Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Programmer Analyst III at SAIC-Frederick
- Past
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- Technical Support Engineer at Interwoven, Inc
- Technical Consultant at Interwoven
- Software Engineer at Cidera, Inc
- Senior Engineer at Lockheed Martin
- Software Engineer at Solipsys Corporation
- Programmer at JHU Applied Physics Lab
- Tutor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Education
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- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Michael Gurski’s Summary
Software developer and sytem administrator currently developing new applications in a variety of languages, primarily perl and ruby, and multiple databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL to support both internal and external customers. Additionally, modification and support for various current open source tools and frameworks, for servers, desktops, and webapps, on Linux & Windows, including OTRS and Metadot.
Michael Gurski’s Specialties:
Coding, hacking, perl, ruby, C, C++, web apps, Rails, linux, apache, OTRS, Metadot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, shell, scripting
Michael Gurski’s Experience
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Programmer Analyst III
SAIC-Frederick
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Analyst
AMTI
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)
Develop .Net applications as needed.
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Lead, Open Source Tools
AMTI
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)
* Customize and provide commercial support and installation for existing open source applications such as OTRS, the Open Ticket Request System, for new and existing AMTI customers.
* Develop new applications for internal business units.
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User Support Specialist
AMTI
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Customizing and adapting existing open source tools to meet the needs of the NCCS Helpdesk at NASA GSFC. Customized tools include OTRS, a web- and email-based Open-source Ticket Request System, replacing a Remedy AR ticketing system. Develop new toolsets in order to solve both existing and new complex helpdesk and user management problems at the NCCS Helpdesk, such as a semi-realtime system utilization metrics gathering script to generate usage graphs on NCCS High Performance Computing systems. Evaluate and recommend new technologies to meet emerging needs. Additionally, perform part-time system administration duties, managing both Linux desktop and server machines, running Debian Stable and RedHat Fedora.
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Technical Support Engineer
Interwoven, Inc
(Public Company; IWOV; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 4 months)
Provide both first and second level phone and email technical support to Interwoven customers, partners, and consultants covering the full range of Interwoven products. Specific support for TeamSite, TeamSite Templating, OpenDeploy, workflows, data capture and presentation templating. Active member of the support Triage Team dedicated to resolving long-standing and difficult support requests.
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Technical Consultant
Interwoven
(Public Company; IWOV; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for installing, configuring, customizing, troubleshooting, and resolving installation and runtime issues for TeamSite and TeamSite Templating (4.5 through 5.5.2) enterprise content management software, and OpenDeploy (4.5 through 5.6) content distribution software. Responsible for diagnosing problems between Interwoven and third-party software installations. Regularly develop and debug perl scripts, XML workflows, TeamSite Datacapture and Presentation Templates. Integrate Interwoven products with other web-based technologies such as PHP, ASP, JavaScript, CGI, and JSP. Provide customer data integration using the perl DBI interface from TeamSite Templating. Provide extensive documentation of customizations upon completion of each engagement.
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Software Engineer
Cidera, Inc
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — January 2001 (6 months)
Developed client software in C and perl for embedded satellite-based web caching systems to allow clients to develop custom applications, and then remotely deploy to Cidera POPs, running FreeBSD. Developed web-mapping and network throughput collection suite in perl to be remotely deployed to company POPs, utilizing existing network monitoring tools (ping, traceroute, mtr, bing, and pchar). Developed web retrieval timer to test lookups and web page retrievals on live sites versus cached sites with DNS redirection. Investigated modifying BIND DNS server to support dynamic redirection allowing caching customers to have web sites redirected to ISP-local Cidera cache boxes.
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Senior Engineer
Lockheed Martin
(Public Company; LMT; Defense & Space industry)
October 1998 — August 2000 (1 year 11 months)
Naval electronics and Surveillance Systems -- Marine Systems. Developed embedded, distributed, networked real-time systems software using WindRiver Systems' VxWorks and the Tornado development suite for Pentium-class embedded systems in PC104+ form factor, utilizing multiple TCP/IP networking protocols including TCP, UDP, DHCP. Implemented process automation tools using a World Wide Web (WWW) interface. System administration and software installation of project's Sun Enterprise 450 server and Ultra SPARC workstations. Networking and software trouble-shooting and performance evaluation. Maintenance and configuration of VxWorks kernels for development and testing platforms.
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Software Engineer
Solipsys Corporation
(Defense & Space industry)
March 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Developed series of GUI-based regression tests for Java applications. Developed a Java-based implementation of the IETF's Transport Layer Security protocol for use in a variety of internally produced products. Developed an on-line, web-based timecard and e-mail system for deployment throughout the company, utilizing CGI scripting and database access (SQL-based). Implemented a customized sales and contact management system for use in a major DC-area automotive group using available COTS products. Integrated a series of HTML forms, PDF documents, and signature-capture hardware for an on-line human resources system. Routine system administration.
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Programmer
JHU Applied Physics Lab
(Defense & Space industry)
June 1995 — March 1997 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for development of graphical display and interface under X-Windows and Motif for a naval battle simulator. Implemented dynamically modifiable command-line interface for internal development library. Developed a graphical debugger for high performance distributed simulation system.
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Tutor
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 1995 — January 1997 (2 years )
Responsible for tutoring other students in practical and theoretical applications of C and C++, VAX/VMS assembly, Data Structures, and Principles of Programming Languages.
Michael Gurski’s Education
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
BS , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- Computer Science Council of Majors, Student Government Association, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, UMBC Linux Users Group
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Michael Gurski’s Interests:
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