Software Engineer at Consumer Source, Inc.
Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Software Engineer at Tek Systems
- Past
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- Software Engineer III at Sunrise Telecom
- Sr. Systems Engineer at Matrix (Media Ocean)
- Manager, Systems Engineering at Web.com
- Systems Software Engineer at Web.com
- Unix Systems Developer at Web.com
- Programmer Analyst at Center for Secure and Dependable Software, University of Idaho
- UNIX assistant system administrator/webmaster at Information Technology Services Networks and Systems, University of Idaho
- Intern at Hewlett Packard
- Intern at Hewlett Packard
- HelpDesk Technician at Help Desk, University of Idaho
- Education
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- University of Idaho
- University of Idaho
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Jason Noble’s Summary
I have broad experience with websites and hosting based technologies including Perl, Apache, MySQL, Sendmail and many other technologies. From a technological standpoint my favorite is Perl scripting.
I have been a manager for a number of years and enjoy figuring out the requirements for a project and then assigning those tasks to individual team members. I then support the team members as needed for them to accomplish the tasks.
Jason Noble’s Specialties:
Direct team supervision, Perl scripting, management decision making including hiring and firing decisions.
Jason Noble’s Experience
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Software Engineer
Tek Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
Automation Engineer for the Infrastructure group.
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Software Engineer III
Sunrise Telecom
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SRTI; Telecommunications industry)
August 2007 — June 2008 (11 months)
Brought in mid project to help on a Ruby on Rails project that provides a web based customer interface to the company’s cable test equipment. Implement new features to make the product more robust. Technologies include Ajax, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Perl, CSS, Apache and MySQL. Multiple Rails plugins including Rmagick (image generation), Active RBAC (Role based user access control), others as needed. Created and maintained RedHat RPM based system (yum/mrepo) for product rollout. Created process for converting Ruby Gems into RPMs. Subversion SME, including training classes and 1x1 training for software and hardware engineers, as well as management. Maintained intranet wiki for company projects, as well as bugzilla instances.
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Sr. Systems Engineer
Matrix (Media Ocean)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)
Researched, implemented and deployed a web based front end application for the company helpdesk to run Perl scripts as required. Application was built utilizing the Ruby on Rails framework. Application included user authentication, dynamic field generation, script tags and other user requested functionality. Researched source control (subversion) system to replace legacy CVS system. Built perl RPMs to help automate system build processes.
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Manager, Systems Engineering
Web.com
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; WWWW; Internet industry)
October 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 5 months)
Directly managed a team of seven systems engineers, dealing with RedHat Linux, Windows and other Unix based systems. Managed the systems side of the data center consolidation project consolidating 10,000+ servers down to less than 1500. I taught and mentored junior level developers to develop and/or sharpen their Perl skills. Led the development process for consolidation project including MySQL database schemas, perl scripting on Windows and RedHat, automated reporting of statuses. Worked in a large enterprise environment with multiple datacenters located throughout the country.
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Systems Software Engineer
Web.com
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; WWWW; Internet industry)
January 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 10 months)
Primarily involved with enhancements and sustaining engineering on Freedom virtual private server product. This involved testing the product, documenting and repairing bugs (utilizing CVS and Bugzilla). Testing involved testing command line programs, as well as graphical web based control panels. Also performed release engineering of Freedom, involving FreeBSD packages (similar to RedHat Linux RPMs) and other custom written applications. As part of a data center closure, automated migration scripts to move existing customers to a new data center as part of a planned product upgrade. The web based control panel for the Freedom virtual private server product is written entirely in Perl. Created Redhat Linux 9 dedicated server build including Redhat Package Manager (RPM). Built custom Redhat linux RPMs (rpmbuild) as needed for platform requirements and upgrades.
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Unix Systems Developer
Web.com
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; WWWW; Internet industry)
May 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 9 months)
Automated the unix system administration tasks to reduce the number of administrators required to support over 200 systems with over 10,000 customers. Worked with unix system administrators group to develop Perl scripts to automate system administration tasks for RedHat Linux based systems. Architected, designed, developed and deployed Perl scripts to achieve system monitoring, paging systems, migration scripts, database tools, system statistics scripts, report generating scripts and other unix scripts. Created class curriculum and slides to teach Perl to RedHat Linux system administrators.
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Programmer Analyst
Center for Secure and Dependable Software, University of Idaho
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2000 — May 2000 (5 months)
Utilized Java tools to add functionality to a nationally used computer security application that is under active development (Hummer). Explained and helped students in the Network Security class to write their own programs to add functionality to Hummer.
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UNIX assistant system administrator/webmaster
Information Technology Services Networks and Systems, University of Idaho
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 5 months)
UNIX assistant system administrator/webmaster, manage user processes, install software on HP-UX and FreeBSD machines, web page development/support including Web Course in a Box administration, majordomo administration (both Unix and web based), other user management. First point of contact for problems with system CGI programs installed on the UI web server. Advised departments on campus about problems with web pages and web-based solutions to real world problems.
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Intern
Hewlett Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — August 1999 (4 months)
SEED Intern, worked with GSM protocols, client server interactions between HP-UX workstation and Cellular Phone test product, adhering to GSM standards. Consulted for several departments on web page design and solutions to web related problems.
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Intern
Hewlett Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
May 1998 — August 1998 (4 months)
SEED Intern, worked with CGI, Perl, HTML and JavaScript to create a web interface to ClearCase (Commercial Revision Control System). This interface allows users to view files under revision control, allowing check out, check in and merge capabilities among others. The interface required lots of error checking and error handling both via JavaScript and the CGI script.
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HelpDesk Technician
Help Desk, University of Idaho
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 3 months)
Customer support including phone support, email and walk-ins. Support software packages including Win95, Win3.1, UNIX, webpage development and support, PPP dial up scripting, and general problem solving techniques. Wrote miscellaneous perl scripts as needed to automate helpdesk functions.
Jason Noble’s Education
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University of Idaho
Network Security Learning Products 2000 — 2000
Network Security Learning Products directed study course under Dr. Deborah Frincke. Created applications in Java that were used by students to help learn the concepts of computer security, as well as performing administrative tasks, including helping students with class projects.
- Activities and Societies:
- National Residence Halls Honors Association, Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE
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University of Idaho
BSCS, Computer Science, August 1994 — May 2000
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Jason Noble’s Interests:
Digital photography, Perl scripting
Jason Noble’s Groups:
Atlanta Perl Mongers Group
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Atlanta Perl Mongers
Jason Noble’s Honors:
Eagle Scout
