michael skramstad

Current

• Software Engineer at My Lab

Past

• Web Administrator at The Designory, Inc.
• Owner at Skramstad Internet Advertsing (Self-employed)

Education

• Allan Hancock College

Connections

2 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

michael skramstad’s Summary

michael skramstad’s Specialties:

Developing new computer and internet technologies.

michael skramstad’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  My Lab

  (Internet industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Developing next generation distributed massively parallel search engine technology on Linux clusters using the Hadoop file system with a Hypertable layer, and software written in Perl. Writing web crawlers (robot spiders) and proprietary algorithms to judge quality and relevance for scoring documents. Tasks include systems and scalable database architecture, design, administration, and programming.

• Web Administrator

  The Designory, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Performing systems administration tasks and maintaining web servers that host Nissan Motors's web sites. Duties include Microsoft 2003 and Solaris server setup and configuration of Day Software's Communique ("CQ") content management system, IBM Websphere, and SVN repositories. Managing the deployment of code and content from development servers through QA, staging, and production servers. Inventing software to automate and enforce deployment processes and rules, using Perl, VBscript, BASH script, and C#. Inventing and writing a suite of application testing software that includes process monitoring and web app testing with automatic recovery. Tasks also include writing continuous build and integration scripts and Apache ANT build scripts to automatically compile Java, detect errors, and install executables into application servers, verify that the code runs correctly, and verify that data submitted into a web app are correctly inserted into a MSSQL or Oracle SQL database.

• Owner

  Skramstad Internet Advertsing (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  October 2000 — August 2006 (5 years 11 months)

  E-commerce software development in Perl and PHP that ran under Redhat, BSD, VA Linux operating systems on Apache web servers, and used the MySQL 4.0+ database. The duties included installing, maintaining, securing systems, networks, and designing databases. Perl applications included search engine submission software that filled in URL submission forms and multi-page forms for submissions to directories, and software to assist web site owners in filling out HTML title and meta tags on their web pages. Created and modified Microsoft ASP software and legacy code, and I created a program, in C#, to automatically adjust PPC bids to maintain constant ad positions, for a practically unlimited number of keywords. Research and development of information retrieval and relevance algorithms and factors.

michael skramstad’s Education

• Allan Hancock College

  A.A. , Liberal Arts , 1997 — 1999

Additional Information

michael skramstad’s Websites:

• My Website

michael skramstad’s Interests:

Surfing, spearfishing, and motorcycling.

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