
Middleware Engineer at Case Western Reserve University and Information Technology and Services Consultant
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Middleware Engineer at Case Western Reserve University and Information Technology and Services Consultant
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Web developer focused on standards.
Middleware Engineer and Architect specializing in gluing "enterprise-y" systems to open source software: Identity Management, Federated Identity, Authz/Authn frameworks, Directory Services (LDAP), and large scale email deployments and web server/services deployments.
HTML, CSS, Javascript with a focus on standards (separation of markup, presentational, and behavioral layers -- unobtrusive Javascript).
Broad range of programming languages: Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, what-have-you.
Heavily experienced in all aspects and layers of the LAMP stack.
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Consulting and contract work specializing in web development with a focus on web standards and LAMP architectures.
Available for expertise in Identity Management, Directory Services (LDAP), Federated Identity, Web Standards, and large scale email services or web services deployment and architecture.
Selection from web design portfolio -- http://www.alpha-geek.com/demo (view the source).
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Architecture and deployment of middleware systems: Identity Management System, Federated Identity, Directory Services (LDAP). Deployment of large scale (100K+ users) email services, directory servers, and web servers.
Architect and developer of Case Western Reserve University's Blog System (http://blog.case.edu) and wiki system (http://wiki.case.edu).
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — February 2004 (2 years 11 months)
Developed web applications and account management systems using LAMP technologies.