Michael M. O'Rourke
    Austin, TX and surrounding areas
    832.977.1900
    morourke@theworld.com
    morourkester@gmail.com


    Objective:

    At core I've been a development engineer often asked to venture
    into devops/admin while always looking to provide desired infrastructure
    automation and general glue. I like to think that I have an innate problem
    solving acumen which has served me well in determining solutions.

    I'd like to continue to expand my expertise while applying very tried and
    true mindset to problems great and small as my experience has provided.

    Strongest languages from a complete understanding and exploitation/leverage
    standpoint are rooted in C/C++ and Perl.

    Skillset: mentioning even those tools which I've had nominal exposure

    OS: Unix (Linux, IRIX, FreeBSD, Solaris), Windows(XP,7,8,10), MS Server,
        VMWare, MAC OS X
        Specific Linux flavors: RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu
    DB: Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MS SQLServer, Active Directory
    PL: C/C++, Perl, asm, SQL, javascript, PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, bash/ksh,
        Powershell, jQuery, Angularjs, SPA, Groovy
    WEB: Apache, Nginx configuration, FASTCGI, mod_perl
    SCM: tfs, rcs, cvs, svn, git (github), repo/gitolite/submodules, clearcase
    DCO: CFEngine, Puppet, mco, VM, Nagios, RabbitMQ, provisioning/monitoring
         Hudson/Jenkins continuous integration
    ITS: FogBugz, Bugzilla, Jira, RT, Remedy, Bitbucket
    EDA: Verilog, Abel, OrCad
	Documentation: RedMine
    Other: System architecture, embedded systems, Linux kernel, GNU/FSF,
    Custom Perl modules, System Administration, multi-process applications


    Experience:

    Feb 2017 - May 2019 -- Dell -- Software Engineer
    Using: Perl, Bash, Python, C, Powershell, make, git/submodules, Bitbucket,
    VMWare, Jenkins DSL/groovy and pipelined jobs, production authentication.

    This time around at Dell, working in the same group as I had been during
    my project from Jul 2014 to Apr 2015, I have worked extensively with
    Powershell and ActiveDirectory which governs our cloud based infrastructure
    under the Jira umbrella of tools, purposefully relieving Jira of some tasks
    that were deemed less than effectual with a series of jenkins jobs. Several
    major AD maintenance and reporting objectives have also been implemented.

    Taking a break from that work I have most recently implemented some custom
    BIOS/UEFI builds to create codebases that fit the needs of Dell's OEM/ODM
    customers.



    Jul 2015 - Jul 2016 -- Dell -- Storage-EQL Platform SW Engineer
    Using: Perl, Bash, Python, C, make, git/repo/gitolite, Jenkins

    In a clustered jenkins ci environment (mostly CentOS Linux based)
    created and modified development workflow and release jobs using jenkins
    in a project which housed over 150 separate git repositories.

    The build environment was based on yocto.

    Additionally, built out the software and jenkins job to create a
    multiple partitioned, bootable flash image.



    Jul 2014 - Apr 2015 -- Dell -- Development Engineer
    Using: Perl, C, make, svn, Jenkins, .bat/.cmd scripts, custom development

    Applying process knowledge and experience to continuous integration
    efforts as Dell moves into large scalability, focused around Jenkins,
    an nfs/cifs mounted toolchain, and mostly Windows virtual machines
    for the BIOS/UEFI/EC development groups.

    I am drawing on a lot of experience to make this process overhaul
    come to fruition with a small group of technology veterans who
    grant me latitude and appreciate my approach.

    During the last weeks of my shortened tenure at Dell, I was fixing UEFI/BIOS
    bugs (C and C/C++) which were otherwise causing soft failures in our CI
    environment as job success is tightly bound to code review hits in
    Coverity. Many of these things were minor and might be considered oversights
    rather than bugs, but there were several which really were buffer overruns
    and memory leaks which really can cause serious issues.



    Nov 2013 - Dec 2013 -- DrillMap -- Perl Developer
    Using: Perl, sh, make, MySQL, Postgres, PostGIS, github, Jira

    This short term contract concerned refactoring and architecting of
    data stream tools (custom web scrapers) in a robust OO modular way.
    A good deal of latitude was given towards simplifying the overall
    configuration and buildout of the environment. Developed custom
    Perl modules that offer a clarity that CPAN may or not offer.

    Considerations involving table structure and data integrity were
    also involved in this port from MySQL to clustered Postgres as well
    as an interesting way to hoist perl variables into proper meaning
    for insert/update to the database by relying on information calls
    to extract various schema thus minimizing any hardcoded transforms.



    Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 -- NextGen -- Sr. Software Engineer
    Using: Perl, SQL Server, HTML::Mason, Javascript, rake/make, svn,
    Jira, nginx, VMWare Workstation Player

    Analytics of the code base regarding structural soundness and
    performance. Bug fixes and enhancements.

    Object Oriented, fully automatic provisioning and configuring.

    Worked with the resident dba regarding the application's performance.



    Apr 2012 - Nov 2012 -- AMD -- Software Developer
    Using: Perl, GS/EFT, CFEngine, R2 SQL Server, Team Foundation Server
    CVS, generic rack implementation of bare metal and vms

    Hired on to develop and deploy a cataloging process for the
    MFT Data Warehousing group at Advanced Micro Devices. Desired and inherent
    within this project: real-time, transactional/end-to-end (metrics/analysis).

    Worked closely with the IT system administrators to advent provisioning
    with CFEngine and a more opaque sense of hardware usage and (bare-metal
    and virtual servers) Solved many existing issues with the help of many.

    Next up was a refactoring of existing code for which I offered sensible
    reduction in both code (its implementation) and the nature of configuration
    in large processes with large datasets.




    Further back in time and living around the Boston, MA area I worked
    contracts at Verizon, BBN, IronBridgeNetworks, Teradyne, Simplex,
    Optronics, VoiceTek, KodakEPS, Analogic Corp dating back to the year
    of my college graduation in 1982 and dealing with digital/hardware design,
    notable tools such as LSF, Orcad, gcc, GNU/FSF, masm, Abel, Palasm, etc.

    Happy to fill in the details as are deemed necessary.

    Education:

    ASEE Vermont Technical College spring 1982 3.1 GPA