David P. Discher
http://davidpdischer.com http://davidpdischer.com/resume 1220 N. Fairoaks Ave. Apt 3204
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(cell) 408-368-3725
(home) 408-541-0159
Summary
Web Application Developer and UNIX System Administrator
With Technical Leadership Aspirations
by David P. Discher
July 23, 2008 00:33
SAINT LOUIS (dpd) -
David Discher is a skilled Information Technology Professional. He has been
working with UNIX and its various flavors since 1990. Since then, he progressed
from the user environment to the System Administrator in the mid-1990's. He's
worked with various distributions of Linux and finally settled on FreeBSD as
his preferred production server Open-Source UNIX distribution. He currently
maintains four FreeBSD/Linux, which will be expanding in the near future.
Despite his passion for UNIX, Discher has been an Apple Macintosh User since
the platforms beginning in 1984. His desktop platform has been and continues to
be MacOS. MacOS X fuses both skills he has used - the Macintosh User Interface
and the power of the BSD Unix under pinnings. Discher is also a registered
Apple Developer.
To solidify his skills, in the fall of 1996, Discher enrolled as a full-time student and attended Washington University in St. Louis, MO. In December 2001, his efforts were awarded with a Applied Science Degree from the School of Engineering and Applied Science in the field of Computer Science. His course work mainly focused on systems and machines and applied practical topics rather than theory. During school, he applied with these skills within an extracurricular robotics team. The team's three different designs won three awards in four different competitions. Discher assumed a leadership roll in the team, and pushed for progress.
Discher has a very aggressive and entrepreneurial personality. His talents, skills and drive are often under utilized in large corporations. He much rather be involved in a small group or small to medium size company especially a startup. He would like to work closely with the details of the project. A technical/development position is preferred over a management position. Discher would like to work within a vertically organized project group, designing a system begin to end and seeing it through to release. Discher would enjoy working on projects using open-source software or open standards in software development, web application or an embedded system. Projects taking advantage of Open Standards and Software like XML - SOAP, XMPRPC, XSLT/XSL, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, and Linux would be ideal. Discher's ideal job would involve working to develop web-based applications.
Discher is passionate about expanding his knowledge. Earning professional certifications is a current goal. However, due to time constraints, professional certifications are currently on hold.
Education
Work Experience
- Yahoo!, Inc. Aug 2005 - Present
- Infrastructure Engineering Sunnyvale, CA June 2008 - Present
- Technical Yahoo: FreeBSD Kernel Team Member Full-Time : Employee
- In Team Support for Senior Kernel Developers
- Tested Kernels and drivers on new hardware
- Help Create new PXE Networking Installers
- Facilitated signing of NDAs with major chip-set vendors for creating drivers for FreeBSD
- Platform/Y!OS Engineering Sunnyvale, CA Oct 2007 - June 2008
- Technical Yahoo: FrontEnd Engineer Full-Time : Employee
- Creating Web 2.0 Widgets for Common Community Platforms
- Frontend Engineer for next gernation ("Y!OS")community platforms
- Legacy Data Migration and Download Applications
- Yahoo! Ad Systems Operations Sunnyvale, CA Aug 2005 - Sept 2007
- Technical Yahoo: Sales Operations Full-Time : Employee
- Provide production operational support for Yahoo! Internal Ad Sales Systems
- Provides 24x7 production support (rotating basis)
- Implementing monitoring using proprietary internal Yahoo! tools, integrate with Nagios
- ensures Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and proper Change Management process for controlled products
- Basic Release Engineering and support for developers
- Developed Internal tools on (L)AMP platform to aid in operational tasks
- Inherited and became main support and developer (hacker) contact for the customer, internal SOX compliant build system
- Teams resident UNIX (FreeBSD & Linux) guru and resource
- Teams go-to IT/SA contact
- SBC Communications, Inc. March 2002 - Aug 2005
- SBC Advanced Solutions, Inc. Dublin, CA Nov 2004 - Aug 2005
- Senior Communications Specialist Full-Time : Employee
- Primary Responsibility: Solaris System Administrator, support, installation, maintenance
- Implementing Sun One Directory Service as a Solaris Naming Service
- Working with NFS, NIS+, LDAP, perl, php, SSH, nsswitch, PAM, DNS/Bind, Cisco Switches, Sun/Solaris Jumpstart
- SBC Services, Inc. St. Louis, MO March 2002 - Oct 2004
- Resource Technician Full-Time : Employee
- Tier 1 Monitoring Center (ROCC) for Midrange Unix and NT Systems
- Work with System, Application, and Database Administrators to resolve problems
- Skills used: Unix (AIX, HP, Sun), Communication skills (writen and phone)
- Created Perl Scripts to automate creation of BMC Patrol Desktop Files
- Created CRM-DR-Backup Script to save critical information to local PCs from ITO's CRM database for the Disaster Recovery
- Proposing to design and create a Web Application (PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL) for Content Management
- In Progress: Global Knowledge Self-Paced e-Learning UNIX Level I/II, Network Fundamentals, and Trouble shooting TCP/IP
- Received an Team Awards for 2002, 2003
- Received an Individual Development Award 2003 for CRM-DR-Backup
- Picture It Sold Berkeley, CA Nov 2003 - June 2004
- Web Application Developer Contract
- Provided Managed Hosting for client - FreeBSD/Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL
- Mirgated Managed Hosting to PictureItSold's System - FreeBSD/Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL
- Created Full Custom Web Application, Auction Management System (AMS)
- Integrated eBay XML API, FedEx, XML API, PayPal Instant Payment Notification
- Standards Compliance: XHTML 1.0, CSS2
- Developed Using: Apache, PHP, MySQL, with CVS
- AMS automates the eBay listing and selling process for Picture It Sold from a single interface that communicates with eBay, FedEx and PayPal.
- Varner Technologies, Inc.** Chesterfield, MO July 2001
- Unix System Administrator Summer Employment
- ** Varner has ceased operations, unable to reach any contacts.
- Upgraded an ISP's main server, 6,000+ active users (FreeBSD 3.3 to FreeBSD 4.3 )
- Configured qpopper (POP3 Server) & sendmail (outgoing mail server) with POP-before-SMTP relaying control
- FixMyLinux.COM ** Clayton, MO July - Sept 2000
- Network Administrator for "dot-com" startup FixMyLinux, Inc. Summer Employment
- **FixMyLinux.COM is no longer owned by CTitek, and is now ceased operations, contacts are still reachable.
- Managed Content for the FixMyLinux Web Site
- Developed Simplified how-to's, and scripts for easier installation of Linux Packages
- Designed Perl, shell scripts and XML Documents for content storage
- CTitek, Inc. (ctitek.com) Clayton, MO Dec 1999 - Feb 2000
- Network Administrator Part-Time (Consultant)
- Supported the clients' Linux Firewalls and Windows Based Desktop machines
- Maintained Linux Firewalls at remote sites
- Researched replacing WindowsNT file server with a Linux Server running Samba
- Washington University St. Louis, MO May - Sept 1999
- Department of Electrical Engineering Summer Employment
- Computer Engineer: Embedded System Engineer - NIH-Shoe Project
- Improved an existing embedded system prototype and implemented this improved design with a printed circuit board (PCB) using OrCAD Schematic/Layout Software.
- Embedded the Motorola 68hc12 micro-controller; coded assembly for the hc12
- BECS Technology, Inc. St. Louis, MO May 1998 - Feb 1999
- Full Time Software Engineer Full-Time Employment : Co-Op
- Created & Design data acquisition systems with National Instruments LabVIEW, C/C++ and assembly for a proprietary research instrument
- Implemented a Java application for post-processing for saved binary data