Michael M. O'Rourke
    Houston, TX
    http://www.theworld.com/~morourke
    morourke@theworld.com
    281.685.1009

    Objective:

    Continued growth through challenging projects. At this
    point in my career I would welcome the opportunity to serve
    in a more lead/management position while still doing development
    work. I exhibit great pride in my work and can wear many hats
    as the situation provides.

    Skillset:

    OS: Unix (Linux, IRIX, FreeBSD, Solaris), Windows, MAC OS X
    DB: Oracle, Postgresql, MySQL
    PL: C/C++, Perl, SQL, javascript, PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, sh/ksh
    VCS: rcs, cvs, svn, git, clearcase
    Other: Verilog, Abel, OrCad, GNU/FSF

    General:

    While my main interest and forte has been non GUI applications
    and infrastructure with Perl and C, it serves to point out the
    breadth of technology to which I am reasonably well versed.
    If I don't know it, I will as I am an avid researcher.

    Education:

    ASEE 1982 Vermont Technical College

    Experience:

    May 2011 - present

    Still waiting for that challenging opportunity and have done a
    couple of 'one off' projects.
    I'm still looking forward to something more in the embedded arena.


    Apr-May 2011 -- Ionzero LLC - telecommute developer
    Using: Perl, svn, MySQL

    Short timeline project requiring SOAP. OO Perl packages
    were built with pod style documentation. Promotional features
    and backend conciliation of purchases were also featured in this
    project. Finished.


    Nov 2008 to Apr 2011

    In preparation for new opportunities as well as general research and
    technical curiosity, I have been studying (in no particular order):
    RT, cloud computing (Wmware Zen), current Linux kernel code base,
    Moose/MOP, AJAX/javascript/DOM, Weblogic, SharePoint, and a host
    of other topics which may be needed in future positions.

    Additionally, I have kept my code writing skills fresh as there is
    always some piece of an idea that I tend to commit to code in some way.


    May 2008 to Nov 2008 -- cPanel of Texas, Inc - Perl Application Developer
    Using: Perl, make, svn

    Contributed to cPanel's product with new Perl modules, test suites,
    codebase refactoring, development tools.

    NOTE: The rest of these were all in the MA/NH area.

    Mar 2006 to Apr 2007 -- Verizon - Consulting Eng.
    Using: C, Perl, DBI, Oracle, make, Java, javascript

    Working on the Content Aggregation Integration Platform project
    within SuperPages, I wrote a highly scalable web spider in Perl.
    Considerable research was undertaken (rfc, w3c, various white papers)
    in order to get it right. Overall performance, given the high-end
    Sun hardware, was on the order of 6-8M pages scanned per day.

    Generally speaking, nearly everything I wrote needed to talk with
    one or more Oracle databases.

    Many of the custom Perl modules written for the spider application
    were resused for other tasks that were assigned.


    Jan 2003 to Feb 2006 -- independent
    Using: C, Perl, make, javascript, CGI, Apache

    Consulting to mid level companies with real needs for
    24/7 available, smart, extensible solutions for their businesses.


    Mar 2001 to Nov 2002 -- Terra Lycos, Inc. - Principal Eng.
    Using: C, Perl, make, CGI, javascript, postgresql

    At the forefront of all design at this job was 24/7 availability
    of large clusters of Linux systems across several physical
    data centers and strong consideration of issues that large
    data sets present.

    Wrote numerous reporting scripts for statistical analysis.

    Provided the direct marketing team a browser based application
    to facilitate demographic reporting for targeted advertisements
    from the user registration database (~50M records).

    Designed a near real-time filtering program for tracking users.
    This design was implemented in Perl, featured fai lover considerations,
    complete automation and ran from several data centers.

    More generally, I contributed perl packages, considered portability
    issues (Linux, Solaris, IRIX) and developed various tools to aid
    the other folks in the operations group.


    Jul 2000 to Feb 2001 -- SilverBack Technologies, Inc. - Principal Eng.
    Using: C, Perl, DBI, make, Java, Object Oriented Techniques

    Designed and implemented a complete solution for the lcd display
    of their hardware appliance. The design was instrumented as a
    client/server using a Unix domain socket. The user api was clear
    and easy to use with several display modes and a trivial client
    api. It was developed to be specifically device independent
    as many lcd vendors were in consideration.

    Served as the lead for one of the next generation projects begun
    in late October 2000. This role encompassed management of a small
    team, ensuring milestones, providing significant architecting and
    design for a key area of the product.


    Nov 1999 to Jul 2000 -- independent
    Using: C, Perl, make

    Worked with Apache and mod_perl, database designs, tutorials,
    research reading rfc and w3c recommendations.


    Nov 1998 to Nov 1999 -- sabbatical


    Oct 1997 to Nov 1998 -- IronBridge Networks - Principal Eng.
    Using: Perl, C, Verilog, WVO/Powerview, make, sh, csh,

    As employee 10 in this startup, my main focus was to
    design the hardware process infrastructure, though my tasks
    were many and varied, particularly in the first months.

    General duties taken on were system administration, server selection
    and application license procurement.

    Licensing was driven using the FlexLM license management system.
    I was responsible for installation and configuration of FlexLM and
    caretaker of the key files for design tool products.
    Among these were VCS/Verilog, Xilinx FPGA packages, Spice,
    Synopsys asic routing tools, WVO/Powerview.

    With many other pressing tasks at the time, only a minor
    amount of time was spent developing usage monitoring. What
    monitoring development that was implemented was solely to
    understand what typical usage was so as to modify the quantity
    of licenses we were purchasing. They were all very pricey
    applications and it was important given our startup funding.

    Used Perl to deploy top level infrastructure control with
    pre-checkin compilation, release branching, etc. for our
    source repository which was based on CVS.

    Developed a terminal based Perl application to generate
    schematic part bodies from the Verilog source. When devices
    were formally routed this application was able to do the
    correct pin mapping. This process saved lots of schematic
    capture time and prevented the typical connectivity errors.

    Developed the structure of the corporate hardware database.


    Jan 1997 to Oct 1997 -- BBN - Eng.
    Using: Perl, C, Verilog, Cadence Concept, sh/ksh, make

    Provided tool writing expertise for a hardware design process.
    Developed a method for generating schematic part bodies from
    the Verilog representing the block and later added functionality
    to map pinouts of programmable devices.

    Wrote 'golden' data generator programs in C to test data path segments
    of the design. These generators featured the ability to set timing
    skew as a significant test against the specification.

    Served as an advisory to porting and programming language issues.


    Nov 1996 -- Bay Networks - Eng.
    Using: Verilog, Perl

    Wrote tasks and functions in Verilog to drive chip level
    verification. Also provided some extraction utilities in Perl.


    Jun 1996 to Sep 1996 -- Boston Technology - Sr. Eng.
    Using: C, Perl, Clearcase, make

    Identified bottlenecks within a Clearcase based process
    environment of a mature software product. Made recommendations
    for their resolution and implemented code to realize them.

    Provided multi-platform compiler and tool building support.


    Jul 1995 to Apr 1996 -- Teradyne - Eng.
    Using: C, Perl, sh, csh, ksh, make

    Supported the hardware design team on a large scale
    development project. I responded to requests from hardware
    designers, software peers and management for useful programs
    provided in C, Perl and sh/ksh, as appropriate.

    Deployed LSF batch queuing for regression testing.

    Developed a monitoring system for all development tools
    (Verilog, Synopsys, etc.) using utilities in the FlexLM system.
    All sampling code was written in Perl and then coupled to
    GNUplot for graphical rendition.


    1982 to 1995 -- various hardware Engineer/Sr. Tech positions
    Using: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, C, make, OrCad, Abel, sh/ksh

    To summarize, this time period represents my work directly with
    hardware projects namely medical electronics, high-end graphics
    and embedded systems. I'm happy to discuss, at length, the specifics
    of the companies and the projects. I would offer that my
    troubleshooting and problem solving skills were finely honed during
    this period and have been aptly applied to software projects since.