Jim Wise

( jwise@draga.com | printable version | text version )

Experience
April 2008 -
present
Senior Software Engineer, Unix Group
Highbridge Capital Management
March 2006 -
April 2008
Senior Associate, Email Archive/Compliance Group
Morgan Stanley
June 2003 -
March 2006
Staff Engineer, Release Engineering and Operations Group
Manager of Release Engineering (November 2005 - March 2006)
EMC2 | Smarts (a division of EMC2, Inc.)
October 2001 -
June 2003
Manager of Release Engineering
Interim Manager of Information Technology (August 2002 - February 2003)
Reefedge Wireless Networks
June 2001 -
October 2001
Consulting Systems Architect
MarketAxess
October 2000 -
May 2001
Consulting Senior Systems Engineer
Zembu Labs
October 1999 -
September 2000
Senior Network and Network Security Architect
Four Corners Strategy Group
March 1998 -
August 1999
Director of Infrastructure and Server Operations
Unicast Communications
February 1997 -
March 1998
Senior Unix Administrator
CNN Financial News
March, 1995 -
January 1997
System Administrator
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Digital Design Lab
Open Source Projects
October 1998 -
Present
Developer with full commit access
The NetBSD Project
February 2000 -
Present
Primary Maintainer
MiniReq ticket tracking system
Education
September 1992 -
August 1995
BA in Computer Science
New York University
Skills

Business Practices

  • Project and Group Management methodologies in a wide range of business environments
  • Development, Quality Assurance, and Release Engineering methodologies, including management of all stages of the software development lifecycle
  • Performance and Stability assessment technologies and practices for a wide range of eBusiness and internet technologies
  • Security response team techniques, including organizational and managerial aspects of network security maintenance

Programming and Scripting Languages

  • Java, versions 1.0 through 6, including Servlet, JSP, EJB, and Web Services environments
  • C, including Unix interfaces for networking, threading, database access, and more
  • C++, including generic programming (templating/STL) and modern language features
  • Perl, through version 5.8, including idioms and modules for database, web services, and web programming
  • Shell Programming, including Bourne, Korn, and C Shells
  • Objective-C, inculding MacOS X Foundation and Cocoa APIs
  • Ada, through Ada 1995, with some knowledge of Ada 2005 additions
  • TCL, including Tk and Expect, through version 8.4
  • awk, sed, make, and other Unix development and administration utilities
  • Assembly language programming, including Motorola 68xx0 and Intel 80x86 architectures

Operating Systems

  • Unix Administration and Systems Architecture, including:
    • Solaris (versions 2.3 through 10), including new service and container features in Solaris 10
    • Linux, including RedHat and Debian distributions
    • Irix (versions 5.2 through 6.4)
    • NetBSD (versions 1.0A through 4.0)
  • MacOS, versions 6.0.1 through 9.0, and MacOS X through version 10.5
  • Windows based operating systems from Windows 3.1 through Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista
  • Cisco IOS versions 11.x and 12.x

Software

  • Installation, development, and maintenance of software based on IBM WebSphere (Application Server, Network Deployment, and Portal environments), versions 4.x, through 6.0, including monitoring and debug interfaces, and WebSphere-specific development APIs
  • Other Web Application Server environments and technologies, including Servlet, EJB, Web Services, and JSP technologies, server-side scripting technologies, and Application Server offerings from the Apache Software Foundation (Jakarta Tomcat), Sun/Netscape, BEA/WebLogic, and ATG
  • XML technologies, including parsers from Apache, Sun, and others, and including XSLT, XHTML, XSP, and XML-based application server environments, as well as common C/C++ (Xerces-C, expat) and Java (JAXP, Xerces-J, Xalan-J) implementations
  • HTTP, client and server, through protocol version 1.1, including web site maintenance with Apache (1.1 through 2.2) Netscape Enterprise web servers, and Microsoft Internet Information Server, SSL security, proxy service, HTML authoring (through W3C HTML 4.0.1 and XHTML 1.0), Javascript, `DHTML', and CGI scripting
  • Database programming, including SQL, JDBC, ODBC, XML to relation mapping, and object persistence techniques
  • Database installation and administration, including Oracle (versions 7, 8, 8i, and 9i), Sybase Adaptive Server (versions 11.x and 12.x), Informix Dynamic Server, and PostgreSQL
  • Firewall technology, including Cisco PIX, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Technologic Interceptor, and custom firewalls based around IP filtering software.
  • Security maintenance software and techniques, including SSH, sudo, S/Key, Kerberos (IV and V), and others
  • Encryption technology and applications, including PGP, IDEA, RSA, DES, secure hashing, encrypted communications, TLS, SSL, and Kerberos development and administration, and development of cryptographically secure software with Unix/C (OpenSSL) and Java (JSSE) APIs
  • Sendmail, through version 8.14, including large site mail administration, and integration with other mail environments (Lotus Notes, Micrososft Exchange)
  • Mail protocols, including SMTP, IMAP, and POP, client and server
  • Directory Services, including maintenance and development for LDAP and Active Directory services running on a wide range of platforms
  • DNS and BIND, client and server, versions 4.95 through 9.3, including large domain administration issues
  • Backup software, including enterprise solutions from Legato and Veritas, plus dump/restore, tar, and amanda
  • NFS, client and server, including performance tuning and monitoring
  • NIS, client and server, including high availability and replication
  • TCP/IP, Appletalk, NetBIOS, and IPX/SPX networking
  • Version Control Software, including CVS, RCS, and SCCS
  • Design and Development of Installation software, including InstallShield MultiPlatform version 5.x and InstallShield Universal Installer version 10 (including API changes and added capabilities through 10.5), and home-grown installation packaging, and including all issues of multi-platform support, integration with native packaging systems, and use of InstallShield extension bean APIs to perform highly complex product-specific installation tasks.

Hardware

  • Sun, including current Ultra Enterprise equipment, and legacy (Sun3, Sparcstation, Sun4m) hardware
  • Cisco, including static-configuration and modular routers, switches, firewalls, and access servers
  • Various PC equipment, including server class systems from Dell, HP/Compaq, IBM, and others
  • Apple, including current hardware and older Macintosh, Power Macintosh, and Apple Network Server equipment
  • Networking hardware, including Gigabit, 100baseT, FDDI and ATM equipment
  • Mass storage equipment, including RAID, SAN, and NAS equipment and vendors


Copyright © 1999-2008, Jim Wise