Brian Ecker

Annapolis, MD

• C, C++, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, Python, Objective C, Java EE
• Linux/Unix/BSD/POSIX, X11, Mac OS, iPhone, Palm and Win16/32 Platforms

• OOP, Moose, MultiProc/Parallel, Pthreads, Sockets and Embedded Systems
• REST (XML/JSON) SOA environments
• Map/Reduce, Hadoop Streaming, Solr/Lucene
• GDB, GProf/DProf, Valgrind debugging, profiling and optimization tools
• GUI (Cocoa Touch, GTK, QT, XClass) and CLI (ANSI, Curses) UI Design
• Video Encoding, Transcoding, Podcasting and Streaming, FLV/MP4

• MVC, Rails, Catalyst, Mod_perl, Mod_cgi, Mason, PHP
• JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX, ActionScript/Flash, HTML4/HTML5, CSS 2/3, RSS/MRSS
• JSON, XML, DOM processing and modification
• Widgets, usability analysis and dynamic/interactive HCI design
• Apache, Lighttpd, Tomcat, SSL config/deploy

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Berkley DB, CDB, DBI
• Replication, Distribution and Memcache Protection
• 3NF design principles, index performance, scalable tables, query optimization

• HTTP, SSL, RTMP(E), FTP, NFS, IMAP, SMTP, Netatalk, SMB, X11
• TCP/IP, UDP, USB 1.1/2, DHCP, Ethernet, 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Ipchains, Iptables, static routing, traffic shaping

Hoopty (http://www.omegadb.net/hoopty/)

• Creator/developer of an AJAX-like JavaScript (JSON) retrieval library

SimpleXML (http://www.omegadb.net/simplexml/)

• Creator/developer of a lightweight, tree based XML parser/generator library

The xP E-mail System (http://xpine.sourceforge.net/)

• Creator/developer of a graphical interface to Pine by the University of Washington

CACTUX (http://www.omegadb.net/cactux/)

• Creator/developer of a graphical PPP connection manager for Linux

• Converted entire social networking platform from single application freemium model to three distinct products in 7 weeks
• Author of several pluggable components that improved social network security, increased user engagement and improved metrics tracking and reporting

• Sole designer and developer of several comprehensive systems:
  • Subscription/Billing/Account Management System: Real-time service; administrative, reporting and analysis tools supporting thousands of simultaneous customers
  • Metrics: Archival collection, storing and reporting system containing billions of records
  • Help desk: Multi-site, message board style, SQL-based system
  • Advertising: Entire account-management, trafficking, delivery and reporting system, including self-service extranet
• Designed and developed multi-threaded daemons for realtime webserving tasks
• Developed web applications and widgets in Mod_perl, Mayhem, CGI and Mason
• Author of the MOVIEmeter^TM and STARmeter^TM algorithms

• Diagnosed Ethernet and PPP connectivity issues and supported various Internet client applications

• Research advanced applications of multi-sensor fusion, RF networking and embedded systems and implement research areas in software/hardware

• Developed custom reporting and data processing software applications

• Designed file/network-resource discovery module for larger application
• Developed software maintenance/migration plans for legacy systems
• Wrote code-parsing tools to auto-generate charts for technical documents

• Problem Solving in C/C++ for Engineers, Computer Architecture and Design
• Signals and Systems Networking/Communications, Control/Feedback Systems
• 68K, 68HC11 and MIPS Assembly Language and Architecture
• VHDL, Verilog, Synopsys, SPICE, Logic Works, IC and Embedded Systems