System administration Resume Profile

Summary Open - source technologist proficient with Perl, web technologies, and Linux systems Work Experience Software Developer

Design and implement new features in mission-critical applications: a ticket tracking web
Pythian Group
application mod perl and Catalyst, and a remote server monitoring tool perl
Performed in-depth investigation of deficient application behaviour and performance
Uncovered resolved root causes of a 20x slowdown in a mission-critical mod perl application
Completed server build-out and testing for SSL support in Avail automated future build-outs
using the standard Perl toolchain, and RPM packages
Technologist
Implemented new features in Foreman, a companion tool to Puppet, supporting OS installation
Dalhousie HPC laboratory
n segregated networks
Performed detailed profiling and performance optimization of Cammy - an open-source tool
for automating the publishing of webcam images
Quality Assurance
Performed manual testing of mission-critical web applications
Pythian Group
Wrote new unit test libraries to provide automated testing for mission-critical components
Added support for configuring SSL security to HTTP::Tiny added SSL support to in-house tools
Co-op student
Implemented high-fidelity audio playback for sonar data on a mock VICTORIA-class submarine
Defence R D Canada
Interfaced with legacy software via ActiveMQ and CORBA
Provided detailed documentation of all systems and software used
Lifeguarding
Lifeguard, Head lifeguard and Aquatics Manager at a wide variety of pool waterfront facilities
Nova Scotia Ontario
Taught first aid and lifeguarding, and performed examinations for the Lifesaving Society

Performed seasonal facility inspections in Nova Scotia and wrote the 1997-2007 drowning report Technical Experience

System administration

5 years of experience with Linux server and desktop systems
Deployedawidevarietyofsoftware,including:Mediawiki,phpMyAdmin,Subversion,Git,
Gitweb,Gerrit,Bugzilla,Wordpress,memcached,nginx,Apache,Perl,andcustomsystem
administration tools
Operated a Linux server for Wikimedia Foundation volunteers
Programming languages
Strong knowledge of Perl acquired through self-study the YAPC::NA 2011 Perl conference
Good working knowledge of web front-end technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, incl. jQuery
and web infrastructure caching, DNS, security features like HSTS and Content-Security-Policy
Beginner with Python, Ruby, and PHP
Collaboration development tools
Open-source involvement
Proficient with git and several other SCMs for daily use
Familiar with mailing lists, IRC, wikis, bug trackers, and other distributed collaboration tools Authored several plugins to the Dist::Zilla build/release automation tool
Active Github account: Gave a lightning talk at the annual Perl conference for North America in June 2011 Frequent presenter at Dalhousie Computer Science Free School and NS Linux Users' Group Contributed to a variety of free/open-source projects with bug reports, testing, and patches
Release manager MediaWiki::Bot
Other software development
A high-level framework for interacting with wikis like Wikipedia
Quickly eliminated screen-scraping used MediaWiki's modern API to expand functionality Improved test suite reliability and increased coverage to 83
Identified a performance issue, and optimized by 30-40
All collaboration is virtual:
Wrote deployed a small pastebin web application using Dancer and DBIx::Class Authored several Perl modules:
utf8::all, a Perl pragma to turn on as much Unicode as possible
Hashbang::Pastebin, a simple yet servicable Dancer application
see for more Group projects at Dalhousie University:
Led a project with 3 other students to prototype a library management system in Java. I wrote the database interface layer, and much of the application logic, and provided extensive assistance with testing and debugging.
Led a project to write a web application deployed on Amazon AWS for managing an academic resume website. I contributed to programming, security, and performed all deployment.
Future growth interests Research, advocacy and activism related to computer security, privacy and digital civil liberties Automating Linux system administration, especially with modern devops tools
Python Ruby scripting and application development
User interface/user experience design and human-computer interaction research

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