## BIO
Mark Leighton Fisher Fisher's Creek Consulting MAJOR SKILLS Unix/Linux Windows Vista/XP Access/Jet/Oracle/Postgres/MySQL VB.NET/VB6 Unit Testing HTML/CSS/CGI/Apache Perl Software Engineering Search Engine Development Java (SCJP) Project Management mod\_perl/DBI WORK EXPERIENCE Systems Engineer II, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. 2005-present * RELMA (Regenstrief LOINC Mapping Assistant) programming team -- VB6, VB.NET, Microsoft Access/Jet, Perl * Communicable diseases county and state reporting for INPC (Indiana Network For Patient Care) -- Access & VBA * SPIN (Shared Pathology Informatics Network) client porting work VB6 -> VB.NET * Developed internal VB.NET API-compatible unit testing framework in VB6 * Various small Java projects Chief Consultant and Owner, Fisher's Creek Consulting, LLC, 2003-present * Took over maintenance of pmtools, Tom Christiansen's Perl module tools suite -- 2 enhanced releases so far. * Started SourceForge project pmtools-perl6 for porting the Perl 5 pmtools to Perl 6 including PUGS [login to view URL] generator * Consulted as the Sr. Perl Designer/Implementer, PostgreSQL Optimization Expert, and Automated Testing Expert for DeepData, a Yellow Pages strategic information solutions provider. * Wrote credit card encryption/decryption module for DeepData - delivered about 500 lines in 7 person-days, which is around 70 lines of code per day written, tested, and debugged. A full automated test suite was included (test suite lines are NOT in the 70 lines/day). * Wrote Test::MockDBI, a Perl CPAN module for testing database programs through mocking-up the Perl database interface (DBI). Published "Using Test::MockDBI" on [login to view URL]. * Modified a Yellow Pages processing program for DeepData to process all U.S. medical Yellow Pages headings (3.7M records). * Learned Java - Sun Certified Java Programmer exam passed on 2005-05-12 with 70% (minimum passing score was 52%). * Installed, configured, and fixed TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) for project management use by DeepData and Fisher's Creek Consulting. Fixes were for proper Gantt chart display when a task starts and ends on the same day, and for proper milestone task entry. Learned PHP as part of fixing TUTOS, as TUTOS is in PHP. * Installed and configured Nagios Open Source network monitoring software for DeepData and [login to view URL]. * Published several weblog essays picked up by Slashdot, Scripting News, and other news websites. Systems Consultant, Thomson, Inc., Indianapolis, IN 1991-2003 * Saved $180,000 by writing Perl/Oracle web-based document-driven knowledge management application, the Thomson Consumer Electronics Corporate Technical Memory in 1993 (Thomson's first web application). * Saved over 2000 person-hours by writing Perl/Oracle web-based Status Reporter for automatic assembly of group status reports. * Saved more than $100,000 by driving the acceptance of HCL-eXceed X Window System server for Unix workstation access from Windows PCs. * Saved over $20,000 by setting up Nagios, an Open Source network monitoring tool. * Created first Thomson web application (the Corporate Technical Memory) and website (the Electronic Design Automation Home Page) in 1993. The website had grown to over 3000 pages by 2003. * Set up first Thomson Americas-wide Intranet search engine, Overview. * Maintained and considerably enhanced 16-year-old 20,000 line Unix (originally VAX/VMS) C program for selecting PCB in-circuit testing testpoints. I was the project manager for two enhancement projects, both of which were on-time and on budget. * Project Manager and co-author of 20,000 line Microsoft Visual C++ program for selecting PCB in-circuit testing testpoints. This project was on-time and on budget for all four releases (beta-test, V1.0, V1.1, V1.2, and V1.3). * Wrote mod\_perl/MySQL web-based Thomson Application Status for tracking the up/down/in-trouble status of major Thomson application systems and servers - system included browser, SOAP, and XML-RPC Web Service interfaces. * Maintained Thomson Intranet ISO 9001 Website as well as Perl/Web gateway to Thomson's internal ISO 9001-compliant document management system. * Created and maintained first Thomson weblog using Perl/MySQL/Slashcode. Software Engineer, Wintek Corp., Lafayette, IN 1984-1991 Worked as part of a six-member team, mainly on PC electronic CAD tools (smARTWORK and HiWIRE II). HiWIRE II ended up as over 100 000 lines of C and a few thousand lines of C++. My installation program builder may have been the first installation program builder made (off-the-shelf versions now include InstallShield and the WISE Installation System). I helped create Wintek's simulated-annealing autoplacement program, which was probably the first commercial use of the simulated-annealing algorithm. Software Engineer, Micro Data Base Systems, Lafayette, IN 1981-1984 Worked on MDBS IV Network Codasyl (pre-relational) database in C and assembly. This included Unix kernel work (device driver to act as named pipe along with kernel builds) as well as writing a CP/M floppy filesystem emulator. My regular expression code is still being shipped with MDBS Guru. I also wrote hash tables (associative arrays) for C used at MDBS, as well as creating a fixed hashtable generator program similar to GNU mkperf. Software Engineer, Northrop Defense Systems Division, Rolling Meadows, IL 1979-1981 My duties included radar countermeasures software (ECM). I held a SECRET clearance. I can't say more than that except that my project name was unclassified but that my participation in the project was classified. EDUCATION AND TRAINING * Advanced Perl Programming (Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy) * Real-World Requirements (Construx) * Real-World Software Testing (Construx) * Information Systems Project Management (American Management Association) * Information Engineering - Analysis (Thomson) * Expert Systems (Thomson) * Micro-based Automated Library Systems (INCOLSA) * Objected-Oriented Concepts & Design: Advanced C++ Workshop (Technology Exchange Company) * B.S.E.E. (Purdue University) HONORS AND PUBLICATIONS * "The TCE Corporate Technical Memory: groupware on the cheap", The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 46, Issue 6 (June 1997). * I was one of the "25 Unsung Heroes of the Net for 1998" in Interactive Week. * Published "Using Test::MockDBI" on [login to view URL], 2005-03-31. "An Introduction to Test::MockDBI" will be published on [login to view URL] in 6/2005. * IETF RFC2291: "Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web" (listed in Acknowledgments). * IETF Internet-Draft: "Event Notification Protocol". * Perl6 RFC349: "Perl modules should be built with a Perl m
## Area of Expertise
C 30 years Unix 30 years Databases 30 years Searching and indexing 30 years Regular Expressions 30 years Unix System Administration 30 years System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 25 years Software Engineering 24 years Electronic CAD 20 years C++ 23 years Object-oriented programming 23 years Serious unit testing 18 years Relational Databases 18 years Perl 18 years Microsoft Windows 18 years TCP/IP 17 years Microsoft Windows NT 16 years Web 16 years Assembly 12 years * CGI 14 years Oracle 11 years Linux 10 years Linux System Administration 10 years Apache 7 years MySQL 6 years ISO 9001 6 years Capability Maturity Model (CMM) 6 years Project Management 5 years Cascading Style Sheets 5 years Samba 4 years Test::More 4 years Template Toolkit 4 years VB.NET/VB6 3 years Visual C++ 3 years Microsoft Windows 2000 2 years Embedded software 2 years Perl libwww 2 years Slashcode 1 year Windows XP 1 year PostgreSQL 8 months Processing Large Datasets (1M+ recs) 8 months XML-RPC 6 months Java Sun Certified Java Programmer Linux Software RAID 6 months JUnit 5 months Nagios 5 months Network Monitoring 5 months TUTOS 5 months PHP 5 months Data Warehouse 5 months SOAP 4 months Author of Test::MockDBI 4 months Test::MockObject 4 months FreeBSD 3 months HTML::Template 3 months
