Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Director of Information Technology at Minnesota Campaign for Change
- President at Kepler Solutions, Inc
- Past
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- Web Application Developer at DigitalWork
- Computer Consultant (Self-employed)
- Internet Systems Virtuoso at Red Hat, Inc.
- Database Engineer at C2Net Software, Inc.
- Education
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- Elmhurst College
- Elmhurst College
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Paul Weinstein’s Summary
A software engineer with extensive technology industry experience working in startup-type environments with small to medium sized teams developing, deploying and administrating business critical solutions.
Paul Weinstein’s Specialties:
Project development, deployment and integration, Open Source tools (Linux, Apache, Perl, MySQL, FreeBSD, OpenSSL, et al.), technical writing and presentation.
Paul Weinstein’s Experience
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Director of Information Technology
Minnesota Campaign for Change
(Political Organization industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
Primarily work with state campaign leaders, including the State Field Director and Operations Director in understanding and developing technological solutions to further assist the field staff in organizing support for Senator Obama’s presidential campaign in a “key battleground state.”
Recruit, organize and manage a team of a dozen technologically knowledgeable volunteers to provide first-tier desktop and network support.
Additional tasks include working as an intermediary between the national campaign technology office and state offices in providing network, server and personal computer support. -
President
Kepler Solutions, Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — Present (5 years 3 months)
In August of 2003 incorporated Kepler Solutions, a computer consulting company, to solidify computer consulting business and continue on in developing Open Source based solutions for small to medium sized organizations. Key past and current clients include: a private web hosting company, Laughing Squid; independent film studio, Studio B; public title insurance company, Chicago Title Insurance Company, a private computer consulting company PerlUSA and private law firm Janssen Doyle, LLP.
* Developed a web front-end for a prototype Instant Message proxy service using Perl modules CGI::Application and HTML::Template and Apache module mod_perl.
* Co-author of Beginning Unix titles published by Wrox Press. -
Web Application Developer
DigitalWork
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Assisted in maintaining and enhancing the company’s main product Zoomshare, a web-based service that provides individuals with an easy way to create their own personal web site and share their site with others. Development of Zoomshare services occurs on an Open Source stack of tools including, FreeBSD, Apache, Qmail, Perl and Postgres
Key developer of new enhancements, such as Zoomshare Widgets, to improve customer experience and keep Zoomshare services inline with customer expectations with the growing socialization of the web, "Web 2.0" -
Computer Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Assisted clients in system administration and deployment of network services on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux. Supported desktop users on Mac OS, OS X and Windows XP desktop systems.
Co-authored Professional Apache Security published by Wrox Press and presented security-centric sessions at O'Reilly Open Source Conference, ApacheCon, Open Source Health Care Alliance Meeting and LinuxWorld Expo in 2002, 2003. -
Internet Systems Virtuoso
Red Hat, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Accountable for overseeing activities associated with migration of C2Net Software's customer data and web content to Red Hat's existing systems. Handled content and service management for several Red Hat web properties. Served as contributor to the Stronghold Web Server product team.
Also developed and successfully delivered presentations at industry conferences with focus on implementation and maintenance of a secured Apache Web Server. -
Database Engineer
C2Net Software, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 4 months)
Recruited to provide database engineering expertise for design, development and management of an in-house e-mail and web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system using Apache, Perl, MySQL and FreeBSD. Trained staff in the proper utilization of the CRM database system.
Also coordinated and managed system administration and network security functions. These tasks included establishing an in-house helpdesk system (Apache, Perl, MySQL), manage C2Net web site content and back-end systems (Apache, Perl, PHP and FreeBSD) and maintain an internal private certificate authority (OpenSSL).
Paul Weinstein’s Education
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Elmhurst College
Master of Business Administration, General Management, 2005 — 2008
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Elmhurst College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, September 1993 — January 1998
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