Elliot Murphy's Resume (Last updated May 21st 2008)

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Elliot Murphy

Cocoa, FL 32927 USA


elliotmurphy.com

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OBJECTIVE

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I currently specialize in building distributed/international software development teams working on cross-platform open source related projects.

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SKILLS

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Expert Python, C/C++. Intermediate Ruby, C#, Java, Javascript. Some Erlang. Familiar with MySQL (internals development) and PostgreSQL. Extensive experience on Linux, Windows, OS X, and Solaris (AIX and HP-UX too, but I won't admit it). Experience at all levels, from hacking SCSI device drivers on Windows 2000 to database internals to jQuery, Django, and REST.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

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2007 - Present
Co-founder

Statiksoft, LLC

Cocoa, FL, USA

Cofounded a small software consultancy specializing in web, open source and custom software development.

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2006 - Present
Lead Developer, Launchpad Commercialization

Canonical

Distributed team

At Canonical I work on launchpad.net, building a software collaboration platform that makes it easy for people across communities to work together on many different open source projects in different languages. I do a lot with evangelizing Launchpad, Ubuntu, and Bazaar, write code for Launchpad (zope3), contribute occasional bugfixes to Bazaar, help with recruiting, and manage a small team.

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2005 - 2006
Director of Development, Server Technologies

MySQL Inc

Distributed team

Initially was lead developer for MySQL replication team. Quickly took on more responsibility and managed a large distributed team of developers and testers, reported to EVP of Products and later to VP of Engineering. Worked with Product Management and Architecture teams, managed 30 developers in many different countries. Managed relationships with partners and vendors, planned staffing, and fixed bugs.

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March 1998 - May 2005
Senior Staff Software Engineer

VERITAS Software

Lake Mary, Florida / Pune, India

Wrote cross-platform software for mapping storage to applications, backup, snapshots, disaster recovery, ms exchange. Led a team of 8 people (both US and India), contributed to technical architecture, code, market requirements, QA, documentation, and more. Worked on Windows 2003, AIX, Solaris, Linux, OS X, and HP-UX.

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May 1994 - March 1998
National Installation and Service Supervisor, North America

Siemens (Stromberg-Carlsson/ROLM)

New York City, New York

Introducing Hicom trading systems product line to US market, providing pre-sales assistance, 3rd line technical support, on site training for Customer and Installation Engineers in extremely high-traffic installations (military bases, emergency command and control centers, power trading floors, currency trading floors, stock trading, power grid control centers).

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AWARDS AND HONORS

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Co inventor on US Patent 7,366,742. Funnily enough, I don't like patents - they don't do what people think they do.

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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I volunteer every week working with and teaching the local deaf community, and am fluent in American Sign Language.

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INTERESTS

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Scuba diving, languages (both human and computer), reading, free and open source software.

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