Kurt's Miscellany

OK, now here's the real reason I went to the trouble of putting this blog up: passively advertising my job skills via Google! Self-serving, you say? But of course! Here is my resume:

Kurt Yoder
McLean, Virginia

SKILLS:
Apache, Perl, PHP, Postgres, MySQL
Linux, networking, server applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Perl Programmer
Richard Group, Arlington, VA, April, 2004 to now
-code in Perl for web applications and in-house CMS on Linux, Postgres
and Apache2
-use modules such as CGI::FormBuilder, HTML::Template
-convert Photoshop mockups to functioning web pages
-manage in-house server backups, security, and other miscellaneous admin
duties

Systems Administrator
Sport & Health, McLean, VA, Feb, 1999 to April, 2004
-Researched, installed, administrated, and extended web applications
such as WebRT, Squirrelmail, and PHProjekt
-Designed and implemented perl, php, and python scripts to save time
spent on administrative tasks and to increase the information
available on the company intranet
-Installed and administrated Mysql and Apache on Linux for company
intranet and web applications
-Commissioned and oversaw coding work by various contractors to Sport
& Health's web applications
-Head systems administrator to manage OS and software installation,
troubleshooting, security patching, backups, and other adminstrative
duties on 10-15 Red Hat and Debian Linux servers, 2 FreeBSD servers, 1
OpenBSD server, and several Windows NT/2K servers
-Supervised a team of 3 other technicians

Freelance Web Application Coding
IRC, Silver City, NM, intermittent July-2003 to now
-Built PHP-based Smarty-templatable system to enable staff to input
data in simple text files and have it display in sortable columns on
one of the IRC websites (http://fpif.org)

Sport & Health, McLean, VA, May, 2003-July, 2003 (additional contract
work during weekends)
-Built PHP and MySQL-based inventory/asset management and tracking
system
-Released as free/open-source software at
http://asset-tracker.sourceforge.net

Systems Administrator
Vision Lab, Miami, FL, April, 1997-Jan, 1998
-Responsible for network equipment, servers, and software, maintained
user workstations

EDUCATION:
BA, International Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,
1992-1996


I suppose I will be adding to this over time. For now, this should do it.

In the vein of further shameless self-promotion and in order to help certain Google rankings, here are some more projects I have worked on:

Asset Tracker, an inventory and asset management system which allows you to track as many attributes as you want. It also allows you to keep many separate classes of assets. I wrote this under contract while I was working for Sport & Health and released it under a GPL license. This project was my first large-scale PHP/MySQL project. I've also added a pointer to it from Freshmeat at this page. I would eventually like to continue working on it and improving it. Guess that will have to wait until I either have a bunch of free time or someone pays me.

Squirrelmail Select Range plugin, which allows you to select many messages quickly from within the Squirrel Mail webmail client. It helped me learn quite a bit about Javascript and the Squirrel Mail plugin system. If you speak a foreign language and use this plugin, please consider sending me a translation! Like all projects, this one has many features that could be added. Specifically, I've played with more Javascript allowing me to select the message by clicking at any spot in the message within the messages list. I've also looked at "shift click", etc, which would allow the type of "quick selection" possibilities that are in "conventional" email clients. As with Asset Tracker, I have not had time to add these improvements to the plugin yet, as I lack the typical time/money.