I'm seeking full time employment in the Boston metropolitan area working with ColdFusion and Flex web technologies. Although I was part of a large corporation, my work in a remote office was performed in small groups ranging from 8 to 30 persons that typically worked in a very interdependent manner.
Having nearly nine years experience, I've worked in engineering positions at Adobe (via Allaire and Macromedia acquisitions) on the ColdFusion and Flex Engineering teams, and have provided many years of Gold Support for very large enterprise customers using ColdFusion and Flex. I have deep experience in creative problem solving for database driven web applications, going as far back as ColdFusion 4 and Flex 1. I was Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for the development and testing of the ColdFusion 8 application server, and Software Quality Developer for Flex 3 and Flex 4 SDK. My breadth of experience reaches well into J2EE, SQL, CSS, XML, Network Protocols, Web Servers, and more. That experience extends into application performance tuning and server stability resolution. I am also very experienced with Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems and have become a Red Hat Certified Engineer based on my own initiative. As a ColdFusion Quality Assurance Engineer, I regularly performed full product regression testing, but was especially tasked with J2EE server testing on Linux and Unix, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss. I was responsible for testing database support which included the branding of new driver bundles, the setup and administration of new RDBMS systems, and for adding new database support to ColdFusion Administrator. The features I tested include CFDBINFO, LiveCycle DataServices Integration, CFReport HTML and CSS enhancements, and Automated Key Generation (for DB inserts/updates). During my experience as Software Quality Developer for Flex SDK, I was responsible for: improving testing of SOAP WebService functionality; testing the SWFObject2 Flash Player Detection feature; testing the Web Tier Compiler enhancements including History Management and Deep Linking; testing cross-platform compatibility on Linux with Ant/Java/Flex-based testsuites modeled on junit; testing formatter and validator features. My experience with ColdFusion could be measured as 8 and a half years, but is better represented as approximately 20,000 hours because of my intense involvement with the product. Even while on the Flex SDK team I was still actively assisting the ColdFusion team to resolve their customer escalations. In 2004, I was responsible for Tier 3 ColdFusion Support Escalations which included developing workarounds, logging defects, managing the relationship with QA, and hot fix creation. In 2007 I traveled to Bangalore, India twice to collaborate with and train software engineers for Adobe India. Furthermore, for the period of 2001 to 2006 I was responsible for 24x7 server-down support of all Gold Support customers. During this time I typically fielded a dozen after-hours calls per year for Enterprise level applications including banks, universities, hosting companies, and government agencies. My duty was to identify the source of the server-down problem under all circumstances and to provide a workaround or solution that would enable the ColdFusion application to recover sufficiently. I am well known throughout the online community of ColdFusion developers due to my frequent involvement in mailing lists and forums as I helped customers resolve their development problems, and for my blog at http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/ where I wrote hundreds of blog entries that explained ColdFusion functionality that was not well documented elsewhere. I have also resolved thousands of ColdFusion problems that were reported to me as a ColdFusion support engineer, where those problems reached into every nuance of the application server internals and its CFML language. One of my most memorable ColdFusion solutions was developed when a customer called to inform me that they had lost all the datasource passwords used in the ColdFusion 5 Administrator. ColdFusion 5's encyption of the passwords was notably weaker than later versions, and I worked until 2am that morning to develop a solution that was capable of cracking the passwords by brute force in less than one minute, allowing the customer to retrieve the passwords the next morning. I have a great deal of experience building ColdFusion demos based on customer requests to illustrate specific functionality, and I've also been known as one of the most experienced community members regarding the installation and clustering of Multiserver ColdFusion Configurations. For internal company usage on the ColdFusion Product Team, I created a ColdFusion dashboard application to graphically visualize trends in years of data obtained from ColdFusion support tickets. I also developed a Flex intranet application that facilitated the creation of new customer tickets logged by Flex Support Engineers. Over the years, I've contributed to community projects, including the following to BlogCFC: 1) RSS 2.0 function, 2) Technorati Ping function, 3) Tag Cloud Pod, 4) Recent Comments Pod, 5) Now Playing on iTunes Pod. In 2004 I created a blog importer to migrating from CFXML_Blog to BlogCFC. In 2006 I developed NimbleHill.com, for a Pennsylvania winery, that incorporates BlogCFC and the Google Maps API. Ideally, I would like to find a position in the Boston area that would allow me to build on my strengths of ColdFusion and Flex development. Please send inquiries to [email protected], and more info can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenerat including several recommendations from Adobe employees and customers. Thank you, Steven Erat Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer Certified Java/J2EE Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenerat http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/message.cfm/messageid:7397 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.13
