RICHARD L. GIBSON

NEW ADDRESS! 241 Florence, Sebastopol, California 95472 707/829-5256 (HOME) 707/529-6413 (CELL)

RESUME UPDATED September 21 2000

SUMMARY

My strongest skill is my ability to solve hard problems with creative solutions. I have strong database, hypertext, and systems skills with over fourteen years of success solving computer problems in different industries. Broad based expert level skills in PC projects, including integrating heterogeneous systems, World Wide Web, external and internal networks, databases, and applications software.

GOAL

To use my energy, inventiveness, and idiosyncratic ways of looking at the world in the service of compelling projects. One current interest is in using Perl to create systems for the acquisition, management, and presentation of information with a geographic component.

SKILLS

• Programming in Perl makes me happy. Happy is good. Experienced with Perl DBI, and strong object oriented Perl.
• Excellent theoretical and practical relational database skills and understanding including using the Perl DBI and Perl Win32::ODBC modules to talk with Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. Very comfortable programming with MySQL.
• Skilled in HTML, Java, Javascript, and CGI programming.
• Experienced with Allaire's Cold Fusion.
• Strong understanding of the 'information architecture' needs of complex database-driven web sites. Nine years experience with Foxpro/Foxbase, fluent in Visual Basic and Access (including the Data Access Object) and SQL, some experience with C/C++.
• Comfortable with Linux (Redhat 4.1-6.1) and Solaris as a development environment for Web and Database applications.
• Expert with DOS, Windows, Novell, and PC Networking administration and management.
• Experienced with Adobe Photoshop and other image manipulation tools.

EXPERIENCE

• Developed 'FrameLogic' (tm by someone) code. This combined a CGI proxy with traditional frame code in order to carry the Planet Click 'rate and review' options along on a web session.
• Worked with Solaris and Linux/Apache/ModPerl/Oracle

• Worked on 'Webbification' of existing business simulation game. The game is a training tool used by a large international company. The project to bring this to the web was co-funded by the Italian government as an experiment in bringing new teaching methods to the web. The game itself involves approximately 6,500 lines of Perl, 70 HTML template pages (for each language), 39 data entry forms, and 3,000 distinct variables for each game period, for each participating user.
• Created zip code proximity lookup program for e-commerce site. The program is derived from my freely available zip code lookup at http://www.chilidog.com/zip/zipmain.html.
• Created Survey Reporting Program using Visual Basic 6.0. The program is a report generator that allows users to create formatted reports from data collected by a stand alone survey device. Features included fully customized reports, filters by report values, and normal, crosstab, and graphical views of the data. The program makes extensive use of the data access object (DAO).
• Designed and wrote programs and databases for medical database of 10,000 images using Cold Fusion and Perl. Created shopping cart and e-commerce interfaces.
• Wrote integrated web form processing system in Perl for product registration cards.
• Created various Web sites, and back end web site programming. Also assisted with class 'Web Programming 3410/4410' (HTML/CGI/Perl/Java) at University of Denver.

• Maintained, upgraded, and improved Foxpro and Access database programs for Real Estate 'BPO' processing. Also used Perl to prototype database supported Internet/Intranet site for data collection and dissemination via the Web.

• Designed, built, supported, and maintained heterogeneous Novell, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0 network including remote TCP/IP dial up capability and Intranet web server.
• Created and maintained a 1.5 million record prospect database using Foxpro. Originally designed for 100 calls per day, was able to handle up to 6000 new prospects per day entered by up to 20 telephone representatives.
• Designed and wrote programs to automatically download, index, and convert reports from our transfer agent into HTML for distribution on our Intranet.
• Installed multiple line Direct Inward Dial fax server on our Windows NT network and managed AT&T Definity Phone Switch and Intuity Audix.

• Ran successful computer consulting company providing sales, support, service, and custom programming (using Dbase, Foxpro, Visual Basic and C) for PC's and PC based networks.

• Maintained a 500,000+ line Real Estate office management system in UCSD Pascal.