Education

• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, M.I.T., June 1983

Computer Skills

Perl

• Developer of Stem, a network toolkit and application suite.
• Developed modules on CPAN
• Presented papers at Perl and Open Source Conferences.
• Code reviewing and training.
• Active participant in the design of Perl 6.

Communications

• Created message passing architecture for Stem (stemsystems.com).
• TCP/IP, sockets, multiplexing I/O.
• Serial line protocols.

Systems Design

• Middleware systems.
• Multi-process client/server systems.
• Architected APIs for many libraries and systems

Writing and Documentation

• Author of Perl articles and tutorials.
• Technical editor of 4 Perl books.
• Co-author of award winning paper, "A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting", presented at the 3rd Perl Conference.
• Written system specifications and documentation for many systems.

Language Systems

• Created mini-language to control sync/async flow control in Stem
• Developed run time library for PL/I
• Created a proprietary language for voice response application system

System and Network Administration

• Solaris, BSD, Linux, OSX, Windows.
• Installation, system and kernel configuration.
• Web servers, NFS, NIS/YP, TCP/IP, email.
• Local networks, terminal servers,

Operating System Internals

• UNIX system internals.
• Ported BSD to custom single board computer
• Device drivers.
• Real time systems.

Computer Experience

• Perl (11 years), C (20 years), SQL, HTML, CGI, UNIX/GNU shells, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, others.
• Sparc, x86, Alpha, others.
• Solaris, Linux, BSD, other UNIX, Windows.

Selected Employment History

Sep. 2004 - Present
Consultant
Athena Health, Inc. Waltham, MA

• Upgraded large web application to use Perl 5.8.5 (was on 5.005)
• Refactoring a large utility module (150 subs)
• Refectoring of their unit test system

Mar. 2004 - Aug. 2004
Consultant
Fidelity Investments Boston, MA

• Analysis and review of Perl based web templating system which handles 20 million hits/day
• Proposed new templating schemes to simplify the code and to allow easier maintenance
• Corporate-wide Perl expert
• Perl education and training

May 2003 - Nov. 2003
Consultant
Sportsline, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Perl education and training
• Code review and refactoring of existing modules

Feb. 2002 - Nov. 2002
Consultant
The Napa Project

• Developed specialized web crawler
• Assisted in development of search engine
• Designed RDBMS schema and implemented SQL
• Wrapped C library in Perl
• System infrastructure and control was all based on Stem

Jul. 1999 - Aug. 1999
Consultant
Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA

• Ran Perl classes for employees, beginner to advanced levels.
• Developed Perl modules for IP address processing.

Jan. 1999 - May 1999
Consultant
Ironbridge Networks, Lexington, MA

• Developed parts database system in Perl.
• Developed Perl system for Bill of Materials management.
• Developed support utilities in Perl

Jun. 1998 - Aug. 1998
Consultant
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

• Developed system to transfer and update selected parts of genetic database.
• System was written in Perl and used DBI/DBD to interface to Sybase.

Jun. 1996 - May 1997
Consultant
Northern Light, Cambridge, MA

• Developed world scale web crawler for search engine.
• Developed modules to convert data feeds to internal format.

Jun. 1994 - Mar. 1995
Software Engineer
UniPrise Systems, Burlington, MA

• Ported PL/I run-time library to Alpha OSF1
• Specified indexed record I/O system for PL/I run-time
• Created software configuration management system using make, Perl and RCS

Sep. 1988 - July 1992
Systems Architect
CommNetics, Natick, MA

• Co-founder of CommNetics.
• Chief software engineer.
• Leader of team of 4 developers.
• Developed patented (5,354,069) "Lottery by Phone" system.

Aug. 1980 - June 1983
Software Engineer
Perception Technology, Canton, MA