Richard Esplin

Cell:
801.735.4220
Email:
richard AT esplins DOT org
Homepage:
richard.esplins.org
  • Skills:
    • Architecture, design, and usability experience with applications and systems.
    • Software Configuration Management and Application Lifecycle Management.
    • Programming in C, C++, PHP, Drupal, Java Swing, Bash, Python, Django, and PyQt.
    • System administration using Linux (SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo), Mac OSX (10.5), and Windows (XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, 7).
    • Project management and agile development practices (Scrum and XP).
    • Solutions selling, customer management, partner management, and channels.
    • Experienced in ERP, CRM, RM, content and information management best practices.

  • Experience:
    • Community Technology
      • January 2010 to Present
      • Alfresco Software, Inc.
      • Managed the creation and maintenance of community engagement platforms.
      • Supported content marketing initiatives: articles, ad campaigns, trade-shows, developer outreach.
      • As a pre-sales engineer, employed solution selling techniques to provide support and consulting.
      • Drupal and J2EE application development and deployment administration.
    • Data Analyst Consultant
      • April 2008 to January 2010
      • Centeva LLC
      • Developed internal systems for a start-up team. Provided general technical advice.
      • Performed independent validation of technical and business initiatives for a federal agency.
      • Wrote project plan and provided monthly reports to client stakeholders.
      • Wrote interfaces to existing enterprise systems to extract and analyze data.
      • Designed a database driven application to assist in field work using PyQt.
    • Engineering Team Lead
      • January 2006 to July 2008
      • Onyx Graphics Inc.
      • Build engineer: implemented and maintained engineering tools.
      • Release manager: managed builds, QA, and release process. 11 direct reports.
      • ERP team lead: managed SAP upgrade and SalesForce.com roll-out.
      • Technologies: Ant, Python, Eclipse, JIRA, AccuRev, Subversion, Visual Studio.
      • Direct report to Director of Engineering. Regularly interfaced with executive team.
    • Senior Systems Engineer
      • June 2005 to December 2005
      • Berkeley Data Systems
      • Supervised data center build-out for a Debian based storage system.
      • Technologies: DNS, DHCP, APT, Vim, Python, TexInfo, Excel, datacenter hardware.
    • Chief Operations Officer
      • June 2004 to June 2005
      • Agile Studios LLC
      • Managed a small business: customer, employees, finances, and development.
      • Technologies: Java, Tomcat, PHP PEAR, DHTML+CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL
    • Assistant Linux/Samba Systems Administrator

  • Education:
    • Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
      • Degree: B.S. in Computer Science
      • Graduation: April 2004
      • GPA: 3.77 of 4.00

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