JOSEPH M. BRENNER
1003 Stanford Ave
Oakland, CA 94608
(510) 250-9216
doom@kzsu.stanford.edu
EXPERIENCE
- Solo work 2016 to present
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- • Data::Math
(numeric operations on parallel complex data structures);
- • Perl 6 introspection tools:
method-menu,
Object::Examine,
Symbol::Scan,
Augment::Util
- • Skullplot (graphical plot of SQL queries);
- • rectpara.el
(editing "rectangular paragraphs").
- • perlnow.el (extensive maintenance).
- • Self-directed study: R statistical language, Rakudo/Perl 6
- Friendfinder Inc. (Various Corp) 2005 to 2006, 2011 to 2016
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Developed and maintained financial reporting tools, including
the monthly accruals accounting system and the "Profit and Loss"
overview:
- • Designed javascript menu using jquery, to flexibly query data by hierarchical company divisions.
- • Worked on efficiency improvements via database schema
re-design and caching strategies
- • Documented internal architecture and schemas, providing
how-to instructions for future modifications.
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Worked on the Affiliate tracking system,
which rewards partner web sites for referring traffic:
- • Re-engineered a database schema to subdivide a rapidly growing
MySQL myiasm table into shards.
Rewrote the system queries to transparently access data across shards.
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Maintained affiliate crediting and payout system,
optimized reports for efficiency to scale with continual
growth in data base size.
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Developed code test framework that used alternate
table sets to work-around the absence
of a dedicated test database.
- Obsidian Rook (consulting and solo projects), 2003 to 2004, 2006 to 2010
- • Developed Perl CPAN modules:
GraphViz::Dbi::General,
Text::Capitalize,
App::Relate,
Emacs::Rep,
Emacs::Run,
Module::List::Pluggable,
File::Locate::Harder,
List::Filter,
IPC::Capture,
Emacs::Run::ExtractDocs
- • Wrote emacs lisp packages:
perlnow.el,
desktop-recover.el (for API)
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Developed web sites: The Jade Monkey;
Diagonal Grid;
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Created improvements for the web site: goncarova.com (for API).
- Emusic, Inc, 2000 to 2002
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Developed and maintained web site features for the Emusic
site, using a linux, apache, mod_perl/Mason architecture;
Created financial reporting programs using complex Oracle
SQL queries, via the perl DBI interface.
- Silicon Graphics, Inc, 1997 to 1998
- Performed software localization engineering for
Irix 6.5 (Worldview); tested and debugged
localized software.
- Netscape, Inc, 1996 to 1997
- Performed software localization engineering for the
Netscape Unix client (Communicator/Navigator).
- Simultrans, LLC, Software Localization Engineering, 1992 to 96
- Programmed localization tools and utilities; tested and debugged
localized software, help systems and web pages; and performed
unix system administration duties.
- IBM Almaden Research Center, Storage Systems Product Division, 1990 to 92
- Evaluated prototype thin-film disk drive head
manufacturing techniques.
Administered and maintained laboratory equipment interfaced with PCs.
- Stanford University, Center for Materials Research, 1985 to 90
- Produced super-conducting fibers, and analyzed their properties.
- Creative Contractors, Long Island, New York, 1984
- Administered database using dBase III software; programmed new report formats.
- Westinghouse, Advanced Projects Group at the NRF Expended Core Facility, 1982 to 84
- Designed tools for remote disassembly of expended nuclear fuel
cores. Developed decontamination techniques.
Programmed software for database update and report generation.
EDUCATION
- Stanford, MS in Materials Science and Engineering 1990
SUNY at Stony Brook, BE in Mechanical Engineering 1982
Additional course work at Stanford and Idaho State University.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- San Francisco Perl Mongers, Co-chair, 2008 to 2017, Organizer 2017-present
PRESENTATIONS
- Unicode and Everything, SFPM, March 2014
- Text::Properties and s{...}{pos}g, SFPM, March 2012
- Writing CPAN Modules, SFPM, Jan 2010
- Esthetic Randomness, OSCON, June 2009
- Using Perl to Test Everything, SFPM, Nov 2007
- Emacs as a perl IDE, SFPM, Feb 2006
- Constant Amusement, SFPM, 2004
- An Introduction to the Perl Debugger, SFPM, Oct 2000