James Polera

Current

• Assistant IT Manager at Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC
• Owner at Uncryptic Communications

Past

• Developer/SysAdmin at Zucker, Goldberg, & Ackerman
• Unix Administrator at J&D Associates
• Lab assistant at Kean University

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Education

• Kean University

Recommended

1 person has recommended James

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• Tumblr

James Polera’s Summary

- Language experience: Perl, Python, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Java, Ruby, XML, JSON

- Database administration: MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server

- Web Frameworks: Django, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Web.py

- Source code management: Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar-NG

- Operating systems: Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Arch Linux, Redhat Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows (2000/XP/2003/Vista)

- Extensive experience in integration and extending of legacy systems to work with emerging technologies.

- Thorough understanding of protocols (i.e. HTTP, SMTP) and their correct applications.

James Polera’s Specialties:

Web services, Perl, Python, text processing, process automation, Linux and BSD configuration and administration

James Polera’s Experience

• Assistant IT Manager

  Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC

  (Privately Held; Law Practice industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Oversees software development efforts, participates in same and reports to the IT Director.

• Owner

  Uncryptic Communications

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

• Developer/SysAdmin

  Zucker, Goldberg, & Ackerman

  (Privately Held; Law Practice industry)

  2003 — November 2008 (5 years )

  Upgraded, implemented and maintained a combination of Windows 2000, CentOS Linux and Ubuntu Linux
  servers. Developed Crystal Reports, and a intranet webbased portal application written in
  PHP and MySQL. Administered MySQL Servers configured for replication over the LAN. Introduced Perl as an
  integration tool between legacy systems and MySQL backend projects. Developed web applications using the
  Django web framework.

• Unix Administrator

  J&D Associates

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  Worked with a team of 5 technicians supporting a variety of network configurations. Administered FreeBSD web and DNS servers.

• Lab assistant

  Kean University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  Assisted students with C++ assignments. Performed intermediate computer lab administration.

James Polera’s Education

• Kean University

  Computer Science, IS 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

James Polera’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Tumblr

James Polera’s Groups:

•    Perl Mongers
•    Legal IT Network
•    Django
•    Linux Users

James Polera’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests