OBJECTIVE - Senior Software Developer

EXPERIENCE

•  01/2005 - Present Travelocity/World Choice Travel, NPB, Florida
  Senior Software Developer - Project lead on revenue recovery project netting $1M in annual savings.  Team lead for accounting related IT projects.  Collaborate with internal customers on requirements documentation.  Design, develop, debug, deploy accounting and hotel booking engine related projects in Perl, HTML and MySQL.  Design test plans for QA.
  
  
•  06/2002 - 01/2005 Mermaid Web Productions, Jupiter, Florida
  Contract Programmer - Designed, developed, tested, administered and maintained internal tools and systems with Perl, PHP, HTML, MySQL and shell scripting. Developed, administered and maintained Apache Intranet site. Maintained and enhanced defect tracking system. Managed embedded development systems in the UNIX and Windows environments. Build/release management.
  
  
•  05/2000 - 06/2002 Sierra Imaging, Inc./Conexant Systems, Inc. - Scotts Valley, CA
  Software Configuration Manager - Managed embedded software development systems in the UNIX and Windows environments. Build/release management. Designed, developed, tested and administered tools and systems for Intranet and developer usage.
  
  
•  08/1995 - 04/2000 Sage Instruments, Inc. - Freedom, CA
  Software Configuration Manager - Managed embedded software development systems in the UNIX and Novell environments. Build/release management. Designed, developed and administered tools and database systems for commercial, Intranet and developer usage.
  
  
•  11/1986 - 05/1992 Lifetree Software, Inc./WordStar, Inc. - Monterey/Sausalito, CA
  Software Development Manager - Recruited, hired, trained and managed staff for engineering, technical support, quality assurance and documentation groups.   Managed software development projects in the Windows and Mac environments.
  
  
•  11/1982 - 10/1986 Digital Research, Inc. - Monterey, CA
  Technical Support Manager - Progressive positions from support staff to support manager. Hired, trained, managed support staff.  Designed and managed developer seminars.  Opened negotiations for acquisition of or partnership with other software companies.
  
  

EDUCATION

•  05/1982 San Diego State University, Bachelor's Degree
  Business Administration, Information Systems with emphasis in Relational Database Design
  
  
•  03/1999 University of California Extension Santa Clara, Certificate
  UNIX System Administration
  
  

CONTINUING EDUCATION

•  O'Reilly Open Source Conferences San Jose/Monterey/San Diego
  1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
  
  
•  MySQL Users Conference and Expo San Jose, Santa Clara
  2003, 2007
  
  

SKILLS

Perl
HTML
PHP
SQL
CSS
JavaScript
Version Control
Apache
XML
Web Development

QUALITIES

Problem Solver
Analytical Thinker
Quick Learner
Self Starter
Self Motivated
Detail Oriented
Team Oriented
Technical Curiosity