Resume of Michael McDaniel, Alpine Texas USA, 432-558-0097
(email)
http://mmcdanie.com
Summary
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Significant International experience working with customers and managing/troubleshooting.
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Expert Solution Provider.
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Very good at automating processes.
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Skillful communicator.
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Rapid assimilator of new technologies.
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Expert problem solver across various technologies, e.g. systems interfacing/messaging, high availability.
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25+ years UNIX®, 10+ years Linux® experience (not a Windows® person, but I am an
Erlang person, and started (2011, January) using Apple® products,
Mac & iPad) based on BSD UNIX® and
a Mach microkernel
architecture (i.e. stuff that works!).
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Expert consultant for 10+ years
specializing in process, data, and communications automation for industrial,
financial/legal, and communications customers.
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I see the world through customer eyes and understand that technology is not always the solution.
general ...
Designed/implemented control software for machine deployed internationally.
Designed/implemented security and automation software.
Provided technical project management (computer infrastructure) for Wells Fargo.
Formerly responsible for West coast service/installation/training for
industrial automation systems in steel, paper, and wood industries. Travelled
internationally for the company (Unico) to
Europe, Middle East, Latin America.
Managed project for global facsimile network which split our primary
database across two machines (also managed the build of the second machine).
Experienced in network troubleshooting on all platforms.
Some project examples.
Former employee of First
Interstate Bank, and consultant to Wells Fargo (data conversion; technical project management).
Experienced with many different systems (various servers, firewalls, VPN, networks).
My preference these days is solving interesting problems with good system design and implementation,
and creating high-availability [and good less-expensive] systems using mostly non-commercial
software tools.
Experienced with multiple computer languages, e.g.,
Erlang, C/C++,
PHP, REXX (woof), TCL, various scripting languages (bash, bourne, expect, ksh) though mostly
I work with Erlang and scripting languages these days.
software and networking ...
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Designed/Implemented edids, the Erlang Distributed
Intrusion Detection System (Open Source)
(see also)
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Designed/Implemented Erlang View server for CouchDB
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Developed/Implemented/Retrofitted Internet component for an
existing email product which ran on a secure and portable USB device.
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Collaborated with various teams at large San Francisco based financial institution
and successfully delivered automated customer financial statement
processing system. One of my completed tasks was designing a custom disk drive data storage layout to meet
our SEC performance requirements (this
type of task has been largely superseded by, for example,
IBM's Enterprise Storage Server technology). I also wrote new, and rewrote
old, production code and Korn scripts which did data processing. I also
assisted in database design and access strategies and wrote some of the code for same.
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Designed/Implemented software for industrial machines sold in China, Sweden, and
North America (from custom board drivers to algorithms and GUI)
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Designed/Implemented sysadmin tools for global facsimile network and computer management;
tools were used by domestic and international customers (who demanded
the company make them part of the standard system package)
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Automated a system install procedure for Starbucks which reduced 31
pages of instructions to two questions at computer during install
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Designed/Implemented secure network for CogniSoft Corporation (now defunct), including
redundant firewall connection to Internet via T1 from Electric LightWave (absorbed by Integra Telecom).
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Designed/Implemented secure network for KBVM
Catholic radio, including connection to Internet and VPN capabilities (a
dual firewall connection over busines DSL using a SnapGear SME550 and a Qwest-supplied ActionTec DSL interface device.
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Designed/Implemented telephone call accounting system (serial
interface to telephone switch grabbing millions of records/month into
DB2)
system administration ...
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Presently attend to mail, web, and sftp servers providing virtual
services, and protected by a distributed intrusion detection/prevention
system (written in Erlang).
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Previously attended to Great Britain and Portland computer systems
used in globally connected facsimile network.
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Previously attended to advanced computer systems for BiiN, a joint venture of Siemens and Intel.
instructor ...
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Network, security, and operating system of advanced computer system
(BiiN); taught McDonnel Douglas and Wall Street corporate personnel.
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Also installer, and maintainer for computerized systems for automated
processes in steel and wood industries (domestic and international).
This was as an employee for Unico for
whom I moved to Portland, Oregon to take over west coast field engineering
service (I was the west coast field engineering staff).
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Also maintainer for global facsimile computers and network systems
(domestic and international).
misc ...
Michael McDaniel
email
http://mmcdanie.com
http://autosys.us/tasks.html
432 558 0097
Alpine, Texas, USA