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W. Tait Cyrus
1410 Owl Ridge Drive, Colorado Springs, CO · 719-260-7227 · tait.cyrus@usa_NOSPAM_.net
PROFILE
Twenty years of computer engineering experience with proven abilities in a broad range of skills ranging from software design to hardware design, web design, configuration management, system administration, testing, networking and security. A quick learner, a team player as well as a self starter, the ability to coach others, strong follow-through, advanced problem solving abilities, vision to anticipate problems and needs in both the short term and long term, and the ability to use new technologies.
COMPUTER LANGUAGES & SKILLS
| OS: |
Extensive UNIX (Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX), system administration, security |
| Software: |
C, C++, Perl, shell scripts, Java |
| Hardware: |
Sun, x86, HP, familiar with Convex, DEC, Encore, Sequent and various microprocessor families |
| Other: |
Web design (Perl/mysql), networking (TCP/IP, security) |
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
Automation
Decreased developer down time and increased developer productivity by writing a suite of automated object oriented Perl scripts and UNIX shell scripts (over 20,000 lines) for supporting software builds a web page status reporting in a multi platform environment.
- Created a software build environment supporting 3 software projects running on 4 different platforms (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux & Windows) that was automated providing hands free builds that were consistent and reproducible from build to build. One of the projects required continuous builds (every 5 minutes) to support an extreme programming team.
- Designed and created a web page reporting mechanism that provided developers with instantaneous feedback on the status of current and historical builds and automated test runs.
These scripts provided both a build environment and web page build status. This decreased developer down time by 10% saving the company approximately $2,500/month.
Software Development
- Improved the stability and the performance of a 25,000 line UNIX security analysis tool. Performance was improved by an order of magnitude allowing for significantly faster analysis of customer's computers.
- Worked on a 1+ million line C++ and Motif Solaris systems administration application (AdminTool and AutoClient) that eliminated the need for customers to have knowledge of the Solaris operating system allowing lower cost junior system administrators to manage a Solaris system.
- Wrote a 2000+ line shell script to reduce the need for customers to manually install software patches to their Solaris operating system (primarily AutoClients).
- Wrote a UNIX script that provided the test team with the ability for multiple testers to run tests on a single machine. Prior to this script, only a single tester could run at a time.
- Wrote tests for a real time operating system improving the performance and stability to customers.
- Wrote a UNIX like operating system for a Z80 processor. Also wrote a UNIX VI like editor with enhanced capabilities to support user defined fonts and on the fly graphics. This eased the development of graphics for a basketball arena message system.
Web Design
- Wrote a Perl 'plugin' augmenting the support provided by TWiki, a Web-based collaboration platform. This plugin allowed users the ability to create dynamic web pages based on data in multiple databases.
- Installed and maintained 4 TWiki based web sites. One internal to the company and 3 for not-for-profit companies. The company internal site helped establish communications between developers, testers, and management for several projects. TWiki allowed simple updates of web pages by individual members of the various teams without the need for any web design experience.
- Created two CDROMs containing over 1,700 photographs allowing users to navigate through the photographs using HTML pages. These HTML pages had per-sorted the photographs giving users several choices of how to view the photographs.
Software Installation
Used a Java based install environment (InstallAnywhere) for 7 products producing CDROMs that supported installs on multiple architectures (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows NT). Also wrote numerous UNIX shell scripts, Windows BAT files, and Perl scripts that were used during and after product installs providing customers with consistent interfaces to the products. These installs provided a consistent and reproducible installation environment (previous installs were all manually performed).
System Administration
- Performed system administration functions for numerous UNIX systems including Solaris, Linux and HP-UX.
- Aided development, test, and deployment groups by solving complex UNIX administration and programming problems reducing their down time.
- Taught a 4 day beginning, a 4 day advanced UNIX, and a 5 day Perl class.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
| Configuration Management & Senior Software Engineer |
Mindport, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Senior Software Engineer |
MCI, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Software Instructor |
Ten Queue, Monument, Colorado |
| Software Engineer |
Sun Microsystems, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Software Engineer |
Convex Computer Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Research Engineer & Programmer/Analyst |
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
EDUCATION
M.S. - Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico
B.S. - Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico |
