About Me

I am a diligent worker who enjoys being part of a team and taking projects to completion. I love solving difficult problems in creative ways. I enjoy programming and contributing to open source projects and education.

Education

1998-2002 Indiana Wesleyan University | Marion, IN
BS in Religion and Music Composition

Employment

2008-Current | Zenoss, Inc | Client Services Engineer | Annapolis, MD (telecommute)
Software development in Python, Javascript, HTML, Zope. Training instructor. Speaker at conferences, including Ohio LinuxFest and LISA. Specialized in deployment of large networks.

2006-2008 | Cypress Semiconductor, Inc. | System Administrator, Sr | Lexington, KY
Supported sites in Kentucky and Mississippi. Managed processing clusters as well as general infrastructure. Implemented a public key and wireless infrastructure globally. Helped maintain RedHat deployment and Xen virtualization infrastructure. Programming in Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++. Developed and set company-wide standards. Managed 3-7 people throughout various projects. Taught training for complex technologies.

2006 | IBM | Linux Programmer | Lexington, KY
Maintained RPM packages for RedHat Enterprise Linux including Xorg and its drivers. Developed a hardware profiling database which provides a matrix to users within IBM to see if their hardware was well supported under Linux.

2005-2006 | Asbury College | Database Programmer | Wilmore, KY
Developed and maintained Katalyst, an in house database application which managed all aspects of the college’s day to day activities, writing code in 4gl, Java, C, HTML/Javascript, Python and shell script. I also developed and maintained our in house build and package deployment system with integration into our revision control system, Bazaar.

2005 | The Stadium LLC | System Administrator/Developer | Lexington, KY
Managed the network of about 100 terminals and 7 Linux servers (1 Windows). This included a Window/Linux hybrid POS system. Developed a web-based audio distribution system utilizing C, Python, HTML/Javascript and GStreamer.

2004 | Canonical LTD | Developer | Isle of Man, UK
I worked for Canonical developing an interface to Gentoo’s Portage as well as general work on the Ubuntu Linux distribution itself (bug fixing and development). Programmed in C, C++, Python, and BASH (shell script).

References

References available upon request.

Skills

Programming

C/C++
Python
GTK
Java
C#/.NET
Javascript
Ruby
PHP
CGI/HTML
Informix-4GL
SQL
Packaging: RPM, Deb, Ebuild

Open Source Contributions

Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Ubuntu Linux
Fedora Linux
GNOME
libproxy
cups-pdf
NetworkManager
Xorg