Walnut Creek CDROM
June 1997
- March 2000
Walnut Creek CDROM was acquired by BSDi in March
2000.
Software Developer June 1999 - March 2000
Developed business software for order placement,
inventory, purchase orders, and shipping logistics to
replace our proprietary software system. This project
involved writing a cross-platform Tcl/Tk GUI
interface that communicated with the backend MySQL
database.
Webmaster June
1998 - March 2000
Responsible for development and administration of our
online retail business. All of the content for our
website was dynamically created with embedded Perl
from a MySQL database. I was also the primary
developer for a banner-ad system used to display and
track banner ads, and to dynamically produce
pie-charts and statistics showing click-through
ratios.
Perl Programmer June 1997 - June 1998
Job responsibilities included maintaining several
large PC servers used in CDROM production, making
purchasing decisions for hardware upgrades, providing
technical support for FreeBSD, Linux, and GNU
software, maintaining DNS servers and other TCP/IP
administration tasks, writing reusable Perl modules
to automate the task of CDROM production and content
collection.