MegaZone
54 Fairhaven Road
Worcester, MA 01606-3116
resume@megazone.org
508-852-2171 anytime
SUMMARY
Over ten years of increasingly responsible and
diversified experience in Information Technology, spanning Solutions
Architecture, Application Development, Application Security, Network
Security, Web Development, Web Administration, UNIX Systems
Administration, Network Administration, and Remote Access. Experience
with standards development processes in both IETF and W3C working
groups.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
11/02-present
CYPHERMINT, INC., Marlborough, MA
Director of IT Operations (11/05-present)
- Hiring & supervising IT staff of three.
- Acting as IT department liaison with executive management.
- Evaluating software and vendors to suit corporate IT needs.
- Purchasing authority for corporate hardware and software requirements.
- Planning for capacity increases and integration of pending
acquisitions.
- Leading effort to bring Cyphermint into compliance with software
licenses.
- Leading effort to migrate the corporate servers to VMware
Infrastructure 3.
- Leading effort to upgrade corporate data storage to Isilon storage
cluster.
- Led effort to bring all corporate desktops up to WinXP SP2 and MS
Office 2003 as a minimum level.
- Migrated corporation to centralized anti-virus and anti-malware
systems.
- Introduced centralized software asset tracking, auditing, and
management.
- Training new staff on existing Cyphermint systems.
- Maintenance of all corporate web pages based on designs and content
created by Marketing.
- IT support for corporate users.
Senior Network & Systems Administrator & Webmaster
(04/05-11/05)
- Administration of corporate Windows and Linux servers, especially web
servers and CVS server.
- Administration of network gear, including Cisco PIX firewall, load
balancers, switches, etc.
- Maintenance of all corporate web pages based on designs and content
created by Marketing.
- Evaluating software and vendors to suit corporate IT needs.
- IT support for corporate users.
Senior Software Engineer & Webmaster
(11/02-04/05)
- Principal architect for the PayCash Payment Gateway (PPG).
- Principal developer for the payment processing component of the PPG,
in ASP, XML, and XSLT.
- Principal XML and XSLT developer for all Cyphermint projects,
especially the 7-Eleven VCom kiosk project.
- Contributing architect to several other engineering projects and
product concepts.
- Security adviser for web based applications, corporate network, and
e-commerce kiosk projects.
- Perl and PHP ports of the legacy PayCash Script Framework for
UNIX/Linux and Windows.
- Maintenance programming on the ASP and ColdFusion PayCash Script
Frameworks.
- Primary Professional Services Engineer for PayCash merchant
implementations.
- Creation of consumer and merchant product documentation for the
PayCash System.
- Preparation of engineering proposals and use cases for engineering
group in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Competitive analysis of the online payments industry, and proposals
for engineering to counter it.
- Administration of internal and external Linux systems, including CVS
server for development source code control.
- Member of evaluation team to determine a replacement for bug tracking
system, with Bugzilla being selected.
- Maintenance of all corporate web pages based on designs and content
created by Marketing.
- Technologies: XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS, ASP, Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, VB
Script, JavaScript, CVS, SQL Server, IIS, Apache, Linux, and Windows.
04/01-06/01
EXPERIENCE.COM, Boston, MA
Solutions Developer, Contract
- Development of the erecruiting.com 5.0 release, focused on JSP, XHTML,
and JavaScript.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, Apache,
JServ, and Linux.
01/00-03/01
EVENT ZERO, Arlington, MA
Solutions Developer and Architect
Responsibility for research, planning, and execution of solutions for
Event Zero's clientele. Projects included:
BarnesandNoble.com:
- Research into and planning of the hosting architecture, including
testing and evaluation of Manna FrontMind.
- Configuration and maintenance of Cisco IPSec VPN to New York hosting
center.
- Technologies: Java, Solaris, Oracle, Cisco switches, routers,
Local & Distributed Director, and Manna FrontMind.
ZipTran:
- Research and planning the site architecture and design, and Linux and
Solaris administration for development.
- Development of XML Schemas and Document Type Definitions.
- Technologies: XML, Apache, Linux, WebSphere, WebLogic, and XML
Spy.
Experience.com:
- Triage and engineering repair of the erecruiting.com 4.0 release and
development for the 4.5 release.
- Primary responsibilities focused on the JSP, XHTML, and JavaScript
development.
- Troubleshooting Linux, Apache, and JServ configuration.
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, Apache,
JServ, and Linux.
Internal:
- Maintained internal DCForum (Perl code) web discussion forum.
- Trained other developers on HTML and XML and acted as internal XML
guru.
- Assisted in maintenance of Solaris and Linux development systems,
including installation of software.
- Advised other project groups, such as BankPass, on security
issues.
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS HELD
Details available upon request.
05/02-05/02, APEX CONSULTING GROUP, INC., Wilmington, MA,
Consultant
02/98-12/99, GTE INTERNETWORKING, POWERED BY BBN, Cambridge,
MA, VPN & Internet Security Services
Product Specialist (01/99-12/99), Internet Systems Engineer, Telesales
(02/98-12/98)
05/98-11/99, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS' CONSORTIUM (ISP/C),
Minneapolis, MN, Director at Large
05/97-03/98, OSBORNE/MCGRAW-HILL, Berkeley, CA, Technical Editor, Contract
08/95-02/98, LUCENT REMOTE ACCESS BUSINESS UNIT, formerly
LIVINGSTON ENTERPRISES, Pleasanton, CA, Webmaster & Technologist
10/94-08/95, XYLOGICS, INC., Burlington, MA, Second Level Engineer, Technical Support
RELATED TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Experience with most major operating systems. The most extensive
experience has been with UNIX/Linux.
- UNIX variants: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, and others
- Others: WinXP/2k/NT/9x/3.x, MS-DOS, MacOS
| System Hardware: |
x86 (Intel/AMD) hardware (UNIX/Linux and Windows), Sun
SPARCStations, other UNIX workstations, Macintosh (68k/PPC) |
| Network Hardware: |
Lucent PortMaster Access Servers and Routers, TimeStep and Nortel
VPN Gateways, and a variety of basic network hardware (switches, patch
panels, etc.). Design of secure networks utilizing a variety of
routers, switches, load balancing systems, SSL acceleration hardware,
etc. |
| Network Services and Protocols: |
HTTP (Apache, IIS, others), SSH, RADIUS, NFS, SMB (Samba), DHCP,
DNS, SMTP, etc. |
| Software: |
Standard UNIX tool set, emacs, CVS, XML Spy, many GNU packages,
OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, Adobe Acrobat, Ethereal, MS Office, Visio,
and various HTML tools. |
| Languages: |
PHP, Perl, ECMAScript/JavaScript, VB Script, Java, shell
scripting, some C, C++ and C#. |
| Web technologies: |
XML, XSLT, HTML, XHTML, ECMAScript/JavaScript, CSS, PHP, ASP, JSP,
ColdFusion, HTTP, SSL/TLS, DOM, etc. I have extensive experience with
many versions of the major browsers. |
| Security: |
Network security, Application security, CheckPoint FW-1, NIS
Gauntlet, WatchGuard Firebox, IPSec VPN, packet filtering, RADIUS AAA,
HTTP authentication, and more. |
CERTIFICATIONS
Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE) #806199299900541, certified by
Red Hat, Inc. - Expired.
Certified Information Systems Security
Professional (CISSP) #3762, certified by International Information
Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)^2 - Expired.
ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Member of W3C WAI Working Groups
- Contributed to the HTML 4 recommendation, including proposing the
'optgroup' element
- Contributed to the CSS 2 recommendation
- Contributed to the Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines
Member of IETF RADIUS Working Group
- Contributed to the evolution of the RADIUS protocol spec
CONFERENCE SPEAKING AND TRAINING PRESENTATIONS
- ISPF, Atlanta, GA, October 1998
- ISPF, San Diego, CA, March 1999
- AussieISP, Sydney, Australia, April 1999
EDUCATION
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Bachelor of Science, Technical Writing, May 1994
Bachelor of Science, Humanities, August 1994
Continuing Education:
- Essential Perl Programming, UC Berkeley Extension, August 1996
- Advanced Perl Programming, UC Berkeley Extension, August 1996
- Perl 5 and the World Wide Web, UC Berkeley Extension, October 1996
- Applied Cryptography and Data Security, WPI, May 1999
Training:
- JavaScript Fundamentals, The Web Academy, February 1996
- Deployed and Emerging Security Systems for the Internet,
NetWorld+Interop, October 1998
- Building Scalable & Resilient Internetworks Using OSPF and BGP-4,
NetWorld+Interop, October 1998
- Contivity Extranet Switch Installation and Configuration, Nortel,
August 1999
- Understanding Networking Fundamentals, Global Knowledge, September
1999
- Internetworking with TCP/IP, Global Knowledge, September 1999
- Red Hat Linux Systems Administration, Global Knowledge, November 1999
- Red Hat Linux Network and Security Administration, Global Knowledge,
November 1999
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Staff for anime conventions. Senior Staff for Anime Expo 1992-2002.
Second in command for Anime Expo New York 2002. Helped found Anime
Boston and Pacific Media Expo (PMX). Senior Staff for PMX 2005. Also
ran panels and participated in a number of other conventions, such as
AnimeNEXT, Anime Central, etc. In these roles, managed a large number
of staff, controlled budgets of up to $80k, and interacted with
numerous vendors and corporations.
- Very active in the online TiVo user community. Maintains
TiVoLovers.com. Active in numerous blogs, web forums, mailing lists,
newsgroups, etc.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
CITIZENSHIP
United States of America
Revised Friday, March 23, 2007