Jon Gregor Bjornstad

Objective

Summary

Languages and GUIs

Development Experience

• 2015-2019 Aruba Networks (An HPE company), Sunnyvale, CA
  Help enhance and maintain their large Perl application - wireless network management. Taught Perl classes to several groups.

• 2013-2015 LiveOps Redwood City, CA
  Help enhance and maintain their large Perl application - call center.

• 2012-2013 Socialtext, Palo Alto, CA
  Short term contract to help maintain an intra-company wiki written in Perl and Javascript. Used Moose, Livescript, and SASS.

• 2010-2012 Vindicia, Belmont, CA
  Online billing software in Perl. As part of a team of engineers created and maintained a complex billing system that does recurrent billing for merchant clients. Technologies used: OO Perl, Soap::Lite, Oracle, Mason, Javascript, YAML. They use a home-grown mechanism for ORM database access.

• 1981-present Mount Madonna Center, Watsonville, CA
  What began as a long term volunteer project for a nationally known conference center became a full-time job. For 14 years I provided system administration, support, and technical consultation. I developed customized software in an ancient language named 'FoxPro for Unix' for mailing lists, accounting reports, seminar registration, housing reservations, auction management, school administration.

  From 2007 to 2009 I rewrote the registration software. It is now a rather complex modern web-based application. Technologies used: OO Perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, mySQL, GD, image maps, Javascript, AJAX, CSS.

  I currently spend 2-3 hours a week maintaining the software.

• 2007-2008 Independent Consulting
  A variety of short term contracts for small to medium businesses. Mostly Perl/CGI/DBI.

• 2000-present Sue Center - Computer Access for the Disabled
  Full details at: www.suecenter.org
  

  Over a period of 20 years served as a computer consultant to a severely handicapped woman, enabling her to communicate more effectively.

  Beginning in 2000 wrote a complete system in Perl/Tk to enable her to choose letters and words, speak them, read books, view photographs, dictionary look-up, control X10 modules, send and receive email, and much more.

  Presentations at O'Reilly Open Source conference in 2001 and 2002.

  Presentation at CSUN Conference in 2007 - Technology and People with Disabilities

  2009 newspaper article about the software: http://www.suecenter.org/article

• 2005-2006 Cisco, Milpitas, CA
  Contract Perl developer on the EMAN team. Technologies used: OO Perl, SOAP::Lite, DBI::Oracle. The project dealt with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Unix User Access. We designed and developed a very flexible and sophisticated system for granting access to unix machines based on roles within the company. It was part of the OnRamp resource system. The project was abandoned/postponed because the legacy data (gathered by others) proved to be quite non-standard and overly complex. The conclusion was that Cisco first needed to standardize their processes before the project could be resumed.

• 2003-2005 Yahoo!, Santa Clara, CA
  Perl developer on the logs team. Wrote scripts to parse and tally Apache web logs to analyze user activity. The results were used by business people and executives to determine how to optimize the user experience and revenue. Worked on Yahoo! Shopping, Travel, Autos and Search.

• 2003 Independent Contracting
  A variety of short term contracts from small companies:
  Con-cise, DBM Engineering, Flink Inc, Findlaw,
  Mount Madonna Center, Aguirre Health Systems

• 2001-2002 Sesame Technology, Scotts Valley, CA
  Java and Perl engineer on a small development team. Took the lead in developing a complete scriptable interface to a comprehensive Java J2EE servlet application (a web-based defect tracker). This was done in object oriented Perl in a rather elegant manner.

  Several complex Perl applications were created using this interface to integrate the customer's specific needs. There were CVS, Clearcase and Perforce source code integrations. Another was a very large and elaborate system for helping Quest Intl track down spammers. This included fuzzy logic to sort through email, parsing headers to identify the originating IP address, and an MD5 signature to classify spam variants. Perl's object model served quite well.

  Created a Template class in Java that was 14 times faster than the prior one.

• 1999-2000 Global Sight, San Jose, CA
  Lead engineer in a web start up making a localization tool for translators. One large project was to route dynamically changing database records through the workflow system. This involved SQL triggers and a complex configuration. A complete document was written which served very well for guiding further development. This was done with OO Perl, DBI, Oracle, mod_perl.

• 1998-1999 Imagehost.com
  As the only engineer in a small web business I singlehandedly created an image hosting service on the web primarily for online auction users. OO Perl, DBI/mySQL, CGI.

Formal Education

BA Mathematics	UC at Santa Cruz	graduated with honors
MA Mathematics	U of Maryland	NSF Fellowship, algebraic topology
BA Biology	UC at Santa Cruz