Eric Gillespie
<epg@netbsd.org>
3855 Belleau Wood Dr., Apt. 4
Lexington, KY  40517
US
+1 859 539 0602

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Software engineer for Analysts International Corporation
http://www.analysts.com/
November 2003 to present

  Consulting for Lexmark Corporation (http://www.lexmark.com/):

    Technical lead on development and maintenance of next-generation
    software configuration management and continuous integration
    infrastructure to enable cooperative development at multiple sites
    across the world.  This system is used by 200 engineers to manage
    all the source code for the business class printer line, and some
    of the lower end products, with more products joining all the
    time.  The source tree is currently 900 MB in 22,000 files, with
    5,000 revisions per month.  The system is implemented in Perl with
    Subversion, and runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris,
    FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X.

    Administer NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktops,
    development systems, and servers.  Administer a build farm of 40
    systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Consultant for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
http://www.progeny.com/
September 2003 to November 2003

    Improve the Discover hardware detection and configuration
    framework.

    Convert CVS repository to Subversion.  Map practices and
    procedures used with CVS onto the new system.  Help with
    management, transition, and training issues.

Developer for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.
http://www.progeny.com/
August 2000 to August 2002

    Instrumental in development and deployment of Progeny Debian (a
    distribution of the Linux operating system, based on Debian, which
    saw 50,000 downloads) and the Progeny Service Network (a system
    for automated deployment of software updates to multiple machines)
    and accompanying web services (using Apache mod_perl, Mason, and
    XML).

    Design and implement graphical configuration tools and installer
    for Debian, using C++, Perl, Python, and GNOME.  Develop
    package-management tools based on APT (Debian's Advanced Package
    Tool) and extend APT where necessary.

    Port Debian and above-mentioned configuration and installation
    tools to Intel's new IA-64 architecture.

    Develop and maintain the Discover hardware detection and
    configuration tool (in C).  The use of XML data, which can be
    dynamically retrieved from the Internet, ensures extensibility in
    the face of new hardware.  This is now a standard part of the
    Debian installer.

    Manage source control repository (CVS).  Develop and maintain
    cross-platform build framework (using GNU make and shell scripts)
    and shared code library for use in Progeny's consulting work.

    Some system administration, including integrating Mac OS X and
    Windows workstations into a predominantly UNIX-based network.

    Write and maintain various technical documentation in DocBook.

Technical Editor and Writer for Sair Linux/GNU Certification, Inc.
March 2000 to August 2000

    Write material for text-books for Sair's Linux certification
    program, covering the entire spectrum of software, from
    development tools to graphical desktop systems.  Technical editor
    for text-books.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Developer on NetBSD Project
http://www.netbsd.org/
January 2003 to present

    Contribute bug fixes, new features, and documentation to NetBSD's
    packages collection (pkgsrc).  Maintain various packages,
    including subversion and related packages.  In May 2003, I was
    given write access to the source control repository for my work in
    pkgsrc.

Developer on Subversion Project
http://subversion.tigris.org/
July 2002 to present

    Contribute bug fixes, new features, and documentation.
    Participate in release engineering, such as promotion of changes
    from development line to release branch and quality assurance.  In
    February 2003, I was given general write access to Subversion's
    source control repository, to facilitate this work.

Personal projects
1994 to present

    Create and maintain various mail client tools (C and Perl), FTP
    library (C, with Python binding) and graphical user interface (a
    multi-threaded GNOME application in C and Python), IRC bot (Lisp).

    Provide mail and web hosting for friends and family, using Apache,
    WebDAV, qmail, ezmlm, Courier, UW IMAP, postfix, majordomo,
    djbdns, and BIND.

    Setup and maintain wireless networks for friends and family using
    NetBSD for firewall, network address translation, and DHCP.

EDUCATION

University of Mississippi

    Linguistics Program
    September 1999 to March 2000

    Computer Science Program
    September 1998 to May 1999

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