Employment

Full-Time:

GSI Commerce / EBay, King of Prussia, PA (March 2011 to present)

Industry: Global E-Commerce provider
Position: Sr. Systems Engineer Application and Automation

  • Working with Principal Operations Architect to engineer automation solutions for a new 400 million dollar cutting edge e-commerce platform.
  • Created complete Tomcat services deployment system running as Atlassian Bamboo plug-in in Java to deploy new versions of e-commerce component deployments. Changed from manual multi-day process to instant push button deployment.
  • Currently working with a high volume global e-commerce system that can process 1,400 transactions per minute.
  • Currently researching and developing end to end solutions and automation components for cutting edge technology.

Voicenet.com, philadelphia, pa (June 2009 - Jan 2011)

Industry: ISP, System Administrator, Custom Solutions, LMS, Computer Forensics.
Position: System Admin, Open Source Programmer, Research and Development

  • Web developer for PHP projects such as Drupal CMS. Moodle LMS, WordPress CMS, OSC for 12 different sites.
  • Blackberry Java developer including best approach, cost analysis, Completed 3 Mobile Applications.
  • Computer Forensics Technician, recover all details such as emails, from computers, drive images and laptops for import into a Legal Management System for lawyers to use for 6 different cases.
  • Fully customized an ISP management solution in PHP using the smarty template system and Photoshop CS5.

SDI Health, LLC, Plymouth Meeting, Pa (sept 2008 - Feb 2009)

Industry: Healthcare Informatics/Life Sciences/Software Development
Position:B Web Administrator, Open Source Programmer

  • Web developer for 3 high volume consumer allergy related websites.
  • Full life cycle development that heavily involved object-oriented methodologies, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
  • Extensive client site updates involving ASP, PHP, SQL and MSSQL on enterprise level hardware
  • Completed 30 pages of seasonal ASP / PHP / MSSQL & MySQL code changes for flustar.com and rsvalert.com
  • Consumer sites SEO, increased PollenLibrary.com search traffic 400% by optimizing header, footer, and content of 1.7 million pages of botany related content.
  • Evaluate new software and solutions to speed up common webadmin tasks.
  • Automated weblog processing from two days down to one hour with batch and script processing.
  • Re-wrote all Web Administrator documentation to use newly developed methods.

Expert Witness, Penna, Grabois & Associates, LLC, Ambler 2008

  • Gathered evidence from the web, laptops and hard drive images to compile lengthy reports of case related details. Assist in completing sworn formal affidavits for legal cases.

Web Systems Developer- System Administrator-Engineer DCS (2002 - 2008)

  • Design, develop, and maintain sites on the Internet using Perl & PHP.B Duties included creating, hosting, Securing and monitoring sites running Windows 2003, IIS, MSSQL, Centos, MYSQL and BSD.
  • Wrote hundreds of Custom ASP / Perl / Ajax Scripts and solutions for many different types of websites.
  • Build, configure and deploy Internet servers running Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and MSSQL & IIS
  • Wrote 50+ custom ASP/VB/PHP/HTML applications and solutions for various Internet based businesses.

Senior System Administrator, Bigchalk Inc (June 2000 - Nov 2002)

  • Wrote Troubleshooting automation system and infrastructure mapping solution to help increase uptime from 85% to 99.9%
  • Developer Support for 52 programmers; troubleshoot server, compile, runtime and environment issues for Java, Perl, Tomcat, C++, WebObjects and IDE. Learned many aspects of current computer languages including troubleshooting, coding, memory leak repair and debugging.
  • B Develop software tools for use on high volume production systems and QA using PHP and Oracle database servers. Care of Windows IIS Servers.B Administrated SGI, Sun and X86 UNIX Enterprise Systems hardware and software for production infrastructure.
  • Code Management SE for CVS and ClearCase hardware and software.
  • Third level MSSQL & Oracle DBA on demand support for two DBA. Learned troubleshooting, interfacing, optimization and tracing for large scale high volume production databases.
  • Third Level Analyst on call for 242 servers for 12 websites monthly including search farm for elibrary.com and bigchalk.com. Solved all problems help desk or support personnel could not fix.

Computer Repair Company b American Eagle Computer Svc. Inc. (1994 - 1996)

  • Built Company from ground up. Including Infrastructure. Operate Service department; manage all technical aspects of Company.B Provided computer services to hundreds of Montgomery County residents. Provided third level support for issues that were beyond the call center or technicians.

Internet Service Provider

  • Designed and built complete ISP from scratch including hardware and networking Infrastructure.
  • System admin for 250 users and 60 virtual domains.
  • Maintain infrastructure including DNS, Sendmail, Monitoring, Security, and User Management.
  • Researched, selected, installed and configured all hardware and networking equipment.

Education

Schools:

CHI-Rets Campus Broomall

  • Associates Degree in Specialized Technology (heavy emphasis on web):B

Studied electronics engineering, assembly language and C++ programming. 2 years.

Montgomery County Vocational Technical School

  • Data Processing and Electronics. 2 yrs.

 

Corporate Training

  • TCP/IP, PHP, Perl, C++ / C+, SunOS, Visual Basic 6, PC Hardware and software, DB3, DB4, Java, WebObjects, CVS, ClearCase, Raid, SunOS Clusters, Search Farm, Code Management, Tomcat, Oracle, Mysql, Sybase/MSSQL

Skills & Interests

Languages:

Fluent in English.

IT Skills:

  • Methodology- Object Oriented Analysis, Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Programming, FSDLC, SOX, BCP, Process Flow, Program Structure, Unit Testing
  • Operating Systems- Linux, (multiple versions), Unix (all common variants), and most current release of Windows
  • Applications- MS Office All Versions, MS Project and Visio, MS Outlook, MS Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, InstallShield, Active Directory, Informatica and IIS.
  • Technical Services b
  • Security b
  • Databases- MySQL (4.1/5.0),B MS SQL Server (2000/2003/2007),B Sybase, MS Access.
  • Hardware - Setup and configuration PCs/Servers-IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco Routers/Switches, Wireless Routers, VPN, Rimage Autostar II CD/DVD production servers.
  • Languages- PHP, Perl, C/C++, JAVA, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, DHTML, XML, VB, Bash, DOS.

 

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