Education

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

Computer Skills

Perl (20 years)

• Developer of Stem, a network toolkit and application suite.
• Developed modules on CPAN (ID: URI) Most of the modules are noted for being the fastest of their class.
• Author of File::Slurp which is included in over 500 distributions on CPAN
• Customer support, code reviewing and training.

Human Resources

• Founder and CEO of PerlHunter.com, a 100% Perl placement agency
• Created the original Perl jobs list (now jobs.perl.org)

Training, Writing and Documentation

• Guru level Perl support services
• Technical editor of 4 Perl books.
• Producer of Perl classes
• Author of Perl talks, articles and tutorials.
• 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.
• Excellent English and writing skills.

Language Systems

• Developed run time library for PL/I
• Created a proprietary language for voice response application system

Communications

• Created Stem, a message passing architecture
• TCP/IP, sockets, multiplexing I/O.

Selected Employment History

May 2006 - Ongoing
Perl Recruiting
Perl Hunter, Arlington, MA

• Founded Perl Hunter, the only 100% Perl recruiting agency
• Placed over 80 Perl developers

Aug. 2010 - Mar. 2011
Perl Development
Order In, New York, NY

• Designed and developed ETL system to load XML menus into it into a DB

Apr. 2010 - June 2010
Perl Development
Cycles Data Research Corp. Ridgefield, CT

• Designed and developed system to parse stock ticker data, load it into a DB and generate reports

Apr. 2009 - May 2010
Perl Support
Redweek, Seattle, WA

• Providing Perl support to a developer

Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2008
Perl Support
Freightliner, Inc. Portland, OR

• Providing Perl support to a developer
• Code review, debug help, CPAN assistance, etc.

Aug. 2006 - Sep. 2007
Perl Projects
Trexy, London, UK

• Developed Template::Simple module and published it to CPAN.
• Developed proprietary module for their search system.

Sep. 2005 - Apr. 2006
Perl Development
Osoft, Inc., Portland, OR

• Led team developing a new Ebook reader
• Located and placed Perl developers on team

Sep. 2004 - Dec. 2004
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.

Sep. 1984 - June 1986
Systems Engineer
Translation Systems, Waltham, MA

• Ported 4.1 BSD UNIX to NS-32000 single board computer
• Developed run-time library code for PL/I compiler

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

• Developed real-time operating system (RTOS) on PDP-11.