanize, and I created ack, a greplike tool optimized for programmers.

• Inherited and modernized e-commerce web app of 100,000K lines of PHP under Apache• Created a modern development environment for the app. My predecessor had one codebase: the production server.• Implemented version control, automated testing, bug tracking, coding standards and a stable release process.• Design, coding and testing of ongoing improvements to the app. New development was done with modern Perl techniques.• Created and evangelized the company wiki in MediaWiki. The wiki grew to 3,000 pages in its first year.• Planned and implemented a search engine in Solr/Lucene to replace an existing search application using Oracle Text.• Currently learning iOS/iPad/iPhone development.

• Grew and led team of six programmers and system administrator• Defined software construction processes used by all programmers. Chief architect of web systems infrastructure• Drove hiring process of all programmers directly.• Gave training classes for staff and sister companies• Planned future growth with peer manager of project management, and set long-term system administration goals

New York, Ny, Us

Coauthor of "Pro Perl Debugging". Technical review on "Pro Perl".

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Overhauling "Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell". Wrote three hacks for "Spidering Hacks". Technical review on "Unix Power Tools", "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook", "Perl Best Practices", and others.

Frequent contributor of articles.

• Created infrastructure for external website and the company-wide intranet using Windows NT 4.0, WebSite Pro and ColdFusion.• Created all intranet applications for all departments, from initial user requirements to design to implementation to training to support.

• Designed, coded and tested library automation software in C.• Worked on teams of two, four and sometimes ten, depending on the project.

I worked on the point of sale systems in Apple Pascal running on Apple //e hardware. It was a hardware nightmare. Also wrote stuff for the Wang VS mini, in BASIC and COBOL.