Greg Rundlett/cv

Executive Summary

Technology manager plus senior-level individual contributor with a broad and deep skill set. Open source expert. Experience working in all settings - large and small, local and distributed.

Professional Experience

2013/02 - 2020/11 eQuality Technology

Salisbury, MA

Open source solutions consulting

Founder / CEO

Establish company as a technology solutions provider to small business, government and education markets. Establish company product and service portfolio including

• MediaWiki SAAS product development https://QualityBox.us
• MediaWiki extension development (Html2Wiki)
• MediaWiki upgrades and migrations
• large git migrations
• Google Apps / Email consulting
• Software Engineering
• Software Quality Assurance
• Project Management
• IT Systems & Technical Support
• Enterprise Application Development
• Database Layer Design, Development, Administration
• Business Intelligence & Reporting

2009/08 - 2016/02 Bean Group

Portsmouth, NH

New England Regional Real Estate broker

Director of Web Services

Discover, architect, operate and refine LAMP infrastructure plus cloud and local development for leading independent Real Estate brokerage in New England. Deploy, manage VOIP communications. Manage vendors and services. Multiple successful projects delivering increased profits. 100% Company growth.

• Technical leadership, project management, facilities expansion of operations and technology services supporting nearly doubling location growth, 75% staff growth, and transaction volume growth (approaching $300 million) while reducing technology spending by 70%.
• Developed and integrated multi-vendor systems starting with a single-vendor architecture
• Migrated email services to create new collaboration platform on Google Apps (GAFYD) Premier
• Managed re-development of the company's websites using Drupal
• Initiated revision control services as well as management infrastructure including upgrades, migrations and server tools for both Subversion and Git.
• Architected, designed, deployed and author knowledge base for operations and reference using Semantic MediaWiki plus extensions.
• Led security and backup best practices efforts
• Systems Administration of LAMP machines migrating from CentOS to Ubuntu while redeploying the data-center into the cloud from traditional co-location
• Expanded from 7 branch offices in NH to 15 offices spanning NH, VT, ME, MA

200-/11 - 2009/08 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

IIC - Initiative in Innovative Computing

• Developed and deployed collaboration and knowledge systems at the Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC); an interdisciplinary research and development center at Harvard dedicated to using innovative computing tools to accelerate discovery across all of the scientific disciplines. http://iic.harvard.edu
• Drupal debugging, deployment, development of Science Collaboration Framework (SCF), scigpu.org, involvweb.org, iic.harvard.edu
• Initiated Subversion and Git revision control services as well as management infrastructure
• Architected, Designed, Deployed and Seeded MediaWiki-based knowledge base for operations and reference.
• Led security and backup best practices efforts
• Systems Administration of LAMP machines running CentOS and Ubuntu Infrastructure forensics, normalization and re-deployment
• Training of scientists, project managers, faculty and staff on wiki platform

2005 OASIS

Billerica, MA

Global standards consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.

MANAGER - TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Starting as Sr. Developer and Systems Administrator, I was immediately promoted to Manager reporting to the CEO. Responsible for all aspects of all internal and customer-facing technology services and systems. Responsible for hiring and managing of staff, vendors, contractors and industry relationships. Responsible for selection, development, deployment and service delivery in Customer Relationship Management and Sales (SugarCRM) Content Management Systems (Drupal), Wiki (Mediawiki, MoinMoin), Issue Tracking, Project Management and Document Management (Knowledge Tree). Responsible for continued in-house development and support of mission-critical systems for Group collaboration and Membership Management and e-Commerce. Responsible for Telco, Data Center and local office hardware, software, systems and security. Oversee and support remote VPN users across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

• Oversee selection and deployment of new hardware and updated LAMP stack into existing facilities plus migration to new data center facilities.
• Instituted source code control system (Subversion) and operational procedures for development with up to 9 global contributors from Japan and China to California.
• Implemented custom Google Search Service to cover ~ 50 web properties
• Designed Document Management system to leverage WebDAV

2005 SavaJe Technologies

Chelmsford, MA Pioneering developer of Java-based Mobile phone OS. Acquired by Sun Microsystems.

RELEASE ENGINEERING - TOOLS DEVELOPER

Led development of an automated / on-demand software build system which delivers compiled binaries from Source Code Control system (BitKeeper) repositories.

• Installed and setup infrastructure of PHP5, PEAR, reverse-proxied Apache server, and LDAP authentication.
• Designed and wrote MVC application in PHP leveraging OO Framework (Horde) with MySQL backend.
• Developed web and console front-end for scripted automation and continuous integration with Quality Assurance team and the test lab.
• Prototype development, developer tools, mentoring.

2003/04 - 2005 Knowledge Institute

E. Kingston, NH

Small Business Consulting with focus on Government markets.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Responsible for vision and execution of the company’s technology roadmap.

• Won commendation from Governor Craig Benson for launching first Virtual Business Incubator in NH (developing customized online project management software).
• Web-enabled company, including intranet, knowledge base, e-commerce, customer, partner, product and service solutions, sales, marketing, search, database, analytics, reporting and more.

Provide project leadership and implement best practices while developing projects through entire life-cycle. Specified, built and/or installed and administered the company technology infrastructure, and created several high-profile websites with advanced functionality. Developed client reporting system, Search Engine solution, website framework, Browser-based Regex-capable editor for maintaining the 1.2 million lines of source code that I wrote or administered on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) platform.

• Web-enabled company, including intranet, knowledge base, e-commerce, customer, partner, product and service solutions, search, database. (www.buzgate.org, www.nhvbi.org, www.buzworks.org, www.bdki.com, www.nhintern.net, www.buzvr.org)
• Developed spidering tool to harvest email addresses.
• Information architecture, design/UI, project management and implementation of website reconstruction project replacing thousands of flat HTML content files with custom XML-based, logic-driven dynamic website system using a Model View Controller (MVC) framework

2002/09 - 2003/04 Concerto Software

Westford, MA $500 Million revenue global Call-Center vendor. Acquired by Aspect Software.

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsible for all global website code (www.concerto.com) and intranet code in a mixed environment of Sun Solaris, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS and Netscape iPlanet with ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL.

• Analyzed and specified short and long-term solutions for data integrity problems. Employed polymorphism to provide similar data-handling services that could be plugged at-will into the workflow of a given form (e.g. text logging, db logging, messaging).
• Replaced all form-related client-side content and back-end processing for global website with object-oriented and modular code responsible for validation, formatting, security and interfaces to file / database / messaging systems.
• Wrote high-impact analysis tools for Sales, Marketing and Executive teams within first two weeks.

2000/07 - 2002/01 Virtual Access Networks

Lawrence, MA Venture-funded developer of Enterprise software product for Windows OS migration. Acquired by Symantec.

SR . INTERNET SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

Built, administered and managed company Internet, extranet, intranet and other browser-enabled applications and environments.

• Created DHTML product GUI using ASP, XML, XSLT for enterprise and consumer software that won Best of COMDEX Fall 2000.
• Authored and implemented best practices across technology infrastructure.
• Project Manager and Technical leader for “in-sourcing” (software) product development, beta software product demonstration, beta software program feedback system, web hosting migration to internal facility
• Responsible for defining and executing “Best Practices” throughout development and technology environment including: security, audit, OS builds, Version Control, MySQL database, IDE, code library and tools across Windows workstations and Linux servers
• Develop and release website, intranet, knowledge-base, extranets supporting Marketing, Sales and Partner programs using multi-layer permissions, authentication, database content, browser-based authoring and administration on top of Linux and Apache using PHP, XML, XHTML, MySQL, DHTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Developed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools and campaigns

1999/11 - 2000/07 Raging Bull

Andover, MA A CMGI portfolio company, developed into a leading Internet financial community and merged with AltaVista. Now part of Lycos.

SR. WEB DEVELOPER

Led projects for new content and functionality from prototype to install. Produced solutions for workflow, and site maintenance. Created various prototypes for major new initiatives. Participate in weekly production planning, code reviews and all phases of software development life-cycle.

• Created web pages that received as many as 20 million page views per day.
• Sr. Technical Lead for PERL applications including the custom CMS backed by the c2 wiki.
• Products included Trading Center, IPO Center, Personalized Boards

1999/06 - 1999/11 Fidelity Investments

Boston, MA Global leader in Mutual Funds and Financial Services

INFORMATION ARCHITECT

Part of an elite team responsible for the front page of Fidelity.com. Managed and assisted in the coordinated release of weekly updates to the Fidelity.com web portal. Incorporate maintenance with new product announcements, and major new product launches into weekly production schedule. Design information architecture for new products.

• Participated in major new product launch and corporate strategy initiative to use 'Personalization Technologies' (MyFidelity) reflected in the design and functionality of the Fidelity portal for all its customers.

1996/07 - 1999/06 Investors Bank & Trust

Boston, MA IBT is a leading global mutual fund accountant and asset custodian. Acquired by State Street Corp.

WEBMASTER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

As a member of the Systems Architecture group, I collaborated with the Director of Strategy, consultants and internal teams to foster the growth and implementation of Internet technologies while helping the organization adapt and reshape its business practices to this new medium.

• Launched the Global Custody operations Internet presence in 1998.
• Participated in expansion from 600 employees to over 1,000.
• Coordinated technology efforts while company opened offices in Toronto, and Dublin Ireland.
• Designed, implemented and maintained Microsoft Access database which received CICS datasets from Mainframe.
• Wrote custom queries to process $150K+ monthly transaction costs (approx 35,000 records/mo) to deliver reports and business intelligence which translated into significant policy, procedure, and cost savings.
• Owned Y2K database prototyped by EDS consultants. Refined the structure and transformed the prototype into the production database which served as the central repository for the banks complete Y2K compliance program office.

1991/04 - 1996/04 Dean Witter

Wellesley, MA

Leading Wall Street brokerage firm. Aquired by Morgan Stanley.

Registered Representative (Stockbroker)

Managed millions of dollars and hundreds of clients at Dean Witter in Wellesley. Also led the branch in PC tools installation and support for an office of 50 people.

• National Sales Director’s Award.
• Series 7 Series 63 licensed; Rule 144 specialist
• Dean Witter Graduate School - Asset Allocation Planning, Life, Health, Annuity Insurance Licensed

Professional Associations

BostonPHP

bostonphp.com

Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group

GNHLUG.org

Boston Linux User Group

BLU.org

Internet Society

ISOC.org

HTML Writer's Guild (HWG)

member

coursework in JavaScript, Active Server Pages, XML, Perl

Community / Volunteer Work

2013/07 - present Coastal Trails Coalition

Salisbury, MA

CTC is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to assist in developing the Coastal Trails Network, a 30-mile network of rail trails and bikeways connecting the communities of Amesbury, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. Formed in 2004 with the support of the Essex National Heritage Commission, the National Park Service Rivers and Trails Program, and the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, CTC continues to be a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization with no paid employees. Donations to CTC are tax deductible as charitable donations. CTC invests 100% of donations, grants and membership contributions in the trail network.

Board of Directors member (volunteer)

Technology, social media, trail maintenance, fund-raising and events

Forum 128

a French business-science development council in Boston headed by the French Consulate

1996/05 Rotary International

GSE member

• Served as the Financial Services industry expert in a group of 5 professionals on an international business exchange in France sponsored by the Rotary Foundation's Group Study Exchange (GSE) program.

Education

1984 - 1989 University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

BA - Double Major Biology & French

GPA 3.4/4.0

1987 - 1988 Universite d'Orleans

Orleans, FRANCE (Exchange program)

Skills

Domain experience in mobile comm, financial services; enterprise, consumer and free software; business to business services, e-commerce and retail

Project experience in start-up to large company with n-tier, service-based architectures, Project Management, Open Source, Software Development Life-cycle, Source Code Control, Incident Tracking, Release Engineering, Code validation, SQA, Procedural and Object-oriented design, Client-server and distributed technologies, Relational databases, Information Architecture, Design, User Interface, Server administration, Security, E-commerce, Public speaking and writing ability.

Languages / Technology Standards:

Advanced or Expert in HTTP, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Browser Document Object Model (DOM), Dynamic HTML (DHTML), JavaScript, Regular Expressions (regex), Accessibility Standards (section 508), Usability Standards, UML, PHP, MySQL, PERL, CGI, Linux / UNIX, bash, Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, SSL, Familiarity with Java, C, Python, VB, VBA, VBScript, ASP, IIS

Applications / Frameworks / Servers / Operating Systems:

Kubuntu, RedHat and Debian GNU-Linux, RHN, linuxconf, YUM, APT, Apache, MySQL, Webmin, SAMBA, phpMyAdmin, Subversion, websvn, BitKeeper, CVS, Visual SourceSafe, HomeSite, Dreamweaver, vi, Quanta Plus, Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Krita, Inkscape PEAR, Drupal, phpUnit, jQuery, Seagull, Tiki, Smarty, Outreach Project Tool, SugarCRM, Eventum, ezPublish, phpLayersMenu, phpBB Forums, mediawiki, mnoGoSearch, Google CSE, Google API, YUI, phpDocumentor, gallery, osCommerce, Zope, qmail, ezMLM, mHonArc, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Project, TaskJuggler, FreeMind, Access, DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, 2000, XP Home/Pro, plus a long list of other tools on both Linux and Windows environments.

Google Apps For Your Domain (now called Google Workspace)

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards = a global standards organization

PHP Extension and Application Repository = a collection of code started in 1999 to enhance the utility of PHP.

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor = the most popular programming language for the web

Regular Expression = a search and replace syntax that allows for powerful pattern matching

HyperText Markup Language = structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text.

Extensible Markup Language = a system for markup such that you can create your own 'schema' of terms rather than a specific markup language.

Application Service Provider

Application Server Pages = an old technology by Microsoft

Cascading Style Sheets = A technology that deals with the presentation of content on the web

Search Engine Optimization

Greater New Hampshire Linux User Groups = an association of User Groups in and around the state of New Hampshire, USA of people interested in Linux technology and/or those who created it in the first place; and continue to this day.

Boston Linux & Unix = a Linux User Group in Boston, MA, USA with roots that go back into the days of Unix before Linux was a thing

HyperText Transfer Protocol = the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. See HTML

Secure Sockets Layer = secure (encrypted) underpinning for HTTP

Gnu's Not Unix, because Unix is proprietary software while Gnu is software that respects your freedom.

Advanced Package Tool. Created by the Debian project.

Application Programming Interface