Mike Friedman

Current

• Software Engineer at Edison Learning

Past

• Consultant at friedo
• Software Engineer at PlusThree, LP
• Software Engineer at Experian, Inc

• Developer at About.com, Inc

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Education

• State University of New York Empire State College
• Rochester Institute of Technology

Recommended

5 people have recommended Mike

Connections

51 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Mike Friedman’s Summary

Expert Perl programmer specializing in web applications, object-oriented systems development, mod_perl and data processing.

Mike Friedman’s Specialties:

Perl, CGI, mod_perl, Mason, Template Toolkit, MySQL, Apache, Linux, BSD, Javascript, C

Mike Friedman’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Edison Learning

  (Education Management industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Support and development for Edison's internal web applications and reporting systems.

• Consultant

  friedo

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Web application design and consulting for numerous clients. Projects included an automated processing system for digitizing and indexing a library collection of thousands of documents, incremental improvements to Mason and mod_perl based client front-ends, backend batch processing jobs, a distributed priority queue manager, and image manipulation software.

• Software Engineer

  PlusThree, LP

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — April 2006 (11 months)

  Major development work for versions 2 and 3 of the ARCOS platform, including
  several CGI::Application-based webapps, plugins for the Krang CMS, offline job
  queueing and processing, database design, dimensional modeling/data warehouse
  design, data warehouse reporting, and session management. 100% test-driven
  development via Test::Class.

• Software Engineer

  Experian, Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2004 — April 2005 (6 months)

  Ported large web application comprising several Perl CGI's with
  embedded HTML to mod_perl and Template Toolkit. Developed several
  support modules for mod_perl application framework. Optimized slow
  applications via code refactoring and database query aggregation.
  Developed system for automated web application regression testing.

• Developer

  About.com, Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRM; Internet industry)

  March 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 9 months)

  Wrote and maintained several systems for metrics analysis and client
  datafeeds purposes. Projects included web applications, large backend
  Object Oriented Perl applications, code maintenance and high-level
  design. Wrote custom modifications for Apache's mod_include code for
  use with BerkeleyDB. Assisted in the design and wrote APIs for custom
  authentication system.

Mike Friedman’s Education

• State University of New York Empire State College

  Computer Science 2003 — 2003

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  Computer Science 1999 — 2000

Additional Information

Mike Friedman’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Mike Friedman’s Interests:

Perl, programming, books, Linux, MacOS X, unicode, electronics, photography, movies,

Mike Friedman’s Groups:

•    Perl Mongers
•    CPAN Developers
•    Open Source
•    YAPC::NA 2008 - Chicago, IL

Mike Friedman’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries