Charles Paul 992 Peralta Ave San Francisco, CA 94110 504-715-8940 charles.paul@gmail.com Resume of Qualifications and Achievments Available for challenging coding positions. Technical Skills WWW applications: content management systems, open-publishing systems, and license verification systems. Web development platforms include: Django, PHP/Pear, Zope/ Plone, mod_perl/ template-toolkit, Twisted-Nevow, ColdFusionMX, and the Unix shell. Software development experience on the following platforms: C/C++ (Unix/Win), Python (Unix/Win/Mac), Perl (Unix/Mac), Java (Unix,Win), PHP (Unix/Win/Mac). Network applications: UDP servers for multimedia streaming, XMLRPC/SOAP interfaces for GnuPG encryption and for the control of terrestrial media broadcasts. Business applications: corporate document control for legal compliance, internal business form validation/generation, office workflow management suites Adept system, security, database and network admin. Design and analysis of secure and anonymous cryptographic based systems. Familiar with common intrusion and prevention methods. Security analysis & network penetration testing. Employment History Powerlinx Technologies, Concord CA Embedded Software Engineer, Contractor March 2005 - October 2005 - Developed Powerline ethernet drivers, integrated software and wrote original code to operate a variety of embedded DSP-computing products: ranging from hotel set-top video decoders to web-controlled security cameras. - Evaluated and benchmarked performance of components from hardware vendors. - Initiated technical negotiations with software vendors and secured requests for needed features. - Built & maintained Linux toolchains for embedded computer platforms. Built win32 gui apps; integrating software from Open-Source projects such as Videolan, libpcap. - Created the office wiki to help disseminate and catalog new documentation produced by the engineers. The League of Independent Voters, San Francisco CA Software Integration Engineer & SysAdm May 2004 - January 2005 - Participated in a cooperative (Xtreme) programming effort building a new online social networking platform for activists. - Added functionality to Flexomatic for users to create and manage electronic mailing lists by integrating the Sympa mailing list manager. - Acted as Sysadmin for a highly-available, multi-tiered public web application. Taos, San Francisco CA Senior Systems & Network Administrator May 2000 - February 2001 - Provided network, system and security administration for various Internet companies. - Mentored junior sysadmins on Unix, networking, scripting and "best practices" for systems administration. Evcom.net, North Palm Beach Florida, USA Webmaster April 1997 - November 1997 - Graphic design, illustration, java animation and HTML for over 20 websites. - Owner and operator of the Debian server hosting secondary DNS services. - Participated in the physical buildout of ISP (network wiring, machine- installation). Consulting History Honolulu, HI and San Francisco, CA 2001 - 2007 - Clients include Wells Fargo, HP, Charles Schwab, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Roberts LLP, Milagen and Dunkin Donuts. - Extended a Plone-based corporate accounting application to be in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by integrating open-source code for full-history support in Zope Enterprise Objects. - Developed data-mining suites and the pattern searching algorithms for applications such as the discovery of corporate insider trading, and for ranking the popularity of popular songs and artists on P2P networks. These applications were built using Python, C, XML XPath, MySQL, dbm, OpenVPN and Debian Linux x86. - Refactored a large (100,000 lines of code) perl CGI application into a functioning application for a large investment house. - Coded intranet and Internet web applications and provided Unix systems administration for businesses in Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii. Full life-cycle development of content management systems, and an order-delivery tracking system with customer relationship manangement functionality. - Acted as security engineer for the online division of a national bank. Responsible for hardening Linux operating systems and Apache/Tomcat based applications on the public webservers, and performed regular security audits of colocated servers. Composed monthly security reports for management. South Florida 1997 - 1999 - Clients include Finnegan-Thermoquest, Robert Half and The PGA. - Designed and installed high-volume email delivery systems using Postfix, Sendmail, Solaris, Debian Linux, MySQL and Perl. - Developed an software license verification system for the Web using Python and C++ on a Windows NT server. - Provided IT consulting services for businesses hardware, software & information architecture). Volunteering History Indymedia.org 2000 - 2007 - Continuing support for open-publishing PHP code-bases and various Internet services including wikis, IRC, DNS and Mail. New Orleans, LA October 2005 - June 2006 - Organizer and volunteer for a grassroots relief effort which delivered supplies on vegetable-oil powered busses from California to the Gulf South following Hurricanes Katrina & Rita. - Assisted in establishing and supporting an emergency communication network for New Orleans and Houma, Louisiana using 802.11 mesh networks, FM radio, and VOIP. - Opened two kitchens and assisted community members in operating them for their neighbours returning to New Orleans. San Francisco, CA March 2004 - December 2004 Verified Voting Foundation - Collaborated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and other civil liberties groups to build a web-based election incident reporting system in time for the 2004 elections. - Helped design & deploy a geographically distributed and highly-available cluster of MySQL database servers & "front-edge" webservers. System was utilized by thousands of election-monitoring volunteers from the ACLU and other civil-liberties organizations. Education History Partial study for a degree in fine-art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State, 1994-1995.