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Edward C. Delaporte V

Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the Department of Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2006

GPA: 3.42/4.0

Security Team U of I March 2007 – Present

Code Audits

Firefly deployment ~ 6000 machines, one-click web installer and MSI installer

Web Interfaces

Unit testing for everything (in both Python and VS.Net)

Accessibility compliance – W3C, FAE iCita

Secure development tip of the week

Weekly Software vulnerability assessment news

Supercomputer Monitoring Developer March 2006 – March 2007

Silicon Graphics Inc. Champaign, IL

• Created a tilted time window data collection plug-in for Clumon, NCSA’s extremely scalable supercomputer cluster monitoring tool.

• Innovated a plug-in to connect Nagios (a very popular monitoring tool) to data collected by Clumon (NCSA’s preferred tool); reducing monitoring overhead while keeping the benefits of both tools.

• Used Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP to create web interfaces with charts and customizable content.

• Installed and configured Linux, Apache, python, PHP, Cisco VPN, Nagios, and Subversion to support my projects.

• Used Subversion, Performance Co-Pilot, Vim, checkinstall, and many other command line software packages.
• Adhered to source code style best practices, including the Python PEP8 Standard and the Zend PHP Style guidelines.

Systems Administrator May 2005 – March 2006

Imaging Technology Group at Beckman Institute, U of I Champaign,IL

• Assembled cutting edge dual core 64 bit graphics workstations from component parts.
• Installed, configured, and maintained advanced graphics software environments.

• Configured backup, recovery, and software installation systems.

• Solved diverse software and hardware configuration issues.

Web Solutions Developer May 2000 – Dec 2005

Ablesoft Solutions Inc. Oregon, IL

• Created an elegant extensible project template in VB.Net which allowed us to create all our applications more quickly with better standard features.

• Designed custom business software; with focus on creating efficient interfaces, correct industry-specific business logic, and adding value to the customer’s products and services.
• Maintained both my own and others’ source code in massive projects across many releases.
• Used source control, documentation, and email to maintain accurate records of every software modification.
• Communicated extensively with both technical and non-technical lead customer contacts at some of ASI’s most important customer accounts.
• Followed up on software upgrades and patches to ensure that the updates behaved as customers needed.

• Oversaw database system conversion for Warehouse Direct by guiding discussion, documenting requirements, and developing solutions.

• Created elegant web and stand-alone interfaces in Microsoft development environments.

• Implemented integrated on-line asset tracking, document processing and report generating systems.

• Integrated .Net and Installshield technologies with older software systems.

• Developed Illinois Ogle County Health Department’s central database system.

• Used VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, MS SQL Server, XML, and Javascript to build advanced web interfaces.

Web Site Administrator (not for profit) January 2007 – Present

‘Boy & Panda’ Online Story Publishing      Particularly exciting classwork completed at the University of Illinois:

Operating Systems, CS423 University of Illinois