Joel Rodriguez135 Alpine |
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Gossamer
Computer Services, LLC
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Internet Consulting for Small business. |
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Computer System Administration for Small Business & Homeowners. |
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Webmaster Services including web design and maintenance, web hosting, advertising, third party software integration, and e-commerce. |
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Contract Programming Services. |
Highlights
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Facilitated Local Adoption of the Internet into Business Plans. (1995-1997) |
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Developed QuickQuote Virtual Forms, a web based Life Insurance Application Process. (1997) |
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Delivered ProtoCare Sciences MRS C++ Release (1998) |
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Delivered Sun Port ProtoCare Sciences PRS C++ Release (1999) |
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Delivered ProtoCare Sciences PRS C++ Release (2000) |
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Delivered QuickQuote Virtual Forms (2001) |
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Developed & Sold TahoesBest.com, a Lake Tahoe Web Directory (1997 - 2003) |
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Deployed OpenSource FreeBSD Internet Servers (2004 - present) |
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Delivered Third Party Application Website Integration with Property Management, Hotel Reservations, and IDX/MSL systems. (2004 - present) |
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Delivered & Maintained Dozens of Websites. (1995 - present) |
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Delivered e-commerce Websites (2004 - present) |
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Expanded Computer System Administration Services (2008) |
Work Details:
Website Design:
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Gossamer currently has over 2 dozen website designs active primarily focused on the Lake Tahoe Travel Industry. |
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Designs include third party application integration for Resort Data Processing(3), IDX/MLS(3), Online Hotel Reservations(3), and E-Commerce(3). |
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Gossamer currently maintains two FreeBSD OpenSource Servers running Apache 2, Qmail, Spamassassin, ClamAV, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Java, WordPress, & Apache OFBiz accessed with SSH & WebDAV. |
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Web Design Tools include DreamWeaver, Flash, Frontpage/Expressions, Perl CGI, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro, WebPosition, Web CEO, OptiSpider, OptiLink, Webalizer, WebMin, & EMACS. |
Computer System Administration Services
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UNIX System Administration supporting two FreeBSD systems. |
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Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP System Administration. |
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LAN System Administration including SonicWall, LinkSys, D-Link, Netopia, & HughesNet. |
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Windows Desktop and Laptop Repairs including motherboard replacements, disk drive replacements, memory upgrades, and Windows software upgrades. |
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Desktop New Hardware Recommendations and Installation. |
Contract Programming Services
Repeat contract (10/1999-1/2001)
QuickQuote Financial, Inc.
Reno, Nevada
QuickQuote is in the business of selling life insurance products via the Internet.
Responsibilities:
| Project Manager: Developed Virtual Forms, an internet application to generate life insurance applications for use with Client’s insurance quotation service via the Internet. |
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Database Design: Developed and deployed RDBMS Schema supporting Virtual forms. |
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Perl Developer: Design and write all Perl code required to implement Virtual Forms. |
Accomplishments:
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Completed Software Design specifications including procedures for scanning and annotating insurance forms, and specified hardware and software requirements. |
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Designed RDBMS schema including ER diagrams and implemented under Oracle 8.0.5 (Solaris 2.7) and under Microsoft Access (NT 4.0). Approximately 30 tables. |
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Designed and coded all Perl class modules and CGI interface. 30,000+ lines of code. |
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Trained very junior level programmers to extend the software to add additional insurance carriers. |
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Conducted weekly review meetings. |
Tool set:
| Perl 5, DBI, ODBC, CGI, Oracle 8.0.5, SQL*PLUS, Access 97, Acrobat 4.0, Emacs, Project 98, Excel 98, ActiveState Active Perl. |
| Sun Solaris 2.7, SunOS, Windows NT/98, Exceed (xterm, telnet, and ftp), |
| QuickBooks 2000. |
Repeat contract (11/1999-2/2000)
ProtoCare Sciences
Santa Monica
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ProtoCare Sciences provides software for the health care industry. The Practice Review System reviews medical insurance claims, characterizes medical practices and flags insurance claim errors.
Responsibilities:
| Product Management: deliver PRS4.6 to final QA. |
| Define hardware and software requirements for HP and IBM platforms. |
| Manage the integration of new features and bug fixes, i.e. Own the release . |
Accomplishments:
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Delivered release 4.6 to final QA. |
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Defined hardware/software requirements for HP and IBM Unix platforms. |
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Automated build process using Bourne shell, make and SCCS. Updated to Oracle 8 from Oracle 7. Eliminated static linking. |
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Identified and fixed OS specific problems including core dumps, the reading and writing of flat files into Oracle, integrated new features, analyzed run time performance issues and proposed solutions, and provided support to other developers for integrating new features and bug fixes. |
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Participated in all Project Review Meetings |
Tool set:
| C++, Pro*C, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, Unix Bourne Shell, Makefiles, SCCS, SyncSort, Emacs |
| HPUX, AIX, Solaris 2.7. |
Repeat Contract (09/1999-10/1999)
Santa Monica,
ProtoCare Sciences provides software for the health care industry.
Responsibilities:
| Internet Development: Develop proto-type web based CGI application that facilitates the tracking of drugs through the FDA approval cycle. |
Accomplishments:
| Delivered proto-type demonstration CGI application. |
Tool Set:
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Perl5, Win ODBC, Access, IIS, O'Reilly Website and Emacs. |
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Windows NT4.0. |
Repeat
Contract (05/1999-09/1999)
ProtoCare Sciences
Santa Monica,
CA
ProtoCare Sciences
provides software for the health care industry. The Practice Review System reviews medical insurance claims, characterizes
medical practices and flags insurance claim errors.
Responsibilities:
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Port PRS4.5 to the Sun Solaris Platform. |
Accomplishments:
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Ported
400,000+ lines of C++, SLQ*Loader batches, SyncSort Batches and Makefiles to the
Sun Solaris Platform. Upgraded PRS to use latest versions of Oracle 8.0.5, SyncSort,
and CC. |
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Converted 16-bit
data structures to 32-bit, Oracle 7 to Oracle 8.0.5, rewrote Makefiles (85+),
created SCCS tree, converted linking to use shared objects, added new features, fixed
Bourne scripts used to run the application and fixed flat file SQL-Loads. |
| Delivered to QA 2 months ahead of schedule and received contract bonus. |
Tool Set:
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C++, Oracle 8.0.5, Pro*C, SQL*Loader, SQL*Plus, Makefiles, SCCS, SyncSort, Bourne shell, Emacs. |
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Solaris 2.6. |
Contract (10/1998-04/1999)
ProtoCare Sciences
Santa Monica
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ProtoCare Sciences provides software for the health care industry. The Medical Review System reviews the justification of various proposed medical procedures.
Responsibilities:
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Accomplishments:
| Delivered updated MRS to QA meeting Y2K compliance. |
| Fixed bugs in both the C code, linking and the Accell forms. |
Tool Set:
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C, Accell 4GL, Makefiles, Bourne shell, Emacs |
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SCCS, AIX, HP and
SCO. |
Contract (01/1997-09/1997)
QuickQuote,
QuickQuote is in the business of selling life insurance products via the Internet.
Responsibilities:
| Product Development: Deliver proof of concept internet application to generate life insurance applications for use with Client’s on-line insurance quotation service via the Internet. |
Accomplishments:
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Designed
RDBMS schema, OO class modules, and methodology to populate PDF files using FDF. |
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Mentored junior
level programmer in OOP. |
Tool Set:
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Perl5, Sql*Net, Oracle7, Adobe Acrobat 3.0, Emacs |
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SunOS,
Windows 95 |
Contract
(06/1997-12/1997)
QuickQuote,
QuickQuote is in the business of selling life insurance products via the Internet.
Responsibilities:
| Perl Application (CGI) Programming |
Accomplishments:
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Designed term life
insurance estimator (rated a favorite by Money magazine Jan 1997), |
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Designed annuity
graphing functions (GD). |
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Enhanced case
management system. |
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Fixed various bugs
in existing code. |
Tool Set:
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Perl4, Emacs, SCCS |
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SunOS, Windows 95 |
Web
Design/e-Commerce Development.
1995-2001.
Olympic Valley, CA
Accomplishments:
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Design
and develop a web portal for beautiful |
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Developed Tahoe's
Best, currently delivering 150,000 impressions/month. 20 million hits during
year 2000. |
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Mentored web
designers. |
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Designed various
client web sites. |
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Interfaced
LionInc.com real-time interest rate and mortgage tools using Perl5. |
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Interfaced remote
CGI tools using Perl LWP & HTTP modules. |
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Defined ISP
requirements for customers. |
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Provided Windows
application support for customers. |
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Developed on-line
e-Commerce site. |
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Installed and
maintained Windows NT server. |
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Customer upgrades of
Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, to Windows 98(SE). |
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Provided customer
training. |
Tool Set:
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Perl4/5, CGI, HTML, SSI, Microsoft Access97, FrontPage 98/2000, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Project98, Microsoft Outlook, iHtml, Enterprise Merchant, O'Reilly WebSite, DNS, UNIX, C shell, WindowsNT, Windows95/98, Microsoft Image Composer, Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Acrobat, Emacs, WebTrends, ISP POP accounts. |
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