Links to me:

• See bottom of page.

Home:

• Married since ‘04.
• Two children, both boys.
• Wife is tolerant of my geeky ways as she enjoys the free technical support.

Social:

• Regularly attend the monthly Atlanta Perl Mongers meeting
• Used to attend Atlanta Unix Users Group meeting till it ended
• Used to attend Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, I really need to start going back
• Occasionally attend the Atlanta Javascript users group. Now that I don’t work downtown I’m not sure I’ll make it to those meetings again

Work History:

• Gainfully employed at a communications company for the past 15+ years.
  • Primary work is to troubleshoot VoIP issues
  • Secondary work is coming up with scripts/programs to make the job easier.

Editors:

• Long time user of VIM, though I can’t say I use it to it’s fullest.
  • I do make use of a few plugins though, like gitgutter
  • I’ll have to share up my .vimrc (or dotfiles in general)
• Recently I’ve been using Atom as I’ve been working on javascript locally
  • I have the vim plugin installed. It’s kind of weird but it keeps me from stumbling too much as I work between editors for a time.

Languages:

• Perl is my first love, though I don’t write enough in it.
  • I mainly use Perl for server side processes on almost all of my internal work projects. I’ve written one app using Catalyst and another using Dancer and Moose.
    • I like Dancer better than Catalyst.
• Bash scripting as served me well for tying processes together. Though I feel guilty for not using Perl instead…
• I use awk for the terabytes of CSV files I manage, as much as I’d rather use Perl, awk is just plain faster for splitting CSV…
• I’ve been writing a lot more javascript as of late, specifically using AngularJS on a couple of work projects.
  • I’ve even gone so far as to actually write unit tests in Jasmine.
  • Working up to protractor.

Projects:

• Scripts (bash/awk/perl) that processes call detail records for the purposes of indexing and reports
• Scripts (bash/awk) that to transform/enrich CSV call records to something readable
• Several small CRUD type websites to track information in an effort to migrate away from spreadsheets (evil) and make the data accessible from other programs. Written using perl and javascript.
• Various scripts to help locate call records quicker.
• Website front ends to commandline tools

Goals:

• Get contributing to other projects
• Build up my public portfolio
• Learn, learn, learn.