About Me
Curriculum Vitae
Evan Ryder M.Sc., MIAP, CEH.
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Waterdale,Claregalway, Co. Galway
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Mobile: 087 9061999
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Core Competencies
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Professional Qualifications: |
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Project / Service Management: |
PRINCE2, ITIL |
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Internet Development: |
ADSI, ASP, ASP.NET, AJAX, C#, COM, HTML, Java, JavaScript / Jscript / ECMAScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, VRML, VBScript, WML, XHTML, XML, XSL(T) |
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Internet Server Administration: |
Apache, IIS, Tomcat |
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Programming Languages: |
Assembler, C, C++, CoBOL, Java, OpenGL, Pascal, RPG II, T-SQL, VB |
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Server Scripting: |
Bash scripting, Batch files (DOS), Perl, PHP, VB Scripts (Windows), Windows PowerShell |
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Development Environments: |
MS Visual InterDev, MS Visual Studio .NET, MS Visual SourceSafe |
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Platforms: |
Debian Linux, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, MS DOS, MS Windows, MAC OS (X), Unix, VMS, Wang VS |
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Networks: |
MS Windows 3.1 - 2008, Novell, LANtastic, OTEX LAN |
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Databases: |
MS Access 97 - 2010, MS SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 / 2000, MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Oracle 10g / 11g. |
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Other: |
MS Exchange, Hardware Maintenance, BIND |
Member of the Institution of Analysts & Programmers (MIAP)Career History
Information Solutions & Services, NUI GalwayJune 2002 - Present
University WWW Technologist
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Strategic Planning: |
Instrumental in the planning of the direction of the University's web presence in terms of technologies used, accessibility, marketability, functionality, and industry best practice. |
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Project Manager: |
Responsible for the planning, reporting, delivery, and measurement of significant, infrastructure-related projects (such as highly-available Web Cluster, MySQL Cluster, Enterprise CMS Deployment for 200+ Web sites) |
| Analyst/Programmer: |
Responsible for the ongoing design, development and maintenance of:
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Database Administrator: |
Responsible for the upkeep, performance, and high availability of standalone MySQL servers and a MySQL cluster along with data integrity and security. |
Webmaster: |
Responsible for the ongoing security, integrity, availability, and performance of the University Web sites, including the ongoing management of DNS entries for all hosted domains. |
Linux Systems Administrator: |
Responsible for building and maintaining the University's public-facing Web cluster and Database cluster, as well as standalone Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) servers, running Apache and/or Tomcat, in both physical and virtual environments. |
CMS Administrator: |
Responsible for supporting, maintaining, and optimising the University's Enterprise CMS, T4 Site Manager, which powers its public-facing Web site. |
Security: |
Responsible for carrying out security audits, of both hosted and external web web sites / applications, as well as performing hacking forensics and subsequent system recovery and hardening of compromised servers. |
Customer Support: |
Responsible for the provision of top level support to all staff, affiliated third parties, and helpdesk customers with web-related issues. |
J. E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway 2010
Tutor
Created and delivered a single-term course, entitled "Web application Development using PHP & JavaScript" to postgraduate (MBS in Electronic Commerce) students. Although the school had requested this to be an annual occurrence, a newly implemented austerity measure, arising from the Croke Park agreement, prevented the school from remunerating any existing member of staff for additional lectures. Although targeted at academic staff, this rule also applied to non-academic staff. Prohibited from paying me, the school was forced to employ an outside contractor to present my course materials in subsequent years.
Aró - Internet Business DevelopmentFeb 1999 - June 2002
Senior Analyst / Programmer
| Senior Analyst / Programmer: | Responsible for the development of the company's most challenging Internet solutions, the creation of anticipated project timelines and costing for new or prospective projects. |
| Team Lead: | Responsible for the recruitment, training and schedules of the development team. Within the first year, my one-man team grew to include 5 other developers and a technician. |
| R&D Manager: | Responsible for the development, growth and maintenance of Aró's integrated web site
management software suite, Ar&oacut;BIS, which started life when I was the only developer at the company. AróBIS is an extranet which enables clients
to control their own web sites, edit web pages and underlying database content
and view management reporting in a configurable, secure environment. Basically, it was one of the first cloud-based CMSs - first launched 14 years before other enterprise CMS solutions, such as terminalfour SiteManager, started making similar offerings.
A few years later, my personal R&D efforts resulted in the development of a rapid web site development system known as the 'CAM' (Client Access Manager), which creates fully functional, fully editable, 'skinable', AróBIS compatible web sites on a web server cluster in Dublin as well as on Aró's staging server. Sites created by this system come complete with:
http://www.aro.ie was created using this system. A skin was then applied to the site and content was entered using AróBIS. I am proud to say that I was personally responsible for the vision, system design, and software development of Aró's flagship product (AróBIS) and its Client Access Manager, both of which are not only still in use, but remain the cornerstone of Aró's business model. |
OTEX CorporationJan 1998 - Nov 1998
Technical Manager
| Team Lead: | Managed the 5-strong team responsible for the launch of the company's new product. |
| Technician: | Responsible for the purchase and maintenance of the company's hardware. |
| Product Support: | Via telephone and email. |
| R & D: | Responsible for the research and development of in-house and product related systems. E.g. Development of bar code printing system for labelling of products, research and development of a new 'mobile aware' modem driver, design of the software's shareware lock, etc. |
| QA: | Responsible for the testing of each possible system configuration over every supported platform. |
GP Care Systems Development Ltd.Apr 1995 - Jan 1998
Analyst / Programmer
| Analyst/Programmer: | Responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of the company's CoBOL based Practice Management and Patient Administration System, used by over 200 General Practitioners nation-wide. |
| Hardware / Software Support Technician: | Responsible for telephone support on all hardware and software sold by the company as well as on-site support. |
| Upgrade Manager: | Responsible for the design, distribution and implementation of the quarterly upgrades to the GP Care software suite and drug dictionaries. |
| Training: | Responsible for providing a walk-through of the product to prospective customers and for the training of new clients and their staff in the use of the software. |
Earlier career history available on request.
Continuous Professional Development / Certifications
| ITIL v3 (Foundation) | December 2011 |
| Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v. 7.1 | November 2011 |
| Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v. 4.1 | October 2006 |
| PRINCE2 (Foundation) | September 2005 |
Third Level Education
| M.Sc. Software & Information Systems | 2008 - 2010 |
| (Renamed in 2010 to M.Sc. Software Engineering & Databases for increased clarity)
Thesis: SQL Injection Attacks and Countermeasures: A Survey of Website Development Practices |
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| NUI Galway & Regis University, Denver | |
| National Diploma in Computing - (Software Support & Systems Design) | 1993 - 1994 |
| Regional Technical College, Galway | |
| National Certificate in Computing | 1991 - 1993 |
| Regional Technical College, Sligo | |
Personal Details
| Date of Birth: | 12th January, 1973. (52) |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Leisure Interests: | Jazz Trombone |