C.J. Adams-Collier	2225 Walnut Street Everett, WA 98201 cjac@colliertech.org +1 (206) 226 5809 http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/
Skills	Linux, Perl, Mono, Authentication / Authorization, Mandatory access control implementation and enforcement, policy compliance auditing, Cryptography, PKI, LDAP, Kerberos, MySQL, IRC, Web, (X)HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, WML/WAP, C/C++/C#, gtk+, gtk#, Accessibility, OpenGL, Apache, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, DOS, Windows {3.x, 9x, NT, XP}, System/Cluster and Network Administration, Good written and verbal communication skills in the en_US language.
Work experience	04/2008 – present: Consultant to cardomain.com Seattle, Washington Software Development Engineer Develop and recommend improvements for web infrastructure. Integrate the CarDomain brand and web presence into various social networking systems using web 2.0 tools. 08/2007 – 03/2008: Amazon.com Seattle, Washington Software Development Engineer, Merchandising Applications Maintain, support and develop content display infrastructure of retail web sites. The Merchandising Applications group (MA) is responsible for the prompt and accurate rendering of product data to an HTML format, consumable by all major web browsers. Our internal customers include the product group owners in all of Amazon's supported locales (.us, .jp, .uk, .de, .fr and .ca). Some of the most visible page types that MA owns include product detail (http://www.amazon.com/gp/dp/<ASIN>), category browse (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/?node=<category id>), and search (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?field-keywords=<keywords>). 07/2006 – 08/2007: Amazon.com Seattle, Washington Software Development Engineer, Amazon Daily Support, maintain and improve the Amazon Daily mason component codebase. Tasks involve project planning, code review, unit testing, feature design and implementation and release deployment 05/2005 – 06/2006: MySQL, Inc. Washington, USA Support Manager, MaxDB Provided support for MaxDB, MySQL’s re-branded database, formerly known as SAPDB, formerly known as Adabas D. Worked with colleagues spread throughout the world, especially in Germany, Sweden, Finland and US. 08/2004 – 05/2005: Consultant to Amazon.com Seattle, WA Software Development Engineer Maintained and developed display infrastructure of Amazon’s ECS sites including The Bombay Company, Target and the NBA Store. Organized presentations to Amazon developers by industry leaders including Randal Schwartz, Patrick Galbraith and Jon Swartz. Taught Perl classes from introduction to intermediate for new recruits and those interested in learning the language. 2001 – Present: Collier Technologies Seattle, WA Owner & Operator Operations, billing, software development, system administration, management, staffing, network administration, office administration. Contracts include work with Cadmium Yellow Design, Consultancy to Japan’s Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC): http://seq.cbrc.jp/, Consultancy to Amazon.com’s Enterprise Commerce Services: http://www.target.com/, http://bombaycompany.com/, http://store.nba.com/ 11/2002 – 08/2004 Consultant to AIST's CBRC center Tokyo, Japan Software Development & Design Lead Software design and development of user interface (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), system administration of source code repositories (Linux, CVS), lead developer and designer of web interface to WoLF PSORT protein localization prediction algorithms (Perl, HTML::Mason, Linux, Apache, mod_perl), Consultant for visualization of biological data (OpenGL, GTKGLExt, gtk+, GNOME, Glade), English documentation author (English language, groff, HTML), software build and test director (autotools, C++, CppUnit) 2004: A Dot Corporation Seattle, WA Software Developer in Test / System Administrator Provide support for developers and testers through all stages of product development. Responsibilities include authoring test documentation, designing and developing test cases and harnesses for new and existing code, code reviews and authoring educational documentation for new developers and testers. Administer servers and network for a new and growing product development company. Responsibilities include administration of Windows Server 2003 servers, Windows XP Pro workstations, test machines of varying operating systems, supporting growth of corporate network, including purchasing and deploying of hardware and software required for expansion of the company. 02/2002 – 11/2002: Consultant to John Snapp / TrafficWatch Seattle, WA Lead Developer Lead developer of wireless application (Perl, Apache, HTML::Mason, CGI::WML, WAP), filtering and storage of traffic data (Perl, XML::Parser, HTML::TableParser, MySQL), generation of images for display on wireless devices (PerlMagick.pm, Imager.pm, GIF, PNG, JPEG, The GIMP), source code management (CVS), system configuration (FreeBSD, Linux) 07/2001 – 02/2002: Consultant to TSCNet, Inc. Silverdale, WA Software Architect, System Administrator Development of administration automation, system maintenance, and authentication tools (PHP, Perl, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Linux). Developed a MySQL NcFTP authentication daemon (Perl, MySQL, cryptography. Can be found on sourceforge.net) 03/2000 – 03/2001: Security Portal, Inc. Mt. Vernon, WA Lead Developer Lead a team of six developers, testers and QA members spread across three countries (.us, .ca, .uk) to create an article authoring and editing tool for SecurityPortal.com, a real-time security alert company (HTML, Perl, MySQL, Apache, Linux, CVS, IRC, PGP, lots of email). Communicated security information between Linux and Win32 environments using XML. (Perl, Apache, IIS, ASP, Linux, Win32, XML, DTD) Delivered security alerts to hand-held devices including cell phones, blackberries and pagers (Perl, SMS). Built a database of security related software (Perl, MySQL, Linux)
Community activities	Organizer of Seattle Perl Users’ Group (SPUG). With support of Amazon.com's executive management, hosted SPUG meetings in the company's PacMed A/V rooms; booked and presented speakers for the October, November and December 2004 meetings. http://web.colliertech.org/~cjac/spug.jpg Founder and Organizer of Seattle Mono Users’ Group. Charter member of the Linux Internet Support Cooperative (also known as LinPeople, OpenProjects and, most recently, Freenode) since 1994, member of Mensa, the Free Software Foundation, free software development teams including Mono, GNOME and various projects hosted by sourceforge.net and the like.
References	Emerson Mills (emerson.mills@gmail.com), Amazon ECS Bombay lead developer Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com), Perl, Stonehenge Consulting Brian Fey (feybrian@hotmail.com), Fey Studios, Microsoft retiree Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com), Novell, Ximian, Mono Paul Horton (horton-p@aist.go.jp), AIST (Computational Biology Research Center)
Interests and activities	Parenting, husbanding, software development, human-to-human communication, wireless communication, system/cluster/network administration, operating systems, the Mono project, Free Software, Perl, network administration and management, blogging, learning new programming techniques, design patterns, human and computer languages, developing and designing games

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