PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Internet Identity Tacoma ,WA
Director of Information Technology
10/2006
System Architect
(contract) 5/2006 - 10/2006
- Designed, wrote and deployed company's first customer facing portal based on PHP and MySQL.
- Implemented data interchange conduits between FileMaker and MySQL information systems.
- Spearheaded the complete migration of all IT assets from a co-location facility in Tacoma to a SAS 70 Type II data center in Tukwila, while maintaining operational status for the 24/7 SIRT.
- Designer and project manager responsible for deployment of Powershark 2.0, the second generation of the client portal.
- Architect, designer and lead developer responsible for launch or the company's most ambitious project to date, Powershark 3.0, including a complete re-write from PHP to PERL.
- Created a scalable high-performance URL harvesting and analysis engine, executing over 1 million page harvests per hour.
- Deployed company's first data API for scalable data acquisition and processing, storing over 3 million unique threat items per day.
- Conceived, developed and implemented the incredibly fast Website DNA profiling and fingerprinting system which is the core of all automated threat processing.
Fred Huchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA
ActivePERL LDAP Integrator
(contract)2/2006 - 5/2006
- Built personnel data interchange application to facilitate migration of LDAP based SCCA data into the ActiveDirectory based Fred Hutchinson HR system.
- Participated in classic Agile Development and testing project team with daily Scrums.
Mark Monitor San Francisco, CA
eEnforcement IP Tools Lead Developer / Inventor
(contract)10/2003 - 9/2005
- Designer/developer of cutting edge Intellectual Property protection services based on PHP, PERL, mySQL and Sybase. Suite utilizes self-adjusting load-balancing functions to maximize system utilization to harvest over 500,000 URL’s per night.
- Project lead responsible for assigning tasks, measuring success and milestones for team members while developing and enhancing the next generation of tools based on the products acquired from Alldomains.com.
- Responsible for migration of some of the Internet’s largest players to MarkMonitor’s flagship product ‘Brand Protection’ from Alldomains and other competing products.
Alldomains.com Concord, CA
Chief Designer - BrandWatch
(contract) 4/2001 - 10/2003
DCart Domain Registration Developer
(contract) 7/2000 - 4/2001
- Chief architect and developer of Intellectual Property protection suite based on PHP, PERL and mySQL
- Developed cutting edge automated domain transfer and renewal engine using PHP and PERL on Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux systems.
- Responsible for specification, design and development of a PERL based e-mail registration processing system that included a domain transfer system interface to a mySQL database and Verisign charge-card system.
- Developed Multilingual Domain Registration tools used to support foreign language character sets such as Chinese (Big5 & simplified), Japanese (JIS212), Korean (KSC5601).
HP Advanced Systems Lab Roseville, CA
Y2K Compliance Tools Developer
(contract) 7/1999 - 6/2000
- Responsible for setup and administration of production HPUX UNIX systems used to process Y2K compliance and other automated e-mail processing applications.
- VB 6 development of COM applications to applications that perform data validation for MS SQL 7.0 databases, and process HP-UX product information for Y2K compliance reporting via web and e-mail (HTML).
- PERL development of applications producing dynamic metrics reporting of Y2K customer compliance via the Internet / Intranet.
Developed highly acclaimed Tk/Tcl GUI tools to automate monitoring of support e-mail accounts that electronically notify support of new incidents.
California Department of Corrections Folsom, CA
Y2K Data Remediation Specialist
(contract) 4/1999 - 7/1999
- Responsible for analysis and recommendations for Y2K conversion of mission-critical prison facility software applications, in addition to development of the implementation strategy.
- Designed the testing strategy required for the rollout of Y2K applications throughout the state, utilizing a hybrid of several IEEE testing and documentation standards.
- Performed necessary code changes, along with unit and integration testing of over 400 JCL, COBOL and PowerHouse application modules.
Silicon Graphics Inc. Mountain View, CA
IRIX (UNIX) Support Lead Engineer
7/1997 - 12/1998
- Systems Administration support to a wide variety of business segments including the aerospace industry, governmental agencies, and the entertainment industry.
- Mentor for new UNIX engineers, providing training and skill development.
- Developed PERL based search engine used by UNIX support team to find solutions to customer issues.
Tidal Software Palo Alto, CA
Sales Engineer / Trainer
3/1996 - 7/1997
Q.A. Engineer
6/1995 - 03/1996
- Designed company's first website of which a key feature was allowing customers to contact sales and support and download available patches.
- UNIX systems administrator working on SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX-9 & 10, NEC and Sequent systems when primary administrator was busy or on vacation.
- Trained customers and support engineers on product installation, implementation and utilization of process scheduling tools (Express for UNIX, SysAdmiral).
Hewlett Packard Co. Santa Clara, CA
Application Support Programmer
10/1991 - 6/1995
HP3000 & UNIX Systems Administrator
(contract) 10/1989 - 10/1991
- Systems Management, programming and scheduling for HP-3000 and HP-UX production systems.