Resume - Robert Helmer

Professional Experience

VP of Technology - CustomWeather http://customweather.com

Duration: 06/2008 to present, Full-time, 24x7

Returned to CustomWeather to lead small, awesome team to deliver top-notch weather service.

Managed projects and worked directly with customers to deploy custom solutions
Lead new and existing GIS and weather projects
Developed reporting system using jQuery, flot, and PostgreSQL
Partnered to deploy fully redundant remote datacenter
Drove releases, automated release process
Developed unit and functional tests in Python and Java
Tracked and improved site performance and uptime

Build & Release Engineer - Mozilla Corporation http://mozilla.com

Duration: 04/2006 to 04/2008, 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.

Currently a peer on QA and Build/Release modules.

Automated release process
Contributed to Buildbot
Helped out with QA and systems automation
Worked on lots of bugs

Senior Systems Engineer - CustomWeather http://customweather.com

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
Add features to/fix bugs in custom mapping, XML generation and weather processing applications
Set up backups and monitoring for server infrastructure

Consulting

Unix System Administrator, Weblogic Administrator - Dollartree Corporation http://www.dollartree.com: Transition from Vectiv-hosted real-estate application to Dollartree's Virginia datacenter. Provided remote and on-site support.

Unix System Administrator / Build & Release Engineer - Skeva, Inc. http://www.skeva.com

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

Unix System Administrator / Programmer - Aeronet Communications http://www.aeronet.net

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

Unix System Administrator, Build & Release Engineer, Weblogic Administrator - Vectiv Corporation http://www.vectiv.com

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.

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

AnyHosting Services http://anyhosting.com

Independently owned and operated Web Hosting company (since 1999).

Open Source Software

Mozilla Bootstrap Release automation wrapper for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Perl/Python/Buildbot
Canvas-based breakout Simple proof-of-concept game framework for Javascript/Canvas in the browser. Javascript/HTML5.
SandWeb Web-based CVS client. Perl.
aus3 Prototype update server for Mozilla products. Python.
Millicent Prototype visualization tool for build data. Python/SQLAlchemy.
Euphemism Prototype user-editable social website. HTML5/jQuery/Python/AppEngine. Demo