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ROBERT HULL
Perl Software Engineer
Scotts Valley, California

650-279-3172

rhull@rhull.com

EDUCATION
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, B.S., Applied Mathematics specializing in Computer Science,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, M.S., Computer Science,

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Expert Perl application developer. Has developed for both websites as well as back end processing.

WORK HISTORY
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA Perl Software Engineer 2008 to present

• Started as contract consultant and converted to fulltime employee 2011
• Integrated repository release tool with Web GUI

Member of tiger team that refactored existing Perl release tool with new Web Application.

Built JSON HTTP message interface to communicate between batch process and web GUI.

Created tool to identify next release label.

Developed preflight release checks. This tool allows designers to verify work before submitting to repository.

Developed check to verify Cadence release data..

• Managed the sustaining work of repository release system that uses Perl and Perforce.

This effort stabilized the system and reduced the level of urgent user support requests.

Refactored repository label management

Led effort to upgrade Perl 5.12 to Perl 5.22. This resolved Perl defects with Centos 5.

Member of tiger team that integrated an existing system with Agile.

Led effort to migrate from Perl 5.6 to Perl 5.12.

Rebuilt Web based results review code. This improved the user experience by allowing quick navigation and orderly finding of information

Initiated a code review process within the development team.

Piczo Inc., San Francisco, CA Perl Software Consultant 2005 to 2008

• Refactored existing behavioral tracking program. New design allows new events to be added in hours instead of days.
• Used package FileCache to efficiently handle writing to over 100 output files.
• Stabilized existing statistics gathering programs through selective rewriting of code.
• Created library for accessing metrics data. This allowed rapid creation of programs for outputting CSV data.
• Improved existing statistical calculation from over 1 day to less than 2 hours.
• Created a data gathering program to summarizer website referrers.
• Enhanced existing statistics gathering program to display response time and write count.
• Optimized programs to read log files at about 20,000 LPS.
• Created program to summarize unique visitor to website. Also, to summarize the number of unique visitor s from each country. This program involved writing a temporary Berkeley DB file to support large hash tables.

Association of Bay Area Government, Oakland, CA Perl Software Consultant 2004-2005

• Enhanced education website to allow easier tracking of student progress.
• Added feature to allow a single portal to website for new client.
• Created tools using Perl DBI to test different DB scenarios.

Wellpoint Health Network, West Hills, CA, Software Engineer, 2003-2006

• Rapidly created Perl scripts for creating, filtering, extracting and modifying data.
• Created an report analysis tool using Perl. This tool scans several reports and creates a data summary in CSV format.
• Created a multithreaded tool for launching and managing multiple instances of claim load program.
• Created a tool to distribute reports using Oracle Perl DBI and Net::FTP. This involves dynamically creating SQL and interpreting results.

Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA, Contract Software Engineer, 2000-2001

• Added quotation tool to presales product configuration system. This e-commerce tool allows HP's customers to quickly create quotations for potential large system purchases. These enhancements used Perl CGI scripts to generate HTML and communicate with Oracle database using DBI.
• Drove enhancements using object oriented features of Perl.
• Added security features to inhibit data hacking, data corruption and denial of service attacks.

MyCustoms.com, Menlo Park, CA, Contract Software Engineer, 2000

• Created Perl client interface for international trade web services server. This interface created, decoded, sent and received XML messages. This interface provides support for client e-commerce web sites.

Hewlett-Packard, Mountain View, CA, Contract Software Engineer, 1998-2000

• Added user interface for sharing of customer support among multiple users of ESC, (Electronic Support Center).
• Using Perl, created customer survey feature. This feature presents a survey for customer input.
• Optimized login time by one third.
• Converted existing applications to mod-Perl.

At Home Networks, Redwood City, CA, Contract Software Engineer, 1998-1999

• Wrote remote server status program using Perl. At Home's content is pushed to many remote sites. Used the HTTP HEAD command to verify the content at remote sites. Optimized tool to minimize impact on network and central content server. Used HTTP.pm package.

Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA, Contract Software Engineer, 1997

• Created configuration editor for updating data descriptions of computers on web site.
• Created Perl library to dynamically create web pages and generate e-mail messages. Used CGI.pm package.