EMMETT "CORKY" KAERICHER
2323 McKinley Street
Hollywood, Florida 33020
954 - 665 - 7436
corkyk [@] gmail [.] com



Certifications
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
BB Certified Perl Developer
BB Certified Network Administrator
Certified Systems Administrator, Linux Administration (NASA Skills bench)
Certified IT Security for System Administrators as part of NASA's Skills Bench certification process.

Relevant Skill Summary:
PHP 10 years (Current to PHP 5, started with PHP 3)
Perl 12 years (Current to Perl 5 started with Perl 3)
MySQL 10 years (Current to MySQL 5, started with MySQL 2)
BASH 12 years (Competent at the command line in most shell versions provided with common linux distributions)
Linux 12 years (Competent with Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, SLES (SUSE), Ubuntu and familiar with most other well known dists)
Tech Lead / Project Management 10 Years

- Advanced Proficiency with PHP, Perl/CGI, HTML, Java Script, Unix/Linux, Microsoft Operating Systems, Internet Development Tools, Relational Databases, TCP/IP/NetBIOS Networking, & Internationalization
- Knowledge, experience and training in Capability Maturity Modeling (CMM) practices, ISO standards, Six Sigma, SCRUM, TQM and other corporate quality and productivity methodologies.
- Considered for an International Software Patent for application specific Perl code developed while serving at General Electric Information Services.

Technical Experience

Software Developer
8/08-present
Ziff Davis Enterprise, Inc., Cooper City, FL

Senior Software Developer on the Ziff Davis Enterprise proprietary content management system. Programming new features and functionality. Application of maintenance updates and patches to existing code written in Linux Shell Scripts, Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript. Also responsible for programming reports and other adhoc programming requests on other internal systems and all Ziff Davis Media owned web based sites, services and properties.

Consultant
4/08-8/08
Modis Consulting onsite at Lexis Nexis, Boca Raton, FL

Consultant software developer on the Lexis Nexis Master Billing System. Architect, design and programming new front end features, functionality, maintenance updates and patches in PHP, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript.

Consultant
1/08-4/08
Boca Internet Technologies, Coconut Creek, FL

Consultant software developer on the AlertSite.com product line of website, security device and network montoring and alerting services. Programming new front end features, functionality, maintenance updates and patches in Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, and JavaScript. Also responsible for programming reports and processing graphical data for client notifications and warnings during system, site or device montoring operations.

Senior (LAMP) Developer
9/07 - 1/08
Panorama Solutions, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL

Senior Developer for ProjectBreakout.com and it's associated network of websites. Project Breakout is a "video competition community" web site network of contest websites both internally marketed and white labeled for external partners. All sites built utilizing Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP with some bash scripting and other related open source technologies. Involved in all aspects of supporting the technologies involved in this project. Duties include design, coding, requirements gathering, business analysis and reporting, training and documentation development. Design/Architect front and back end architecture. Converted a previous attempt at building this platform from Ruby On Rails to LAMP based technologies.
PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX,, DHTML, XML, XSLT

Senior (LAMP) Developer, Team Lead
7/06 - 9/07
World Avenue, Boca Raton, FL

Served as a Lead Developer for one of the world's largest internet lifestyle and relationship marketing companies utilizing Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP with some bash scripting and other related open source technologies. Involved in all aspects of supporting the technologies behind World Avenue's enterprise scale email, search engine and web site based marketing efforts. Duties include front and back end system and inteface design, coding, requirements gathering, business analysis and reporting, training and documentation development. Position reported to a project manager and directly to the CIO. All work performed using the widely accepted Agile "Scrum" development process.
PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XSLT

PHP Developer / Analyst
5/05-7/06
SAIC Onsite @ NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

Reporting to the Office of the CIO at NASA Redstone. Supporting Civil Service customers by assisting the project manager with all phases of assigned front and back end web application development projects including business analysis and customer requirement gathering, as well as extensive Open Source development on a daily basis.
Achieved Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Linux System Administrator and IT Security Administrator certifications while in this role. Using AJAX creating Search Engine for Marshall Space Flight center to replace current engine (R&D Project).
PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, AJAX

Software Developer
3/05-05/05 Consultant
Progeny Marketing International, Inc. Franklin, TN

Perl developer on a support team for a large enterprise scale mailing production facility. Assisted with daily operation of large batch Perl-driven production processes, including break/fix work on existing code, and development of new code for new products. Progeny mails tens of thousands of documents daily for large corporate clients such as all three credit reporting bureaus so this position is time and security sensitive, has stringent production code quality requirements and requires grace under pressure, developer speed, coding accuracy and an ability to work well on a team, on legacy code, and with large scale systems and work flow processes. Perl, Linux, Batch Processing


PHP/ Perl Developer
9/04 -3/05
Multiple Project Providers
Freelance Consulting, Contract and Sub-Contract Project Work

Managed and completed five distinct client web application development projects for three distinct clients using PHP, Perl, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and other related web technologies. They were each comprised of tight deadlines with difficult technical specifications and in one case required that I hire two additional resources as sub contractors.

PHP Developer
9/04 - 12/04
Tek-Systems on contract to SAIC at NASA, Redstone Arsenal Huntsville

PHP developer on a small, specialized project team reporting to the Office of the CIO at NASA Redstone. Implemented a site wide NASA custom software inventory, dashboard and reporting tool for the CIO's personal use. This system maintained an inventory of the hundreds of custom software development efforts underway at NASA, and provided a window into resource management, duplication of efforts and opportunities related to software development within the NASA organization at Redstone.
Supported the project manager with all phases of the project from analysis and customer requirement gathering, to managing the actual hands on development on a daily basis.
This project primarily consisted of PHP and MySQL but also involved legacy customer technologies on an "as required" basis. This project was initially started with Perl by other developers but aborted when their team encountered other priorities, then was given to our project team to continue. First with Perl and then later conversion of the initial Perl applications to PHP became a requirement to adhere to newly released NASA web application coding standards. Our small team was responsible for this code conversion in accordance with the project managers schedule and task requirements. Utilized PHP ,MySQL ,Apache, Linux

Internet Development Project Manager
Nashville, Tenn. 2/01 - 9/04
American Technology Group (Formerly Nashville Nerds)


Project Experience
Primarily developed in Perl, PHP and MySQL Open Source Applications but also involved in legacy customer technologies as required, including Microsoft, Oracle and other office platforms.
Performed project based software development, enterprise support, and business process engineering.
Clients include:
-Deloitte & Touche (Perl, Java, Oracle),
-Vanderbilt University (Perl, Cobol, Oracle, BASH Shell Scripting, Linux, batch processing),
-Atec Consulting LLC (Perl)
-PC Driver (Perl, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Hardware),
-Tailor Made Solutions Corp. (Perl, Oracle, SQL-Plus)
Core skill set: PHP, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, and JavaScript, Java, HTML, Linux

Most recent role was as lead Perl developer, as well as managing version control and platform configuration management for an initiative consisting of a small team of myself and three others responsible for
porting all COBOL applications on Vanderbilt's HP3000 mainframe to Linux compatible code running on standard Linux Red Hat SE Servers. Implemented thousands of lines of Perl code used to batch process large data files, and to handle replicable tasks such as COBOL program conversion and platform port translations. Recreated over 400 HP3000 MPE job control scripts into shell compatible scripts using a combination of Perl code, and Linux shell code in a Bash shell environment. Much of our code
conversion for these hundreds of programs was managed and implemented using Perl scripts I created to automate processing and translation of the programs via a line by line, function by function conversion from HP Cobol for the HP3000 to AccuCorp Cobol for Linux.

Internet Application Lead Developer
9/98 - 2/2001 Employee (Company sold off)
General Electric - Global eXchange Services (GE/GXS)

Lead Perl/Oracle/Internet Developer. Position required Perl, JavaScript, HTML and a small amount of Java development. Assisted with direction, design, development and commercial deployment of the world's first
fully Perl driven, Internationalized and Localized, enterprise-scale, web-based Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) application into five national languages and localized currency/date formats supporting many thousands of subscribers in more than a dozen countries. Receiving mention in an upcoming O'Reilly Publishing "Nutshell" book on the topic of Software Internationalization to be published in mid-2001.

Architect of two Perl import/export functions for a pair of windows based desktop application products allowing them to interface in real time with the GE/GXS internet based EDI application described above and then batch transfer EDI document files into back end systems located on offsite customer networks. These functions were being considered by GXS and the US Patent Office for the award of a proprietary software patent.

Internet Development Project Manager
12/97 - 9/98
Netspacers Internet Services Netspacers.com (Site no longer available)

Supervised distributed project teams developing interactive web sites and multimedia applications for corporate clients and non-profit associations. Produced complete sites, online catalogs, search engines,
e-commerce apps and more, primarily using Perl but also utilizing nearly every available Internet development tool, programming language and platform, applying client selected Unix, Linux or Windows based technologies proficiently and interchangeably as each contract required. Performed
project management tasks for team projects as well as supporting development and consulting requirements for projects and clients not requiring a multi-resource team. The majority of projects for our more than 100
clients were done with Perl against Oracle, or SQL server. Largest projects completed were: 1) A JavaScript wysiwyg web based chemical equation editor and publication tool utilizing greek and mathematical symbols not ordinarily produced in fonts or on keyboards not unlike modern web based embedded wysiwyg HTML editors, An online marketing demographics tool and an annual conference trade show registration/online virtual trade show system for the American Association of Clinical Chemists which was later also used for the Asian, Pan American Pacific League; and 2)a complete web site for the National Business Aviation Association and 3) A large zip code driven lobbying tool for a well known lobbyist group.

Online Systems Analyst/Developer
2/97 - 12/97 Consultant
Columbia Services Group, Inc. at United States Federal Highway Administration

Served as on-site systems analyst, Intranet administrator and web developer for the United States Federal Highway Administration Human Resources division. Created a Perl-based highly secured Intranet for the FHWA human resources department and implemented the Agency's first trials of electronic forms and digital signatures for the delivery of interoffice documents via internal networks. Project work also done for the US Coast Guard.

Created an educational web site covering the topic of "Careers in Transportation" to support a Government-wide Presidential Educational Initiative, garnering an award for the design from the United States
Secretary of Transportation & Presidential cabinet member, Rodney Slater. Directed and produced a national "Chat with the Secretary" day, involving fifty elementary schools nationwide in an online live chat room environment. The Secretary joined the chat room and spoke back to the students via a typist from a podium, while on stage in front of 1500 Washington DC school children visiting a career day at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. This event was televised live on location by CNN.
Perl, Oracle, Lotus Notes

Information Systems Specialist
6/96 - 2/97 Employee
L&L Flooring, Inc. Corporate Offices

Provided all types of corporate information systems support including Warehouse and Inventory management systems for nearly 20 distributed East coast warehouse locations as well as two central supply depot warehouses, managed and maintained vendor EDI connectivity, performed Internet and web application development, database design and support. Provided custom code development, worked with remote networking systems, and provided end-user support. Responsible for creating training materials & providing classroom instruction for staff. Also responsible for hardware/software/network purchasing, remote field and onsite systems administration, and end-user support for approximately 100 employees at 9 locations in 5 states.

Customer Support Engineer
8/95 - 6/96 Employee
Hunter Associates Laboratories, Inc.

Supported international and domestic clients with support and service of computerized production equipment. 25% overnight travel was required. Created a database driven product service and warranty customer support management reporting database, first in Paradox RDBMS and later ported
to MS Access. Led design and implementation teams for company's first web site. Served as informal consultant to Executive staff regarding information technology decision-making.

Computer Factory Production Manager
5/95 - 8/95 Employee
Win Laboratories Computers, Inc.

Served on Factory Management team overseeing production of approximately 3000 PC computer systems per month. Direct area of responsibility included all production personnel (approximately 60 staff), administrative duties related to staff, production and engineering quality control. Supervised the entire lifecycle from receipt of inventory "build" kits, to the production floor, and on through delivery to the shipping
department for packaging and delivery.

Associations & Memberships
- MENSA
- HTML Writers Guild (HWG)
- National Systems Professionals Association (NASPA)

Approximately 2.5 years completed between 1986-1989
Presently attending full time online completing 4 year Bachelors of Computer Information Science