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Professional Summary

  • Extensive experience developing eCommerce applications.
  • Owner of Metroplex Webs since 1996. Web and marketing projects from small to very large. UNIX systems admin since 1988. LINUX systems admin since 1996.
  • All development / support have been done being mindful of customer service and with ISO9000 / Agile / Scrum principles in mind, version control (typically subversion, previously CVS and CMVC) and documentation (typically .doc, sometimes wikis, and rarely, UML).

Professional Experience

Confidential (May 2011 – Sept. 2011) via Matrix Resources

  • Southwest Airlines Global Enterprise Systems Admin for the development team worldwide.
  • UNIX/Linux, UB11.04, CentOS, Puppet( global systems management), Jenkins, radiator, Python, PERL, some JAVA, along with Tomcat, and JMX standups, as well as SOA architecture.
  • Duties including everything from settling folks in to diagnosing complicated systems problems.
  • Developed process that saved SWA $10,000s annually and expedited service levels.
  • During five months there, was advanced twice. Once to global development systems admin, and once to the Release Environment Release Team.
  • Completed projects early and under budget, with minimum workflow interruption.
  • Served 4 roles (supporting from 200 to 300 developers daily)
    1) Global systems admin supporting 4 offices in Argentina, two in Brazil, one in India, one in Chicago and one in Dallas.
    2) Systems admin for the Release Environment Management Team (last stop before production aside from QA)
    3) Backup system continuous integration architect responsible for 200 to 300 developers on any given day.
    4) Backup CI build engineer (Javascript, Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti, and shell scripts). End user support to system architecture.

Confidential (1996 – Present)
Owner

  • PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5, PERL 5 object-oriented and procedural programming.
  • DHTML, CSS1-2, JavaScript, AJAX.
  • Advanced Linux systems administration.
  • Apache Server administration / NGINX.
  • MVC architectures using both frameworks and custom programming.
  • Project management.
  • Database design / EER / technical writing.
  • Graphic design, page layouts.
  • CSS1/XHTML 1.0 Strict.
  • PHP, and PERL application programming.
  • MySQL database administration and design.
  • JavaScript/AJAX applications.
  • Site visitor metrics gathering and reports through Google analytics and custom implementations.
  • VOIP (translations and sockets) e.g. “click to dial”.
  • Onseason.com. Postgres database backend in Amazon EC2 Cloud.
  • Matchmaker.com – deployment of monitoring systems.
  • Numerous Asterisk and web hosting deployments.
  • mayrwilsonrugs.com – initial design.
  • PHP pages, PERL server monitoring / admin, Ultra Monkey, and PFSENSE, MCACHE, LUSTRE file systems.
  • PERL housekeeping.
  • Infrastructure deployment, planning, monitoring, implementation and operation for PNL Internet.
  • Numerous commercial sites.
  • Infrastructure deployment and administration.
  • Custom firewalls.
  • IPtables scripts / bash scripts / network.
  • AIX support, tech writer, system administrator, MTSO base station management with IBM.
  • Network planning, SODA support, gold level PC support.

Confidential (April 2009 - January 2011)
Developer - Contractor

  • Over 3 million lines of code for food delivery services SOAS, including georanging (US CENSUS, and USPS TIGER), geoiop (Maxmind), and multi-languages, Zend framework with PERL, and Python backend.

Other Notable Projects:

Projects: Diamond-surplus.com forms, checkout process, and pop-up displays. Backend for interface into authorize.net
Allquestswelcome.com forms, and payment processing integrated to PayPal
dfwdental.net. – Database backend
neighborhoodvoip.com – click to dial, SMDR reporting, switch translations.
oneseason.com – Postgres replicaton and database design for this ESPN project.
metricsboard.com – Rackspace cloud deployment and database design. Project management.
country2000.com – OCR customer rewards system. Website
tornadohockey.com –website, and hand written content management system
7-11 – Client side of the asset management system of the 25,000+ worldwide stores
Matchmaker.com – critical infrastructure deployment for this 48 million user system.
Tobykeith.com – original deployment
DreamWorks Records – Online purchasing system
Pdrlinx.com – high REL infrastructure, PHP, MYSQL, load balancers, and PF Sense

Technical Summary
Software: Microsoft Office 1995 to 2010, Open Office from 1998. Lotus Notes. Some Sharepoint. Advanced UNIX/Lin­­ux systems administration (CentOS/RHEL, SuSE Enterprise/ openSUSE, BSD, Debian, SUN OS / Solaris, ATT), UNIX, LINUX, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Homesite, GIMP, Corel Draw, Corel Paint, LAMPPP (LINUX, Apache, PERL/PHP/Python), Procedural and object-oriented paradigms, PHP GD, PEAR, ImageMagick, FFMPEG, sox, CURL, E-commerce: OSCommerce / Magento, our custom shopping interfaces.
Processors: authorize.net, PayPal.
MVC Architecture: Zend Framework, PERL Catalyst Framework, CakePHP
Web Markup / Browser code: XHTML, HTML, WML, WAP, Mobile XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript (AJAX, JSON, JQuery, dojo, moo tools, DHTML), CSS, versions 1-3
Languages: PHP 4 and 5, PERL 4, 5, 6, Python 2.7, 3.1, Shell (bash, KSH, CSH)Classic ASP, VB / VBA, Classic ASP.
Database Management: MySQL Server, advanced database administrator, PostgreSQL Server, Light INFORMIX, MUMPS, ORACLE, SQL SERVER.
Exposure in: ASP (classic and .NET), C#, C, C++, Java, TCL, expect.
Misc. / Telco / Admin skills: Sockets (PERL and PHP), Amazon EC2 Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, VMWARE, VOIP (Asterisk) / SIP, Jabber, DNS (PDNS, DJBDNS, BIND), RPC-XML servers, SAX parsers, SOAP, RT, Mail (sendmail, qmail, postfix), Automated SMS via SMS gateways. (Auto responders in PERL), NAGIOS, Cacti, Wireshark, IPTABLES, RSYNC, UVNC, RDC, X, SSH, Windows Server to 2003, Crystal Reports, tech writing.

Education
NTTC
A.A.S. in Computer Data Processing

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