Dossy Shiobara's Resume

DOSSY SHIOBARA	+1 (201) 256-1556
Butler, NJ 07405 - US http://dossy.org/

SUMMARY
Internet solutions architect and software engineering consultant with 15+ years of broad experience covering content management, e-commerce, scalable web systems, highly available system design, disaster recovery, business intelligence and information processing.

SKILLS
Languages: C, PHP, SQL, Tcl, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML & CSS Databases: MySQL, Oracle Applications: WordPress, Joomla!, AOLserver

WORK EXPERIENCE
FromYouFlowers.com, Old Saybrook, CT & New York, NY (Telecommute)	May 2011 - Present
Senior Solutions Architect
Provided system design and architecture for a highly available, load balanced and fault tolerant platform, used to deliver the company's e-commerce website. Key participant in the implementation of migration to the new architecture, including testing and disaster recovery planning. Net result of the effort increased availability and capacity in excess of 5x the anticipated peak volume of traffic, while decreasing overall recurring operational costs for hosting. Trained technical staff on configuration and operation of new platform's technologies. Implemented the second generation of the organization's e-commerce backend systems, increasing application usability through user interface and user experience improvements. Introduced the discipline of using git for revision control and change management. Educated technical staff to provide necessary skills to work in a distributed and collaborative way. Implemented a custom systems monitoring framework, used to monitor and manage system response times, availability, and troubleshooting. Key Technologies: keepalived, haproxy, nginx, PHP, MySQL, git, RRDtool, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon AWS/EC2, Akamai CDN, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery. -
BloomAvenue.com, New York, NY (Telecommute)	February 2011 - May 2011
Senior Solutions Architect
Worked on a Twitter-based promotion that tracked mentions which correlated to a customer discount. Performed web front-end engineering work to facilitate migrating from one e-commerce platform to another, delivering significantly improved HTML/CSS/JS, reducing page weight by over 60% and improving page load times by over 80%. Key Technologies: Twitter API, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery. -
Viddler, Bethlehem, PA (Telecommute)	October 2010 - April 2011
Consultant
Provided guidance regarding MySQL configuration, systems monitoring, fault tolerance and availability, etc. -
ANXeBusiness Corp., Southfield, MI (Telecommute)	February 2010 - May 2010
Software Engineer
Continued development of ETSec, Inc.'s healthcare product. Designed and implemented a system for managing healthcare information delivery queues, delivered through multi-channel means (broadband, dial-up and fax), with realtime status tracking. -
ETSec, Inc., Mount Laurel, NJ (Telecommute)	January 2008 - February 2010
Software Engineer
Key contributor to a new product developed for the healthcare industry. Key Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Linux, Cisco Access Servers, MultiTech modems, C. -
TrustELI, Inc., Mount Laurel, NJ (Telecommute)	February 2007 - January 2008
Software Engineer
Contributed to TrustELI's flagship "ELI" managed network security, antivirus, anti-spam and firewall appliance, including the web-based management portal. Key Technologies: C, uClibc, Linux, PHP, MySQL. -
WineAccess, Inc., Narberth, PA (Telecommute)	April 2007 - June 2007
Consultant
Installed and configured two-node Oracle RAC on Solaris, AOLserver on Linux as an upgrade for wineaccess.com. Key Technologies: AOLserver, Tcl, Oracle RAC, Linux, Solaris. -
Nextumi, Inc., Cleveland, OH (Telecommute)	January 2007 - February 2007
Consultant
Developed under contract for their Share2me (later renamed ShareThis) product in time for the DEMO 2007 conference. Provided design and technology for the initial version of their user-facing web UI of the sharing bookmarklet, using jQuery. Key Technologies: JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL. -
AOL, LLC, White Plains, NY	June 2003 - October 2006
Principal Software Engineer
Web log analysis and reporting system: ETL of log data, processing and analysis framework, web-based report delivery UI. System design was horizontally scalable (initially deployed on a 3-host cluster) to handle ~400 req/second, from collection of transactions from log to being loaded into the 400 GB MySQL data warehouse. Lead a team of 5 developers (including myself) to deliver this project successfully. Support and maintain AOL's web publishing infrastructure built on AOLserver. Perform core dump analysis on Solaris for large (~4 GB) 32-bit processes. Build applications to leverage AOL's content using third-party applications, such as FAST's FDS. Key technologies: AOLserver, Tcl, MySQL, Perl, Linux, Solaris (adb, gdb), Sybase (T-SQL). -
Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ	April 2000 - June 2003
Programmer/Analyst III
Projects included: Vignette-based B2C web catalog with e-commerce integration with Comergent's Order Management system. Developed Perl/CGI based replacement for intranet document management system (Documentum RightSite). Key technologies: Vignette, Tcl, Oracle (PL/SQL), Comergent, Perl, Netscape Enterprise Server. -
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ (Telecommute)	2000 - 2004
Consultant
Developed first iteration of online ticket sales web interface for NJPAC customers, which included: catalog management, order capture, order fulfillment, opt-in email lists. Replaced previous static website with custom content management system in ColdFusion. Key Technologies: ColdFusion, IIS, Sybase. -
Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ	August 1998 - April 2000
Business Systems Administrator
Managed ~100 Solaris servers for both intra- and Internet, responsible for configuration, upgrades, application administration, user management, etc. Key technologies: Solaris (DNS, SMTP, NIS, NFS, ODS), Netscape Enterprise Server, Vignette StoryServer, ColdFusion, Oracle, Sybase. -

EDUCATION
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, 1994 - 1998
BSc in Computer Science

CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Project Leader for the AOLserver open-source project since May 2004: www.aolserver.com. Co-organizer for the Northern NJ MySQL Meetup group, first meeting held in March 2005: www.meetup.com/mysql-nj. Webmaster for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Saviour in Pompton Plains, NJ: oursaviourchurch.org.