Randall M. Donald

E-mail: randy@khensu.org

Summary:
A software developer with over 9 years experience developing 
configuration management and web-enabled applications in open 
systems environment seeks opportunity to program, maintain, and support 
client-server based systems; proven ability to adapt to different platforms 
and new languages, operates effectively as team member, and exercises 
initiative to solve problems. 

Work Experience:

Webacom Media Corp., Nanaimo, BC May 2007 - Present
Software Developer and System Administration
- Member of a team working a web applications and dynamic content.

Media Glyphics, Parksville, BC Mar 2007 - May 2007
Web Development Programmer

Push72 Design, Parksville, BC Nov 2005 - Feb 2007
Programmer and System Administration
- member of team developing and maintaining banking applications

Rampant TechPress,  Kittrell, NC Feb 2003
Online Store Consultant
- helped set up and diagnose installation problems for small store based 
  on the oscommerce e-commerce solution.
- fixed other issues in web site design.

Elegant Solutions Consulting, Vancouver, B.C. 	Mar 2001 - Jul 2002
Programmer Analyst - Linux email system 
- member of team developing custom email server with GUI and filtering 
  capabilities using C. Perl and existing open source mail utilities to be run
  on Linux,
- packaged product software in Debian package format,
- developed email service component with Web management through SOAP, and 
- supplemental responsibilities: mail administration duties.

Stormix Technologies Inc. Vancouver, B.C. 	Jul 1999 - Jan 2001
Programmer - 'Storm Linux' Distribution System (2 releases)
- designed, programmed, and tested user friendly system configuration tools 
  using C and a custom interface language, 
- packaged software using Debian package management system,
- participated as team member in development design sessions, and 
- supplemental responsibilities : developed and proofread Help documentation. 

Pacificom Systems Ltd, Burnaby, B.C. 	Feb 1999 - Apr 1999
Web Consultant
- advised on design and development of  a Web interface tool for lumber mill
  using Active Server Pages and MS Access 

Renaissoft Enterprises, North Vancouver, B.C. 	Jun 1997 - May 1999
Web programmer - Hockey pool application
- programmed web pages using Active Server Pages, SQL Server Database access 
  and design,
- performed site maintenance of prototype system, and 
- worked with client in developing product.

Renaissoft Enterprises. North Vancouver, B.C. 	Sep 1995 - Dec 1995
Co-op Work term - Web programmer
- developed a Web link verification tool written in C under Linux.

Environment Canada - Applications & Services Division 	Jan 1995 - Dec 1995
Co-op Work term - Web programmer - operations support
- programmed, maintained, and operated  100 page Web site running NCSA on 
  HP-UX, and
- programmed, maintained, and operated public BBS running OS/2. 

Corporate Services - Department of Canadian Heritage, Calgary Alberta	 May 1994 - Aug 1994 
Sep 1993 - Dec 1993
Co-op Work term - LAN Assistant
- provided operational support for 200 workstation/VAX server Pathworks LAN

Education & Professional Accreditation:
- B.Sc in Computing Science - 1997  Simon Fraser University  
- Debian  Developer  - 2000  Developer and Archive Maintainer on the Debian 
  GNU/Linux Project. 

Specific Skill Set:
Languages and Technologies:

C (6 years), Perl (2 years), Debian packaging, BASH shell (4 years), SQL, 
HTML (6 years), CGI, CSS, SSL, Python, SOAP (1 year), osCommerce online store,
Javascript (2 years), Active Server Pages (v2.0 2 years), ZSH

Operating Systems:

Linux (7 years Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, i386, mips), Windows NT (v4 3 years),
Unix (HP-UX, IRIX, SunOS), Windows 95/98, VMS, OS/2

Networking and Administration:

Email Services(Postfix, Mailman, Procmail, Courier-imap, uw-imapd, Cyrus, SMTP
AUTH, TLS, ipopd, qmail, qpopper, teapop, Sendmail, Spamassassin, amavis), 
Security (SSH, GnuPG, iptables, SSL services), LAN Services (DHCP, NFS, Samba, 
NAT), Internet Services(FTP, Bind DNS, NTP, Apache, VNC), UNIX Printing(lpr, 
LprNG, Samba, CUPS)

Applications and Tools:

Development:
GNU C Compiler (gcc) (6 years), GNU make, CVS, gdb, autoconf (basic knowledge),
emacs, jed, vi, Visual Studio (v6 2 years), InterDev (2 years), 
HomeSite (2 years)

Web Servers:
Apache (6 years), IIS  (v4 2 years) 

Web Browsers:
Mozilla, Communicator/Navigator, Internet Explorer

Graphics:
Gimp, Photoshop (v5 1.5 years), Fireworks

RDBMS:
Postgresql (2 years), Mysql (2 year), SQL Server (v6.5 2 years), 
Access (1.5 years)

Word Processing:
StarOffice, Applixware, MS Word, WordPerfect