HIGHLIGHTS
- 12 years of industry experience, an accomplished track record and expert Linux development, security and administration skills.
- Built a 30+ server On-Demand SaaS service from the ground up that maintains 99.9% uptime, daily backups, level three disaster recovery, service monitoring & notification and multi-metric reporting.
- Skilled in C, C++, Perl, PHP, CSS, Javascript, Oracle, MySQL with thorough knowledge of multiple Linux distributions.
- Designed and developed an Irix & Linux host OS file system for EMC's award winning Celerra Highroad SAN/NAS storage system.
- Advised and consulted on multiple startup ventures covering the areas of document control, intellectual property protection and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Consultant - L & P Consulting
Global Translation Management Company
Assisted the client in their transition from a shrinked wrapped enterprise product to a full scale hosted On-Demand service.
Built an On-Demand SaaS offering from the ground up consisting of 30+ HP servers providing 99.9% uptime, daily backups, level three disaster recovery, end-to-end documentation, service monitoring and multi-metric reporting.
[RHEL, Windows Server 2003, Oracle 10g, Java, Tomcat, Ant, Perl]
Biotech Web Order Management, Disaster Recovery & IT Management
Designed and implemented an automated order processing & lifecycle management system for the submission and delivery of biological samples for gene sequencing.
Helped the client perform a full security review, implement a disaster recovery plan and assisted in developing general IT procedures and best practices.
Built a distributed task queue in Perl with an Oracle backend that spread computational workloads across arbitrary hosts in parallel. The project massively increased computing power versus previously performing all computations on a single host syncronously.
[Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Oracle]
Corporate Risk Management Platform
Extended the customer's atomic TCP stream analysis to associate related streams. This gave the product the ability to reconstruct sessions, decreased the amount of raw data to be evaluated and laid the groundwork for network usage profiles.
[Linux, C, PostgreSQL]
Senior Filesystems Engineer - EMC
Designed and developed the Irix & Linux client side file systems for Celerra Highroad; a multi-path distributed NAS file system.
Reverse-engineered (via MIPS disassembly) the Irix Kernel NFS interface to install the Highroad file system client.
[Irix, Linux, Kernel, C, PostgreSQL, MIPS Assembly]
Software Engineer - VenturCom, Inc.
Developed embedded OS development tools to break up Windows NT and Windows CE operating systems for custom 'small-footprint' installations.
Main product was sold to Microsoft which was the base for their Windows NT and CE embedded strategy.
[Windows, CPP, MFC]
Software Engineer - Timeslips Corp.
Designed and developed various connectivity applications in Delphi and Borland C++ for strategic interfaces to competitor and complementary products.
[Windows, Delphi, CPP]
SKILLS
Operating Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu
Microsoft (Windows Server 2000/2003, XP)
Coding Languages
C, C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java
Development Frameworks
LAMP, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, Struts
Server Applications
Apache, Tomcat, OpenVPN, vsFTPd
Database Applications & Storage
Oracle 10g, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux Based NFS/CIFS Servers, LVM
IT Related Applications & Technologies
BackupExec, SiteUptime, Nagios, NIS, NFS, SentryTools, DNS(Bind), MTAs (Postfix/Sendmail), Cygwin, HP Integrated Lights Out (ILO)
Other Fun Stuff
Apache Failover, Load Balancing, Encryption, TOR, Oracle Backups, SQL Tuning, Security Penetration Testing, IPTables
Spoken Languages
Native English speaker. Fluent in Italian.
Citizenship
US Citizen
