Benjamin Drasin

104 Jamie Ct. C6

Cary, North Carolina 27511

drasin@mindspring.com

(919) 460-7639

Overview of Skills

Software Development Methodologies: OOA/OOD, Rumbaugh OMT, UML, Full Product Life Cycle.

Programming Languages: Java, Perl5, Microsoft Visual Basic, Javascript, C/C++, Oracle PL/SQL, Delphi 3.0, HTML, bourne shell/bash, awk, Pascal.

Relational Database Systems: Oracle 8, Postgres SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access, JDBC, ODBC, Microsoft DAO.

Computing Environments: Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, administrator level in Linux), X-Windows, Macintosh OS 8, Sun Javastation (JavaOS 1.1), IBM Networkstation.

Communications: WWW Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, etc.), Client/server design, CGI programming, Java Applets and Servelets.

Web Servers: Apache, Netscape Enterprise, Sun Netra.

Employment

AppliedReasoning - Cary, NC

Member, Technical Staff

November, 1997 - Present

Classic Blend Project:

Large, mission-critical product. Member of development team for large enterprise Smalltalk/Java application server. Network/Internet based product, extensive cross-platform coding, troubleshooting and testing.

Also provided individual sales-related support to certain important customers; this often involved creating fixes under extreme time pressure with little written documentation. Helping the product develop to meet the needs of our clients has been a source of great pride to me.

Responsible for developing deployment system for the 2.0 release of Classic Blend. Developed turn-key instillation of the product, which works on a variety of platforms. Product can install itself on supported platforms, perform varios sanity tests, and integrate with the appropriate Java environment.

Distributed DDF Project:

Major, time-critical backport of large (~1000 classes) java product from jdk1.2 to jdk1.1 to accommodate major client who needed to deploy on platforms for which there is no 1.2 VM available. Developed work-alikes for much of the Java2D API, and helped devise solution such that we were able to use the same code base for our product, and compile it for JDK 1.2 or 1.1 as necessary. The timely completion of this project was instrumental in our company securing a multi-million dollar contract with the client.

Webmaster:

Technical lead for team performing complete redesign of company web site. Personally responsible for engineering and coding issues, and web server administration. Hardware was SGI Indy model, software was Netscape Enterprise server on SGI IRIX. The project was a success, resulting in a much more attractive, better organized, and more useful website. Developed numerous CGI scripts which provided various functions, including replacing mailto:-based forms, gathering and recording customer information to a data file before allowing a product trial download.

Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (IDI) - Raleigh, NC

Member, Technical Support Staff

August - October 1997

Cotton Gin Management System:

Provided general PC support for hardware and software supplied to customers throughout the United States during the 1997 ginning season. Systems supported included NT-based PC networks running

IDI's software - Client-server database and BBS/telephony apps. Provided instillation instructions, telephone support and troubleshooting.

First Union Mortgage Team - Raleigh, NC

Adjustable Rate Mortgage team

May - August 1997

Integrated Technology Program:

Designed and implemented two databases to track documents ordered, received, and processed by Adjustable Rate Mortgage Team. Provided monitoring on associated software (Microsoft Excel and Access, proprietary Visual Basic mainframe database client software.)

Education

BA Liberal Arts 1996

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

AS Information Systems/Programming 1999

Wake Technical Community College