Matthew M. Austin
cell: 541-953-5969
email: matthew /at/ positivemind.com

Objective: Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Psychology.

Skills:
• 20+ Years Of Professional Technology Experience
• Senior-level Server-side Web Development - construction of dynamic database-driven sites/applications using any of the following: Perl/CGI, JSP/Servlet, php, ASP, Open Market's IPS - Content Server & Xcelerate applications (including installation, configuration, development, and deployment), and/or Sybase Power Dynamo Application Server (utilizes server side JavaScript).
• Senior-level Unix Systems Administrator - DNS, SMTP, POP, IMAP(S), Samba, and file/print servers. Bash scripting, source code management, redundancy, backup/recovery, cluster installation/management, and firewalling.
• Mid-level Client-side Web Development - cross browser, cross platform with HTML (2.0 - 4.0)/XHTML 1, Dynamic HTML ( CSS1 + DOM + JavaScript), and some Java Applets.
• Mid-level Web Mastery - deployment using Apache (*NIX: Solaris, Linux, BSDs -or- win32/x64) or using IIS on NT/20XX Server.
• Mid-level Windows System Administrator - mixed client environments including (Windows 9X, NT WS 4.0, Windows NT Server/Enterprise 4.0, 20XX professional/server, XP, 7, 10). Knowledge and experience using MS WINS, DNS, DHCP, and services for Macintosh. File/print servers.
• Mid-level DBA - Oracle installation, configuration, and usage. SQL Server Anywhere installation, construction, and administration. MS SQL Server installation, construction, backups, and usage.
• Associate-level Network Engineer - skills including running cables, configuring NIC cards, DHCP servers, configuration of Checkpoint FW-1/VPN-1 (and other firewalls), setting up hubs, switches, and routers. Experience setting up full/partial public class C and maintaining partial public class B networks.

Languages: C# (3 yrs), Java (2.5+ yrs), SQL (7 yrs), XML (XSLT, XHTML) (2+ yrs), php (5 yrs), Perl (3.0 yrs), Python (3 yrs), JavaScript (3.0 yrs), (X)HTML (2.0 - 4.0 + CSS1/2) (12 yrs), Bash scripting - familiar with C/C++ (note: these are cumulative years of actual usage).

OS: Linux (Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, Rocks Cluster, & Mandrake 8.0), UNIX (Sun Solaris 2.5 -2.7,10, & 11), Windows (9X, NT 4.0, ME, 20XX, XP, 7 & 10), MAC (OS7.x, 8.x, & X.x), and familiar with IPSO, FreeBSD, netBSD, openBSD

Database: Oracle 7.3.4, 8.0.x, 10g, 11g & 12c, MS SQL 7.0, 2012, 2016,

Cloud: AWS, Azure

Software:
• editors: vi (or vim preferably), UltraEdit 32, notepad++, and jEdit.
• source code control: Git, Subversion, CVS, WinCVS, perforce, and Visual Source Safe.
• virtualization: vmware, parallels.
• remote operation: Windows Remote Desktop, Apple Remote Desktop, LogMeIn, Timbuktu, Pc Anywhere, and VNC.
• screen sharing: Join.me, and Zoom
• backup: Veritas and Amanda.
• Win32 Unix interoperability: Cygwin, NFS Maestro, MKS Toolkit, various X-clients.
• mail: Sendmail, Exim, Cyrus-IMAP, and postfix.
• Apache Group: Apache 1.3.x-2.x, mod_perl, tomcat, & familiar with Cocoon).
• Microsoft: IIS 3.0 - 8.0, ASP, FrontPage 98/2000, IE4.1 - 11.x and Office 97-Office 365.
• Macromedia/Allaire: HomeSite 4.0, Dreamweaver2, Generator2, Fireworks2, & familiar with JRun.
• Netscape: Application Server, Enterprise Server, navigator 3.0 & 4.X + mozilla.
• Open Market: IPS Content Server 2.x and Xcelerate 2.0.
• miscellaneous: standard command line tools, Forte/Netbeans, Resin, PGP/gnupg, Checkpoint FW-1/VPN-1, Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.3x, SWISH-E, various other CGI applications, Toad (client for Oracle), Bind 9, and Lotus Notes/Domino.

Multimedia:
• Digidesign: Protools LE 6.x.
• Cakewalk: 7.0 - 9.0, and Sonar 2.x.
• Adobe: Premiere 5.1c, and Photoshop.
• Sonic Foundry: CD Architect, and Noise Reduction plug-in.
• miscellaneous: Reason, DVTools, and WAVES plug-ins.

Hardware: Intel-based desktops, laptops, and servers, Sun Sparc/Ultra Sparc work stations/servers, Macintosh desktops and laptops, (PCI Cards: Modem, Sound (including Layla 20bit A/D card), Video, and NIC), (SCSI: Disk Controllers, Raid Controllers, Tape Drives), (IEEE1394: drives, video cameras, etc.), (USB1.1-3.0: mbox and various peripheals), thunderbolt, HP laser printers, SonicWall security appliance/firewall, Nokia IP440.

Work experience May 1996 - Present:

otsys.com - On Time Systems, Inc. (June 2002 - June 2019) Eugene, Oregon

• Senior Developer (August 2018 - May 2019) - Sustainment and transition of GTIMS from Northrup Grumman Clearcase to AzureDevOps as part of a team. Guidance for Systems Administration, Database Administration of Azure development environment. Migrated codebase from vs2015 to vs2017. Development lead GTIMS MEIS integration.
• Systems Architect/Senior Developer (May 2017 - March 2019) - Migrated ACFP codebase from deprecated .net Oracle API to Oracle ODP.net. Reimplemented legacy Forms (4GL Java applets) as C#/ASP web pages.
• Systems Architect (December 2008 - June 2019) - Installation, architecture and virtualization of multi-tier application suite used to route non-combat flights for the US Airforce. There is an Oracle database layer, unix server executables, Tomcat (later WebLogic) and Windows application servers providing web services, and client side components, both windows native, and web based. The physical components include sparc and x86/x86_64 hardware. I virtualized the entire suite allowing for rapid development, deployment and testing on machines with at least 8GB of ram. Maintenance and extension of custom python web/command line time keeping tool in support of government contracts. Python tools for Google Apps for Business management via admin sdk. Technical lead for two others.
• Network/System Administrator (June 2002 - December 2008) - maintain security, connectivity, stability, and redundancy of the company's 30 machines and 3 websites. Administer DNS and email servers. Installation and maintenance of spam prevention software Spamassassin, Razor and Pyzor. Install and maintain 12 node Linux cluster. Implementation of a dedicated offsite backup server for disaster recovery. Occasional web development and participation in architectural discussions related to the former real-time traffic routing site - trafficdodger.com. Support the IT needs of the 17 employees.

connnectedsignals.com - Connected Signals, Inc. (October 2015 - August 2017) Eugene, Oregon
Contract Systems Architect - Architecture and administration of AWS infrastructure. Prototype Web development for website. Deployed and tuned wordpress site. Apache webmaster. Local IT needs of the company. (*note* CS is a spinoff of On Time Systems, Inc.)

spafinder.com - Spa finder, Inc. (April 2001 - February 2002) San Francisco, California

• Senior Software Developer (July 2001 - February 2002) - programmatic-PGP-based encryption for email-driven magazine-order fulfillment, zip-code spa locator, extension/clean-up of original Blast Radius web application/publishing system, technical lead for (web/server farm, development office network and systems).
• Developer (April 2001 - June 2001) - JSP/bean/class authoring, configuration of (Resin, Inktomi Search, and MapQuest), CVS administration, Development networking and system administration.

s8.com - Scale Eight (April 2001) San Francisco, California
Contract Web Developer - developed a small php/mySQL web based sales tool.

ipix.com - Internet Pictures Corporation (September 2000 - February 2001) San Ramon, California
Web Developer - the Rimfire engineering group's web-developer responsibilities include: being a sales engineer for sales/project management; facilitating JavaScript-based Rimfire API code integrations for Ipix solutions customers; conveying the usage of the DOM to software engineers, an example of which would be to use form-based event handlers to script the behavior of Java applets or activeX controls; customizing and deploying 1300-line Perl script in our development Linux environment involving compiling, installing and configuring Apache 1.3.12 and mod_perl 1.24; administering development-environment systems with the following OSs: Linux (mandrake distro), Solaris, and NT 4.0/Windows 2000 systems; re-factoring of Macromedia Generator 2 templates to be more efficient for dynamic server-side flash creation; extending the development of the 2600-line JavaScript Rimfire Image Application Server's client API; thinking about the web and ways to expand our service offerings, inclusive of investigating potential technologies and providing proof-of-concept usage when applicable; developing proof-of-concept test-tools and providing them to the business-customer driving the feature; maintaining and developing ASP-based QA test tools for Rimfire features that are retained.

myprimetime.com - MyPrimeTime, Inc. (August 1999 - September 2000) San Francisco, California
Web System Operator (hybrid of HTML/XML coding, Perl scripting, UNIX Systems Administration/Web Mastering), NT Systems Administrator/Win32 Technical Lead, Associate UNIX Systems Administrator, Associate Network Engineer - As employee number 14 and one of the first technical people on board, I operated in numerous roles during the initial startup phase. I built and configured our publishing systems Sun E-450, inclusive of installing and configuring two raid-5 arrays (five 9GB SCSI cheetahs each) and 2 OS drives. After the box was built I installed our web-publishing system then known as futuretense, which involved the installation and configuration of Netscape Enterprise Web Server, Netscape Application Server, and Oracle 8.0.5. I built the initial network in tandem with our network consultants and finally settled more or less into the task I was hired to do: build a dynamic database-driven site. The web development involved deploying and customizing Perl/CGI scripts and authoring HTML (3.2 then 4.0 on redesign), XML & JavaScript within the publishing system. The XML usage in the publishing system is similar to XHTML with some if/else logic and SQL added in.

sybase.com - Sybase, Inc. (July 1997 - July 1999) Emeryville, California

• Associate Web Application Specialist ("CS&S Web Coordinator") (February 1999 - July 1999) - internal web-page development, implementation, and maintenance including dynamic database-driven sites; dynamic graphing using Perl GIFgraph; online-document and image creation and manipulation; simple web applications such as file uploading to an indexed searchable central repository. Project management with hands-on work as part of a development team. Member of two-person team responsible for the creation and implementation of an internal Sybase managerial newsgroup deployed using a Lotus Domino 4.6 Server enabled with HTTP and NNTP, allowing users access via the Lotus Notes Client, a Web Interface, & a News Client.
• Senior Administrative Assistant for the Technical Support Organization (July 1997 - January 1999) - numerous computer and web-centric duties.

Oakland and Piedmont Unified School Districts (April 1997 - July 1997) Oakland & Piedmont, California
Substitute Teacher for Grades K - 12 in all subjects.

Certified Personnel (September 1996 - April 1997) San Francisco, California
Paralegal work at various law firms. Participated in constructing and maintaining a case database.

BAPInteractive (May 1996 - August 1996) Burbank, California
Quality assurance and beta testing of educational CD-interactive children's game. Sonic's Schoolhouse, released by SEGA Corporation, represented Sega's initial entry to the PC software market.

Education/Qualification:
• Security clearance
• Microsoft Network Specialist Certificate UC Berkeley extension February 1999
• Microsoft Certified Professional December 1999
• Certificates of completion - Microsoft Official Curriculum Courses:

1. Hands-On Windows NT Workstation, Server, and Enterprise Server
2. Administering Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
3. Windows '95/'98 Technical Support
4. Implementing Microsoft TCP/IP
5. MS Exchange 5.
6. MS Networking Essentials

• Sybase SQL Server Anywhere Fundamentals
• AIM certificates of training completion for Lotus Notes Users both beginning and intermediate.
• BA Psychology University of California at Berkeley August 1992 - August 1996

Interests:
• Meditation and mindfulness expertise.
• The practice, instruction, and study of Kundalini Yoga.
• Music - creation, recording, performance, and production. (see also http://www.positivemind.com)