Last updated 2008 April 13

Resume of Darren Duncan

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Website: http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/

Objectives

• To help you build excellent web-hosted applications, databases, and services for your business and your clients.
• To provide valuable design, programming, analysis, quality assurance, and documentation skills, including with Perl, SQL, HTML.
• To apply and gain new cutting edge skills and experience in a rapidly changing field.

Highlights

• Founded Muldis Data Systems (http://www.muldis.com/), that has its own line of DBMS software to support, and does related contracts, mainly in Perl.
• Primary developer for multiple complex web applications for Traveller's Inn using mainly Perl/mod_perl and MySQL.
• Part of core development team for new product GOL for Anthony Macauley Associates, consisting of Oracle, XML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, .NET. Worked on flagship product GX, consisting of FoxPro, Oracle, Crystal Reports.
• Maintained a corporate Intranet with many users, and several web sites with mod_perl, SQL, CGI, ASP programming.
• Experienced in data modelling, system analysis, documentation, user-interface design, graphics, including for the web.
• Designed and created relational databases with Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, FileMaker Pro. Familiar with PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Wrote several feature tutorials in VMUG's monthly MACtalk publication.
• Programmed on Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and UNIX and using Perl 5 and 6, PHP 4, SQL, XML, XSL, Java, FoxPro, ASP, HTML, CSS, C.
• Good verbal and written communication skills; able to work effectively with a group and independently.

Educational History

• Attended the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON; Portland, OR; http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/) in August 2005; then did it again the next year
• Completed the program "Independent Employment: An Introduction to Entrepreneurship" at The Reger Group (Victoria, BC; http://www.regergroup.com/) in July 2003
• Attended the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC; San Jose, CA; http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/) on scholarship in May 2001
• Graduated from Computer Systems Technology (Co-op designation) at Camosun College (Victoria BC; http://www.camosun.bc.ca/) in June 2001
• Completed one year at Columbia Bible College (Abbotsford, BC; http://www.columbiabc.edu/) ending April 1997.
• Graduated from Parkland Secondary (Sidney, BC; http://www.parkland.sd63.bc.ca/) in June 1996.

Work Experience

• 2007 - 2008 : Muldis Data Systems (http://www.muldis.com/): founder of this incorporated business, that has its own line of DBMS software to support, and does related contracts, mainly in Perl.
• 2006 - 2007 : Traveller's Inn (http://www.travellersinn.com/): primary developer for multiple complex web applications using mainly Perl/mod_perl and MySQL.
• 2003 - 2006 : Various smaller contracts for multiple clients: mostly PHP and MySQL.
• 2000 - 2003 : Anthony Macauley Associates (http://www.amavi.com/): core development programmer for new product GOL/GTools (a comprehensive fully database-defined web application development tool) using Oracle, XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, .NET; programmed flagship product GX (a government-level financial management system) using Oracle, FoxPro, Crystal Reports; wrote programmer and user documentation, performed system testing and QA procedures; became learned in various government financial processes.
• Sep - Dec, 1999 : British Columbia Buildings Corporation (http://www.bcbc.bc.ca/): deployed and maintained the corporate Intranet using IIS, SQL Server ASP (VBScript), Perl, CSS.
• May 1999 : Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (http://www.vircs.bc.ca/): converted print (PageMaker) publication "Voices" into HTML format using text, image editors, Perl.
• Summer, 1996 : Institute of Ocean Sciences (http://www-sci.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/facilities/ios_e.htm): wrote a Pascal program to convert river temperature sensor data between formats; created a web image map and another web page.
• 1995 - 2000 : Fruit Trees and More (http://www.FruitTreesAndMore.com/): designed and built relational databases for inventory and orders using FileMaker Pro; setup web site; other computer help.

Volunteering History

• 2000 - 2008 : Registered developer with CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/): created 45+ free and open-source Perl modules and released them for the world to use, including Muldis::Rosetta (Full-featured truly relational DBMS in Perl), CGI::Portable (data-driven web application development framework) and HTML::FormTemplate (data-driven html form and report generator); also relased some Perl 6 versions of the above.
• 2002 - 2007 : Victoria Perl Mongers (http://victoria.pm.org/): managing the group web site, giving a couple of presentations or discussions (to 6-10 people) on Perl-related topics like using databases or XML, and improving reusable modules with good practices suitable for CPAN release.
• 2000 - 2002 : Victoria Macintosh Users Group (http://www.vmug.bc.ca/): giving a live tutorial/presentation on designing and implementing a genealogy relational database at the June 2002 monthly meeting (to 150 people), wrote several feature tutorials for the monthly MACtalk publication, including: creating relational databases with FileMaker Pro (3 parts), designing a genealogy database, getting an internet domain name, setting up Eudora filters, and several smaller articles.
• 1998 - 2001 : Camosun College (http://www.camosun.bc.ca/): tutored groups (of 10-20) and individuals of first year students in programming Perl and assisting them in understanding various lab assignments.
• August 1998 : Pacific Forestry Centre (http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/): wrote Perl scripts to convert data about forest pests from a Windows 3.1 CD to the format used by a new web-based program.
• June 1997 : Mennonite Disaster Service (http://www.mds.mennonite.net/): helped with clean-up efforts that MDS organized following the disastrous Manitoba flood of 1997.

Personal Skills

• Good oral and written communications skills; skilled organizer; hard working; rich vocabulary.
• Fair interpersonal skills; enjoys helping people; polite, gentle, honest, cooperative.
• Able to work effectively with a group or independently.
• Excellent verbal knowledge/reasoning, arithmetic, computational, and written comprehension abilities.
• Good problem solving skills, auditory learning and recall of information, spatial reasoning and working memory.

Computing Skills

Personal Interests

• Epistemology, archiving, chronologies and timelines, genealogy, data modelling, web page design and programming, databases, helping people use computers, physics, sciences, math, reading, video editing, religion, rock collecting.

Personal References

• Available upon request.

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