Resume


Portrait of the Programmer as a Young Man

John Birchfield




Work Interests

My current interests include (but are not limited to) small scale network management/system administration in heterogeneous Windows/Linux environments, as well as building/configuring custom NAS servers using Linux and Samba.

As a software developer, I have developed web applications using Java with RMI, and IIS/ASP with VBScript using COM interfaces to an underlying business logic application. As well as developing in C/C++ and XWindows.

I prefer working in a "smaller" environment (say not more than 25 people). I enjoy the freedom and the chance to have greater impact on projects that working on smaller teams provides.

Work Experience

  • From December, 2007 to the present, I have been working as a System Administrator/Network Administrator for the San Mateo County Dental Society. The society maintains a small network of PC workstations and printers connected to the internet via an ADSL Modem and a Linksys router. Most software/network configuration is performed remotely using LogMeIn or a VPN connection with occasional trips to Redwood City to work on hardware.
  • Rational Software/Pure Software/Qualtrak Software - I essentially worked in the same office through 2 acquisitions developing software primarily in Unix/XWindows, later Windows, and eventually Web development. The main thrust of my development was a Distributed Defect Tracking System called DDTs and later ClearQuest.

OS's/Tools/APIs/Libraries


Document Date: Sun Oct 05, 2008
john AT JohnBirchfield DOT COM

-jb