James Briggs, Senior Perl/c programmer cell (408) 429 3017, email
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- CAREER HISTORY Sep 2004-Dec 2004, Aug 2005 to Jan 2006, Yahoo! Inc.
- Aug 2000-Present ActionMessage Inc.
- Mar 2000-Aug 2000 eBay Payments
- Feb 1999-Feb 2000 Netscape (International Group)
- Oct 1998-Jan 1999 Incyte Genetics
- Jul 1998-Sep 1998 Netscape
- Mar 1997-Jun 1998 Royal Bank Canada
- Aug 1996-Feb 1997 Bell Canada (Sygma I.T. Division)
- Jul 90-Jul 96 Orcon Information Systems Inc.
- Dec 87-Jul 90 H.A. Simons Consulting Engineers Ltd.
- PERSONAL SYSTEMS Sun UltraServer 1/200E, IBM pServer, Linux Pentium PC and notebook computers. PAPERS
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James Briggs, Senior Perl/C Programmer cell (408) 429 3017, email james@actionmessage.com 1035 Boise Drive, San Jose, CA 95008 SUMMARY I am looking for a Perl/C programming and advanced Linux systems administration position. I am experienced with high-volume web and email systems, writing internationalized Perl applications, database-driven web development with Oracle and MySQL, advanced Unix/Linux systems mgmt. and monitoring, and programming to RFC standards. Previously I have worked for companies such as Yahoo, Netscape and eBay Payments. I am the organizer of the Silicon Valley Perl Mongers, and contribute to Open Source projects on Perl CPAN and Sourceforge - CPAN ID JBRIGGS. Available in the Bay Area. EDUCATION 1997-2005 O'Reilly Perl Conferences - attended numerous lectures by the original Perl developers. Speaker in 2001 on Perl, Unicode and ICU. 2003, 2005 MySQL Conference, San Jose - attended lectures on MySQL by core developers 2003 FreeBSD Kernel Debugging with Greg Lehey, author of vinum. 2003 Certified IBM AIX System Administrator (5 day course Q1811) 1999-2001 Unicode Conferences 15 - 19 - speaker at Conferences 16 and 18 on Perl, Unicode and Internationalization 1992 Microsoft University, Toronto - Microsoft Windows Programming – Win C API Advanced Topics (5 day course) 1984-1986 University of Waterloo - Studied Pure Mathematics and Computer Science - Courses on advanced Real Analysis, group theory, and electromagnetics - Member of Computer Science Club and Chess Club - UNIX tools user (nroff, vi, rn, etc.). 1981-1984 Leamington District High School - Studied mathematics and physics - Grade 13 Ontario Scholar - President of winning chess team and member of national chess federation. CAREER HISTORY Sep 2004-Dec 2004, Aug 2005 to Jan 2006, Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA ( http://apprentice.tv.yahoo.com/ ) Senior Perl Consultant - maintenance programming on the Perl and PHP content management system for Branded Content TV microsites like “The Apprentice”, “The Contender”, etc. - Technologies used included Perl, PHP, MySQL, FreeBSD, cvs, apache, rsync, ad serving, image caching, NFS - integration with the Akamai distributed content network - Attended Yahoo Security Conference 2004 (3 days) on ecommerce and network security issues. - Perl, PHP, C/C++ programming and FreeBSD and NFS sysadmin operations support for the Jupiter log analysis processing and reporting cluster. Aug 2000-Present ActionMessage Inc. San Jose, CA ( http://www.ActionMessage.com ) Senior Perl Programmer – Perl/C/AJAX developer of 60,000 line web-based software for opt-in email campaign management - Internationalization architect for email software (Japanese, Chinese and Western European languages) - hostmaster for Apache, mod_perl, DNS and sendmail email servers - technologies used included Perl, C/C++, AJAX, XML, RSS, CSS, JavaScript, Java applets, cvs, Sun Solaris, Linux, mod_perl, pp, SSL, Apache, Nagios monitoring, MySQL replication, automated testing - Perl modules used incl. CGI::Ajax, XML::Simple, Excel, DBI, MD5, CGI, HTTP::WebTest, LWP, GD, custom - Supervised offshored QA and monitoring staff. Mar 2000-Aug 2000 eBay Payments San Jose, CA ( http://www.eBay.com ) Principal Engineer - Perl programmer and trainer - i18N engineer for international currency isssues - hostmaster for primary DNS and multiple email servers - Information Security Officer, involved in developing security policies and practices for eBay Payments and eBay - technologies used include CVS, Sun Solaris, sendmail, Perl app servers, Tibco, Apache, BIND and Oracle Feb 1999-Feb 2000 Netscape (International Group) Mountain View ( http://home.netscape.com ) Senior Perl Consultant, I18N Architect for Content Mgmt.Systems - Designed I18N features for FutureTense Content Mgmt. System (Java) for publishing International content from an Oracle database and developed XML templates for rendering HTML - Educated producers and managers about browser and Unicode Internationalization issues - Educated developers on secure and maintainable Perl CGI programming - wrote Perl scripts for internet and intranet CGI forms character encoding test scripts, and text processing - Perl modules used included DBI, CGI, File::Find, Mail and utf8 - used CVS, Sun Solaris, Linux, Apache, Netscape LDAP and HTTP, XML Oct 1998-Jan 1999 Incyte Genetics Palo Alto Senior Perl Consultant - Modified Perl scripts for animal genetics processing - Modified Perl DBI scripts for intranet database - Studied bioinformatics techniques for advanced DNA searches - Trained biologist for Perl software development - Perl modules used included DBI, CGI, experiments with threads and Perl compiler - used RCS source revision control system, Sun Solaris Jul 1998-Sep 1998 Netscape Mountain View ( http://home.netscape.com , http://insight.netscape.com ) Internet Technology Consultant - Programmed Extranet applications in Perl and Livewire with Oracle database - Programmed content generation software with Perl and LDAP - Perl modules used included Date::Manip, perLDAP Oraperl and GD - used CVS source revision control system, Sun Solaris, LDAP, XML Mar 1997-Jun 1998 Royal Bank Canada Toronto ( http://www.royalbank.com ) Internet Technology Consultant - Programmed Intranet Registration System in Perl (object-oriented) and SQL Server - Installation and evaluation of Netscape servers, including mail, certificate and LDAP Directory Service products, including e-mail security - Lotus Notes/Domino 4.5 programming of Intranet Phonebook Prototype - Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6 consultant on HTML Content Mgmt. Wizard project - Perl NT/ODBC programming of Intranet Production Phonebook - Author of Corporate Intranet/Internet Perl Programming and Security Standards and standard modules for Unix and Windows NT - Programmed Perl security checking script and performed security and reliability audits on internal and contractor-developed Perl - Familiar with mainframe DB2 - PC (IBI EDA) server links in bank environment. Aug 1996-Feb 1997 Bell Canada (Sygma I.T. Division) Toronto Internet Technology Consultant - Programmed Web-based e-mail administration system with HTML, JavaScript, Perl systems programming (sockets, pipes, CGI, form validation, dbm) on Sun Solaris - Installed and configured Netscape Enterprise and Mail Servers for NT and Unix - Programmed Reuse Project Knowledge Index Intranet Web application with NT 4.0, Microsoft Internet Database Connector, IIS 2.0, SQL Server HTML (tables and frames), JavaScript, ODBC, and Perl or data conversion - Familiar with Bell Sygma software development methodology. Jul 90-Jul 96 Orcon Information Systems Inc. Toronto Manager of Software R&D (80% Development, 20% Mgmt.) - Designed and programmed nationally advertised marketing software from concept stage to shrink-wrap - Programmed a sophisticated dBASE IV application with "C" language and Assembler modules, later ported to Foxpro/Windows - Wrote Windows version of system using MS VC++ and MFC - Direct Mail processing of client lists under SCO UNIX using awk, sed, ksh scripts and "C". Dec 87-Jul 90 H.A. Simons Consulting Engineers Ltd. Toronto Supervisor of Computer Operations (Apr 90-Jul 90) - responsible for VAX and PC operations and user support including specification, purchasing, installation and troubleshooting of software and hardware for clerical and engineering computer systems - responsible for computer time billing - one subordinate. Computer Technical Analyst (Dec 87-Mar 90) - assisted in VAX Systems, Operations, and Facility Management - IBM PC Turbo C and dBase III+ programming, Mac configuration - VAX FOCUS and VMS DCL command procedure programming - VAX Networking (NCP, DECnet DOS, Thinwire & TP Ethernet) - AutoCAD technical support and AutoLISP programming. INTERESTS - commercially-rated Airplane Pilot - CP-ASEL-IA, PP-AMEL - Brown Belt in American Kenpo Karate Association, Assistant Instructor - photography PERSONAL SYSTEMS Sun UltraServer 1/200E, IBM pServer, Linux Pentium PC and notebook computers. PAPERS Windows/DOS Developers Journal, January 1994, "Implementing Rollup Windows". Co-author of Perl web-server, TinyHTTPD/2.0 CITIZENSHIP United States and Canadian citizen (hold both passports) REFERENCES Available on request. 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