Experimenter, Hacker, Troubleshooter, Technologist, Developer, Entrepreneur, Geek and Fixer of things
I have over 25 years of information technology experience in a broad array of industries including telecommunications, cellular, print and electronic media, internet and hosting services, software development, network deployment and service provisioning to name a few.
I am fluent and experienced in a number of software development platforms including: Java, PHP, C, Perl, Python and XML in addition to the GNU open source software development environment. He is also experienced in legacy software development such as Cobol, Pascal and Basic derivations and dialects as well as assembler languages such as 68K, x86 and Macro-32.
Kevin has a broad experience and familiarity with a number of host operating systems including: Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, OpenVMS and FreeBSD.
Highlights of my career include development of the early cellular fraud validation code, deployment of highly available content delivery systems, vertical and horizontal scaling and virtualized application servers, writing device drivers for host to switched network controllers, weather reporting systems and high availability clusters using cellular file systems.
I particularly enjoy challenges such as interfacing dissimilar systems and stabilizing environments within small budgets.
I am an accomplished electronics engineer and Federal Communications Commission licensed Radio Amateur being no stranger to hardware, radio and electrical interfaces.
Kevin is also experienced and knowledgeable in application and web security has been the ISO and security officer at several companies. I also maintain a security portal.
I am trained and have strong knowledge of Java J2EE development and container environments such as WebSphere, iPlanet (SunONE), Tomcat and JRun. I have also a working knowledge on Java Mobile and Swing application development.