Professional Experience

Independent Embedded Engineer (self-employed) 2015 - Present

• Design and build systems with hardware, firmware, and software components.
• Design circuits and circuit boards using EDA tools such as Spice and Eagle.
• Prototype, test, and debug circuits on my fully equipped electronics bench.
• Work with SBCs, the Arduino ecosystem, ARM MCUs (STM32), and Atmel MCUs.
• Coordinate with companies providing PCB fabrication and assembly services.

Consultant (self-employed) 2004 - Present

• Advise clients on all aspects of web, IT, and software development projects.
• Assist clients with writing software and implementing IT systems.

Director of Web Development, Tower Marketing 2012 - 2013

• Managed production team.
• Directed development of LAMP stack web applications.
• Maintained and improved PCI compliant web hosting infrastructure serving dozens of domains.
• Evaluated and adopted technical solutions based on analysis of business needs.
• Instituted development process improvements that added directly to company bottom line.
• Managed LAN including firewall, VPN servers, development servers, and Mac workstations.

Chief Architect / Advisor to the Board, vzillion Inc. 2009 - 2012

• Advised CEO and Board on technology issues and made strategic recommendations.
• Spearheaded design of vzillion's proprietary semantic web platform.
• Managed distributed development team.
• Developed prototypes of semantic web platform components.

Technical Director, Top Floor Studio 2006 - 2007

• Managed production team including six full-time employees and various contractors.
• Directed and led development of custom web applications.
• Supervised production of web sites based on Joomla, WordPress, and other CMS software.
• Oversaw maintenance of IT infrastructure for web hosting and development.

Senior Systems Engineer, MDL Information Systems 2001 - 2004

• Coordinated IT and development efforts on www.discoverygate.com.
• Created custom toolkit for monitoring and testing performance of www.discoverygate.com.
• Led IT support for www.discoverygate.com and MDL's configuration management group.
• Helped write IT policy through service on steering and security committees.
• Built and maintained host/network monitoring system based on Nagios.
• Maintained network services including DNS, NFS, NIS, email, and IRC.

Custom Systems Administrator, Inktomi Corporation 2000 - 2001

• Collaborated with sales, customer service, and clients to develop custom search solutions.
• Customized proprietary document collection, indexing, and searching software to meet clients' unique needs.
• Administered large Sun/Solaris clusters in 24/7/365 high availability production environment.
• Created system administration, statistical analysis, and development tools in Perl and Python.

Project Leader, Aexpert Inc. 1999 - 2000

• Assisted with the design and development of proprietary neural network based trading system.
• Maintained and improved proprietary data acquisition and time-series data storage systems.
• Led the development of an asset-allocation/risk-management system.
• Oversaw production operation of trading system used to manage accounts with total assets in excess of $50,000,000.

Freelance Web Developer 1997 - 2000

• Designed and developed web applications using the CGI interface in C and Perl.
• Assisted clients with all aspects of developing and maintaining their web sites.
• Developed distributed system to monitor the operational status of clients' web sites.

Software Engineer Intern, GeoSystems Global Corp. (mapquest.com) 1997

• Assisted in design of GeoSystem's MapWare Server product.
• Implemented MapWare Server API libraries in Java and Perl.
• Designed and implemented web traffic analysis software.
• Developed server and web administration tools in Perl.

Technical Co-op, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 1996

• Developed engineering data management applications in Perl and C.
• Created CGI-based user interfaces to existing software systems.
• Assisted with systems administration of Linux, SunOS, and Solaris servers.

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