Relevant Experience:

Senior UI Developer - 2001 - 2009

Isilon Systems, Inc

  • As sole developer of the Isilon Web User Interface from 2001-2006, I wrote the DHTML/Javascript browser-based command and control application as well as the Python-to-C interface for the Isilon appliance, and the Python/Django application server. The Isilon IQ, with my UI, led to Isilon's 2006 IPO with a value of over $100 million.
  • From 2006-2009, I developed rich web interfaces for related Isilon products including the SmartConnect DNS distributor, SnapshotIQ software, and Isilon SmartQuotas, using Prototype/Scriptaculous and Ext-JS on a standard LAMP platform.
  • Developed a test-driven development program for UI development with FireWATIR, WebUnit, and Cucumber.
  • Maintained the Apache webserver and Python language base components of the Isilon IQ Appliance.

Systems Software Developer - 1998 - 2000

F5 Networks

  • Merged previously separate C++ GUI and C console libraries for low-level appliance interface, effectively halving maintenance time and doubling resources.
  • Created Perl-based health-check code using off-the-shelf libraries to administer back-end services and automate quality of service systems.
  • Wrote and maintained Perl/Curses boot-up system for four generations of F5 appliances.

Systems Software Developer - 1994 - 1998

CompuServe Information Services Internet Consulting Division

  • Managed over sixty corporate and small-business websites simultaneously using an in-house, Perl-based monitoring system. I developed a collating web-management toolkit, compiling all relevant information about a web server farm into a single set of documents for ease-of-monitoring, reducing management time by 80%.
  • Implemented a secure pull-technology distribution server system for testing and updating corporate websites off-line in Python, generating $140,000 a year.
  • Innovated the first commercial use of OraPerl, allowing customer Pacific Power to use an Oracle-based database directly on the web.
  • Launched the first multi-homed commercial web service in 1994 on Linux and SunOS 4.1.3.
  • Designed and implemented in Perl, C++ and Oracle a new customer registration toolkit for Internet appliances, generating 40,000 new accounts.

Webmaster - 1994 - 1996

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

  • Conceived, designed and implemented a complete end-to-end solution for translating NCMECs BBS-based missing-children image library into an on-line database with search engine, automatic banner generation, and administrative console, using Apache, MySQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, and Linux.

RELEVANT SKILLS

  • LAMP Deployment
  • Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP
  • HTML/XHTML/DOM
  • Javascript/ECMA
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • Unix shell programming
  • Unix server administration
  • Information Architecture
  • Appliance UI design

RELEVANT TOOLS

  • SVN/Subversion
  • Bugzilla/Trac
  • Doxygen
  • Apache
  • Webware
  • Django
  • Rails
  • Wordpress
  • MediaWiki
  • MySQL
  • EXT-JS
  • Prototype/Scriptaculous
  • Dojo
  • jQuery
  • Gimp/NetPBM
  • Autoconf/Make
  • FireWATIR/Cucumber

OTHER PROJECTS

  • Linux driver for the Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick without Force Feedback
  • Documentation and Time-to-Service modifications, Apache mod_log.c
  • Thinksaber, a toy that turns a Linux Thinkpad into a lightsaber
  • Custom Wordpress themes for three political campaigns and one non-political fund-raiser
  • Rails-to-PHP interface connecting a Rails-based portal site to PHPBB.
  • XALT, a Django-based intranet tool for teaching x86 Assembly language.
  • Elody, a Django-based publishing platform for fiction.

REFERENCES

  • Available on request