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Work Experience
Warehouse Operations Associate
Core-Mark International, Inc.•  June 2017 - December 2019
Various warehouse duties. March 2019 Employee of the Month
Seasonal Amazon Fulfilment Center Order Picker
Integrity Staffing Solutions•  November 2016 - January 2017
Operation of powered industrial trucks and other warehouse duties.
Software Engineer
Elgon Information Systems, Inc.•  September 2015 - March 2016
Development project for an existing Web application to produce a PHP module for the transmission, generation, and parsing of EDI transaction sets in use by the home health care industry.
Software Engineer
Offices of the Secretary of State of Rhode Island•  January 2011 - June 2015
Development, deployment, and maintenance of Debian servers and Web based distributed applications for LAMP platforms on local infrastructure and Amazon Web Services. Server side database programming using MySQL. Server side object oriented programming (OOP) using PHP. Apache configuration. Client side OOP using Javascript. Problem diagnosis with Firebug and Chrome development tools. Performance analysis and optimization.
Software Engineer
Solstice Technologies, LLC•  April 2010 - September 2010
Development project to replace portions of an existing proprietary inventory system with a Web based application.
Technical Support Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.•  September 1999 - August 2009
Investigated and resolved operating system problems reported by customers, on a team of Solaris kernel specialists. Facilitated over 20,000 service requests in a ten year period. Provided support to system administrators in a remote capacity and directed their data collection efforts. Performed root cause analysis from system crash dumps, process core dumps, process execution traces, network packet traces, and other forms of data, to identify defects in Sun hardware or software. Identified defects in third party software, without the benefit of access to source code. Diagnosed performance bottlenecks from statistical system data. Reproduced problems on lab systems when further study was warranted. Recommended HW maintenance and SW updates based on analysis results. Produced and tested interim software solutions and their delivery mechanisms. Collaborated with sustaining engineers for complex problem investigation and permanent resolutions.
Software Engineer
Raytheon Co.•  June 1983 - June 1999
Individual contributor in the vessel traffic control systems engineering organization, developing software in accordance with MIL-STD-498. Designed, programmed, and operated small data processing applications in support of the Trident Missile Program Captive Line Test Facility.
Education
Harvard University, Cambridge
Extension School, Bachelor in Liberal Arts with concentration in Computer Science•  September 1983 - May 1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Mathematics, none•  September 1977 - May 1982
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