I will soon be available for a full time contract. I’m looking for either a Ruby-on-Rails or a Cocoa Touch gig.
I reside in Reno, NV. I telecommute and can travel on site for trips lasting up to 5 days at a time.
A link to my complete resume is available upon request. Here is an excerpt from my Resume:
Specialty
- Custom massively scalable multi-user software systems.
Professional Experience
- 19 Years as a Software Engineer developing software with RDBMS, Unix Servers, and PCs.
- 18 Years of professional Unix System Administration and Network Administration.
- 17 Years as a DBA working with MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Sybase, and MS SQLServer.
- 13 Years of experience developing database backed web applications.
Management Expertise
- 10 Years of experience Leading teams of software developers.
- Extensive experience as the chief designer/architect of computer systems. I coordinate between Project Management, Marketing and my team of Engineers to create quality and easy to use software systems which meet the requirements.
Software Language/Programming Expertise
- Ruby, Objective-C, SQL, Flex/AS3, Java, C, C++, Perl, XML, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Unix scripting, and some PHP.
System Administration Expertise
- Linux, Solaris, OSX, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, MacOS, IRIX, Windows, DOS, IOS, and Miscellaneous Ethernet equipment and routers.
Networking Expertise
- Extensive experience in Security and Internets. I have designed and implemented many commercial networks, including configuring firewalls, VPNs, Web Servers, Mail servers, DNS servers, routers, switches, hubs and cabling.
Third Party Software, Libraries, APIs, and Protocol Expertise
- Ruby-on-Rails, Cocoa Touch, Restful-Authentication, OpenID, REST, Ajax, SAS, Unix, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLServer, TCP/IP, nginx, mongrel, lighttpd, apache, pf, lucene, SMTP (Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Courier), DNS/named, IPSec, Servlets, JDBC, SOAP, CGI, Applets, Velocity, Turbine, X Windowing System, Net Dynamics, Security, Configuration Management (git, SVN, CVS, Clear Case, RCS), Serial Port Communications, the Big Sister/Brother network monitors, Trac, Bugzilla, GNATS, Roundcube, Squirrelmail, OS Commerce, Mephisto, Beast, OpenOffice, MS Office.
Other Expertise
- Motif, Quickdraw, Unify Accell, Scheme (Lisp), Pascal, 80×86 Assembly, Hypertalk.
Thank you,
-Rama McIntosh
rama at myutil com
