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Lin Digital - A Nexstar Digital CompanySenior Software Developer
Oct. 2011 - Aug. 2013Austin, TX(Lin Digital has taken over RMMOnline, the company I started with) ● Heavy development within the Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Sinatra ecosystem's ● Actionscript 3 and Javascript development for the purpose of creating and maintaining video players and metric gathering tools. ● Responsible for the company's proprietary Flash component, "Synapse", that acts as middle-ware between a customers Flash Ad and our Ad Server, allowing for real-time metics of customer interaction to be captured and transported to our server(s). ● Responsible for maintenance and re-coding of legacy code/systems, creating performance increases in the code, and optimization of Database query's. ● Creation of new code and Database Schema's. ● Creation of Cron jobs using Bash, Perl, and Ruby (native, rake, thor, etc.), and work creating low and high-level tools. ● Assisting other team members and departments with help as needed. Work with:
● Actionscript 3
● Ruby on Rails, Sinatra
● Rack based and LAMP Servers, both for maintenance code, and new development.
● MySQL, Redis, Mongodb ● Ruby >1.9.x
● Rvm, Bundler, Pry, Hpricot, Nokogiri, etc. ● RSpec, Cucumber
● Vagrant
● Git
● Perl Scripting
● Javascript, Coffeescript
● HTML(5), CSS3
● PHP5 and Perl for Legacy Systems. Predominant frameworks: ● Database: Active Record, Data Mapper
● JavaScript: Core, jQuery.
● CSS: Bootstrap
● Ruby: Rack, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra.
Cold Coffee Productions, Inc.lContract Lead Software Engineer, Sys Admin
Oct. 2009 - Apr. 2010Las Vegas, Nevada Area● Creation of Video Streaming Websites using: HTML, CSS, Javascript/Ajax, Actionscript, PHP, Smarty, and MySQL. This involved capturing uploaded video, automated formatting and editing on the backend server, streaming video to customized player's. Interfacing: ● Apache
● Nginx Batch Processing with: ● ffmpeg
● flvtool2 ● yamdi
● flvmeta Creation of Web Applications using:
● PHP/Smarty/, Gearman, Javascript, Ajax, jQuery, memcached, haproxy
● PERL/CGI
● MOD_PERL ● Custom C/C++ programming in a Linux/Unix environment, predominantly creating custom servers, data sieve's, data and video streaming, etc. ● Custom Desktop Apps and Tools using Delphi (Object Pascal) ● Coding custom agents/bots, search engines, data sieves, and various tools including: ● Creation of custom video players. (Actionscript 3, Javascript)
● Linux Server Admin, Set-ups, Configurations, etc.
● Creating custom configurations and scripts for Apache and Nginx Servers
● Creating custom configurations and scripts for MySQL.
● Performance Tuning and Scaling MySQL.
● Coding and Optimizing MySQL Queries and Stored Procedures.
● Installation, Configuration, and Coding using Sphinx for Full-Text Searching.
● Creating back-end reporting applications and reports. (Perl, PHP5.x)
● Coding for payment gateways: Authorize.net, PayPal. (PHP5.x)
● Hacking "Mods" and customizations to vBulletin. (PHP5.x)
● Hacking "Mods" and customizations to osDate. (PHP5.x)
● Customizing and coding modifications to the "Carma" CMS with Smarty.
● Monitoring networks, log analysis, hardening servers, security assessments, penetration testing
BOOMj.comContract Software Engineer
Dec. 2008 - Jun. 2009Henderson, Nevada Area● Object Oriented PHP5.x/Smarty programming using the Kohana framework as a member of the Main Project Team for: localadlink.com ● Created an enterprise level tree searching tool in AS3/Flex that connected to PHP/MYSQL backend utilizing XML, allowing customers with very complicated down-lines to not only view those, but trace earnings, etc. ● Creating Selenium Test's. ● Perl and Python scripting for mySQL reports, .etc. ● Worked with IT Department in physical networking, installation and configuration of servers: Apache, mySQL, etc. Was promoted to Special Pojects: ● Coding for payment Gateway: Authorize.net
● Facebook API programming.
● Twitter API programming.
● Set-up and configuration of network environments.
● Researching and implementing new technologies.
Full Color Printers ( FCP )Director of IT / Lead Software Engineer / Sys Admin
Aug. 2007 - Sep. 2008Las Vegas, Nevada Area[The Company went bankrupt 9/2008] ● Created many Inter and Intra net facing applications for the enterprise, from requirements gathering and architecting, to coding and implementation. ● Performed security assessments, monitored logs, hardened servers, monitored networks, penetration testing. ● Architected and coded distributed applications for job-tracking, employee time and project tracking, materials usage, purchase orders, etc. using PHP, MySQL, Delphi (Object Pascal). ● Created one of the first in the industry's complete online multi-step design and ordering applications for the print industry utilizing Adobe Flex and Actionscript 3, with backends in PHP/MySQL. ● iPhone Development, Objective-C/ C. ● Hand-built servers, installed and configured, created misc. sysadmin scripts, etc. LAMP, Ruby, Perl, Lighttpd, etc.
● Payment Gateways: Authorize.net and Paypal.
● Handled all of their IT and Programming. Administration of Linux Servers, etc.
Nicholas Sardo ConsultingSoftware Engineer, SysAdmin, Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking
Jun. 1996Gig Harbor Peninsula, Washington, United States● C Programming Language
● Ruby, Ruby on Rails
● Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Meteor.js, Ionic Framework
● Go
● PHP - Codeigniter, Laravel, Lumen
● Arm/x64 Assembly Language
● Delphi
● Computer, Digital, Network Forensics
● Cyber Security/Ethical Hacking (Kali Linux, Zed Attack Proxy, Burp Suite, MetaSploit, WireShark, etc.)
Datt, JapanContract Lead Software Engineer
Jun. 1996 - Dec. 1996Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan● Acted as Lead on the project, backward engineering an edutainment CD-ROM for the Japanese FM Towns computer to port to PC/Mac platforms in the States. ● Performed principal coding of both GUI and Backend Logic in LINGO using Macromedia's Director (LINGO). ● Wrote several XObjects in the C language to extend Director and Lingo's functionality.
Shearson Lehman BrothersRegistered Representative/Stock Broker
May. 1988 - Jul. 1990Las Vegas, Nevada AreaSeries 7, 63, Life, Health, Annuities. Having always been interested in the markets, I took a position as a Stock Broker in the Las Vegas office of Shearson Lehman brothers. I came to find, though, that calling 200 folks a day, "begging" for their money was not for me. (Dates are approximate)
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