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Greater Boston Area

Westborough, Massachusetts

- Windows desktop application development using C# .NET/web services, WPF and Oracle SQL - Back-end development of stored procedures and schemas. Experience using management tools like TOAD to debug and diagnose queries.- Front-end development of custom WPF controls used both internally and externally adhering to a standard of common and understood UX behaviors.- Development beside iQ client were a series of custom scripts and SQL*Loader control files used to transform incoming data for use in our data processing pipline. [Technologies used - C#, WPF, Web Services, Oracle SQL, SOAP, VBScript, SQL*Loader, Javascript, Java]

Dover, Massachusetts

- 2 year full time position as a technician responsible for the packaging and deployment of software, operating systems, and hosted services.- Helped maintain a 900 node network of Windows desktop computers in one domain spanning three physical locations.- Had a hand in transitioning the majority of our physical servers and services to a VMWare ESXi 5 platform.- Over the summer helped transition entire network from Windows XP to Windows 7 using Altiris (now Symantec) Deployment Solution.[Technologies used - VMWare, Powershell, Active Directory, Debian, CentOS, Moodle, Altiris/Symantec DS, Orca, PHP, MySQL]

Rochester, New York Area

Worked to troubleshoot and help students and teachers working with multiple proprietary web technologies RIT employed, as well as run of the mill MS Office, google mail, Desire2Learn issues.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Worked with a group of highly talented engineers over the summer of 2008 outlining a plugin for use with their semantic knowledge processing engine.- Used PHP running on Jetty via Quercus to enable communication to CS's Java based platform- Established an understanding of RDF/Subject Predicate Object datasets[Technologies used: SPARQL, PHP, Java, Jetty, Eclipse]

Helped deploy and redeploy some hundred-odd laptops and desktops. Learned about working in a business environment as well as on-the-job knowledge about networking, hard drive imaging and business/self management.

Worked consulting on SQL Server database cleanup and website optimization. Unfortunately, time ran out before project could be completed. Learned about working on a deadline, project management and business hierarchy.