Extensive experience with product development, software development, product testing, software maintenance, and technical support for commercial products. Management experience with software development, technical support, and IT departments. Over five years experience in radio and audio production including voice over, copywriting, production and air talent.
Proficiencies include C, DCL (scripting language), Assembler, Macro, Bliss, Apache, HTML, CSS. Familiar with Python, Django, Javascript, Node.js, Java, PHP, Perl, Objective-C, BASIC, Fortran.
Deployed and supported projects on OpenVMS, macOS, AWS Linux AMIs, Ubuntu and Windows.
I've been working with various election integrity teams across Oregon and the Country.
Worked with this pre-funded startup to get their Smart Home IoT device
to the demo stage.
Got AWS Node.js website working on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk (and
other services).
Defined AWS IoT backend for MVP.
Collaborated with embedded team (STM32 and NanoPi) to get the sensors
communicating with the SBC.
Worked at the Oakland and San Francisco ballparks running the systems that feed real time pitch data and play outcome to MLB Gameday, MLB AtBat, StatCast, and the broadcast trucks. Did troubleshooting of systems, software, network connections, video processing and broadcast graphics.
Aircraft Leaseback, Aviation Consulting, System and Software Consulting
Formed the LLC to buy a training aircraft to finish flight
training and lease it back to the flying club. Ran the business at a
profit for the seven years I owned the aircraft.
Helped others form LLCs and buy aircraft for leaseback.
Consulted on software and hardware configuration, web design, and
implementation for a diverse set of clients.
Air Talent, Music Curator, Audio Producer, Computer Manager
Voiced and music produced the 7PM-12M shift for four years. Produced and voiced a weekly alternate music show, broadcast on multiple outlets Worldwide. Maintained the station website (WordPress), station on-air automation (Simian), music (NatMuz), commercial logs (NatLog) and email system (GoDaddy).
Did a majority of the online technical support for the Path Finder product, a commercial file management tool for OSX written in Objective-C. Worked with Objective-C and X-Code.
OpenVMS point man for the POSIT institutional stock market
trading system. Configured, built, deployed, monitored and maintained
high availability, disaster tolerant, clusters in New York, New Jersey,
Boston, London, England; Dublin, Ireland; and Toronto, Canada.
Over the seven years I ran these systems I had zero application downtime.
POSIT on VMS used IBM MQ Series to communicate to Sun trading desks.
Spearheaded the team that migrated all of the VAX based production to the Alpha platform during the Y2K compliance project. This was done in parallel to the original project plan without having to add additional staff. Also setup code management and verification via CMS (code management), MMS (make tools) and regression testing with DTM (test management).
Initiated and completed a project to migrate the main production data center away from an outsourcer to in-house saving the company millions per year. Created a duplicate cluster that ran in parallel to the main outsource cluster, and reverse engineered programs that were proprietary to the outsourcer.
Wrote a disk and tape archive and restore program to replace a product that had been retired by a vendor. Reversed engineered a replacement product using the documentation and help files.
Principal developer and programmer for the Manager series, a set of network-wide system management tools written primarily in VAX/DEC C.
Primary technical support analyst for the CacheManager product, a cluster-wide data caching product that used any free memory on any of the systems in the cluster to cache data. Did the support spectrum from end-user support, to kernel-level debugging, and crash dump analysis.
Primary technical support analyst for the DiskMizer product, a compression disk that saved disk space, but looked like a normal disk to the OS.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 3D Computer Graphics and Animation courses.
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Java Certification Track and Perl courses.
DECUS (et al) Training, OpenVMS Bootcamp, Disaster Tolerant Clusters, Middleware with Weblogic, CSWS (Apache), BridgeWorks and NetBeans IDE.
Oakland Flyers, Oakland, CA, PPASEL, Private Pilot Aircraft Single Engine Land, FAA certificate.
AWS Pop-Up Loft, San Francisco, CA,
AWS Essentials (3-Oct-2014),
AWS CloudFormation (9-Oct-2014),
AWS CoreOS (9-Dec-2014),
AWS Redshift Course (5-Mar-2015),
AWS Docker Course (5-Mar-2015),
AWS Summit (multiple training sessions) (9-Apr-2015),
AWS Technical Bootcamp (16-May-2015),
AWS Big Data Solutions (19-May-2015),
AWS Website Building Lab (28-May-2015),
AWS Ops Next Level Lab (09-Jun-2015),
AWS EC2 Labs (15-Jul-2015),
AWS Lambda and Microservices (29-Sep-2015),
AWS API Management (2-Oct-2015),
AWS Container Days (5-Nov-2015),
AWS DynamoDB Day (20-Jan-2016),
Building Real-Time Data Analytics Applications on AWS (29-SEP-2016),
Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks (9-NOV-2016),
Optimize Content Processing in the Cloud with GPU and Spot Instances (17-NOV-2016),
DynamoDB, ElastiCache and Redis Day (22-FEB-2017),
Artifical Intelligence Day (9-MAY-2017),
Mobile App Dev on AWS (1-AUG-2017),
AWS Storage Day (4-OCT-2017),
AWS Well Architected Workshop (12-OCT-2017),
AWS Summit SF (4-APR-2018),
Startup Day (18-APR-2018),
IoT Day (3-MAY-2018),
IoT Innovators Day (13-JUL-2018),
Scaling From Zero to Billions with DynamoDB (13-FEB-2019),
Infrastructure Event Readiness for Ecommerce Startups (21-FEB-2019),
Building a Scalable Architecture (27-FEB-2019),
Driving Business Agility with AWS Serverless (12-MAR-2019),
AI/ML Bootcamp (15 & 16-APR-2019),
Hire Your Startup's First Technical Team (16-JUL-2019),
Nine Serverless Patterns (27-AUG-2019)