Alan Raetz
201 Vilas Road
Chico, California 95973
(530) 342-1501

· Created custom interactive web applications using Perl/CGI
· Site development with UNIX, Linux, Apache, mySQL, and mod_perl
· Over twelve years of computer engineering experience
· A strong foundation in complex software design practices
· Excellent technical communication and documentation skills

Work Experience

Novemeber 2000 - July 2001
Walmart.com - Brisbane, CA
Title: Perl Developer
Designed and wrote backend vendor communications software for Walmart.com's automated order fulfillment system. This interfaced with an Oracle database via PL/SQL procedures and also communicated with a Java XML message system. I wrote a custom Perl application for parsing front-end .jsp server logs to determine the most frequent customer web search terms. This application compiled daily reports across 70 front-end web servers for the merchandising department and sorted all data by category, department and search type.

January 1999 - Present
www.chicodigital.com
software engineer/owner
Design, construct and market a lightweight Perl/CGI web site management application. Created a content submission application for snowboardreviews.com. Independent web site development contracting.

September 1996 - October 2000
Scitech Software - Chico, CA
Title: Software Engineer
Duties: Created graphics display drivers in C and assembly language for many graphics chip manufacturers, including ATI, Matrox, S3, Nvidia, 3Dlabs, and 3Dfx. Scitech Software has had two programmers during the development of it's universal graphics driver technology. I wrote large portions of the code that was licensed by IBM and is now bundled with the OS/2 operating system. Used Borland and Watcom source-code debugger tools, makefiles, Perforce and PVCS revision control packages, and Borland IDE tools.

Created a Perl script that converts Borland-created GUI resource (.rc) files into a WX Windows (OS independent GUI) resource file format. Used Perl to create text search-and-replace scripts to automate time-consuming tasks on C source code files. Created a Perl/SQL email filtering utility for the Open Source Bugzilla bug tracking project (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/) on a Linux/Apache platform.

September 1991 - April 1996
Silicon Graphics - Mountain View, CA
Title: Associate Engineer
Duties: Hardware and software engineering in a high volume computer workstation manufacturing environment. Ongoing responsibility for the correct operation of time-critical automated test processes in high volume manufacturing. Required to design, code and modify diagnostic software (in C) and UNIX test process scripts (Bourne shell and Perl) for new products, product changes, and process improvements. Design of test processes as well as writing test procedures and other technical documentation.

Successful design and implementation of a software package for a custom test fixture. Ported and modified a low-level software library onto a new hardware platform in a UNIX environment in the effort to improve testing. Lead circuit board designer for a LCD flat panel display interface card for the SGI O2 workstation. Created data conversion tools using Perl to reformat circuit board netlist data to allow data interchange between two separate hardware design environments.

June 1989 - September 1990
Sun Microsystems, Server Systems Design - Mountain View, California.
Title: Design Engineering Technician (contract position)
Duties: Hardware debugging of engineering prototype circuit boards in a design group.

May 1988 - September 1988
Digital Equipment Corp. DEC Research Center - Palo Alto, California
Title: Design Engineering Technician (contract position)
Duties: Hardware
debugging of engineering prototype circuit boards in a design group.

September 1984 - April 1988
Convergent/UNISYS - San Jose, CA
Title: Senior Engineering Technician
Duties: Prototype circuit board debugging in design teams and in pilot manufacturing. Solved technical problems in manufacturing related to both hardware and software issues for new product introductions. Worked within manufacturing engineering to solve high priority problems. Created and modified diagnostic software and test scripts in manufacturing. Wrote technical documentation, including the hardware reference manual for an entire system. Design and implemented a custom circuit board debugging system and related support documentation.

Education
University of California Extension
Completed Graduate-level engineering courses towards ASIC design
certificate while working full-time (GPA 3.3):
- Digital Logic Design
- Introduction to ASIC and FPGA technology
- Semiconductor Fabrication
- Digital design using VHDL with Vantage VSS
- Logic Synthesis using Synopsis and Cadence Synergy
- Design for Testability

University of California, Santa Barbara.
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Graduated with High Honors (3.6 GPA)

Heald College, San Francisco.
Associate Degree in Electronic Engineering.
Cumulative 3.8 GPA.

References: Available Upon Request.