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Adobe Expert Seeking ColdFusion / Flex Dev or QA
Author: Steven Erat
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/thread.cfm/threadid:5842#7397
I'm seeking full time employment in the Boston metropolitan area working with
ColdFusion and Flex web technologies. Although I was part of a large corporation,
my work in a remote office was performed in small groups ranging from 8 to 30
persons that typically worked in a very interdependent manner.
Having nearly nine years experience, I've worked in engineering positions at
Adobe (via Allaire and Macromedia acquisitions) on the ColdFusion and Flex
Engineering teams, and have provided many years of Gold Support for very large
enterprise customers using ColdFusion and Flex. I have deep experience in
creative problem solving for database driven web applications, going as far back
as ColdFusion 4 and Flex 1. I was Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for the
development and testing of the ColdFusion 8 application server, and Software
Quality Developer for Flex 3 and Flex 4 SDK.
My breadth of experience reaches well into J2EE, SQL, CSS, XML, Network
Protocols, Web Servers, and more. That experience extends into application
performance tuning and server stability resolution. I am also very experienced
with Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems and have become a Red Hat
Certified Engineer based on my own initiative.
As a ColdFusion Quality Assurance Engineer, I regularly performed full product
regression testing, but was especially tasked with J2EE server testing on Linux
and Unix, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss. I was responsible
for testing database support which included the branding of new driver bundles,
the setup and administration of new RDBMS systems, and for adding new database
support to ColdFusion Administrator. The features I tested include CFDBINFO,
LiveCycle DataServices Integration, CFReport HTML and CSS enhancements, and
Automated Key Generation (for DB inserts/updates).
During my experience as Software Quality Developer for Flex SDK, I was
responsible for: improving testing of SOAP WebService functionality; testing the
SWFObject2 Flash Player Detection feature; testing the Web Tier Compiler
enhancements including History Management and Deep Linking; testing
cross-platform compatibility on Linux with Ant/Java/Flex-based testsuites modeled
on junit; testing formatter and validator features.
My experience with ColdFusion could be measured as 8 and a half years, but is
better represented as approximately 20,000 hours because of my intense
involvement with the product. Even while on the Flex SDK team I was still
actively assisting the ColdFusion team to resolve their customer escalations. In
2004, I was responsible for Tier 3 ColdFusion Support Escalations which included
developing workarounds, logging defects, managing the relationship with QA, and
hot fix creation. In 2007 I traveled to Bangalore, India twice to collaborate
with and train software engineers for Adobe India.
Furthermore, for the period of 2001 to 2006 I was responsible for 24x7
server-down support of all Gold Support customers. During this time I typically
fielded a dozen after-hours calls per year for Enterprise level applications
including banks, universities, hosting companies, and government agencies. My
duty was to identify the source of the server-down problem under all
circumstances and to provide a workaround or solution that would enable the
ColdFusion application to recover sufficiently.
I am well known throughout the online community of ColdFusion developers due to
my frequent involvement in mailing lists and forums as I helped customers resolve
their development problems, and for my blog at http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/ where I wrote hundreds of
blog entries that explained ColdFusion functionality that was not well documented
elsewhere. I have also resolved thousands of ColdFusion problems that were
reported to me as a ColdFusion support engineer, where those problems reached
into every nuance of the application server internals and its CFML language.
One of my most memorable ColdFusion solutions was developed when a customer
called to inform me that they had lost all the datasource passwords used in the
ColdFusion 5 Administrator. ColdFusion 5's encyption of the passwords was notably
weaker than later versions, and I worked until 2am that morning to develop a
solution that was capable of cracking the passwords by brute force in less than
one minute, allowing the customer to retrieve the passwords the next morning.
I have a great deal of experience building ColdFusion demos based on customer
requests to illustrate specific functionality, and I've also been known as one of
the most experienced community members regarding the installation and clustering
of Multiserver ColdFusion Configurations.
For internal company usage on the ColdFusion Product Team, I created a ColdFusion
dashboard application to graphically visualize trends in years of data obtained
from ColdFusion support tickets. I also developed a Flex intranet application
that facilitated the creation of new customer tickets logged by Flex Support
Engineers.
Over the years, I've contributed to community projects, including the following
to BlogCFC: 1) RSS 2.0 function, 2) Technorati Ping function, 3) Tag Cloud Pod,
4) Recent Comments Pod, 5) Now Playing on iTunes Pod. In 2004 I created a blog
importer to migrating from CFXML_Blog to BlogCFC. In 2006 I developed
NimbleHill.com, for a Pennsylvania winery, that incorporates BlogCFC and the
Google Maps API.
Ideally, I would like to find a position in the Boston area that would allow me
to build on my strengths of ColdFusion and Flex development.
Please send inquiries to stevenerat@yahoo.com, and more info can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenerat including several
recommendations from Adobe employees and customers.
Thank you,
Steven Erat
Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer
Certified Java/J2EE Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenerat
http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/
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