Darrin Skinner

Darrin Skinner

Darrin skinner

Current skills inventory

· PHP (mod, cgi, and batch)

· Perl (mod, cgi, and batch)

· Apache

· CGI

· Unix shell (csh, ksh, sh, bash)

· JavaScript

· HTML

· Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

· Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake)

· Unix (Solaris, Tru64)

· SQL (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Solid)

· Database Design

· Database Tuning

· XML

· CVS

· Complete web systems architecture --

(servers, networking, source control, code design methodology, functional specifications, physical specifications, coding, implementation, maintenance)

· Limited experience with POP/IMAP/Sendmail/Majordomo/DNS

business experience

Technical arenas include:

· Web sites: apache configuration, PHP configuration, PHP, Perl and unix shell backends, and database repositories.

· Data Warehousing: extensive ETL programming, advanced SQL (PL/SQL), (star) database design for dynamic reporting with tools like Business Objects and Brio.

· Education: Instructor of Business Objects and SQL techniques.

· Large systems integration, customization, and support.

Industry application experience:

· search engines, taxonomy databases

· AP, AR, HR, OE, GL, MRP,

· billing systems, escrow,

· financial reporting, banking (real time ACH and credit card processing),

· reservation systems, scheduling, calendaring,

· and lots of data reporting.

Experience Summary:

I’ve been a programmer, database designer, and system designer for over 18 years. I’ve been working with web based technologies since 1994. Although I’ve worked for some large companies, my projects have mostly been working alone or in very small groups. I’ve learned to be self sufficient and innovative in order to consistently deliver more than is expected.

Work examples

At Sun Service Worldwide Quality I created a data warehouse derived from about 20 different databases (Oracle, Sybase, dBaseIV, and flat files). Merging these different sources without any data commonality was a real challenge. Real time reliability metrics were reported via internal web pages complete with graphs generated “on-the-fly”. All this work was done in native SQL, ksh, and applix.

The entire Wherewithal product is written in PHP. An example of the product in action is at http://www.xoron.com. Signup as a CO at http://co.wherewithal.com to see the tools interface. An extremely sophisticated JavaScript and Dynamic HTML implementation is at http://www.xoron.com/catnav.html (requires IE 5.0 or better).

In 1995 I created the first web site for the American Kitefliers Association (http://www.aka.kite.org). Much of the site still reflects my original design. The Event Calendar pages at http://www.aka.kite.org/cgi-bin/aka_calendar.ksh are done with some extreme awk and ksh coding. And the Festival Competition Results pages at http://www.aka.kite.org/comp.html reflect a marriage of custom Visual Basic code and Unix cgi code.

companies

Last five years

· iEscrow / Tradenable

· Wherewithal

· Sun Microsystems

o Sun Education Services

Prior 10 years

· Sun Microsystems

o Sun Service Quality

o Sun NAAFO Finance

o Sun University

o Sun Microsystems Inc.

· Synopsys

· Amdahl Computers

Early – Mid 1980’s

· Tymnet McDonnell Douglas

· Rand Information Systems, Inc

· Bechtel Power Corporation

· University of Arizona

Education

1981–1985 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

· B.S.B.A., Management Information Systems

· 4.0 GPA in Computer Coursework

1991 & 1992 De Anza College Cupertino, CA

· C programming

· C++ programming

· Assembly programming

Fax (408) 246-3488 • e-mail

2381 Nobili Ave, • Santa Clara, CA 95051 • Phone (408) 554-8399

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