Charles Paul
992 Peralta Ave
San Francisco, CA 94110
504-715-8940
charles.paul@gmail.com
Resume of Qualifications and Achievments
Available for challenging coding positions.
Technical Skills
WWW applications: content management systems, open-publishing systems,
and license verification systems.
Web development platforms include: Django, PHP/Pear, Zope/ Plone, mod_perl/
template-toolkit, Twisted-Nevow, ColdFusionMX, and the Unix shell.
Software development experience on the following platforms: C/C++ (Unix/Win),
Python (Unix/Win/Mac), Perl (Unix/Mac), Java (Unix,Win), PHP (Unix/Win/Mac).
Network applications: UDP servers for multimedia streaming, XMLRPC/SOAP
interfaces for GnuPG encryption and for the control of terrestrial media
broadcasts.
Business applications: corporate document control for legal compliance,
internal business form validation/generation, office workflow management
suites
Adept system, security, database and network admin.
Design and analysis of secure and anonymous cryptographic based systems.
Familiar with common intrusion and prevention methods. Security analysis &
network penetration testing.
Employment History
Powerlinx Technologies, Concord CA
Embedded Software Engineer, Contractor March 2005 - October 2005
- Developed Powerline ethernet drivers, integrated software and wrote
original code to operate a variety of embedded DSP-computing products:
ranging from hotel set-top video decoders to web-controlled security cameras.
- Evaluated and benchmarked performance of components from hardware vendors.
- Initiated technical negotiations with software vendors and secured
requests for needed features.
- Built & maintained Linux toolchains for embedded computer platforms.
Built win32 gui apps; integrating software from Open-Source projects such as
Videolan, libpcap.
- Created the office wiki to help disseminate and catalog new documentation
produced by the engineers.
The League of Independent Voters, San Francisco CA
Software Integration Engineer & SysAdm May 2004 - January 2005
- Participated in a cooperative (Xtreme) programming effort building a new
online social networking platform for activists.
- Added functionality to Flexomatic for users to create and manage
electronic mailing lists by integrating the Sympa mailing list manager.
- Acted as Sysadmin for a highly-available, multi-tiered public web
application.
Taos, San Francisco CA
Senior Systems & Network Administrator May 2000 - February 2001
- Provided network, system and security administration for various Internet
companies.
- Mentored junior sysadmins on Unix, networking, scripting and "best
practices" for systems administration.
Evcom.net, North Palm Beach Florida, USA
Webmaster April 1997 - November 1997
- Graphic design, illustration, java animation and HTML for over 20
websites.
- Owner and operator of the Debian server hosting secondary DNS services.
- Participated in the physical buildout of ISP (network wiring, machine-
installation).
Consulting History
Honolulu, HI and San Francisco, CA 2001 - 2007
- Clients include Wells Fargo, HP, Charles Schwab, Lerach Coughlin Stoia
Geller Rudman & Roberts LLP, Milagen and Dunkin Donuts.
- Extended a Plone-based corporate accounting application to be in compliance
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by integrating open-source code for full-history
support in Zope Enterprise Objects.
- Developed data-mining suites and the pattern searching algorithms for
applications such as the discovery of corporate insider trading, and for
ranking the popularity of popular songs and artists on P2P networks. These
applications were built using Python, C, XML XPath, MySQL, dbm, OpenVPN and
Debian Linux x86.
- Refactored a large (100,000 lines of code) perl CGI application into a
functioning application for a large investment house.
- Coded intranet and Internet web applications and provided Unix systems
administration for businesses in Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii. Full life-cycle
development of content management systems, and an order-delivery tracking
system with customer relationship manangement functionality.
- Acted as security engineer for the online division of a national bank.
Responsible for hardening Linux operating systems and Apache/Tomcat based
applications on the public webservers, and performed regular security audits
of colocated servers. Composed monthly security reports for management.
South Florida 1997 - 1999
- Clients include Finnegan-Thermoquest, Robert Half and The PGA.
- Designed and installed high-volume email delivery systems using Postfix,
Sendmail, Solaris, Debian Linux, MySQL and Perl.
- Developed an software license verification system for the Web using
Python and C++ on a Windows NT server.
- Provided IT consulting services for businesses hardware, software &
information architecture).
Volunteering History
Indymedia.org 2000 - 2007
- Continuing support for open-publishing PHP code-bases and various Internet
services including wikis, IRC, DNS and Mail.
New Orleans, LA October 2005 - June 2006
- Organizer and volunteer for a grassroots relief effort which delivered
supplies on vegetable-oil powered busses from California to the Gulf South
following Hurricanes Katrina & Rita.
- Assisted in establishing and supporting an emergency communication network
for New Orleans and Houma, Louisiana using 802.11 mesh networks, FM radio,
and VOIP.
- Opened two kitchens and assisted community members in operating them for
their neighbours returning to New Orleans.
San Francisco, CA March 2004 - December 2004
Verified Voting Foundation
- Collaborated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility and other civil liberties groups to
build a web-based election incident reporting system in time for the 2004
elections.
- Helped design & deploy a geographically distributed and highly-available
cluster of MySQL database servers & "front-edge" webservers. System was
utilized by thousands of election-monitoring volunteers from the ACLU and
other civil-liberties organizations.
Education History
Partial study for a degree in fine-art photography at the Rochester
Institute of Technology in New York State, 1994-1995.