Education

Bachelor of Science candidate, The New School for General Studies.

Professional employment

American Museum of Natural History, June 2001 - Present. Web Technology and Informatics Manager.

NetGenesis Corp., November 1999 - May 2001. Senior Implementation Consultant.

CBS New Media, 1998 - 1999. Senior Research Analyst.

Professional qualifications and areas of technical expertise

Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Red Hat), Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows.

Programming, scripting, and Markup Languages: Perl, PHP, C, Objective-C, Java, Python, HTML & CSS, Bourne shell.

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Ms SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Internet Technologies: Apache, HTTP, TCP/IP, Zope & Plone, Tomcat.

Hardware: Sun servers and workstations, PCs, Apple Macintoshes.

Other applications: Emacs, vi, GNU software development tools including gcc and make, RCS, CVS, Subversion, X Window, GNU Software, Cygwin, Samba.

Linux and Solaris Administration Skills: Kernel compilation/configuration, building projects with make, BSD and System V utilities and startup scripts, TCP/IP Routing, NAT.

Professional activities

Design and program web-based collections management and taxonomic catalog applications.

Design, develop, and administer databases for science department websites.

Administer the Solaris web and database servers for the AMNH's science departments.

Write utilities to move data between heterogenous sources and into online databases.

Compile, configure, and maintain Apache webserver implementations.

Recommend and implement technical solutions for clients, based on investigations of the clients' business needs and evaluation of their hardware, software, and network environments; in corporate and academic sectors.

Devise project plans, time estimates, and advised on staffing for professional services engagements (corporate sector) and grant proposals (academic sector).

Configured and maintained Oracle and MS SQL Server databases for data-warehousing application.

Grants

IT resource for NSF grant #0316495, "Phytophagous Insects as a Model Group for Documenting Planetary Biodiversity," awarded 7/31/2003.

Collaborations

Tom Moritz (Former Director, Library Services, AMNH; Now with Getty Research Institute).

Darrel Frost (Associate Dean of Science for Collections, AMNH).

Toby Schuh (George Willett Curator & Chair, Invert. Zoology, AMNH).