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Oakland, Ca, Us

Designed and built the fire effects system used during the Inferno Fire Circus 2011 performances.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Manage the network infrastructure, OS X servers, OS X desktop and Windows desktop systems. Define requirements for website design and implementation. Manage Asterisk phone system deployment.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Part of the team working to build, organize, maintain, and supervise the studio for classes, events, and special projects. Including management of studio volunteers and interns, ensure appropriate safety standards are met for all studio activities, oversee maintenance and repair of all shop equipment and build out studio areas and complete special projects.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Part of the team working to build, organize, maintain, and supervise the studio for classes, events, and special projects. Including management of studio volunteers and interns, ensure appropriate safety standards are met for all studio activities, oversee maintenance and repair of all shop equipment and build out studio areas and complete special projects.

Author of the ow and ownet Python modules for OWFS.

Managing the financial aid outreach for PyCon to help more people attend the conference.

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Reinvigorating the TestExpert product by porting to Linux and extending the core capabilities to include additional programming language, database and secure communications with remote testing systems.

Design and implement reporting infrastructure for the PhilanTrack site.

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Layout architecture and basic data structures for telecommunication lab management product.

Southlake, Tx, Us

Port Python, m2crypto and openssl to HP-UX ia64 platform. Submit any required source code changes to the appropriate projects for inclusion in the general distributions.

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Porting internal Python based development tools from Linux to Windows.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led research and devleopment project to create better, more reliable products in a shorter timeframe. As a direct result of this research, the team provided the GUI framework for the next generation NetWorker product. NetWorker is an enterprise class backup solution used in heterogeneous environments including Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, MAC OS X and more. The GUI framework provided a native UI on all supported platforms, a web based UI for low-bandwidth / zero client installs and a wireless PDA interface.

Led the team providing regular and continuous updates to the TestExpert product. Increased customer satisfaction by identifying and resolving client-defined issues. Ensured that all severity 1 defects were resolved. Supervised the team delivering cable modem industry specific testing solutions. Led the team implementing the next generation test management framework (Sonora). Defined the core architecture, requirements and key capabilities for Sonora. Defined the core engineering process. Created a cross-platform development environment to facilitate software design and implementation. Reporting in to the CEO and board of directors.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Designed software for a real-time shipping container tracking system; a distributed software architecture that provided a scalable environment to track container movements. Flexible design accommodated custom container handling equipment including a sub-meter GPS receiver, wireless LAN and rugged PC.

Mahe, Sc

Designed and developed new multi-threaded credit card transaction-processing engine implemented in C++ and Java using the Adaptive Communications Environment (ACE) and Rogue Wave libraries. Experienced with integrating file-based and TCP/IP sockets.Created an ActiveX control to interface with the core credit card payment engine.Developed an SDK for the base credit card payment engine, successfully used by 1,000+ third party developers to create custom point of sale systems. Converted core payment engine technology to C++.

Designed and developed new multi-threaded credit card transaction-processing engine implemented in C++ and Java using the Adaptive Communications Environment (ACE) and Rogue Wave libraries. Experienced with integrating file-based and TCP/IP sockets. Created an ActiveX control to interface with the core credit card payment engine.Developed an SDK for the base credit card payment engine, successfully used by 1,000+ third party developers to create custom point of sale systems. Converted core payment engine technology to C++.

Developed coursework, lectured, and taught professional development classes, web site design, support and troubleshooting for Windows NT, and beginning network technology courses on TCP/IP.

Provided Windows NT consulting services for Fortune 500 companies. Performed network troubleshooting, network design, and creation of telecommuting environments. Created cost effective solutions appropriate to clients’ current and future budgets. Led a team of 2 engineers and 3 designers to develop award winning web sites. Provided hosting services including change management control and SQL database services. Performed a variety of communications network services for customers, including TCP/IP network design, Internet access models, remote dial-up service provisioning, virtual private networking design and implementation, Internet firewall creation and design, and software consulting and development.

San Jose, California, Us

UNIX kernel developer implementing native kernel extensions on a variety of operating systems using C and platform-specific development environments. Led a team of 5 engineers that implementing a multi-platform source code management system across multiple UNIX operating systems with automatic source code change propagation from the IBM mainframe source code base. Designed, prototyped and implemented platform specific services, including low-level file, printing and job processing.