Ruben I. Safir 1600 East 17th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230 1-718-382-5752 ruben@wynn.com     Skills UNIX, Apache Web Server administration, Networking Administration,  C programming, Perl and Perl DBI, SQL, UNIX Script Language, HTML. PHP, Introduction to Java and C++. Operating Systems Unix, Linux, BSDI, DOS, Windows, NT Related Skills PageMaker, PhotoShop, GIF Animation, POV Raytracing  Art Skills, hardware troubleshooting, PC Installation, Scanning  Apache Administration, IP Setup. Experience Febuary 2000 - Present Brooklyn Linux Solutions - Consulting IT services and Computer Education · Education - Adult computer training at CUNY and other venues. · Internet Development with Apache and perl for small businesses. · Linux based networking infalstructure for secretarial pools · DNS, MYSQL, email, NFS, and SAMBA setup for small businesses · Specialized internet database reporting for educational facilities · Document tracking developement for medical facilities September 2000 - Scalable Technologies - Senior Web Designer and Project November 2000 Manager. · Oversee the set-up of newly formed technical infrastructure. · Lead back end and front end tools development written in PHP, on Apache. · Installed system network, DNS and pack forwarding. · Wrote user administration tools and Human Resource modules for clients. March 1999 - Present The New School - Teach Perl and Web Technologies in the continuing education program May 1998 - September New York University - Manager of Intranet and Software 2000 Development and Project Manager. · Wrote numerous database driven Web programs using DBI, ModPerl and Perl. · Installed and imported the clinical database to Oracle On Red Hat Linux. · Ported an Intranet Site from a Windows95 environment to Unix, fixing links using SED and Perl. · Ported a DOS medical database from a flat binary Database to MYSQL RDMS using Perl. As the old database is still being used live, the port has to be repeated on a daily basis. · Fixed large amounts of bad data. · Combined it's 5 directories of data because it originally had a maximum of 32,000 patients. All five database binaries had to be combined into one MYSQL Database. · Designed the new schema and built a front end for the over 3,000,000 transactions using CGI techniques , modperl, embperl, javascript and Perl. · Installed Apache on Linux while building modules and perl extensions. · Instructed co-workers in the basics of Unix administration, while creating a secure web server. · Automated the data import to be pooled daily using CRON over IPX from production servers.  Dec 1994 - Present Jewish Billboard and Brooklyn on Line - Web Site Administrator and Page Creator. · Performed webpage creation skills including CGI writing in C and Perl. · Currently developing a Shopping Cart with client  side administration, and accounting tools. · Extensive use of Perl and MYSQL on a BSDI OS.  (http://www.wynn.com/jewish and http://www.brooklynonline) .  July 1997 - Maramont Corporation: December 1997 · Establish an Intranet with the Apache Webserver  · Supported about 25 machines on an intranet with Windows Clients and  a UNIX Server. · Designed and replaced various windows based document management programs which were constraining the corporations ability for web based technology. · Wrote several Perl CGI's to parse our production label database into CGI - Netscape output. This eased label  design. It permitted the use of Pagemaker to work with the specialized Zebra Bar-code printers over the UNIX print server. · Worked with Fox Pro 2.6a and a Database product called TRO to support and helped develop a Purchasing database on Windows 3.11 and Novel. · Installed and supported all cooperate software, Photo Shop, Pagemaker, Scanning techniques, Word, Lotus, ect. June 1995 - June Medical Arts - Part-time Pharmacist 1997 Sept 1995 - Feb Graduate Student Professor at LIU College of 1996 Pharmacy in compounding labs. Sept 1984 - 1996 Karson Pharmacy - Full and Part-time Pharmacist. 1981 - 1987 US ARMY - Honorable discharge Education: June 1999 Oracle University DBA training - System Configuration, SQL Plus, PL/SQL Sept - Jan 1998 NYU: C++ and Unix Programming April - Oct 1996 Cope Institute: Programming course in UNIX Programming,  Shell Scripting, SQL, embedded SQL in C and Oracle. Sep 1995 - Feb LIU: Fellowship and Ph.D. candidate for 1996 Pharmaceutics. Jan 1983 - Sept LIU Brooklyn Campus: Graduate of Pharmacy 1988 Interests and Birds and Parrots, Art History, Local History, Hobbies Jazz, NYC, Writing, Teaching Perl and HTML