C.J. ADAMS–COLLIER

17 Bartel Road • Eastsound, WA 98245-1988
cjac@colliertech.org
(206) 226 5809 • (360) 376 3631 • (360) 298 7790
http://www.colliertech.org

Skills

Software Development System Administration Network Operations
  • Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
  • Mono, .NET
  • XML/HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX
  • WML/WAP
  • Android SDK, NDK
  • C/C++/C#
  • visual studio, eclipse, monodevelop
  • glade, gtk+, gtk#
  • Accessibility
  • OpenGL
  • git, svn, cvs, p4, sd, hg, rcs, bk
  • i18n, l10n, a11y
  • MAC implementation and enforcement
  • PKI
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MaxDB/sapdb
  • Xen, KVM, QEMU, libvirt, Hyper-V, VMWare
  • Linux {Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora}
  • OpenSolaris
  • DOS
  • Windows {3.x, 9x, NT, XP, Vista, Seven}
  • Wordpress, Mediawiki, Sharepoint
  • BIG-IP™ LTM, tmsh, iApp, iRule, iControl
  • sks, gpg/pgp, openldap, freeradius, freediameter, MIT kerberos
  • vSPEAR
  • Authentication / Authorization
  • policy compliance auditing
  • Cryptography
  • LDAP
  • Kerberos
  • X.509
  • PPP, RADIUS
  • Apache
  • TCP/IP
  • Cisco IOS
  • L2TP
  • Squid, Varnish, memcache
  • SNMP, MRTG, NAGIOS
  • SIP, RTP, IAX2, Asterisk

Work Experience

Collier Technologies LLC • Member • 2001 – Present

Software development, system administration, management, staffing, network & office administration, operations and billing.

Clients include:

LiquidWeb:

http://stormondemand.com

Doubleprime:

http://www.esteelauder.co.uk/
http://www.esteelauder.com.au/
http://www.clinique.com.au/

Cadmium Yellow Design:

http://www.cadmiumyellow.com/
http://www.makaturamurals.com/
http://www.billydavisfineart.com/
http://encserviceconcepts.com/

Computational Biology Research Center:

http://seq.cbrc.jp/
http://wolfpsort.org/

Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/daily
http://www.target.com/
http://bombaycompany.com
http://store.nba.com/

F5 Networks, Inc.:

Silverline
RADIUS Deployment Guide

F5 Networks, Inc. • 11/2010 - 08/2012 • Project Management Engineer

New Technologies Research

Planned, designed and developed IT operational administration system with the research and development team at Seattle-based network appliance firm.

BIGIP GTM, BIGIP LTM, embedded systems, Perl, AnyEvent Virtualization, KVM, Qemu, libvirt, Debian, DNS, MYSQL, WordPress, HTML, TCL, Cisco IOS, x.509, PGP, C, JSON, JavaScript, SVN

Researched platform for optimization of wide area wireless networks and developed an iApp which eases the deployment of these systems.

Voice over IP, SIP, UNIStim, Asterisk, RSTP, RTP, 4G/LTE, IPv6, BIND/DNS, BIGIP GTM, BIGIP LTM, Cisco IOS, x.509, tcpdump, wireshark, tftp, ISC DHCPD, PXE, Network Address Translation,

Created Deployment Guide for load balancing of the RADIUS AAA protocol using BIGIP devices.

FreeRADIUS, Debian, 802.1x, ppp, EAP, CHAP, tcpdump, wireshark, BIGIP LTM, iApp, Cisco IOS

 

LiquidWeb Inc. • 9/2009 - 9/2010 • Consultant

Software Development Engineer

Creation and maintnenance of Storm on Demand cloud hosting infrastructure. Projects include web-based DNS administration interface, creation of Debian and Ubuntu server image templates, packaging of internal software for Debian and Ubuntu and migration of provisioning system from Xen to KVM/libvirt. Skills used in this role include Perl, HTML::Mason, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, AJAX, JSON, git, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Xen, KVM, Qemu, libvirt, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SOAP, DNS, h.323, XMPP.

Double Prime Inc. • 03/2009 - 9/2009 • Consultant

Software Development Engineer

Creation and maintnenance of domestic and international e-commerce applications for Estee Lauder brands. Skills used in this role include Perl, Text::Template, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, AJAX, RCS, Oracle, Solaris, CentOS, i18n, l10n.

 

Microsoft Corporation • 08/2008 - 03/2009 • Consultant

Technical Writer / Software Development Engineer in Test

Research, document and test existing functionality of GAPA host intrusion prevention system into upcoming product. Skills used in this role include Hyper-V, SQL Server, C#/.NET, wireshark, netmon.

 

Cardomain.com • 04/2008 - 08/2008 • Consultant

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, PHP, Perl and JQuery.

Amazon.com • 08/2007 – 03/2008

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>).

Amazon.com • 07/2006 – 08/2007

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

MySQL, Inc. • 05/2005 – 06/2006

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.

Amazon.com • 08/2004 – 05/2005

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.

Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's CBRC center • 11/2002 – 08/2004

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)

More work experience available upon request.

Education

  • 2009-present: University of Washington, Computational Linguistics masters program
  • 1999-2000: Olympic College, General studies with a focus on IT
  • 1998-1999: Edmonds Community College, Running Start

 

Community activities

  • 1994-present: member of the Linux Internet Support Cooperative (also known as LinPeople, OpenProjects and, most recently, Freenode)
  • 2002: member of Mensa
  • 2002-present: member of various Open Source and Free Software development teams including Mono, GNOME, Perl6, IronRuby and SELinux
  • 2003: Member of the Seattle Wireless Network and host to NodeViceroy
  • 2004: Seattle Perl Users' Group (SPUG) organizer
  • 2004-present: Events coordinator for the Scarlet & Zelda show
  • 2009-present: Amateur radio operator KF7BMP
  • 2010-present: maintain a pool member of distributed PGP database
  • 2011-2012: Enlisted member of Washington State Guard
  • 2011-present: US Army Volunteer
  • 2011-present: Member of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG)
  • 2011-present: Volunteered, deployed and co-maintain compute cloud for University of Washington's Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity
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    References

    Bob Blair (massody@comcast.net), Project Management Engineer, F5 Networks, Inc.
    Chris Reinhardt (creinhardt@liquidweb.com), Software Developer, Liquid Web
    Emerson Mills (emerson.mills@gmail.com), Amazon ECS Bombay lead developer
    Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com), Perl, Stonehenge Consulting
    Brian Fey (feybrian@hotmail.com), Bosque Village
    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

    Additional Information available upon request.