Kragen Sitaker

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Operating Systems:

SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.x, BSD, Ultrix, Irix 5.x, AIX 3.x, AT&T UNIX System V R4, MacOS, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT

Some experience with VMS 4.5 - 5.5, NetBSD, Irix 4.x

Network:

Ethernet, TCP/IP, PPP, IP routing, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, telnet

Some knowledge of SNMP, RIP, OSPF, IP tunneling, firewalls, and general computer security issues.

Programming Languages:

C/C++, Perl, CGI in Perl and C, UNIX Shell (sh/csh/bash/tcsh/ksh), Tcl/Tk, x86 assembly, Pascal, SQL, Emacs Lisp (elisp), PostScript.

Hardware:

Expertise in PC compatibles and Sparcs; experience with Apple Macintosh, various SGIs, and NCD X-terminals.

Miscellaneous:

I have experience with Apache and NCSA httpd, with the INFORMIX-OnLine SQL database server, with bug-tracking and source-control systems; I've written large numbers of web pages in HTML; I've provided informal technical support for numerous people on numerous issues.

EXPERIENCE

ERIM International

Research Engineer, August 1997 to present

Developed parts of a large end-user image-processing application on Windows NT 4.0, written in Visual C++ 4.0, 4.2, and 5.0. Also developed various small pieces of other projects, primarily research-oriented image-processing applications written for Solaris with Khoros.

• Implemented wrappers for memory-management primitives to resolve problems with separate heaps in DLLs and main application.
• Found bugs with Purify; developed Perl programs to sift Purify reports and isolate causes of errors.
• Evaluated BoundsChecker as an alternative to Purify.
• Implemented generic reusable GUI objects.

Lexis-Nexis (via Keane, Inc.)

Consultant, May 1997 to August 1997

This was a large software analysis and maintenance project.

• Automated manual process of scanning files for keywords; wrote a tool that reduced a full day's work to forty minutes.
• Wrote function to intercept calls to the gettimeofday() system call on SunOS, enabling the simulation of different dates for testing without changing the system date.
• Automated unit testing.
• Wrote package to facilitate the categorization of large numbers of files, a menial task that was taking up a lot of time. With this package, what would have previously taken a week took a day -- and was far more accurate.
• Put together a simple Web-based database of the people working on the Keane project.

TCSI Corporation (via Taos Mountain Software)

Configuration Management Engineer, February 1996 to March 1997

• Diagnosed and corrected network hardware and software problems.
• Taught Unix novices about Unix.
• Constructed, administered, documented, supported, and maintained source-control system for 9,000-page test-case document.
• Set up, administered, and supported small network of Sun SparcStations running Solaris.
• Administered and supported two INFORMIX-OnLine SQL database servers.
• Set up INFORMIX-OnLine SQL database servers.
• Administered and supported PureDDTS bug-tracking system.
• Constructed and maintained test-case tracking and reporting system, using Informix database.
• Administered, documented, and maintained source-control system for 30-developer C++ project.
• Compiled software for delivery to customer
• Developed system for quick verification of software deliverables.
• Researched, requisitioned, configured, and installed Sparc-20 compute servers for development use
• Compiled, configured, and installed third-party software.
• Acted as liaison between project and the system-administration group.

University of New Mexico Math Department

Student System Administration Intern, 1994 to 1995

• Compiled, configured, and installed third-party software.
• Diagnosed network software problems.

Volunteer work

• Helped to interface immunization database with ARC/INFO GIS for Montgomery County Combined Health District.
• Wrote a version of the FAQ for the AfterStep window manager.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Can quickly learn and adapt to new working environments.
• Quickly solves problems.
• Reads books and RFCs on network protocols for a hobby.

EDUCATION

University of New Mexico, August 1993 to May 1995

RESUME STATUS

This resume is up-to-date as of 1999-03-09.

References available on request.