Max J. Perez

oaklandmax@gmail.com

(510) 541-6628

Professional Summary

With over 18 years of experience in technology, I can develop dynamic websites from concept to release, including determining project requirements, planning the development process, programming, customer presentations, and supporting deployment.

My skills are centered around LAMP technologies. I use PHP, SQL, CSS, HTML, Perl, and Java to create normalized relational databases, program to APIs, build web form front ends, and write clean programs to access the databases and present the data.

My biggest asset is that I am a generalist, capable of using a broad range of knowledge and experience to quickly learn what I need to know to accomplish an objective.

Skills

Languages and tools: PHP, Smarty, CSS, SQL, HTML, Solar PHP Framework, Zend PHP Framework, Java, C, Perl, Mason, DBI, JavaScript, CGI, Subversion, CVS, vi, Eclipse, and Netbeans.

Databases: MySql, Oracle 9i/8, Access, FoxPro, Filemaker, and Cornerstone.

Operating systems and related software: Linux, Mac OS X, SCO Openserver, SCO Unixware, SCO Xenix 2.3.4, Sun Solaris, Windows, multiprocessor products MPX and SMP, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, and NIS.

Work History

Software Engineer for Mashery Inc. November 2007 to June 2008.

• Developed a migration application that allows customers to easily move data from their development portal to their public portal.
• Created intelligent API monitoring programs for use with Webmetrics that reduced support load by fifty percent.
• Integrated Captcha user verification in our registration process.
• Generated reports and SQL queries for user activity and subdomain association.
• Developed upload program from PHP command line utility into customer facing web application.
• Worked on string translation and internationalization project.
• Tools and environment included: MVC OO PHP 5 under Solar Framework, ZEND PHP Framework, MySql, Mac OS X, Amazon Web Services, FogBugz, ReCaptcha, and Subversion.

Web Application Engineer for SNOCAP Inc. July 2006 to October 2007.

• Developed applications, forms, RSS feed, and web pages for users of a web based music commerce business.
• Created tools for users and staff to manage accounts, login, music catalog holdings, and database facing tasks.
• Tools and environment included: PHP 5, Smarty, CSS, Oracle, FC5 Linux, Eclipse, Subversion source control, Agile Development methodology, and PHPUnit.

Web Programmer for Sendmail.com (contract). May 2006 to July 2006.

• Contributed to the architecture and implementation of the redesign for the sendmail.com website.
• Created the PHP framework for the redesign of the sendmail.org website.
• Tools and languages used included PHP, MySql, CSS, Photoshop, and HTML.

Application Development Engineer for Adteractive.com. March 2005 to May 2006.

• Programmed applications to manage very time sensitive mortgage lead data that evaluated incoming user information and created leads customized to specification and routed for delivery.
• Programmed new web page offers and forms from designed images.
• Led projects to abstract template data to interfaces, create new tools for debugging applications, and led team in adopting new lead delivery technology.
• Created spidering application for mortgage interest rate data.
• Engineered new projects into usable products and proof of concepts, and gave demos.
• Tools and languages used included PHP, Perl, CSS, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop, Oracle, and MySql.

Web Architect for foodfriar.com. December 2004 to April 2005.

• Formalized site requirements, constructed development timeline, and selected web host.
• Designed and programmed database schema.
• Designed and programmed the sites data flow including data retrieval and presentation, forms, user sessions, and email handling.
• Designed and programmed page templates, ready for integration of finished graphics.
• Tools and environment: MySql 4.1.9, PHP 4.3.10, Running under Linux 2.4.9.

Lead Programmer for Sexualhealth.com. July 2004 to June 2005.

• Completed site redesign, including site evaluation, and estimation of time and cost.
• Managed site move to new web host, including evaluating sites and optimizing the site to incorporate the features of the new environment.
• Completed programming of MySql database.
• Wrote programs in PHP to modify, retrieve, and insert data.
• Wrote programs to email staff and users of site usage automatically.
• Created web interface for administrators to update the web site and the database.
• Integrated advertisers programs and code.
• Tools and environment: MySql 4.0.20, PHP 4.1.2, and Linux 2.4.20.

Web Programmer for Wildernessunlimited.com. April 2004 to June 2004.

• Designed and developed a website for users to be able to vote multiple place choices on photographs.
• Technology used was PHP, Java, and Access.

Web programmer for rentpayment.com. December 2003 to March 2004.

• Wrote programs that extract and parse LDAP and SQL data via CGI scripts launched from Perl Mason and PSP forms.
• Created web interfaces for users that pass selections to and from MySql tables that I modified to accept the new data.
• Tools and environment: Linux, Perl 5, Mason, and MySql 3.22.

Database developer for Harsco Inc. November 2003 to December 2003.

• Designed and developed an employee timecard database in Access.
• Created data model, tables, queries, reports, and migrated their existing data from Excel.
• Trained users and handed final product off to management.

Vendor Sales for Gearbox International. February 2003 to October 2003.

• Generated around 40% of companies two million dollars of sales by supplying existing retail stores with companies product, and opening new accounts from warm leads.
• Tracked 300 retail stores and 4000 sales prospects with the ACT account tracking database.

Continuing Education. 2002 to 2004.

• Courses in Java programming, Oracle application and forms development, SQL, FoxPro database, and Access database at UC Berkeley Extension and Vista College.

Software Engineer for Loquendo Inc. (formerly VocalPoint). May 2000 to November 2001.

• Responsible for producing and giving demos of our product that allow the access of potential customers web pages over the phone.
• Responsible for maintaining the company's corporate web site.
• Created demos by writing Java or Perl templates that would acquire web pages from customers site, modify, and then send them to our vocalization software, or by modifying the web page at its source with xCSS tags. Also used PHP, ASP, JSP, and XML as needed.
• Reduced demo creation time from months to days.

Project Coordinator for VocalPoint Inc. March 2000 to May 2000.

• Created a "Wizard of Oz" style web based interface testing program that allowed a tester to imitate possible product functionality so that user testing could occur before development.
• Generated tests for Voice User Interface phrasing, choices, and pause lengths.
• Saved the company thousands of dollars in outsource development costs and provided flexibility by enabling the retention of source code.
• Technology included Java, Perl, JavaScript, HTML frames, tables, xCSS, CoolEdit, and L&H TTS.

Customer Support Engineer for Brightmail Inc. March 1999 to February 2000.

• Worked with technical staff and management of major ISPs to customize, install, and troubleshoot anti-spam software running under Solaris (Sunos 5.6).
• Technology used included Perl, Java, Oracle, and SQL to customize each installation to meet technological needs of each ISP and to integrate the customer into our systems.

Technical Support Analyst for Santa Cruz Operation. January 1997 to March 1999.

• Senior Engineer, responsible for escalated issues, researching problems, writing technical articles, creating and maintaining web pages for my work team, teaching classes, and mentoring other engineers.
• Skilled in rescuing crashed mission critical systems, remotely or at client's location.
• Contributed to the design of department Oracle database.
• Learned "C" on the job to support the development environment.

Technical Support Engineer for Santa Cruz Operation. March 1993 to January 1997.

• Responsible for solving use issues and problems with SCO Unix and Xenix operating systems, including networking, GUI, sendmail, and multiprocessor software.

Military

Honorably discharged from US Army Reserves in 1993.

Education

Received BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz, June 1990.

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