Joe Johnston - Resume

Contact Information:

Joe Johnston

    Boston, MA

    Email: jjohn@taskboy.com
    URL: http://taskboy.com

Computer Skills:

    Languages: Perl, C, Java, SQL, UNIX Shell, Pascal, VBScript,
    JavaScript.
  
    OS: Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS, VMS.
  
    Technologies: CGI/mod_perl, Sockets, XML-RPC/SOAP, XML/XSLT.
  
    Servers: Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Samba.
  
    Networks: TCP/IP, Windows, Macintosh.
  

Employment History:
    
        Software Consultant
    Independent Contractor
    
              Oct. 2001
              -
              present
              
    
    Projects:
    * CareerSearch: Helped defined and implement a ground-up rewrite of
      their web application using Apache, mod_perl, Template Toolkit and
      MySQL.
    * Leostream: Helped design and build the Leostream Host Agent, a
      daemon process that implements virtual machine management requests
      from a remote Leostream VMC. Also responsible for technical
      support and internal IT infrastructure.
    * O'Reilly: Designed an HTML layout for an intranet search engine.
      Wrote technical documentation for an internal mod_perl templating
      system comprising more than 100 Perl modules and templates.
    
    
       
    
        Senior Software Engineer
    O'Reilly and Associates
    
                April 2000
              -
                Sep. 2001
              
    
    Projects:
    * Designed and implemented a Digital Assement Management system that
      tracks metainformation of book projects. Created both a web and
      command line utility to query that information.
    * Provided XML-RPC glue in ASP for Safari, ORA's online book
      initiative.
    * Facilitated the integration of various databases into a
      company-wide data warehouse.
    
    
       
    
        Teacher
    Northeastern University
    
                Aug. 2000
              -
                Dec. 2000
              
    
     
                      Designed and taught an introduction to programming 
                      with Perl class targeted at Bioinformatics certificate
                      candidates. 
            
    
       
    
        Software Engineer & System Administrator
    CS Information Technologies
    
                Nov. 1997
              -
                Apr. 2000
              
    
    Projects:
    * Responsible for maintaining five production websites, all running
      from the same Perl code base.
    * Implemented a machine monitoring system to detect high CPU usage
      or outages.
    * Designed and implemented OO perl systems to extract data from
      various proprietary formats, corrected errors in that data and
      produced a database in CareerSearch format, suitable for CSIT's
      Windows and Internet Products.
    * Designed a perl module to parse and correct postal addresses.
    * Designed and maintained portions of the internal MySQL database.
    * Administered Linux firewalls, production web servers and
      proprietary data engines.
    
    
       
    
        Web Designer & Maintainer
    www.aliensaliensaliens.com
    
                Dec 1995
              -
                present
              
    
    Projects:
    * Conceived and implemented a popular website for UFO buffs. Used
      Apache/mod_perl and a MySQL database. Created a custom templating
      language. Supports user logins, comments, a search function and
      web administration tools. The backend provides a web based
      authoring tool that allows non-programmers to instantly publish
      content.
    * Site awarded Lycos Top 5% of the Internet
       
    
    
      

  

Education:

    BA in Computer Science, May 1998. GPA: 3.47 - Dean's List
    University of Massachusetts
    

  

Publications:

    Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, Ed Dumbill. Programming Web
    Services with XML-RPC. O'Reilly and Associates. 2001.

    Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, Joe
    Johnston. Unix Power Tools, 3rd ed.. O'Reilly and Associates.
    2002.

    " Building Directory Services with Net::LDAP ". The Perl
    Journal. EarthWeb: New York, NY. Winter 2000.

    " Beyond Hard-Coded HTML with Mason ". The Perl Journal.
    EarthWeb: New York, NY. Spring 2000.

    " Reviewed *Perl, A Programmer's Companion* ". The Perl Journal.
    Readable Publications: Boston, MA. Summer 1999.

    " Introduction to SOAP and Perl ". developerWorks
    (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/) . May 2001.

    " XML-RPC as Middleware ". developerWorks
    (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/) . April 2001.

    " Introduction to XML-RPC ". developerWorks
    (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/) . May 2001.

    " Ilya Regularly Expresses ". http://www.perl.com . Sep. 2000.

    " Damian Conway Talks Shop ". http://www.perl.com . August 2001.

    " ANSI Standard Perl? ". http://www.perl.com . June 2000.

    " Using XML-RPC and C ". http://www.xml.com . Oct. 2001.

    " XML-RPC and Binary Data ". http://web.oreilly.com . June 2001.


  

CONFERENCES:

    SDExpo East 2001: Presented a talk introducing XML-RPC with Perl and
    PHP.
  
    O'Reilly P2P Conference 2001: Presented a case study of XML-RPC as
    used by O'Reilly.
  

  

Interests:

    * Music. Compose and record songs at home
    * Mountain Biking