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Mark Gaither

Resume of Mark Gaither

Highly skilled software professional with demonstrated skills in complex web system
development and integration.

Highlights of Qualifications

  • 15 years of web system development
  • accomplished problem solver
  • published author
  • ability to quickly learn new computer applications and programming languages

Computer Skills

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP
Programming Languages: Visual Basic, XSP, XSL, Perl, Java 2, SQL, Cold Fusion, PHP, Expect, Tcl/Tk, HTML, XML, XHTML, SGML, TeX, C, C++, Bourne and C shell
Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, TLS, LDAP, LDAPS, IPSEC, 802.11, TCP/IP
Software Applications: IBM VideoCharger, IBM WebSphere Express, Fantastic Omnicast, FreeRadius, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Remedy, Cybersource, mySQL, Oracle SQL, Emacs, SSH, CVS, Subversion, Anteil CRM,
Tomcat, Apache, Apache Cocoon, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS, iptables, Drupal, Joomla

Consulting Experience

Snapse - Austin, TX  
Chief Technology Officer July 2006 - present
  • Responsible for contributing technology expertise to the Snapse business strategy
  • Monitoring and assessing new technologies improving the competitive position and future growth of Snapse
  • Internal coordination of best technologies
  • Develop and foster external relationships with business partners, technology leaders, academics, and government officials
  • Implemented and extended Drupal CMS
  • Designed and co-implemented a web-based video editing system using Linux, Apache, AJAX, PHP, and MySQL
Growth Acceleration Partners - Austin, TX  
Chief Technology Officer / Scrum Master Oct 2007 - Jun 2008
  • Currently using technical skills and leadership experience to deliver Outsourcing projects on time for clients using Agile/Scrum development methods
Self Book It - Austin, TX  
Chief Technology Officer June 2004 - Jan 2008
  • Designed and implemented a web-based reservation system for the service industry using Linux, Apache, PHP and MYSQL.
  • Designed and implemeneted a Search Engine Optimization strategy.
  • Implemented and extended Drupal CMS
Tribeza - Austin, TX  
Senior Consultant Sep 2007 - Jan 2008
  • Co-created online advertising campaign
  • Installed, configured, and deployed Advertisement, Adsense, and Adsense Injector Drupal modules
McLaughlin Anderson Luxury Villas Ltd. - St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands  
Senior Architect, Developer, and Consultant Mar 2002 - Mar 2006
  • Design and development of:
    • mission critical web services providing near real-time villa rental availability to web users
    • web-based internal quoting and reservation system including the data design
    • customer portal including integration of Verisign's PayflowLink credit card purchasing system
    • owner portal including ability to get monthly financial statements.
  • Providing IT support involving custom network setup, testing, and deployment of a LAN and a WAN in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Corporate Experience

Rocksteady Networks, Inc. - Austin, TX  
Senior Software Engineer and Co-founder Dec 2000 - Oct 2003
  • Management and integration of the IBM Digital Media Gateway (an integration of the Rocksteady Network Sharing Application (NSA) with the IBM products VideoCharger and WebSphere Express. This gateway also included the integration of the Omnicast Content Delivery Network (CDN) client from Fantastic.
  • Responsible for quick prototyping of the IBM Digital Media Gateway for sales engagements and proof of concepts.
  • Architected and developed a Wireless ISP (WISP) web-based billing system using mySQL, LDAP, and Perl 5 running on a Linux platform.
  • Architected and developed a WISP Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) backend system using JSP, Java, Tomcat 4, FreeRadius and mySQL on the RedHat operating system.
  • Extending web-based administrative systems for network security control devices.
  • Developed complex network security applications for the Linux platform
    using openSSL, openSSH, Squid, ipsec, ipchains and iptables, LDAPS (TLS).
    This application managed an authorized user's 802.11b wireless session by
    marking and tracking packets at the IP level.
  • Designed, implemented, tested, and deployed a web-based system that locally controls
    and administers a Linux server.
  • Extended open source CRM system (Anteil) adding custom quote and order functionality
    using PHP and mySQL.
  • Integrated open source bug tracking tool into Anteil CRM system.
  • Customer support.
  • Field deployment of new secure wireless networks.

Authoring

"Cocoon 2 Development: Web Publishing with XML and Java" Oct 2002
Co-authored for Sybex.
"Foundations of WWW
Programming with HTML and CGI"		 Aug 1995
Co-authored for IDG Worldwide
Books. It's written for those who want to learn about CGI and CGI programming.
"A 60 Minute Guide
to Java"		 Sep 1995
Co-authored for IDG Books. It is written for those who
want to hit the road running. It guides you through each step to create a Java
applet, a Java application, adding a Java applet to an HTML document, and how
to write a protocol and document content handler.
"Web Programming
Secrets"		 Mar 1996
Co-authored for IDG books. It includes a tool
that generates CGI Perl code from user supplied directives through an HTML
form and a user session tracking utility written by Mark Gaither.

Education

Texas A&M University - College Station, TX May 1990
B.S. in Computer Science  

Achievements

  • Board of Directors member and President of the Austin Golf Association - 2006 - 2008
  • Member of the Austin Golf Association Board of Directors - 2004 - present
  • Member of the Board of Directors for the Austin Area Multimedia Alliance
    as of Oct 1994 to Dec 1996.
  • Instant Ballpark Java applet won third place in the 1995 JavaWorld Java
    applet contest.
  • Co-founder of the Austin World Wide Web Users Group in 1994.

References available upon request.