Nicholas T. Avgerinos 375 10th Ave #2 * San Francisco, CA 94118 Mobile: (301) 237-0533 * Fax: (509) 351-9463 * IAX: 17003179476 E-Mail: nicka@axcella.com Work Experience --------------- Sputnik, Inc. October 2005 - Present Senior Engineer San Francisco, California * Senior developer managing the companys managed WIFI product (Sputnik Control Center). Also worked on firmware for embedded devices (i.e. Linksys WRT-54G(s), Zcomax XG-2000). * System administrator maintaining servers for companys hosted products (SputnikNet, SputnikNet Express) as well as internal systems (email, web, Asterisk PBX) running various forms of Linux (wbel, fedora, gentoo). VoIP, Inc. / eGlobalPhone / VoIP Solutions March 2004 - June 2005 Senior Application Developer Cooper City, Florida * In the span of four months, designed and built an entire e-commerce retail Voice-over-IP product, complete with billing, web-based customers management, signup and automatic hardware configuration. Was sole developer on project. * Transitioned retail VoIP product into a "Virtual Service Provider" model, allowing customers a tremendous amount of flexibility while maintaining ease-of-use. * During the company's start-up phase, functioned as primary developer, database and systems administrator, managing approx. 20 machines running Linux and FreeBSD. Services included Apache, Asterisk, ColdFusion, CVS, E-mail, LDAP, MySQL, Nagios, PostgreSQL, tikiwiki and more. * Installed and managed the PortaBilling 100 system, including PortaSIP and PortaUM. * Helped grow the 2 person development/IT team to ~10 people. Abbey Carpet's Flooring World November 2003 - March 2004 Manager Ellicott City, Maryland * Assisted in family-run carpet store due to an illness in the family. 10-20.com/Hyjynx Technologies October 2001 - December 2003 Senior Software Engineer Laurel, Maryland * Designed, developed, built and maintain vehicle tracking system from the ground up. * Develop and maintain web-based customer interface to display location data (GPS and Geocode data), integrated street and topological maps, alarms and history data. * Design, implement and maintain database, web, ColdFusion and other servers. Voyager Enterprise Systems/INKB, LLC. January 2002 - June 2003 Senior Software Engineer Burtonsville, Maryland * Performed all phases of the software development life cycle on the company's flagship VoyagerView Network Monitoring product. * Designed, developed and enhanced web-based interface, text-console backend, administrative interface as well as an automated installation CD for the network monitoring appliance. * Supported and enhanced the company's high-scale/high availability e-mail and web server product (supporting over 1700 domains and 15,000 users at some customer sites.) Cidera, Inc., Support Services Group August 2000 - January 2002 Team Lead, Application Development Laurel, Maryland * Designed and built web-based Order Tracking and Order Entry systems for customer, site and product data. * Gathered and coordinated needs and requirements from several departments, including Contracts, Installations, NOC and Accounting. * Designed and built a web-based customer-facing support interface allowing customers to view information about their products and services, update their contact information and other data. * Developed a usage tracking system for the company's Video on Demand service, which integrated billing and OTS data with reports via the customer web interface. * Worked as the lead of a team of five programmers. Developed and implemented guidelines and standards for programming, coding styles and version control. * Due to layoffs, assumed increasing responsibilities within the company, including the roles of Oracle DBA and Solaris System Administrator. Onyx Networks/Pacific Gateway Exchange September 1999 - August 2000 Senior Manager Information Services Burlingame, California * Built and managed Onyx Network's internal Information Services & Support Department. * Integrated the IS Departments of the parent company (PGE) and Onyx. * Managed team of 9 employees/contractors. * Coordinated projects with IS, Engineering, Operations and Security Departments. * Designed and built internal applications and servers including an Inventory Control System, Trouble Ticketing System and Windows Domain Server. * Managed internal WAN and supported global offices including San Francisco, Dallas, Tokyo, UK and Germany. Infrastructure Engineer II * Designed and built internal systems to track customer, order, POP, inventory, network elements and HR data. * Designed and built web-based database interface and reporting tools. * Performed entire project life-cycle from gathering requirements to final release and functioned as a Project Manager for several projects. * Developed applications integrating Oracle, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Perl and Remedy. Intermedia Business Internet, Info. Services March 1998 - September 1999 Senior Programmer Analyst Beltsville, Maryland * Performed entire project life-cycle from gathering requirements to final release. * Designed and built web-based systems for Sales Lead Tracking, Order Entry, Y2K Component Tracking and Human Resources. * Developed applications integrating Oracle, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Perl and Remedy. * Promoted to Team-Lead role in less than one year. Promoted to Sr. Analyst six months later. University of MD Academic Info. Tech. Services Summer 1995 - March 1998 Programmer/Assistant to Senior Systems Administrator College Park, Maryland * Trained, monitored and evaluated Undergraduate Consultants working in on-campus computer labs. * Designed, wrote and updated on-line documentation and training material covering IBM mainframe, Unix and NT Workstations, software supported in labs, lab aid responsibilities, and other related material. * Administered Windows NT Server Domain and World-Wide-Web Servers. * Maintained and updated various software used by the Senior Systems Administrator, other Programmer/Assistants, lab aids and other members of the campus community. Undergraduate Consultant * Provided immediate help to users of on-campus computer labs. * Supported all software installed on lab computers including several versions of word processors, spreadsheets, databases and other utilities on PC, Macintosh, Sun, Mainframe and NeXT platforms. * Provided assistance with the use of the university computer network including UNIX shell accounts, World Wide Web, E-Mail, FTP, Gopher, and other Internet applications. * Analyzed, diagnosed and solved problems over the telephone for campus computer help line. * Independently managed computer labs with over 80 users at a given time. Education --------- Bachelor of Science, University of Maryland College Park College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Major: Computer Science Graduated: December 1997 Related Courses: Database Design, Software Design & Development, Data Structures, Algorithms, Organization of Programming Languages Professional Training Completed "Administering the AR System from Windows" Remedy Corporation Training Course. Completed "Introduction to Rational Requisite Pro" from Rational University. Completed "Developer Workbench 1" for Actuate from Actuate Corporation. Languages Completed 3 semesters of Japanese language instruction from the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC. Special Skills -------------- Programming Languages Excellent in: ColdFusion 3-6.1 MX, Perl, Javascript, PHP, HTML/DHTML, XML, Remedy ARS, SQL (Oracle, MySQL), PL/SQL, C/C++ Extensive experience in: Mason, WML/WMLScript, AWK (SED and other Unix utils), Visual C++, Pascal System Platforms Excellent in: UNIX (Solaris 2.5.1-9, IRIX, Digital, Linux (RedHat, Slackware, Gentoo)), Macintosh OS 9 and OS X (10.1-10.3), DOS, Windows (3.0-3.11, 95, 98, NT, 2000), OS/2 Extensive experience in: *BSD, Darwin, IBM D Mainframe (VM/SP), NeXTStep. Software Excellent in: Asterisk, PortaBilling 100 (w/PortaSIP, PortaUM), Oracle 7-9i, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP (OpenLDAP, iPlanet), CVS, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Visio, Corel Office. Extensive experience in: Actuate, MS Project. Hardware Excellent in areas of PC, Sun and Macintosh hardware repair, maintenance and upgrading. Experienced with VoIP Hardware including: Cisco 79xx's and ATA-186's, MTA's from VoIP, Inc. References Available upon request