Paul Svensson, Unix Engineer

Contact Information

• • Paul Svensson
  • 44 Saratoga Drive
  • New Castle, DE 19720

• Email:

  paul@svensson.org

  Phone:

  (302) 322-1252

  Cell:

  (302) 650-7839

Professional Summary

Self-propelled developer and sysadmin with long experience on a large variety of Unix and Linux platforms. Expert Python and C programmer, strong in network and SQL database development, quickly productive in new environments. Goal-oriented engineer with focus on customer satisfaction, skilled in all parts of the software development life cycle, from understanding of customer needs and requirements, thru development, documentation, deployment, training and long-term support.

Areas of Expertise

• Cross Platform Development
• Customized Database Solutions
• Anything and Everything Unix

Skill Set Highlights

Operating systems:

Unix (Linux (SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, RedHat), Solaris, SunOS, OSF/1, HP-UX, SysV, BSD, SCO, Irix, AIX, ISC, OS X, Cygwin), Windows NT/XP, Novell Netware, TOPS-20, ITS.

System software:

Apache, Roxen, postfix, qmail, sendmail, xntp, NFS, smbd, NIS, amd, Bind, imapd, dhcpd, C News.

Development tools:

svn, cvs, Perforce, PVCS, gdb, purify, Insure++, Xcode, ERwin Data Modeler, Dreamweaver, Kermit FTP; all standard unix tools.

Programming languages:

C, Python, PHP, shell script, SQL, ESQL/C, Pro*C, Stored Procedures, html, javascript, CSS, Perl, Awk, Yacc, Lex, Lisp, Visual Basic, Pascal, Forth, MIDAS Assembler.

Relational databases:

MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Informix (with Optical and Storage Manager).

Libraries and platforms:

Drupal, Zend, Plexus Floware, PIL, spread, CGI, rrdtool, snmpget, AutoSys.

Professional Experience

U.S. Preventive Medicine, Telecommuting
Director of Web Technology and Infrastructure, 2008 - present

• Evaluating, installing and configuring software platforms for a LAMP enterprise web application using Drupal on SuSE Linux.
• Planning and supporting code migrations and upgrades.

Professional Experience, Continued

CyberSoft, Conshohocken, PA
Lead Engineer, 2004 - 2008
Developing Security Software

• Installed and maintained production and development data centers with 40 versions of Unix.
• Developed and supported the VFind Unix antivirus toolkit, using C and Gnu Make on multiple Unix platforms.
• Optimized data structures for Aho-Corasick string search, reducing memory use by 40%.
• Designed a database to correlate and analyze virus samples and detection patterns.

Consulting, Various Locations
System Administrator / Developer, 1999 - present

• Providing primary and secondary DNS services using Bind 9.
• Managing laboratory and production network environments, with hosts running Linux (Rock, Red Hat, Gentoo), FreeBSD, Solaris, Win95/98/NT/2K/XP and ITS.
• Designing, updating, and hosting small business websites for Jerome Medical and Hearth&Home Works, using Dreamweaver and Roxen WebServer.
• Building and hosting an interactive language learning web site, using XHTML, SSI, CSS and javascript.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining email servers, using qmail, postfix, UW imapd, and IMHO.
• Developed network management tools for Verizon Wireless, using snmpget, spread, CGI, xpath and rrdtool.
• Configured batch jobs for standardized test scoring at Educational Testing Services, using AutoSys, shell script, and Kermit FTP.
• Validated Y2K-compliance at Meldekortsentralen (MKS), Mo i Rana, Norway.
• Supported multiple MKS system Informix upgrades, the latest to IDS 9.2.

WorldCom ETC (formerly ADeSTA ITS, formerly MFS TransTech)
Software Engineer, 1997 - 2002
Supported the NJ Turnpike EZpass and Denver E470 ExpressToll.

• Developed routines for data transfer and conversion between new (NT) and legacy (VMS) systems, using Oracle 8, Pro*C, Cygwin, FTP and PVCS.
• Designed toll plaza data collection software for HP-UX and DEC OSF/1, using Informix 7, ESQL/C, Oracle 8, Pro*C and C with TCP/IP.
• Wrote test script to simulate lane controllers, using Python with TCP/IP.
• Ported applications written for Informix 7 to Oracle 8, using ESQL/C on OSF/1 and Pro*C on Windows NT.
• Analyzed NJTP toll road Unusual Occurrences, by ad hoc SQL queries using sqlplus and dbaccess.
• Provided customer support and training, on site at the E470 toll road, Denver.

Professional Experience, Continued

SAAB Combitech DocEye AB
Software Developer, 1993 - 1997
Built dedicated document handling systems for Swedish and Norwegian government agencies.

• Designed and implemented document data flows and databases on Solaris and OSF/1, using Plexus FloWare, Plexus Storage Manager, ERwin Data Modeler, Informix Online, Informix Optical, ESQL/C, Python, shell script, C, gdb and Purify.
• Set up multi-platform and multi-project build environment, using make and RCS.
• Identified and designed forms for OCR and OMR, on Recognition System XDR and ScanOptics 9000.
• Installed and tuned Informix databases.
• Upgraded and migrated large Informix databases thru several versions from Informix 5 thru 7.30.
• Trained customer system and database administrators in Solaris and Informix, on site at MKS, Mo i Rana, Norway.
• Planned and designed company intranet and internet connectivity.
• Implemented a corporate email solution using Pegasus Mail, with Charon and Mercury on Novell Netware, and Sendmail on SunOS.
• Administrated DNS servers running Bind.

Scandinavian System Support AB
Software Designer, 1989 - 1992
Architected Usenet and Email communications software for use in distance education.

• Developed protocols for PC-Unix client-server applications, using C, Banyan Vines and PC-NFS.
• Built Usenet and Email middleware, using C and shell script, with SMTP, NNTP and uucp.
• Designed and implemented a Windows interface to administrating C News, using Visual Basic 1.0, with TCP/IP.
• Administrated usenet and email on ISC Unix, using C News and Smail.
• Installed and evaluated Unix PC servers, with Interactive Unix, SCO, SysVr3, SysVr4 and Linux.
• Built and serviced PC hardware for servers and workstations.

Other Activities

• Translating Scandinavian languages as a freelance translator.
• Former chair of the LYSATOR computer society at Linköping University.
• Completed Swedish military service as a shortwave radio operator.

Education

• Associate Degree in Telecommunications at Älvkullegymnasiet, Karlstad, Sweden
• Some courses in the field of Computer Engineering at Linköping University.