Duration: 04/2006 to present, Full-time

Build/release engineer, primarily automation and maintenance of current build farm (Tinderbox) as well as improving QA and release management procedures. Focused explicitly on improving the lives of developers and testers. Managed releases for Firefox and Thunderbird.

• Automated release process
• Worked on lots of bugs

Duration: 03/2003 to 04/2006, Full-time, 24x7

System/network administrator, programmer and build/release engineer for custom weather processing software. Worked directly with customers to define and deliver on needs.

• Developed J2ME weather application for Siemens Mobile
• Developed weather site for Al Jazeera
• Developed ESRI shapefile converter for CW vector data (PostGIS DB-backed)
• Add features to/fix bugs in custom mapping, XML generation and weather processing applications
• Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure

Duration : 11/2002 to 03/2004, Consultant

Aided Vectiv customer in the transition from Vectiv-hosted real-estate application to Dollartree's Virginia datacenter. Ongoing remote and on-site support.

Duration : 12/2002 to 01/2004, Consultant

System administrator, build&release engineer for health care application developer and their clients.

• Set up JBoss as NT service for Kaiser pilot project
• Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure

Duration : 09/2002 to 01/2005, Consultant, 24x7

System administrator, programming and customer support for small web hosting company.

• Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure
• Developed custom PHP photo management application

Duration: 03/2001 to 11/2002, Full-time, 24x7

Took over as system administrator, release manager, build/release engineer for hosted real estate application developer. Helped customers transition after company was shut down.

• Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure
• Improved build infrastructure
• Improved logging and created log reporting system

Duration: 11-1999 to 03/2001, Full-time, 24x7

Worked in a small team to develop a large e-commerce site, which required a complete internal and external systems overhaul.

• Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure
• Developed real-time web reporting infrastructure