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Zachary Kessin |
Kovshai Katamon 6/4 St
Jerusalem,
Israel
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zkessin@cs.brandeis.edu
Cell: 051 809 717 |
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Objective
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Senior or Lead Software engineer
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Skills |
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| • | Java, XML, Perl, SQL,porting and sustaining engineering, Internationalization (I18N)
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| | • | Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS X, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL server, MS Access, MySQL, Apache |
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Publications and Talks |
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"CPAN, an Introduction", presented to Jerusalem.pm 15 March 2004
CGI Tricks, Websmith, September, 1996
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Experience |
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Ready To Run Software, Chelmsford, MA
Software Engineer
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10/2000-9/2001 |
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Responsible for moving educational standards from many formats into a
standard database to allow easy reference by educators in a number of
states in order to allow collaboration by teachers.
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Headed a project to assist Sybridge Technologies in Ottawa to allow
porting of a major application from SCO Unix to Sun Solaris. This
involved travel to the customer site as well as remote work from
Ready-to-Run's Chelmsford office. We were able to get the port done
quickly and efficiently.
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Headed the team porting the examples for Microsoft Passport v1.4 for
Unix. We translated several examples from Visual Basic on Windows NT to
Perl and C running under Linux and Solaris. |
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Internet Commerce Services (iCOMS), Nashua, NH
Web Engineer
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7/1999-8/2000 |
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Responsible for creation of software for iCOMS's efforts to support
customers. This involved custom reports and forms written in Perl and
other languages.
| | • | Presented talks to the engineering group about Perl and other topics.
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On several occasions I served to audit code (usually in Perl) that we
were given to determine if it was working correctly and if it was not,
why not. Often this was a result of a partner's software and ours not
interacting properly
| | • | Responsible for all engineering that did not fall into the major projects of the group.
| | • | Expanded use of RPM package technology in the company. |
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DHL Systems, LTD, Hounslow, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Web Engineer
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2/1998-6/1999 |
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| • | Developed an
intra-net based application to present data about the reliability of
the DHL delivery system. This was developed in the Informix database
with perl.
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development of an application to collect service information from DHL
offices around Europe. The data was collected with web forms and
imported from legacy systems.
| | • | I created a tool
to automatically create internationalized graphics for the web sites
of DHL offices around Europe.
| | • | Created an online
document library to consolidate DHL sales practice documents and
allowed them to be searched on a free text or meta-data
basis.
| | • | Designed a system
to store data about DHL's logistics operation and serve it over a
corporate intra-net. |
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BBN Planet/GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA
Contract Programmer
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3/1997-12/1997 |
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| • | Lead an effort within the delivery systems group to get coding standards for Perl code implemented for improved code quality. |
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Convergent Media Systems, Littleton, MA
Contract Programmer
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4/1996-3/1997 |
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The Internet Access Company (TIAC), Bedford, MA
Customer Service/Web Master
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4/1995-3/1996 |
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Education |
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Brandeis Univeristy, Waltham, MA
Bachelor of Arts - Physics, with Honors , May 2003
| • | Senior Thesis: Analyzing Incomplete Time Series data with CLEAN. Thesis available on request.
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| | • | Selected recent classes: Human Computer Interaction, Linear Algebra, Microprocessor Lab, Quantum Mechanics |
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