Zachariah Baum
682 Oak St #2
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-861-1590
zack@evilzombies.com


SUMMARY		
Seven years experience developing 
and testing software, as well as
administrating Unix back-ended
networks.

COMPUTER SKILLS	
Machines: PC, Sun, and SGI
			
Languages: Java, C, Tcl/Tk, Perl, SQL, PHP3, JavaScript/HTML,C++
		
API's: JSDK, JDBC, XML (DOM and SAX), XSL, FTP, Dynamo, 
       RMI,CGI, gimp (script-fu), Crystal Space
		
Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, Irix, MS Windows NT/95,DOS, BSD, BSDI

EXPERIENCE		

Zatso	
San Francisco, CA
Lead Software Engineer	
9/99 to 10/00
Lead in Java/Dynamo-based development of Zatso
personalized news service and authoring tool, using
JDBC, XML, XSL, jhtml, and RMI.  Mentored and managed
a team of five engineers.

Studio Archetype		
San Francisco, CA
Internet Engineer		
12/96 to 9/99
Back-end and front-end development creating dynamic
web content engines and a fully featured Java-based
Content Management System, as well as durable
cross-platform communication tools and systems to aid in			
maintaining Unix servers.  Used Java, Servlets, Apache, various SQL
servers, Tcl, Castanet and Perl.
			

Core Magazine			
San Diego, CA
Independent Contractor		
12/98 to 2/99
Developed a personalized, dynamic web site using PHP3,
and installed/customized a Content Management System
for maintaining the site's content.
http://www.coremagazine.com

Sun Microsystems
Independent Contractor		
7/96 to 12/96
Completion of the Service Location Protocol
(as described below, begun 3/96).

Integrati			
Santa Monica, CA
Independent Contractor		
6/96 to 7/96
Developed CGI's for the West Coast region of
IKON Office Supplies to keep track of their inventory
and sales forecasts, and set up and
administrated an NT Netscape/LiveWire server.

Tandem Computers		
Cupertino, CA
Contract Programmer		
3/96 to 6/96
Developed a Service Location Protocol 
implementation for the Linux platform using
Posix standard C for porting to Tandem OS.  For
testing purposes, also developed TCL wrapper
functions for the main SLP functionality.
SLP is a protocol used for storing, 
advertising, and maintaining information
about services available on a network.

Oracle Software
QA Engineer			
2/96 to 3/96
Performed QA work, testing the Oracle Client
Software Manager.

22 Solutions			
San Francisco, CA
Head Developer	
6/95 to 6/96
Developed a TCL/SQL/C-based database library
and full accounting and system-usage tracking
application suite using this library for the Linux
operating system.

Clickables Software		
San Rafael, CA
Independent Contractor		
1/96 to 4/96
Developed CGIs for access to an SQL
Postgres database and an interactive shopping
interface, both designed for cross compatibility
on all major Unix platforms.

22 Solutions			
San Francisco, CA
Head Developer			
7/94 to 6/96
Performed Unix system administration, including
the installation and maintenance of full mail
(Sendmail), news (NNTP), and web (Apache and
WN) server programs, and developed
various shell scripts and tools for ease of
administration.


FREEWARE PROJECTS	
mswordview
Word98 -> HTML conversion tool

Linux kernel
cyclades.c (serial port splitter driver)

Atlas Protocol
Client/Server game protocol

Apache JServ
Servlet module for the Apache Web Server

The Gimp
Font-spacing plugin using gimptcl.


REFERENCES
Available upon request.


EDUCATION		
City College of San Francisco	
San Francisco, CA
Computer Science		
1/92 to 6/93

Portsmouth High School	Portsmouth, NH