Older Awesome Stuff I've Done

UW Health Sciences Libraries

October 2003 - June 2005

• supported Linux Virtual Server setup (VRRP with keepalived) for high availablity of Healthlinks website

• staged and deployed HealthLinks J2EE codebase enhancements with CVS and Ant

• managed RT installation

• created an RPM SPEC file for mod_pubcookie to simplify single-signon (SSO) software deployment

IOCC

From May 2001 - May 2003 I was network administrator at IOCC, an independent Internet Service Provider in Southwest Arkansas.

• wrote a small Java application (using Swing and JDBC) which allowed non-technical billing personnel to search account usage data

• used expect scripts to simplify management of Aironet equipment for wireless ISP network

• Managed routers, servers, and other equipment

Cygwin Project

From roughly 1999 to 2006 I was a Cygwin contributor and a regular on the mailing lists (Cygwin is an open source Linux-like environment for Windows).

• Maintained Cygwin documentation including the FAQ, User's Guide (written in DocBook) and man pages

• Updated the Cygwin User's Guide to DocBook XML so that it could be transformed to HTML on Cygwin (it was previously SGML and required Linux)

• patch (C++ Windows Shell code) to enhance system information output from cygpath

• mkshortcut command-line utility for creating Windows shortcuts

• various small patches to add usage and automatic versioning information (via CVS) to utilities included in Cygwin

• Cygwin-Lite a minimal Cygwin installation that fit on a 1.44M floppy disk