Resume for Jud Martin Dagnall

Address:
536A Chiquita Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone:831.818.9222
Email:jobs@dagnall.net

Objective

A full time programming position building tools to support core business needs

Summary

Employment History

2000-present Silicon Graphics (SGI), Mountain View, California

Software Engineer, MTS2

Responsible for mission-critical content management system driving SGI's customer support web site http://support.sgi.com

  • Designed and extended Content Management System (10,000+ documents) in Python using open source technologies including Zope, Apache, XML, CVS and Linux
  • As Lead developer for project converting perl/CGI based content system to Zope/CMF (Python), scheduled, prioritized, designed, formulated standards and tested software while working with outside consultants
  • Promoted from contractor to permanent engineer position with the research and development unit of SGI's customer support business
  • Created internal sites using Plone and Archetypes
  • Built tools to exchange and repurpose data from J2EE, Sybase, Oracle and proprietary database systems via xml and XML-RPC
  • Wrote unit tests, and testing/monitoring framework
  • Reduced static page build times by approximately 50% by refactoring and rewriting Perl database software and CGIs

1997-2000 York School, Monterey, California

Technology Coordinator and Computer Science Teacher

Linux and windows system administrator for a network of 35 nodes supporting over 200 faculty, students and administrators

Technical instructor for C++, MS Office, and multimedia applications courses

  • Deployed and debugged database system for automatic report card generation, including writing Perl and bash code to overcome serious conflicts in proprietary software
  • Decreased processing time for report cards by 50% year over year
  • Maintained Samba file server, Apache web server, Squid proxy server, and sendmail on Linux, with responsibility for system security, backup, hardware/software troubleshooting and maintenance
  • Created technology curriculum and taught workshops for students, staff and outside professionals
  • Budgeted and authorized all technology purchases; prepared technology plan for successful grant

1993-1997 Miracles Unlimited Electrical Engineering, Aptos, California

Electrical Designer, Computer Consultant

Responsible for system administration, automation and many aspects of business development for a small startup company

  • Windows operating system maintenance, backup and evolution consultant
  • Wrote text processing software that greatly decreased entry time in AutoCAD
  • Instrumental in building up a client base via face-to-face sales presentations.
  • Produced electrical construction documents for a wide variety of commercial sites using AutoCAD

1992 Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, NJ

Computer Consultant

Worked with senior researcher to build pharmaceutical research software

  • Integrated a 3-D visualizer with a molecular-simulation program
  • Partially ported a UNIX application to Silicon Graphics IRIX with a Graphical User Interface in C

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