Rob S.

## BIO ***<u>EDUCATION</u> * **Bachelor of Applied Science (computing Major) Queensland University of Technology (QLD, Australia) 1987. <u>***WORK EXPERIENCE ***</u> **2001-2004    ** *Management Systems Development (Contractor)* Design and development of  Customer Management System including authentication, billing, data usage, email account management. Design and development of  Web Site Hosting Management System to allow customer to self manage web sites. Required complex integration with web servers and operating systems. Re-design of existing MySQL databases to improve performance and optimize storage requirements. Re-write radius authentication system to customise for specific requirements (written in C). Online Documentation for all components of the Management Systems. **1996–2001   ** *National Manager (Contractor)* Design and development of a shopping cart facility to handle a range of over 18,000 products, including product management, order processing and tracking, credit card payment gateway, customer history. ## Area of Expertise ***Programming Languages*** Perl to version 5.8.2 (have been reviewing v6.0). Over three years developing network systems using Perl, primarily interfacing with mySQL databases. Significant experience using perl scripts to manipulate network server configurations. C (Slackware version) PHP to version 4.3.2 ***Databases*** MySQL to version 4.0.x. 3 year experience in database management including db optimization techniques. ***Operating Systems*** Slackware versions 7.x to 9.1 Redhat versions 7.x to 10.x ***Technical Writing*** Proficient in writing technical documentation. ***Beta Testing*** Extensive experience beta testing systems, particularly for consistency and attention to detail.