Originator and director of a consulting company focused on the application of frontline open source software to industrial, environmental, and artistic data management problems. Designed high value solutions for projects large and small, using appropriate technology.

Developed data service products for the collection, analysis, and presentation of meteorological and hydrological observations and forecast information. Administered and developed against clustered SQL databases. Developed, deployed, and supported web applications within TurboGears, Servlet containers, Ruby on Rails, and combinations of mod_python, javascript and XHTML/CSS. Deployed, managed, and administered a linux network involving clusters of servers running weather models (MM5, WRF, and others), data collection and processing services, and database backed web applications. Developed backend and middleware in a variety of environments, including Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, C, and Bash. Site administration included deployment and operation of services such as bug tracking, version control, CMS, and interactivity tools. Introduced industry standard software development practices to the organization, and ran seminars to introduce and champion new techniques. Pushed the organization into a data-centric environment by opening the flow of information to all necessary users through both technical and social means. Planned and carried out routine Unix, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and network administration tasks.

Java development and quality assurance testing. Work was primarily within the bioinformatics sector. Developed frontend and business logic, and scripted hardware controls. Developed with Swing, jUnit, XML-RPC, SAX, JDOM. Regression testing was carried out on contracted and company code. Minor duties included handling linux administration contracts, including security management.

Managed the infrastructure resources and developed software at a linux based corporation. Work included full cycle development of back end user services. Skills exercised include bash and Perl scripting, C development, linux kernel patching, RedHat system modification and packaging, CVS management, MySQL administration and programming via Perl DBI, and many others. Developed an in house automated build system with graphical and email reporting features.

Leadership in both technical and business aspects of a technology cooperative corporation founded by a group including myself. Work involved C and Perl development for various projects, of length up to 2 months. On-site support was provided for small businesses and individuals in a rapid and professional manner. Acted as Chief Scientist aboard research cruises for the Digital Observer Project, an endeavor funded in part by the Alaska Science and Technology Fund, for the Alaskan fisheries industry, summer of 2000.

User consultant for visualization labs and computing resources for the local scientific community.

Collected and analyzed radiation data from the Antarctic region. Held position of Chief Scientist aboard the USCGC Polar Star during Deep Freeze 2000, helping guide the routine science operations of the vessel. Debugged electronics, managed data acquisition infrastructure, and engineered software. Prepared work for publication and presented the results.

Operated and maintained a linux network at Langmuir Lab, a high altitude lightning research laboratory. Managed and analyzed lightning and meteorologic data. Instrumentation design and repair. Triggered lightning!

Converted and extended MathCad code to C on a SunOS platform, in an exploration of the dependence of cloud fraction on meteorologic parameters

Investigated the chemical products of corona discharge on organic compunds. Work was carried out both in the laboratory, and at Langmuir Laboratory near Socorro, NM. Involved data acquisition via HP hardware, mostly a 3852A and peripherals in conjunction with a PC controller running Labview.

Ran computer simulations of atmospheric systems with a combination of Bourne shell and Perl scripting, FORTRAN, and NCAR graphics packages

Upgrade and maintenance of department www site, involving HTML and Perl/CGI development.

Assisted users of 100-node (DOS/Win3.1/NT/MacOS) computer lab.