Career Objective

A software engineer / programmer in a team oriented environment using problem-solving skills and a software development model to develop applications and services. A long term goal of becoming a project leader and obtaining an MBA.

 

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Cincinnati – College of Engineering, Cincinnati, OH

June 2005

 

Work Experience

Web Developer / Assistant Unix Systems Administrator (co-op)                             8/2003 – 5/2005

Domain-It, Inc., Cincinnati, OH

• Built and installed two production level FreeBSD (UNIX) servers that provided mail and web services that serviced over 15,000 domains
• Maintained five FreeBSD (UNIX) production servers
• Developed network clients to communicate with remote registry servers using EPP and RRP protocols
• Developed and implemented a shopping cart that used libraries from existing projects which allowed services to be added to different systems without user intervention
• Programmed database driven websites that provided commerce solutions and informational services that each received over 500,000 visits/month.
• Overhauled MySQL database structures and statements to increase efficiency and reduce load on the MySQL server
• Designed a new email system and overhauled the old mail system with a 30% server load decrease while still implementing new spam and virus checking features

 

Application Debugger                                                                                                            6/2002 – 9/2002

UC Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing, Cincinnati, OH

• Tested new Bluetooth protocols on the network simulator (ns-2) with the bluehoc modification installed
• Researched and debugged new Bluetooth technology alongside graduate students

 

Food Service Head Supervisor                                                                                              8/1994 – 6/2001

• Trained new food service associates on policies and procedures
• Interviewed applicants and employed new associates for the food service department
• Supervised daily operations of multiple park restaurants
• Controlled labor costs, food costs, and portion quantities to meet fiscal budgets

 

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, FreeBSD (Unix), Gentoo Linux, Redhat Linux, Debian Linux

Applications: Apache, Bind, ClamAV, Courier-IMAP, Cups, CVS, Djbdns, Eclipse IDE, GCC, Microsoft Visual Studios, MySQL, NetBeans IDE, PF firewall, Qmail, Samba, Spam Assassin, Tomcat, Vpopmail

Programming Languages: Perl, PHP, C++, Java, Some Bourne Shell, Assembler, XML

 

Activities

Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity

• Web developer and systems administrator for the local chapter

Laboratory of Recreational Computing / FreeOS Group

• Contributed to a quarterly meeting where members of the group installed Linux on student computers
• Present technology and technical ideas to the group during a weekly presentation