Scott D. A'Hearn  

Objective:

Education:

Professional Skills:

• Software: MS Office (including Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint), Lotus Notes, CVS, SVN, Eclipse, Toad, MySQL, BrightStor ARCserve, Visio, Adobe Photoshop (basics)
• Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, RedHat/Fedora/CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX, NetBSD
• Programming Languages: Perl, UNIX shell, PHP, ColdFusion, SQL, JavaScript, C++, Visual Basic
• Internet: HTML, XHTML, CSS, CGI, XML (including RDF/RSS), AJAX, web-related disciplines (graphics, design, & usability), Apache
• Networking: Understanding of TCP/IP, firewalls, SSH, information security, intrusion detection (using Snort and ACID), server monitoring (using Nagios)

Professional Development:

• Security clearances held: TS/SCI (active through March 2007)
• Undergraduate college courses in computer science including C++ programming, database applications, hardware, software, and architecture.
• Corporate training/experience in consulting and information technology including programming (C++, COBOL, Visual Basic), database design and applications (ColdFusion, PHP, Oracle, MySQL), and e-commerce and web architecture (HTML, Perl, JavaScript, AJAX).

Work Experience:

• Provided company (internal) and client (external) technology consulting services, including project management, personal computer support, programming, and web design.
• Senior Consultant, Responder Knowledge Base: Project Manager, Lead Developer, Application Usability
  • Served as Project Manager and lead over team of ColdFusion developers and unit testers to create a knowledge base of information, materials, and equipment related to first responders.
  • Responsible for site layout and architecture planning; involved frequent interaction with client to determine scope of project objectives.
  • Developed coding/development standards documentation to standardize codebase for all developers. This included construction of site-wide header and footer templates, and control of global configuration files.
  • Responsible for daily filesystem backup of code development environment and project reference repositories using BrightStor ARCserve on ADIC DLT tape drive and custom-written UNIX scripts.
  • Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining local and remote server monitor using Nagios. This also included writing custom notification parsers in Perl for monitoring specific processes.
• Staff Consultant, Eagle Alliance (CSC): Lead Web Developer, Support
  • Responsible for designing and creating an internal web presence (including functional prototypes) using HTML and Perl to serve as a repository for documents and information relating to the organization. This included frequent client interaction to determine scope of provided information as well as work objectives.
  • Web-enabled several paper processes, enhancing archival capabilities and automated retrieval or information.
  • Provided to client detailed support documentation for all work performed.
• Staff Consultant, Terrorism Research Center: System Administration, Lead Web Developer
  • Planned and developed full web site redesign initiative, including code base planning, site content development, and application server tuning.
  • Responsible for front- and backend site code using PHP, Apache web server tuning, and MySQL database server maintenance.
  • Developed custom content modules in PostNuke portal system and web-based administration interfaces for content management.
• Staff Consultant, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: System Administration, Assistant Webmaster
  • Served as system administrator for client Intranet, and assistant administrator/webmaster for client Internet.
  • Intranet responsibilities included server monitoring (uptime, disk space, web/ftp/telnet uptime), file system syncronization between development, staging, and production servers (rsync), and other routine administration tasks.
  • Internet responsibilities included server monitoring (uptime, disk space, web/ftp/telnet uptime).
• Staff Consultant, Nextel International: Web Developer, Webmaster, Content Management, Version Control
  • Responsible for duties relating to client web presence, including content management, version control, and content updates.
  • Webmaster responsibilities including server configuration, server maintenance and security, patch updates, and performance tuning.
• Associate Consultant, ChamberBiz.com, American College of Cardiology: System Administrator, Web Developer, Webmaster
  • Performed various system & network administration duties as part of a Web Development Center within the company.
  • Developed and maintained websites for company internal use as well as client-based projects.
  • Maintained local subnets of Development Lab, including a public DSL, Linux firewall, and networked machines for client-based projects.
• Associate Consultant: Web Developer, Webmaster
  • Served as webmaster for corporate regional intranet.
  • Updated, maintained, and developed website based upon content and direction from internal management and corporate standards.
• Associate Consultant: LAN Administration, Help Desk
  • Served on LAN administration and technical support team (maintaining office file/print server using Windows NT 4.0 and Lotus Notes Domino server v4.6.2).
  • Provided troubleshooting of hardware and software in a corporate help desk environment (approximately 90 employees per technical support representative).

• Designed several web sites for government agency
  • Gathered and formatted data in various existing formats, and converted data and frequently used documents into HTML
• Served as technical support for computer hardware and software.

• Designed and maintained a web site for the student organization.

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