Stephen J. Brown 1276 Whitspire Cir
Pottstown PA, 19464
EMail: stephenbrown@blinkylight.net
Web: http://blinkylight.net/resume/
Phone/Fax: 610-326-3120

Objective Full-time employment as a Unix developer of distributed or networked systems.
 
Experience 2004-present Mediaguide Inc. Berwyn, PA
 
Principal Technical Architect
  • Development of Mediaguide's distributed international media monitoring infrastructure.
  • Video and Audio analysis algorithm design & implementation.
  • Development in C++, PHP, Perl, Oracle and C on Linux.
  • Development in C++ and C# on Windows
  • Maintenance of legacy applications in Java, C and Perl on Linux.
  • Websphere MQ and Oracle 8, 9i and 10g, Oracle RAC
  • Architecture for and Administration of internal and remote servers & network
  • SAN design and implementation with Brocade, HP EVA 4000, HP EVA 6000, Nexsan
 
  2004 Nichia America (TEKsystems) Lancaster, PA
 
System Administrator / Consultant
  • Contract work through TEKsystems to re-engineer IT infrastructure at Nichia America Corporation
  • Windows and Linux Cluster design and implementation on HP SAN hardware
  • Windows 2003 Enterprise edition cluster implementation and administration
  • Network design and physical implementation
  • SAN design and implementation with Brocade, fibre channel, HP MSA-1000 and MSA-500
  • GFS used with Gentoo for active-active Linux cluster
  • Veritas Net Backup administration
  • WAN implementation with IPSec and dedicated T1 lines using Cisco and Linux
 
  2003-2004 Gold Standard Multimedia Yardley, PA
 
Developer
  • Development of a pharmaceutical clinical information and decision support product
  • Development in C#, C++ and Perl using Oracle and SQL Server
  • Database design using ER/Studio
  • IPSec VPN Administration
  • Linux and Windows 2003 Server administration
 
  2001-2003 Health Market Science Conshohocken, PA
 
Software Engineer
  • Development of custom data warehousing application on Linux and Win 2k
  • Extensive use of Perl for data manipulation and conversion
  • Development of custom data matching and cleaning software
  • Use of MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, SQL server and custom data engines
  • Programming (Perl, C/C++), web spidering, data mining, address standardization
  • Linux and Windows 2000 administration
 
2001-present Cube Technical Associates Royersford, PA
 
President, co-owner
  • Dedicated and shared web and email hosting on Linux servers
  • 24x7 administration of Cube Tech and client's servers across East coast
  • Limited custom development and system administration
 
  1999-2001 Data Clarity, Inc. Abington, PA
 
Vice President of Technology
  • Roles of owner, manager, developer and administrator within Data Clarity
  • Lead developer and project manager for client projects
  • Design, implementation and maintenance of client projects
  • Programming (C/C++, Perl), web scripting (PHP, Perl) and web design (HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript) for in-house and client projects
  • Database design, administration and maintenance for in-house and client projects (MySQL, MS SQL)
  • 24x7 administration of Data Clarity and client's servers across east coast
 
  1997-1999 Self Employed Rochester, NY
 
Independent Contractor (Developer & Administrator)
  • Worked 6 months as a Co-Op for Lynx System Developers, then continued as an independent contractor through the rest of college for Lynx System Developers and other clients
  • Development of large-scale, distributed real time n-tier client-server applications
  • Total life-cycle design, development of real-time data driven sports oriented web site http://cyberscoreboard.com part of http://finishlynx.com/ as a Co-Op and independent contractor, (C++, MS SQL Server, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, Windows NT & 9x, Linux, IIS and Apache)
  • Remote and on-site 24x7 maintenance of heterogeneous production servers, networks and databases for the Finish Lynx site and other clients
 
  1997 Reality Online, Inc. Valley Forge, PA
 
Co-Op (Rochester Institute of Technology's Co-Op program)
  • New programming and maintenance work on back end of mission critical, real-time news and financial trading services
  • Development work in C, C++, Java, and Oracle. C++ work using both Rogue Wave and internally developed libraries
  • Web site integration of news and real-time financial data using HTML and Java
  • Integration of back end daemons and databases with wire protocols of Reuter's, Knight-Ridder and ADP
  • Research and evaluation of new technology
  • 24x7 on call maintenance for production machines and software
 
Skills
  • System and project design, using both procedural and object-oriented styles
  • Client-server programming with TCP/IP, CORBA and COM/DCOM
  • C++, C, C#, .Net, Perl, PHP, Unix Shell, and SQL programming
  • MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle and Sybase databases
  • Web scripting: PHP, Perl, Cold Fusion
  • Linux security and system administration
  • Networking programming on POSIX and Win32 systems
  • Multithreaded (POSIX, Windows) and multi-process programming (POSIX)
  • Internet server construction and maintenance: email (sendmail, qmail, courier), web (apache), dns (bind), ftp (proftpd & wuftpd), custom firewalls, routing, xDSL connectivity (PPPoE), real-time communications (IRC & Jabber), Samba
  • Extension programming for PHP4 and Apache
  • Development under Linux, Solaris, Irix, Java, Windows NT, Windows 9x and BeOS platforms
  • Administration of Linux, Solaris, Windows (9x, NT, 2k)
  • XML, HTML, SGML, DocBook, LaTeX, Doxygen
  • UML for design work and documentation
  • MFC, ATL, and ADO/OleDB/RDO in C++ for Windows programming
  • Microsoft Visual Fox Pro, Access, Visual Studio and Office
  • GNU tols for C/C++ development (gcc, make, autoconf, automake, libtool, gdb)
 
Education 1994-1999 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY
 
  • B.S. in Computer Science, with Honors
  • Networking and Systems Software concentrations
 
Geography Preferred job locations would be:
  • Pottstown, PA
  • Royersford, PA
  • King of Prussia, PA
  • Collegeville, PA
  • Reading, PA
  • Allentown, PA
  • Downingtown, PA
  • Exton, PA
  • Upper New York State
  • Vermont
  • New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts