Career Objective
Technical Writing /Biochemistry/Database/Software opportunities.
Professional Experience
Software Engineer, Installers, 2007-2008, Electric Cloud, Inc.
Improved installers built with a wide range of technologies, including Windows Installer (MSI), Tcl,
Perl, NullSoft and shell scripts, on Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms.
Standardized installer behavior.
Senior Software Engineer, Department of Installers and Deployment Technologies, 2001-2007,
Elsevier MDL, a provider of chemical databases and search engines for the chemical and
pharmaceutical industries
Evaluated feasibility of installer requirements at product requirements reviews.
Wrote installer specifications from the product installer requirements.
Wrote white papers on Microsoft Installer (MSI) best practices and MDL installer standards.
Critiqued product installation guides.
Assisted colleagues from Technical Communications and QA with Oracle configuration and installer
use.
Created InstallShield Universal server installers for Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms,
InstallScript MSI installers for Windows (.NET), and Korn shell (UNIX shell script) installers for SUN
Solaris.
Created installers which interacted with Oracle, including creation of Oracle schema to contain data
cartridge objects, querying of available tablespaces and existing users, testing of Oracle listener,
reporting Oracle errors, customizing and invoking SQL scripts.
Installed and served as DBA for my own Oracle instances on Linux (on VMWare), Windows 2003
Server, and UNIX SUN Solaris, for installer development.
Created DOS, Perl and UNIX shell scripts for automated installer builds. Installers resided in
ClearCase.
Wrote Perl and visual basic scripts, using InstallShield’s Windows automation interface (for MSI),
for automated customization of installer projects.
Evaluated use of the Linux Standard Base, and Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) in MDL software
deployment.
Tested current installers for Vista compatibility, using Microsoft Standard User Analyzer, in order to
recommend upgrades to MDL installers to take advantage of User Account Control (UAC).
Investigated suitability of UNIX (SUN Solaris) packages for deployment of MDL software.
Built a model Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) to test deployment of MDL installers by
our customers.
Software Test Engineer (QA), 1999-2001, MDL Information Systems, Inc. , a provider of chemical
databases and search engines for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries
Wrote and used automated Perl script tests to evaluate quality of server software on VAX, VMS,
Solaris and Windows platforms.
Created a complex Perl script which tested the results from a citation parser against standards, and
computed an accuracy score for each build.
Technical Support Analyst, 1996-1999, MDL Information Systems, Inc. , a provider of chemical
databases and search engines for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries
Diagnosed and provided solutions for customer problems.
Trained customers on-site.
Installed client and server software linked to Oracle and proprietary databases.
Consultant, Freezing Efficiency, 1995-1996, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
Evaluated freezing efficiencies in plants across the U. S.
Set standards for plant efficiencies.
Improved refrigeration, palletization and wrapping of products.
Assistant Research Biochemist, Depts. of Neurosurgery and Food Science, U. C. Davis, 1989-1995.
Quantified and depicted dynamic processes of flow, freezing, baking and drying using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).
Evaluated hypothermic and calcium channel blocker effects on cerebral ischemia, using magnetic
resonance spectroscopy (MRS).
Investigated marine environmental toxicology, using MRS.
Published over twenty articles.
Manager, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging spectrometer, 1987-1989
Developed NMR imaging and spectroscopy methods for use in Food Science, Agricultural
Engineering, Medical and Veterinary Surgery.
Published five articles.