Author: Anthony Bull

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Internal Tools

(Cisco : 01/03-05/03)

As part of the Infrastructure Security Team, I worked on projects to keep the organization running. The most important was an application to weed out old users from databases across the enterprise.

Results

  • Improved departmental efficiency through the creation of sysadmin tools
  • Created POC web app for digital-certificate generation process
  • Created a Perl app for updating 1K Oracle databases on 650 servers
  • Developed test cases planned implementation schedule for a 10-node Linux cluster
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demand-side supply-side

Leading Students

(ASIST : 09/02-04/03)

President, Webmaster, Liason: all different hats I wore while reviving the chapter. In the previous year, almost had nothing been done and the chapter was almost defunct.

Results

  • Led chapter as President to 400% growth in membership
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All the Meetings on Atomic Energy

(IAEA : 1/03-3/03)

The website had been created in the days pre-Perl/CGI and used a proprietary way method for generating dynamic web-pages using tags. I was tasked with changing the way the search functionality worked which meant getting down-and-dirty with the code. I added new functionality to the website’s search; which has since been retired.

Results

  • improved search functionality
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Machine Learning supply-side

Recommendation System for Courses

(UNC Classfinder : 01/02-01/03)

Led team of two devs who, as a class project, developed beta of the system over the course of four months.

Results

  • Led the creation of a Recommendation System.
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Innovation

Improving Document Management

(10/01-08/02)

Also while a grad student at UNC Chapel Hill, I worked with university staff to improve a knowledge management system. The system had two document repositories which needed synchronization.

I implemented web services using Axis for event production by one system and consumption by the other whenever a new document pertaining to coursework was added.

Results

  • Improved the document management process for a knowledge management system
  • Created web services in Java using Apache Axis to synchronize document collections across document management systems
  • Optimized caching pipeline for the content management system (based on Apache Cocoon) to serve documents 13% faster
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Digitally Managing the Cultural Heritage of the South

(UNC Chapel Hill : 05/01-09/01)

Documenting the American South is a digital library hosted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and during my graduate degree there, I worked for them to create a custom CMS.

Results

  • Created a CMS reducing costs by 11% per year, managing a 100+ page website, cutting time-to publication by 89% for managing the most comprehensive digital library on culture of the American south.
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Troubleshooting

Learning Languages

(Siemens : 02/01-03/01)

My first internship after my first semester of programming.

Supervisor, first day: “So, you know Visual Basic?”

Me: “Ummm, no. I?ve only worked with Modula2.”

Him: “Ok, well, grab yourself a book and we’ll reimburse you for it.”

… all in German.

In any case, the code was delivered a month later on-time and to-spec.

Results

  • Delivered software for reducing the time needed for Key Account Management by 65%