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Adam Fletcher
adamf+resume@csh.rit.edu
Somerville, Ma.

Rochester Institute of Technology 1996 - 2000
Rochester, NY.

• Bachelor's of Science in Information Systems, 2000
• Computer Science House (CSH) member since 1996, CSH Advanced Research Group inductee in 1997, director of R&D in 1997-1998.

Site Reliability Engineer Google 2011-Present

Operations Architect ITA Software 2006-2011

Director, Information Technology PowerSteering Software 2003-2006

Software Engineer, Banta Integrated Media 2003
Cambridge, MA

Worked on numerous small and medium sized custom development projects which integrated with Banta’s enterprise content management system, B*Media. Each project came out of extensive customer interaction, including workflow analysis and assessment. Provided development-tier support for several Fortune 500 companies in the heavily deadline-driven publishing industry. This branch of Banta was sold in summer 2003.

• Worked with a group of developers and project managers to asses and implement custom integration projects, utilizing Java, CORBA (Iona’s OrbixWeb), XML, Oracle and other technologies on Solaris, Windows and MacOS. Upon completion, the code went into a library for later reuse to speed development on future projects.
• Used XML, Java, Java Servlets and JSP to provide communication between a variety of data sources. Used XSLT and CSS to transform XML output into XHTML for easier visualization of data.

Software Engineer, Rovia, Inc. December 2000 – December 2002
Cambridge, MA

Developed front end and client code for two Rovia products, the Rovia RovReader and ShareSafe. Both products are information use management applications that work in a client server architecture. Primary tasks included scripting front-end technologies to interoperate, communicating needs with the server team and design and implementation of new client-side features.

• Developed XUL (the XML User Interface Language) front-ends for two products through multiple development cycles. This included working with JavaScript, C++, XPCOM, and XML-RPC, as well as working with black box components such as Stellent Outside-In document management SDK.
• Worked with the internals of the Mozilla project, a large cross-platform application architecture. This included patching Mozilla, submitting bugs and customizing the Mozilla code to fit Rovia's needs.
• Worked with a team of engineers to design specification for new products and features. After design, work was self-managed and driven by deadline.

Systems Architect, Rovia, Inc. December 2000 – December 2002
Cambridge, MA

Architected and managed large-scale 3-tier ASP infrastructure with high-availability clustered services and hot-spare databases. This system utilized a heterogeneous mix of operating systems and hardware, including Cisco switching equipment, Linux based firewalls, load balancers and application servers, as well as Solaris web servers and database servers. Services provided included:

• In house Rovia application server on a cluster of VA Linux machines.
• Apache web servers for corporate web site, AOLServer/ArsDigita e-commerce site.
• RealServer streaming media server, Oracle 8i database servers, Tomcat Servlet engine, statistics, internal DNS, SNMP monitoring (cricket and RRD), email services and other support services.
• Managed and built internal corporate network, including Cisco routers, Cisco PIX firewalls, 3Com switching equipment (wired and wireless), as well as internal development and QA environment, essentially two duplicates of the production servers listed above.

Contractor, BBN, Inc. Spring 2000
Cambridge, MA

Developed a Perl and Java JDBC application to feed data from various data sources into an LDAP database for BBN's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) initiative.

UNIX Administrator, BBN, Inc. Summer and Fall 1999, Summer 1998
Cambridge, MA

One of a team of administrators responsible for a large group (150+ machines) of production Solaris servers. Responsible for installation, troubleshooting software problems, writing scripts, monitoring, and other day-to-day administration task.

• Worked with SecurID and ACE servers, IDDS LDAP Server, Sun's pop3 and IMAP servers, Oracle servers, NIS and NIS+, Vantive help desk ticketing software, Sanity phone management software and other applications.

Articles:

• LVS NAT + Keepalived HOWTO A guide to setting up the Linux virtual server with the keepalived package, a single daemon solution to server load balancing and health checking, including VRRP failover.
• Example: How to Display the Contents of a Datasource Gives example code for using the Mozilla RDF tools to traverse the contents of an in-memory datasource.

Operating Systems: Solaris 8, Linux (SuSE, Debian, RedHat), OpenBSD, Windows (All)

Packages: iptables, keepalived, ipvs, Apache, AOLServer, Perl, awk, sed, vi, L^ATEX typesetting language, ssh, Kerberos v5, tripwire, Nmap and other security auditing tools, SecurID, CVS, DiskSuite, Visual Studio, gcc, Solaris Jumpstart, rrdtool+cricket, MySQL, Bugzilla, SAMBA, Tomcat, DHCP, NFS, DNS (bind), IDDS LDAP, Veritas Volume Manager, Bugzilla

Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, SQL, JavaScript, XSLT

Theory: TCP/IP networking, UNIX systems programming (sockets, named pipes, FIFOs, signals), object oriented design, digital logic, distributed systems, genetic algorithms, network routing and switching, team development, team administration, bug tracking & triage

Hardware: PCs, Macintosh, Sun Ultra SPARCs, Sun Storage Arrays, Cisco switching equipment, Cisco PIX firewalls

Layout Editor 1998 - present
Hell's Kitchen Rochester, NY.
www.hellskitchen.org/gdt with volumes at www.hellskitchen.org/gdt/pdf

Editor for a weekly satire magazine based out of Rochester, NY. Laid out magazine using QuarkXpress 4.1 and Adobe InDesign. Worked with other editors to manage content and distribution on strict weekly deadlines.

Researcher, Information Systems Fall 1998 - Winter 1998

With Dr. Victor Perotti, designed and coded software to simulate the evolution of complex organizations (corporations, schools, etc.), based on and extending John H. Miller's 1995 paper Evolving Information Processing Organizations.

Computer Science House CS Seminar Series September 1997 - March 1998
Computer Science House, Rochester, NY.

Organized a lecture series for topics in computer science. Guest speakers from universities and industry lectured on parallel computing, DNA computing, complexity and computability and other issues in modern computer science.

Computer Science House OS Seminar Series Spring 1997
Computer Science House, Rochester, NY.

Organized a lecture series for topics in operating systems. Guest speakers from universities and industry lectured on BSD, VMS, Windows NT, Mach, Linux, BeOS and other operating systems.

Hobbies Chess (1553 USCF), rock climbing, literature, guitar.