User since: Jan 21, 2020 at 19:27 UTC (6 years ago)
Last here: Jul 14, 2025 at 15:57 UTC (38 weeks ago)
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Location:New Jersey
User's localtime: Apr 09, 2026 at 19:13 EDT
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Till I get to know this place better I'll just start with a few paragraphs from my resume. I've been writing perl since the days of perl-4.

Experienced senior perl developer in different arenas and with a range of software experiences over the full SDLC from requirements gathering, product architecture, documentation, implementation, installation and training. Used to distributed teams across corporate structures with technical and non-technical people. Professionally raised in a culture of teamwork and customer support.

Expert: perl-5 (Object Oriented, POD), C, shell s‎crip‎ting (bash, ksh, gawk, awk), Oracle SQL, Linux, UNIX.
Strong: perl packages (Template Toolkit, CGI, CPAN) and mod_perl, MySQL, XML, SOAP. Fair: PHP, EDI.
Intermediate: JavaS‎crip‎t, HTML/CSS, PHP, Restful APIs, git, EDI X20, VirtualBox, VMware.
Analysis: Delights in working out logic to new or failing programs and attention to details to work it out.
Long-term: Distributed applications, distributed programming, clustered systems, Heavy multiprocessing. globally distributed teams. Webex.
Web tools: Atlassian Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira. Other tools include Jenkins and Gitlab.
Special note: aware of 2038 problem and solutions (was technical admin and tech lead for AT&T Labs Y2K).