Timothy Chen - Resume

Timothy Chen

Experienced build and release manager seeking full time or contractual projects around the San Francisco Bay Area. (Currently Not Available)

email: babyduck@massconfusion.com


Technical Summary

Languages

  • Perl
  • HTML
  • SQL
  • Java
  • Java Servlets
  • Javascript
  • C
  • C++
  • Microsoft
    Foundation
    Classes (MFC)
  • WinAPI/Win32
  • Visual Basic

Skills

  • Build and Release Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • Web Developer

Platforms

  • Windows 95/98/ NT/2000/XP
  • RedHat Linux 7.x,8.x
  • Fedora Core 1-4
  • AIX 5.1-5.3
  • HPUX 11.11
  • Apache 1.3x, 2.x
    • mod_perl
    • mod_jk
    • mod_ssl
  • Tomcat 3-5.x
  • Netscape Enterprise Server
  • Microsoft IIS
  • Sun Solaris Sparc/x86
  • FreeBSD
  • GNOME
  • MySQL

Tools

  • Microsoft Office XP/ 2000 / 2003
  • Microsoft Frontpage
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Microsoft Dev Studio
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Netscape Communicator
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Qualcomm Eudora
  • VIM
  • Hummingbird Exceed
  • csh, tcsh
  • sh, bash

Other

  • TCP/IP
  • SSH - Secure Shell
  • SVN
  • CVS/RCS
  • Perforce
  • Performance Tuning
  • Benchmarking
  • Scalability
  • Load Balancing

Fluent Languages

  • English
  • Mandarin
  • Taiwanese
 

Professional Experience

Build and Release Manager, PGP Corporation (Palo Alto, CA)
January 2003 - Present
http://www.pgp.com/

  • Developed and extended automated build systems that enabled developers to build PGP's product line through a centralized web delopyment system. Linux, Win32, HPUX, AIX, Solaris, and OSX builds are started with a web interface tied in with custom Perl daemons listening on the build machines. (Perl, Apache, CVS, SVN, RPM, Microsoft Dev Studio, InstallShield, WISE, HPUX PSF, Solaris Packager).
  • Maintain critical engineering resources including bugzilla, CVS, SVN, ViewCVS and other tools needed to help developers manager their projects. Provided extended bugzilla capabilities to allow support users access to bugzilla. (CVS, ViewCVS, Bugzilla)
  • Work closedly with developers to keypoint and provide early warnings of common build failures allowing engineers to fix build issues as quickly as they appear. (Custom Perl)

Web Developer (Cofounder), OOFNet.com (San Mateo, CA)
OOFNet Cinema (Online Movie Ratings Site)
May 2001 - Present
http://www.oofnet.com/

  • Developed and designed website that allow any user to rate/review movies. Site is developed with co-founder Brandon Hashimoto. (Apache, Tomcat, Java Servlets, JDBC, MySQL).
  • Deployed UserRatingsDistributionSystem graphing application that shows the distribution of all of the user's film ratings.
  • Deployed Tomcat 4.x servlet container to transition our old code base to new, more scaleable technology. Developed seamless servlets that are transparent to the user what the underlying technology is.

Software Consultant , Classmates.com. (San Mateo, CA)
November 2000 - May 2001
http://www.classmates.com/

  • Helped integrate eCircles software into Classmate's existing architecture after eCircles is acquired by Classmates.
  • Trained Classmates engineers to use eCircle's development environment and code base. (Perl, Sybase, Java, Apache, mod-perl)

Senior Software Engineer, eCircles Inc. (San Mateo, CA)
January 2000 - May 2001
http://www.ecircles.com/

  • Led engineering team to develop the eCircles news tracker service which emailed users periodically with news stories matching their search criteria.
  • Developed eCircles applications that allowed users to share photos, plan events, and have discussion online. (Perl, Sybase, Java, Apache, mod-perl)

Software Consultant, ChildNet Inc. (San Diego, CA)
May 2000 - September 2000
http://www.childnet.com/

  • Developed Childnet's online calendaring app which enabling Childnet-partnered day care centers to post food menus, daily schedules, and events.
  • Application complemented Childnet's primary product which allows parents to monitor their children in daycare centers via the Internet (Perl, Apache, Oracle, DBI).

Software Engineer, iHarvest Corporation (Palo Alto, CA)
April 1999 - August 1999
http://www.interwoven.com/

  • Developed server side software enabling iHarvest to provide ad targeting for their web harvester software (IE browser plug-in). Users were presented with relevant ads based on the data they were saving. (Perl, Apache, MySQL)
  • Wrote on-line product registration scripts. (Perl, Apache, MySQL)
  • Implemented Java libraries to save / load harvested web data. (Java)

Webmaster / Web Development Consultant, Lucent Technologies (Milpitas, CA)
April 1998 - April 1999
http://www.lucent.com/octel/

  • Brought in as Taos consultant to redesign Octel's (Lucent division) external web server environment. Worked closely with web content managers to streamline their web content publishing process.
  • Improved web server monitoring capabilities to ensure that all systems were secure and available 24/7. (Netscape Enterprise Server, Solaris, Perl)

Engineering Intern, Netscape (Mountain View, CA)
June 1997 - September 1997
http://www.netscape.com/

  • Benchmarked Netscape server applications to ensure competitiveness in marketplace. Provided server engineers with weekly performance figures on latest build. Designed and extended benchmark programs to test new product capabilities. (Netscape Enterprise Server, C).

Engineering Intern, Qualcomm Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
July 1996 - June 1997
http://www.qualcomm.com/

  • Developed intranet applications to facilitate workflow in the Configuration Management department. Developed standalone or web based CGI-BIN applications to allow uploading of documents from external departments to CM. (Perl, C, Java, and TCL/TK)

Student Programmer, UCSD ECE Dept. (La Jolla, CA)
February 1996 - July 1996
http://www-ece.ucsd.edu/

  • Provided miscellaneous programming support for the department. Duties spanned from system administration to programming.
  • Maintained and created scripts for department web server (Solaris, CGI-BIN, Perl)

Independent Projects

FiSSH (Open Source Windows SSH Client)
August 1997 - January 2000

  • Wrote open source SSH client for Windows 95/NT. Donated whole project to MIT after discovering how big of a headache it would be to distribute software with strong encryption in the United States. (Visual C++, MFC, SSH)

Education

University of California at San Diego
September 1993 - March 1998
B.S. Computer Science
Area Studies in Communication and Visual Arts
http://www.ucsd.edu/


Last Updated: March 3, 2006

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