Sean Conner
1300 Mathis St.
Lake Worth, FL 33461-5414
(561) 603-4511
http://www.conman.org/people/spc/
sean@conman.org

Objective

To obtain an exciting job in the fast paced Computer Industry utilizing my unique skillsets.

Skill Set
  • 22 years experience in Assembly lanaguage programming with a variety of architectures including the Motorola 6809 and 68000, the Intel 80x86 line, MIPS and VAX.
  • 17 years experience in ANSI C under MS-DOS, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, BSD, AIX, Linux, AmigaOS, OS/2, HP-UX and QNX.
  • 16 years experience with Unix administration under IRIX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, BSD and HP-UX (various versions of each).
  • 15 years experience with TCP/IP networking, including routing, configuring routers from Cisco and Ascend, troubleshooting and programming.
  • 14 years experience with authoring HTML documents using the latest standards from the World Wide Web Consortium, including HTML 3.x, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, XML 1.0 and XSLT 1.0.
  • 11 years experience with CGI scripting/programming using (but not limited to) C, Forth, Unix Shell, Perl and PHP.
  • 3 years of C++ experience under Unix.
  • 1 year of Java experience, using development systems under Linux, Solaris and Windows 95.
Employment History
  • Past–Present–Future

    Various Open Source Projects (mostly in C) covering a range of projects.

  • Jun. 2001–Present

    Independent Computer Programmer and Consultant.

    Current customers include:

    • Nov. 2004–Present

      Pick Internet (a small webhosting company)—duties include network and Unix system administration, plus development. They provided the funding necessary for me to develop X-Grey, an anti-spam measure written in C. They also had me develop a sendmail wrapper for PHP to help with anti-spam measures. They also had me develop a Perl wrapper, allowing one to log various aspects of Perl scripts to help track down hacked websites (not released as open source).

    • Jan. 2004–Present

      Gladesoft (an embedded systems software company)—duties include writing code for their flagship product Seminole (an embedded webserver), demonstration code for Seminole, as well as technical documentation.

    Past customers have included:

    • Nov. 2003–Apr. 2007

      Inovasys (a small webhosting company)—primary responsibilities included the building, installation and mantenance of servers responsible for over 1,100 websites. I also dealt with security and cleanup on hacked sites, and reponse to several denial of service attacks.

    • Jun. 2001–Dec. 2003

      Benchmark Alert (a financial securities consulting firm)—I was responsible for writing software to download public domain information on brokerage firms.

  • Oct. 2000–May. 2001

    Verio (large webhosting company)—primary responsibility was to monitor the monitoring software for problems in the network and web hosting servers, as well as trouble shooting server wide and group wide (servers are based upon groups) issues and either fixing the issues, if possible, or escalate to appropriate department for handling.

  • Sep. 1999–Oct. 2000

    Independent Computer Programmer and Consultant. The various jobs I did included installation of server software, server maintanence and general system and network administration and program custom backend software for websites.

  • Sep. 1998–Sep. 1999

    Atlantic Internet (formerly the Eminet Domain, an ISP)—duties mostly concerned with system administration.

  • Apr. 1994–Aug. 1998

    Armigeron Information Service, Inc. (a small webhosting company)—duties included network and system administration, with software development. During this time, I wrote three metasearch engines (one in Java, two in C). I also expanded sendmail to support virtual email domains (back when sendmail didn't have such support out of the box), and wrote plenty of CGI scripts at the time.

  • 1993–1994

    CyberGate (an ISP) as a system and network administrator.

  • 1991–1995

    Math Department at Florida Atlantic University—I worked for Dr. Arnold Mandell and Dr. Karen Selz, writing mathematical simulations (x86 Assembly and C) and computerized pyschological experiements, as well as maintaining their computers.

  • 1990–1991

    IBM—student programmer, responsible for extending an automated took to generate testing scripts for an internally developed PS/2 Image Testing program.

Education

References available upon request.