Uri Guttman
			   79 Everett Street
			 Arlington,  MA  02474
			     (781) 643-7504
			  Fax: (781) 643-2710
			   uri AT sysarch.com
			 http://www.sysarch.com
		       http://www.stemsystems.com

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

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