Larry’s Curriculum Vitae

Resume of Professional Experience

 

Larry Lart

 

 

Email:                                    i@larryo.org

Website:                                http://larryo.org/

Phone/Fax:                            Available upon request (linkedin)

Availability:                    Immediate

 

Resume of Qualifications

 

·          Highly self-motivated and goal-oriented creative professional with 12+ years of computing experience in software development, system administration and management.

·          Diverse business background, including – film, media, advertising, accounting, financial services, sales & distribution, telecommunications, training & development.

·          Strong knowledge of industry standards and specifications in software development, network management, e-commerce, communications.

·          International expertise in technical support, administration and consultancy with companies in more then ten countries around the world: Paris/France, Dublin/Ireland, Toronto/Canada, Madrid/Spain, Los Angeles/Usa, Madras/India, Kiev/Ukraine, Bielsko-Biala/Poland, Lisbon/Portugal, Stockholm/Sweden, Amsterdam/Holland etc.

·          Diverse technical experience:

o         8+ years combined in system administration/management and media/system development

o         4 years in electronic transactions and financial services

o         4+ years in Video/Film/Media industry. Strong basics in 2d/3d graphics design, animation software, multimedia interactive, special effects and hi-tech equipment

o         4+ years in web development

o         1 year in voice recognition/H323/telephony

o         2 years in network security software development for Unix TCP/IP and IPX/SPX Novell platforms

 

Projects

 

Most recent projects, either released, or into an advanced status of development:

 

·          UniMap – Automated plate-solving for astronomical imaging, astrometry, telescope/camera integrated control, automatic mapping of radio/xray/gamma sources, supernovas, extra-solar planets, asteroids, comets and artificial earth satellites, environment/weather monitoring tools

·          X10Ping – Monitor and power cycle network devices

·          Power Button – Process manager for desktop applications with automatic software-hardware synchronization

·          CHORG – Adaptive control for robotic arms

·          wxOpenCv – Tutorial/demo application on how to integrate Intel’s OpenCv library with wxWidgets

·          uMouse – Application to make a video/web camera to work as a mouse

·          Simple Focus – Easy focusing tool for Meade telescopes series

·          RONN – EEG software to decode the spatial/temporal distribution of composite electrical signal

 

Note: You can check all of my projects, organized by field of interest, on my website in the work section or if you are only interested in I.T. click here.

 

Skills - Operating Systems/Networking/Security

 

UNIX  (11+ yrs)

 

·          Extensive knowledge and understanding of the various flavors of UNIX including: IRIX 5.2 - 6.4, Sun Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 8.x-9.x, Dec Ultrix 4.x, NetBSD, FreeBSD, AIX, Convex, OSF, Linux Suse 6.x - 7.1/Redhat 7.x  - Enterprise

·          System installation, configuration, tuning and patching, accounting, security, monitoring, performance analysis device drivers, kernel configuration & patching, policy and politics

·          SLIP/PPP, LPD, LDAP, UUCP, RPC, BOOTD, SWAP, DHCP, DNS, INETD, NFS/NFS+, NIS, CRACK, SH, BASH, KORN, REGEX, AWK, SUID, CRON, SYSLOG, etc.

·          Backup procedures (DAT 8mm,/4mm, DLT) and critical system recovery (FSCK, DISKEDIT)

 

Windows  (8+ yrs)

 

·          Windows 3.11, 95, 98, NT4.0 (Service pack 6)/200 Sever and Workstation/XP, Embedded Windows CE3.0 installation, configuration, patching and updates

·          FAT/FAT32/NTFS File system optimization and management

·          System tuning, security, debugging and networking

·          Software and packages deployment

·          MS Exchange, IIS, LM (License Manager), ODBC

 

MacOS 6 - 8.1  (3 yrs)  - System installation, configuration, updates, tuning, security, debugging and networking. Software deployment, configuration and tuning.

PC/M  (1.5 yrs) - System tuning, debugging and software deployment

VMS/VAX  (1 yrs) - System tuning, security, debugging and networking

 

NETWORKING  (5+ yrs)

·          DHCP, DNS, Wins, Sendmail, Mail Exchanger for domains, NFS, NIS(+),SLIP/PPP, HTTP, NNTP installation configuration and maintenance

·          Clustering, Load Balancing, ATM, SNMP, Hardware/Software Redundancy, Networking Design

·          Cisco/3Com routers, kernel routing and gateways

·          LAN/WAN implement and support for mixed networks Unix/Microsoft/MacOS, TCP/IP, AppleTalk

·          Novell Networks IPX/SPX administration configuration and security

·          HUBS, Switches, Repeaters, Frame Relay, Hardware Layer design, Cabling & connectivity, deployment and tuning, testing and debugging


SECURITY (5+ yrs)

·          Firewalls (Checkpoint 1, IP-Chains/Linux Kernel), Honey Pots

·          Large scale implementation and maintenance for SSH (Secure Shell), PKI/SSH, VPN, IPSEC

·          Satan, ISS, TCP/IP Monitoring

·          SSL/RSA implementation and support for large variety of e-commerce solutions

·          PGP and Digital Signatures

·          COPS (Audit Systems Security), Packet Filtering, Kerberos, Secure Terminals, Trojan Horses, CERT/SCC

·          Software licensing protection, hardware/software keys - designing, development, debugging and tuning

                         

 

Skills - Programming/Databases/Industry/Hardware

 

C/C++  (14 yrs)

 

·          Design and development with MFC, COM, DCOM, STL, Active-X, wxWidgets, OpenCv, Sockets, DLLs, Multi-threading, Real-time apps

·          Microsoft Visual C++

·          Microsoft Embedded C++ for CE devices

·          GNU C/C++, X11, Motif, OpenGL

·          CYGWIN - porting application from Unix to MS Windows

·          Borland C, Watcom

·          Novell IPX/SPX network/security applications

 

PERL (10+ yrs) - CGI, Modules, MIME, POP3, SMTP, SSL, DBI

PHP (6 yrs) - CGI, PIM, Authetification and Encryption, DBI, SSL

Unix Shell Script (11+ yrs) - Integration with SH, (T)CSH and BASH

ASSEMBLER (3+ yrs) - Intel (x86) and MIPS (R4600, R10000) develop high speed graphic/network routines, security debugging and virus signature recognizer

PASCAL (3 yrs) - GUI (Graphical Interfaces). Real time, analytic design and development

JAVA  (1+ yrs) - End User/Client Interface design end development - AWT, Java Applets, Java Server Side J2EE: EJB 1.1, Servelets, JSPs

(V)BASIC (1 year) - Design and development Install Wizard, Active-X

HTML, WML, JavaScript (6+ yrs) - Design and develop interfaces with HTML 3+, DHTML, CSS, CGI, Flash, End user integration with JavaScript, WmlScript

XML/XSL (1 year) Design & Development, Xerces, Xalan, MSXML, XSLT, SSL, DOM, SAX 2, DTD design. Voxpilot DTD, Nuance DTD, GSL

UML (2 yrs) - Rational Enterprise Edition, System Architect, CaseWise

 

DATABASES:  (7+ yrs) - RDBMS, MySQL, Oracle 8.1.5, MSSQL, PL/SQL

 

SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: Perforce, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, CVS

HARDWARE/ELECTRONICS: Computers (or related) Hardware configuration/settings, tuning, testing, wiring and assembling. Video Broadcast equipment tuning and configuration

OTHER PROGRAMMING/TOOLS: LISP, YACC, BISON, FLEX, TCL, TK, ADA, SmallTalk. Charm (Parallel Objects)

KNOWLEDGE/INDUSTRY: Network/Software Security, Software Development, Web Development, Video/Film/Media Production, Publishing, Electronic Commerce

HARDWARE: Intel/Amd PC, Macintosh, Amiga, Sun, Convex, HP, SGI(Indy, Challenge, Indigo II, Octane), Next, IBM/RS600, Fujitsu MX3096X, iPaq, Umax/Mirage, AgfaStudio II, SummaSketch, Kurta, Watcom, WSD Accom, Abekas/A65/A60, Allix, BetaCam SP/Digital, Cisco, Dialogic, Aculab.

 

Work History - Permanent Positions

 

03/2008 – Now   Developer (Php/Perl/C) and Administrator (CentOS/Fedora) - Contracting for Bosaman GGz

 

INDUSTRY: Medical Management Systems

 

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

 

·          Servers administration troubleshooting and maintenance CentOS/Fedora

·          Implement Radius/Otp/Ldap Authentification system wide and integrate with OpenEmr/OrangeEmr/DocuWiki/Twiki/OTRS/Zimbra

·          Network architecture

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

 

·          Development(PHP) – OpenEmr : Patient evaluation forms(dutch), insurance data integration with Vecozo(soap/xml), radius auth class for Openemr/OrangeHrm/Docuwiki

·          Development(PERL) – add batch scanning GUI to gscan2pdf, radius auth module for Twiki, radius auth module for OTRS, adapt OTRS customer interface to internal needs

·          Development(C) – bug fixing otpd

·          Shell scripting(BASH) – backup, nagios monitoring, ldap user syncronization

 

10/2007 – 03/2008         System Manager - Contracting for Mox Telecom Group

 

INDUSTRY:  Telecommunication services/Calling cards

 

2001 – 2006      Senior System Administrator – ALPHYRA GROUP – Dublin/Ireland

 

INDUSTRY: Electronic Payment Systems - prepaid mobile top-up, credit & debit card processing, utility bill payment and money transfer.

 

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

 

·          Servers administration troubleshooting and maintenance working with RedHat Linux, AIX, Solaris

·          Support for Unix systems/networking, setup, troubleshooting and disaster recovery

·          Security, Logs monitoring

·          On call 24h support

·          Audit/review security procedures

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

 

·          Development in PHP, PERL, PL/SQL, C to interface with Oracle, MYSQL and MS SQL databases

·          Design and develop auditing tools for billing and transaction flow

·          Design new software tools to improve the work flow

·          Code optimization and documentation

·          Bug fixing and testing

 

OTHER DUTIES

 

·          Liaison, integration with business clients

·          Auditing quarterly/yearly transactional cash flow

·          Review specifications for new projects

·          Training junior people

·          Team leader

·          Support offices in France, Holland, Germany, UK, Sweden and Greece.

·          Implementation and maintenance of in internal knowledge system (documentation).

·          Risk analysis

·          Photographer for social gatherings organized by the company and the creator and maintainer of an internal social website

 

PROJECTS: Dynamic Currency Conversion, Migration of credit card payment systems from Aix/RS6000/V3 to Solaris/Sun cluster/ASX, Rehab lottery system integration, Stock Management System, SFR stock, sales integration, Bouygues telecom system, sales and stock integration, Relaish system and reports integration, Billpay-Eircom

 batch delivery integration, AIB system and batch delivery integration, PPC and CC sales report system, etc.

 

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

COMPUTERS: Intel Based Servers, RS6000, SUN cluster

OP. Systems: Linux Redhat, Windows, AIX, Solaris

PROGRAMMING: C, PHP, Perl, PL/SQL, Bash

DATABASE: Oracle, MYSQL, MS SQL.

OTHER HARDWARE: Cisco, Hypercom, Ingenico, Trinitech

 

2000 – 2001      Senior Developer - VOXPILOT LTD. – Dublin/Ireland

                                                               

INDUSTRY: IVR Speech Recognition, VoiceXML, SIP and Web technologies

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

 

·          Software development in PHP, PERL, PL/SQL, HTML/WML/XML/JS/C++ with Oracle database

·          VoiceXML integration with Nuance speech recognition system

·          Implementation of twelve powerful methods of encryption for our live system

·          Code optimization, documentation and UML design

·          Project management and mentoring

 

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

 

·          Network security administration (Firewall, SSH) and some administration/troubleshooting for RedHat Linux.

·          Part time support for Unix systems/networking and setup as required.

 

PROJECTS: Real-time logging server and desktop billing client in C++/MFC, Administration screens authentification and session handling, Menu System/Resources Integration, Clubs/Communities development and integrations, Recurrent Events/Reminders via email/SMS


HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

COMPUTERS: Intel Based Penguin, Dell

OP. Systems:  Linux Redhat/ Windows NT

Software: Nuance, RealSpeak, WebLogic, Apache, Perforce

Other Hardware: Dialogic/Aculab telephony cards

PROGRAMMING: C/C++, VC++(MFC) PHP, Perl, PL/SQL, Xml/VoiceXml, JavaScript, HTML, WAP

DATABASE: Oracle 8.1.5

 

1996 – 2000   System Manager - DACODAC STUDIO S.R.L

 

INDUSTRY: Animation/Video/Film/Media Production Studio


SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

 

·          Manage, design and implementation of the WAN network to link offices in France, Romania, Ukraine and India.

·          System auditing, performance tuning, and securing all production servers

·          Installation and configuration of Unix systems (Linux, SGI/IRIX, Sun/Solaris, HPUX), Windows (NT Server/WS, 9x), MacOS 7.x-8.x, mixed networks Unix/Mac/Microsoft, Firewall, Honey Pots, VPN, PKI/SSH, DNS, DHCP, Samba, MX(Mail Exchanger), Routers, Proxy/cashing servers, SSL certifications

·          Hardware configuration and some electronically troubleshooting

·          System/software level troubleshooting & bug fixes

·          Design, install and configure system wide backup strategy

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

 

·          Web/System development in PERL/JAVA/C/C++ with mySql database

·          Designed and developed application for film/animation and special effects

·          Develop interfaces for proprietary hardware devices and digital recording system


SYSTEM MANAGEMENT & OTHER DUTIES

 

·          System and Project Management of over twenty feature/tv film productions

·          Offer cost effective analysis for the hardware, system and software required on every new production

·          Training and support with over 300 end users (in four different countries) and

·          Leading a team of five system administrators and coordinated system administrative procedures

·          Mentoring of System and Network Administrators

 

PROJECTS: Gui Management interface for MediaPegs software, Pegs to Avid converter, Rendering control and scheduling engine, Automated transfer of large file systems via email, Distributed rendering engine with automated centralized tape backup points. Click here for further details.

 

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

COMPUTERS: SGI (Indy/Challenge S/O2/Octane),IBM PC, Macintosh, Amiga;

SCANNERS: Fujitsu MX3096X, Umax/Mirage, AgfaStudio II;

GRAPHICS TABLES: SummaSketch, Kurta, Watcom;

DISKUS: WSD Accom, Abekas/A65/A60

V-LAN: Allix;

VIDEO EQUIPMENT: BetaCam SP/Digital;

DESIGN/VIDEO: Pegs, Alias/WaveFront, Explore, Flint, Avid, Adobe Photoshop, 3DStudio4, Flash.

OP. SYSTEMS: IRIX 4.X/5.3/6.2/6.4, NT(Server/WS),Win(95/98), MacOS(7.5/8.1), Linux(Suse).

COMPILATORS: CC, GnuCC, Watcom C/C++, MSVC.

OTHER: X11, Motif, OpenGL, CGI/Perl, JavaScript, HTML.

 

1993 – 1996   Security Analyst - The AOSS & C.I.


INDUSTRY: Internet Security Services


SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

 

·          Administration, security audit and configuration of Unix networks

·          Install and configure Firewalls/Honey Pots, PKI/SSH, SSL authentification engines, monitoring and intruder detection, DNS, DHCP, MX, Routers, Proxy/cashing servers.

·          Train operators to minimize the risks of propagation and intrusion

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

 

·          Design and develop security applications in order to prevent and solve a large area of problems generated by system intrusion in C/Assembler

 

PROJECTS: Intrusion detection with AI/Expert systems, Network Security Scanner, Graphical Network Session Monitoring

 

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

COMPUTERS:  SGI (Indy, Indigo, Challenge), SUN, HP, DEC, NEXT, SGI;

OP. SYSTEMS: IRIX (4.X/5.X), SOLARIS(1.X/2.X), HP-UX(8X,9X), ULTRIX(4x), LINUX, NEXT;

Other Software: Satan, ISS etc;

Languages:   C, C Shell, LISP, MOTIF, TCL;

Network Environment: TCP/IP, UDP, IPX/SPX (Novell)

 

Work History - Freelance

 

1999 - 2003         Consultant/Analyst - TERRAGLYPH PRODUCTIONS LTD – Dublin/Ireland - Future Film Production                                    

·          Windows 9x/NT WS, SGI/Indy, Next Unix and Macintosh network working with Amino, Pegs, Adobe, Avid, Maya software for feature film/animation

·          Network design and integration between different operating systems and software packages

·          Technical consultancy and system administration for media development

 

1997 – 2000      Consultant/Analyst - MILLIMAGES/NOVANIM – Paris/France - Animation/Film/Media Production

 

·          Install, configure and tune Windows 9x and Macintosh network running with NT server.

·          Design an improved communication system between all company divisions

·          Design and analyze new cost effective strategies in media-film industry

 

1997 – 2000      Consultant/Analyst - CASTEL FILM – TV Media Advertising Studio

 

·          Silicon Graphics (Indigo running Irix6.2 with Maya) and Macintosh running Stratosphere

·          Integration the new digital animation technologies and special effects for film industry - Flint2Pegs.

 

1998 – 2000  Consultant - IDENTITY DESIGN – Product Design and Advertising

 

·          Deploy and tune Silicon Graphics (Indigo/Indy) running Irix6.x and Flint

·          Provide and develop new solutions for the interaction between media/animation and TV advertising.

 

1998 – 2000     Consultant/Analyst - ANIMO-ARTIST – Animation Studio

 

·          Implementation of digital animation technology

·          Configuration and fine tuning line testing and video hardware equipment

 

1998 – 1998      Technical Support/Consultant - ART GROUP – Printing Facility

 

·          Install and configure Macintosh and NT Workstation mixed network running Adobe (most of their products) combined with CorelDraw

·          Responsible for high speed/optimal networking solutions networking and calibrating the film printer (LINOTRONIC) in standards

·          Consultancy for new hardware solutions on cost/performance

 

Research

 

·          Artificial Intelligence - SOM (Self-Organizing Map in Natural Language Processing), Evolving Morphologies Based on Differential Gene Expansion (Genotypes DNA), Neural Networks Behavior in Correlation with Genetic Algorithms (development and papers scheduled to release late 2005).

·          Product Design/Development - Wearable Design and Applications, 3D Video Production Systems

·          Finance - Micro-payment Strategies

·          Robotics – Adaptive motion control hardware-software implementation. Study of niche markets for automation (sales and marketing)

·          Neuroscience – Neural systems behavior & EEG decoding

·          Microbiology – Unicellular organisms behavior, microphotography

·          Astronomy – Amateur astronomer – astrophotography of deep sky object (DSO)

·          Environment – Background real-time radiation monitoring

·          Other: Physics, Politics, Network Marketing and Sales.

 

Special Capabilities

 

·          I'm flexible and adaptable to any environment and easily assimilate any new technology

·          I have strong basics in the computer software, hardware, theory and development history

·          Highly sociable, a good team player, with good communication skills

·          Capable of assuming the responsibility of highly critical decisions and tasks

·          I have the initiative, energy and persistence to get the job done

·          I have a positive attitude toward change and learning - I'm ready at anytime to suggest new ideas to get the job done creatively

·          I have the recognition/respect for people 's diversity and individual differences.

                               

EDUCATION    National College Vlaicu Voda, Automatica / P.U.B  University /Computer Science

LANGUAGES       English, Italian-French-Spanish (some)

REFERENCES  Available upon request

 

 

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