Goal

An annual income of $100,000+ for a career that allows me to work remotely. I am a dedicated, accomplished web programmer/systems architect with extensive experience in a healthcare environment.

Professional Experience

Systems Analyst/Programming Standards Architect

Roswell Park Cancer Insitute - December 2005 – Present

Responsibilities include:

• Developing rich internet applications which support the hospitals function and staff. Includes a major custom online collaboration suite used by thousands of users per day, an employee directory, and the employee evaluation system in addition to many other systems.
• Maintaining a series of webservices to feed other applications data from diverse sources throughout the hospital IT infrastructure.
• Maintaining a Subversion based version control code repository and reviewing and managing other programmer's code and its deployment into production.
• Maintaining an internal custom web application based framework.
• Managing Linux based web application and database servers.
• Training other programmers.

Multimedia Specialist

Canisius College - August 2001 – 2005

Worked as Multimedia Specialist in the Web and Imaging Lab in the Digital Media Arts Program at Canisius College.

Responsibilities included:

• Tutoring Digital Media Arts students in graphics design, web programming and 3D modeling week during scheduled.
• Keeping up to date with the latest in media design software.
• Consulting with capstone students developing their final projects.

During my time as Multimedia Specialist I have also helped develop departmental forms, assisted other professors with technical consultations, made technology purchase recommendations, and maintained computer software builds with specialized DMA software.

Personal Projects

estrip.org

Conceptualized, designed and coded estrip.org, a free Buffalo, NY community web site with over 230 registered users and over 30,000 journal entries written. This digital public space brings local residents together by allowing them to share their local experience within the data structures of the site. Users can embed text, sound, animation, and video without having any web programming experience and without using commercial software.
Some site features over time include/d:

• PHP/mysql/AJAX based multiuser web chat
• drag/drop HTML 5 media upload
• HTML 5 storage based entry backup system
• User galleries and podcasts
• Users can communicate with their journals via email
• Private messaging system
• Custom video streaming server
• Companion mobile site and Android application
• Database centric user media library for mp3, mid, wav, 3gp, jpg, png, and gif file
• Integrated search engine
• Integrated Flash Comm server video chat
• Inregrated streaming radio station with XML feeds
• PHP based events calendar
• Integrated AIM and YIM
• Cell Phone Communication Integration with SMS and email
• RSS feeds for individual user journals
• WAP mirror for users on cell phones - includes chat and posting capability

Surebert.com

Paul Visco's Surebert™ is a complete solution for developing highly interactive javascript/php based applications. Surebert handles most of the inconsistencies between the major browsing platforms (IE, firefox and Safari) allowing the programmer to concentrate on what they want to accomplish instead of the tedious labor of how to make their code work in all the browsers. Surebert's style of javascripting encourages a clean separation of content, design and interactive scripting - making script upkeep, sharing, and debugging easier to handle. Surebert has been continuously developed and tested since September of 2004.

Public Transphere

Assisted Arzu Ozkal - Developed a real-time software solution including graphic design and data processing for a web-based vehicle tracking system. The system also streamed live audio from a vehicle to a web site. This project was carried out using PHP, MySQL, AJAX, XML, and D/HTML. While this seems ordinary now with the advent of popular mobile web, it was much more radical in 2005.

Skills

Computer OS

• Fedora 15 - My desktop of choice
• CentOS 5+ -
• Mac OS 10.3-10.6
• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003

Server Management

• I run 9 servers with CentOS between Roswell and estrip.org
• Manage a Postfix email server
• Manage several MySQL database servers
• Manage bind based DNS

Computer Languages

Expert In

• OOP PHP 4-5.3+
• Javascript/JSON
• HTML 5
• CSS
• MySQL
• MSSQL
• Oracle
• SQLite

Fluent In

• Java and Android SDK
• Actionscript

Familiar With

• erlang
• Python

IDEs

• Eclipse
• Netbeans

Servers

• Mysql
• Apache
• Nginx

Graphic Design Applications

• Gimp
• Inkscape
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop

Education

M.F.A. in Media Studies 2002 - 2005

B.A. in German Language 1995 - 2000

Friedrich Schiller Universitaet — Jena, Germany 1999–2000
Focus: Studied Foreign Language Acquisition Software Development

Northern Arizona University — Flagstaff, Arizona 1997–1998
Honors: Delta Phi Alpha - German honor society member
Certification: Zertificat Deutsch als Fremsprache - Goethe Institut
Scholarship: Partial Tuition Scholarship Recipient
GPA: 3.82

Bildungswissenschaftliche Hochschule Universitaet — Flensburg, Germany 1995–1996
Scholarship: Full-tuition scholarship recipient

Winthrop University — Rock Hill, South Carolina
Scholarship: Full-tuition scholarship recipient
GPA: 3.6

Pedagogical Experience

Canisius College - Adjunct Professor 2002 - 2005

• DMA 201 (5 times)
• DMA 390 (3 times)
• DMA 391 (2 times)
• DMA 386 - 3D Modeling for Realtime
• DMA 388 - 3D Online Cartooning
• DMA 480 - Adv Web Programming

temp:real at UB January – May 2004

Instructor for temp:real, a course at the University of Buffalo about the temporary reality surrounding online 3D virtual environments. Developed a PHP/mysql based student content system which later became epeers.net. Students used this content management system in order to maintain an archive of their experiences in Linden Lab's Second Life environment.

References

References available upon request