e-mail rbt@zort.ca

1107 - 25 GrenVille Street • Toronto, On M4Y 2X5 • Phone (416) 963-8424



Rod Taylor

Experience


2000 - present InQuent Technologies Toronto, ON

Database Developer

  • Integration of legacy systems with new systems via creation of middleware. Ie. IAF / Horizon -> Billplex -> InQuent Provisioning System interaction.

  • Designed and Developed enterprise systems to meet business requirements with Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL on Solaris based systems.

  • Assisted marketing in product design and documentation from a technical perspective.

  • Planned and implemented large scale migrations of client accounts between systems.


2001 - present BarChord Entertainment Inc. Toronto, ON

Design Lead and Technical Consultant (part-time contract)

  • Completed generic database design according to business plan – SQL92 Spec.

  • Developed interface as per specification documents – PHP.

  • General server cluster maintenance and configuration – FreeBSD.

Computer Proficiency


  • Platforms: Unix (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux), Win 2k/NT/9x, OS/2, DOS

  • Languages: PL/SQL, PL/PGSQL, Perl, PHP, TCL, C, ASM, VB, Pascal, Rexx, ASH

  • Database: SQL92/SQL99, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL

  • Tools: ERWin, Data Architect, DocBook, MS Viseo, Vantive, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access), Lotus Notes, OpenOffice, Gimp, CVS, Unix Tools, ...

  • Network: TCP, UDP, Firewall (ipf, nat, ipsec), Routing, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, Samba, ...

  • Web: PHP, CSS, JavaScript, CGI, Apache, SSL, XML, HTML, ...

Education


1998-2000 RCC College of Technology Vaughn, ON

Honours Electronics Engineering Technologist

  • 95% during all programming related courses.

  • Analog and digital circuit design, computer analysis, and PCB prototyping.

  • Designed, developed, implemented microcontroller controlled, five band, Parametric Equalizer in team of two over period of 8 months.

Interests


Peer 2 peer design theory, indie music distribution (barchord.com), squash, fuseball, electronics design theory, database structure analysis, myand tearing things apart – software or hardware – to see how to they could work more efficiently with increased stability.