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Three years Ruby/Rails consulting

• Still the RubyForge sysadmin; now hosting 8K projects and 40K users.  Received "Ruby Hero" award at RailsConf 2008 for my work on RubyForge.
• Helped Beanstalk migrate from Engine Yard to Rackspace.
• Configured complex Sphinx (full text searching engine) installation; used the Riddle API.
• Wrote militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com - a Rails application to let folks track which books they've read from various military reading lists. Uses Sphinx with the thinking_sphinx plugin.
• Worked with an application that used backgroundrb with monit to handle background jobs.
• Fixed a bug in the rcov native code.
• Stood up railsonpostgresql.com where I post about interesting Rails + PostgreSQL technical details.
• Wrote "GForge Sites" - a little Rails application to track GForge installations.

• Wrote lots of "back end" Rails code; e.g., controllers and models.
• Rewrote proprietary content management package resulting in 10x performance gain and much better manageability.
• Integrated Rails app with open source "Beast" forum package.
• Set up numerous Rails deployments; wrote Capistrano tasks, used Capistrano multistage, configured mod_proxy_balancer, wrote mod_rewrite rules, set up virtual hosts, troubleshot Mongrel, converted many applications over to Passenger.
• Many hours of Linux sysadmin work - OS installations, security tweaks, application installation, Puppet configuration, etc.
• Wrote Rails log analysis plugin that reported on database query usage and times.
• Integrated Rails app with SilverPop email service

• Wrote a book: Generating Parsers with JavaCC.

One year Ruby product development

• Wrote a book: PMD Applied.
• Wrote Ruby BitTorrent client library.
  

• Wrote Ruby extension for Evolution.
• Wrote Amazon S3 client library.

• Wrote several Rails apps and services, including a set of AJAXy admin pages.

Three years DARPA consulting -  Ultralog

• System administrator for RubyForge.
• Oracle Open Source Programmer of the Year, 2003.
• Wrote popular open source Java code analysis tool PMD
• CVS administrator, introduced continual builds.
• Wrote Ruby utility to generate DOOM maps.
• Translated C artificial intelligence examples into Ruby.

• Worked on J2EE app (WebLogic/Oracle/Solaris), member of core team, fixed bugs, implemented features, etc.
• Wrote Swing client for customer support folks to use with production applicationn.  Delivered it via Java Web Start. Used Java<->COM bridge to generate Excel reports.
• Introduced Ant for cross-platform builds.

• Replaced large RNI codebase with JNI.
• Wrote Java servlet-based web site/service.

• Managed bar code program; wrote C utilities, tracked hardware, resolved problems, traveled to customer sites.
• Managed inventory data warehouse; wrote SQL queries, Korn shell scripts.

• Stood deck watches
• Boarding officer qualified; conducted over 100 at-sea boardings
• Helo control officer qualified; was HCO for many, many helo landings both day and night.
• Served as communications, classified materials, and weapons officer.