Robert M. Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Hillsboro Oregon

• Championed the acquisition and provisioning of 10 repurposed build servers that removed the bottlenecks on the CI pipelines of a critical software project, saving the company $55k over buying new servers.
• Proved that there was no need to relocate 16 build servers from the US to Poland to improve build times or reliability, saving Intel tens of thousands of dollars in shipping and handling, plus weeks of downtime and.
• Created a Python-based vSphere VM manager to enable the powerup/down and snapshotting of multiple machines at once, reducing the deployment time of changes to VMs from hours to minutes.
• Mitigated NTLMv1 authentication vulnerabilities by refactoring home grown build system to use the more secure and future proof zeep SOAP library over the suds library.
• Addressed NTLMv1 authentication vulnerabilities by pioneering a method for securely mounting Windows SMB shares on FreeBSD using SSHFS protocol via a Linux proxy system.
• Migrated from Chef to CINC, saving Intel tens of thousands of dollars per year.

• Drove the adoption of Chef as a configuration management and DevOps automation tool throughout my team and department to drive efficiency, reduce infrastructure bugs.
• Reduced turnaround time for new server provisionings from one week to half a day or less using Chef Infrastructure as Code.
• Authored and maintained Chef recipes using InSpec and Test Kitchen.
• Setup and maintained a Chef Server used by team.
• Documented Chef best practices, recipe application instructions on corporate wiki.
• Maintained infrastructure scripts and Chef recipes using GIT.

• Implemented and maintained a CentOS-based Jenkins CI build server that ran Klocwork security scans, performed Bullseye coverage builds, and built RPMs nightly.
• Wrote a proof-of-concept plugin for pytest that output a TAP (Test Anything Protocol) stream which could be used by Jenkins’ TAP Plugin to display test pass/fail metrics.
• Extended a Python-based build script for company’s GTest and cmocka test suite to setup an HPC cluster, run tests against a live cluster, and tear it down.
• Maintained and extended the C/C++ unit test suite infrastructure code using POSIX system calls to cover additional testing use cases as needed.
• Wrote unit tests for a Modular Component Architecture (MCA) component using GTest.
• Authored and responded to code reviews using review board.

• Wrote a Ruby script to aggregate and visualize the download statistics for downloaded albums.
• Ensured that company’s servers and SSL certificates were unaffected by the Heartbleed bug.
• Configured in-house software applications to send email messages to Gmail servers.
• Outsourced our email services to Google Apps for Business.
• Configured SPF records and DKMS (DomainKeys) for all managed domain names.
• Led the development of an e-card site powered by both DotNetNuke and SQL Server 2008.

• Wrote a program to streamline the adding of new albums to the company’s music download store.
• Collaborated with co-contractors to launch the company’s time-critical e-card site on-time.
• Partitioned the company’s download manager into a client server architecture using WCF.
• Spearheaded the company’s move from using a custom-built and maintained server to using a hosted virtual machine, resulting in reduced initial and marginal server costs.
• Designed and implemented extensible backend components for the company's Silverlight-based download manager using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
• Created and distributed a patch for a currency bug in the 1-2-3 Music Store.

• Created a MySQL query to decrease new album insertion time by over 40%.
• Automated the assignment of mp3 files to songs using C#4.0.
• Analyzed the RESTful communication with http://www.liturgicamusic.com using Fiddler2 to author two C# 4.0 programs: one that automates the addition of album reviews and another that validates the downloadability of all.
• Created an extendable C# 4.0 program to generate a MySQL script to update song running times in a table inner joined with another table.
• Used outer joins in a MySQL database to find tracks not associated with an album.
• Validated and Processed download manifest files using Lookahead regular expressions.

• Collaborated with co-contractors to get two deployments of the company’s DNN-powered eCommerce engine setup and operational.
• Ported designs for two music eCommerce sites to DotNetNuke as skins.
• Documented defects, work left to be done in future iterations of the company’s eCommerce engine.
• Implemented an extensible design for the company’s new multi-vendor music purchase download manager.
• Built a C# and Ruby datatype generator using Ruby to automate the generation of boilerplate classes.
• Collaborated with a web designer to realize his design for the company’s DNN-powered eCommerce engine using a combination of jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Optimized performance of database queries using query caching and joins, resulting in performance improvements ranging from 1100% to 32,000%.
• Co-authored a NoSQL-style database schema for a proposed software project.
• Configured a SSH tunnel to securely connect to a SQL Server blocked by a firewall.
• Held virtual meetings with team and stakeholders using both Google Hangouts and FuzeBox.
• Communicated project status to managers and stakeholders.
• Wrote a CSV parsing utility to upload new datasets into a SQL Server database.

• Designed and collaboratively implemented a Domain Filtering Utility using C# 3.0, WPF, LINQ to SQL, Lucene.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
• Assisted coworkers in solving technical challenges on their projects.
• Communicated progress with manager.

• Last Contract Date: January 2010
• Discovered and clarified customer's computer problems using the Socratic Method.
• Fixed customer's computer problems using the US Navy 6-step troubleshooting method.
• Calmed down and gained cooperation from angry customers using the H.E.A.T. method.

• Fulfilled customer's requirements by installing and configuring a Debian Civicspace server.
• Assisted customer in describing the business logic of the application.
• Presented project status to customer.

• Redesigned a web form both on time and on budget.
• Collaborated with Computer Technology faculty to revitalize the design of the web form.

B.S

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