Software Engineer
Portland, Oregon Area
Software Engineer
Portland, Oregon Area
* Systems administrator and project manager with over 10 years of experience
* Perl programmer, Drupal enthusiast
* Conference organizer and speaker
* PostgreSQL User Group Liaison
Perl, Mac OS X, PostgreSQL, troubleshooting, project management, ERP systems, embedded systems management, systems administration, network administration, drupal, wordpress, CMS, automation, Linux, conference organizing
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (5 months)
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year)
Coordinate activities of PostgreSQL User Groups in North America, and connect internationally with other user groups, non-profits and conferences of interest to PostgreSQL users.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
We are an Oregon non-profit organization; however, we are NOT a tax exempt organization. We will be applying for but do NOT currently have (and may never achieve) 501(c) (3) tax -exempt status.
The purpose of this organization is to
1. Grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events.
2. Make it easier for community members to organize technology events.
3. Provide resources and assistance for technology community events.
(Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Co-organizer of PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007.
Co-organizer of PostgreSQL Conference East 2008.
Lead monthly meetings about PostgreSQL
Have presented on troubleshooting PL/PgSQL and PostgreSQL installation on Mac OS X.
(Consumer Goods industry)
August 2004 — July 2008 (4 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — February 2008 (1 month)
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
December 2002 — July 2004 (1 year 8 months)
* Managed IT-related construction projects for 12 schools in one year
* Replaced aging ethernet hubs with Cisco and HP switches for every school
* Wrote and won grant for implementing a TDM-over-IP network to replace T1 circuits, saving district $10k per year
* Designed and implemented LDAP account management for Linux, Windows and Mac using Perl, MySQL
* Implemented DMZ for public web services
* Managed a student employee
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1999 — December 2002 (3 years 7 months)
Managed large office, lab and data center network infrastructure for 2000-person chip design center. Included VPN, Modem/ISDN, LAN routing, capacity planning, UNIX system administration, network security, management and training of network operators. Management of student intern. Deployed data center and office network during construction. Created a network monitoring tool for Cisco devices using Perl, CGI and MySQL. Provided end-user UNIX support, primarily Linux with AIX, HPUX, FreeBSD, and BSDi.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Created network security policies and software recommendations for UNIX administrators. Programming and designing Java/C/C++ applications to aid in administration of UO's network. Thesis was based on work experience with security management and partially implemented in Perl.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
BA, Computer Science, minor in Chemistry, 1994 — 1999
programming, perl, databases, urban chickens
Leader of Portland PostgreSQL Users Group (PDXPUG)
Portland PerlMongers, Code-n-splode, PDXPUG, Portland Code Sprint