Uri Guttman
			      39 Columbia Rd.
			   Arlington, MA  02474
			     (781) 643-7504
			   uri AT perlhunter.com
			 http://www.sysarch.com
			http://www.perlhunter.com

EDUCATION

   *	B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering,  M.I.T.,  June 1983

COMPUTER SKILLS

Perl (20 years)

   *	Developer of Stem, a network toolkit and application suite.
   *	Developed modules on CPAN (ID: URI)
        Most of the modules are noted for being the fastest of their class.
   *	Author of File::Slurp which is included in over 500
   	distributions on CPAN
   *	Customer support, code reviewing and training.

Human Resources

   *    Founder and CEO of PerlHunter.com, a 100% Perl placement agency
   *    Created the original Perl jobs list (now jobs.perl.org)

Training, Writing and Documentation

   *	Guru level Perl support services
   *	Technical editor of 4 Perl books.
   *	Producer of Perl classes
   *	Author of Perl talks, articles and tutorials.
   *	Co-author of award winning paper, "A Fresh Look at Efficient
	Perl Sorting", presented at the 3rd Perl Conference.
   *	Written system specifications and documentation for many systems.
   *	Excellent English and writing skills.

Language Systems

   *	Developed run time library for PL/I
   *	Created a proprietary language for voice response application system

Communications

   *	Created Stem, a message passing architecture
   *	TCP/IP, sockets, multiplexing I/O.

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

May 2006 - Ongoing (Perl Recruiting)		Perl Hunter, Arlington, MA

   *	Founded Perl Hunter, the only 100% Perl recruiting agency
   *	Placed over 80 Perl developers

Aug. 2010 - Mar. 2011 (Perl Development)	Order In, New York, NY

   *	Designed and developed ETL system to load XML menus into
	it into a DB

Apr. 2010 - June 2010 (Perl Development)	Cycles Data Research Corp.
						Ridgefield, CT

   *	Designed and developed system to parse stock ticker data, load
	it into a DB and generate reports

Apr. 2009 - May 2010 (Perl Support)		Redweek, Seattle, WA

   *	Providing Perl support to a developer

Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2008 (Perl Support)		Freightliner, Inc. Portland, OR

   *	Providing Perl support to a developer
   *	Code review, debug help, CPAN assistance, etc.

Aug. 2006 - Sep. 2007 (Perl Projects)		Trexy, London, UK

   *	Developed Template::Simple module and published it to CPAN.
   *	Developed proprietary module for their search system.

Sep. 2005 - Apr. 2006 (Perl Development)	Osoft, Inc., Portland, OR

   *	Led team developing a new Ebook reader
   *	Located and placed Perl developers on team

Sep. 2004 - Dec. 2004 (Consultant)		Athena Health, Inc., Waltham, MA

   *	Upgraded large web application to use Perl 5.8.5 (was on 5.005)
   *	Refactoring a large utility module (150 subs)
   *	Refectoring of their unit test system

Mar. 2004 - Aug. 2004 (Consultant)		Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

   *	Analysis and review of Perl based web templating system
	which handles 20 million hits/day
   *	Proposed new templating schemes to simplify the code and to
	allow easier maintenance
   *	Corporate-wide Perl expert
   *    Perl education and training

May 2003 - Nov. 2003 (Consultant)		Sportsline, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

   *	Perl education and training
   *	Code review and refactoring of existing modules

Feb. 2002 - Nov. 2002 (Consultant)		The Napa Project
						
   *	Developed specialized web crawler
   *	Assisted in development of search engine
   *	Designed RDBMS schema and implemented SQL
   *	Wrapped C library in Perl
   *	System infrastructure and control was all based on Stem

Jul. 1999 - Aug. 1999 (Consultant)		Akamai Technologies,
						Cambridge, MA

   *	Ran Perl classes for employees, beginner to advanced levels.
   *	Developed Perl modules for IP address processing.

Jan. 1999 - May 1999 (Consultant)		Ironbridge Networks,
						Lexington, MA

   *	Developed parts database system in Perl.
   *	Developed Perl system for Bill of Materials management.
   *	Developed support utilities in Perl

Jun. 1998 - Aug. 1998 (Consultant)		Millennium Pharmaceuticals,
						Cambridge, MA

   *	Developed system to transfer and update selected parts of
	genetic database.
   *	System was written in Perl and used DBI/DBD to interface to Sybase.

Jun. 1996 - May 1997 (Consultant)		Northern Light,
						Cambridge, MA

   *	Developed world scale web crawler for search engine.
   *	Developed modules to convert data feeds to internal format.

Jun. 1994 - Mar. 1995 (Software Engineer)	UniPrise Systems,
						Burlington, MA

   *	Ported PL/I run-time library to Alpha OSF1 
   *	Specified indexed record I/O system for PL/I run-time
   *	Created software configuration management system using
	make, Perl and RCS

Sep. 1988 - July 1992 (Systems Architect)	CommNetics, Natick, MA

   *	Co-founder of CommNetics.
   *	Chief software engineer.
   *	Leader of team of 4 developers.
   *	Developed patented (5,354,069) "Lottery by Phone" system.

Sep. 1984 - June 1986 (Systems Engineer)	Translation Systems,
						Waltham, MA

   *	Ported 4.1 BSD UNIX to NS-32000 single board computer
   *	Developed run-time library code for PL/I compiler


Aug. 1980 - June 1983 (Software Engineer)	Perception Technology, 
						Canton, MA

   *	Developed real-time operating system (RTOS) on PDP-11.