STEPHEN B KINZLER ******************* steve@kinzler.com ************************** www.kinzler.com *********************** www.linkedin.com/in/stevekinzler Seeking opportunities to apply my expertise in the Internet, the Web and Linux while broadening my experience in new technologies, fields and roles. * Experienced professional and leader with a strong academic background * Self-motivated and responsible with high personal/professional standards * Can span between focused technical work and broad integration views * Pragmatic, goal-focused, cooperation-oriented, full-scope vision LATEST ENTERPRISE ----------------- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ONLINE HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL * Envisioned, architected, developed, deployed and scaled this high-profit software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. * Led all work about business requirements, technical infrastructure, software development/integration, staff/automated processes, quality control, data transfers, security/privacy assurance, client service, and (last but not least) user experience/satisfaction. * Executed continuous development to scale business operations without many additional resources or any compromise in quality. * Achieved continuous business growth over 15 years currently at about $3,000,000/year revenue, most of which is profit. * Directly served over 250 direct clients and, via resellers, many hundreds more, ranging from Fortune 500 companies, governments, major insurers, and large hospital systems down through small businesses, startups and communities, in most every sector. * Processed over 11,000,000 surveys and reports, as of March 2014, for many millions of participants. * Worked with a variety of development teams and world-wide business partners using different platforms and approaches while integrating and enhancing our products, processes and relationships. * Passed frequent standardized and client-required security assessments, audits and penetration tests. Maintained HIPAA compliance. * Adapted this product for general survey deployment under a variety of identification and authentication requirements. Enhanced for multi-language and multi-culture use and deployed on other continents. * Maintained very robust systems with an excellent track record of reliability (no significant outages over 15 years of operation). EXPERIENCE ---------- 1997-2014 SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST and SENIOR APPLICATIONS ANALYST for the Health Management Research Center of the University of Michigan. Web application development. Unix/Linux server systems administration. IT management and supervision. Security and compliance oversight. High-end data mining software evaluation and acquisition. 1988-1997 SOFTWARE ENGINEER for the Indiana University (IU) Computer Science Department. Comprehensive large-site Unix systems administration of workstations, desktop servers and mainframes. Systems programming, Internet services support/development, special projects. Software customization, installation and maintenance. 1996-1997 CONTRACTOR for Sun Microsystems to Detente Technology. Internet and security software development and evaluation. 1996 INSTRUCTOR in Computer Science at IU. Created and taught an advanced course in Web technology and programming. 1992 SENIOR COMPUTER ENGINEER for the Biomechanics Department of the Spanish Olympic Training Center in Barcelona. Systems analysis, software development and scientific computation. 1986-1987 RESEARCH ASSISTANT in the IU Phonetics Laboratory. 1986-1987 ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR in Computer Science at IU. SAMPLE PROJECTS --------------- ABAT In Spain, conducted intensive software development for an ambitious, innovative project at the Barcelona Summer Olympics to record and digitize athletic performances in Track & Field and Gymnastics for full 3-D biomechanical analysis and computer animation generation for international television broadcast during the Games. Established a lab of SGI workstations and PC digitization stations at the main Olympic venue and worked with 3 other international teams. Co-authored 3 resulting journal-published papers. Internet Created and maintain this popular recreational Email Oracle service for collaborative, creative humor. Perhaps the world's first networked social entertainment service. Lead team of worldwide volunteer assistants. Since 1989. See also at Wikipedia. Vshnu Significant open-source Perl application. Visual shell for Linux/Unix. Registered at freecode.com and CPAN/PAUSE. Open Source Various other open-source applications published, including Contribs a collection of over 250 useful scripts, configuration files and man pages for one's Linux/Unix home environment evolved over the years. See attachment or links at bottom. Sun Netra Developed modules for DHCP and SNMP service administration on the Sun Netra Internet server system. Evaluated the WebStalker security software for Netra integration. Performed Netra compatibility testing for WebStalker, VirusWall and Netscape SuiteSpot servers. IUeval Designed and developed a large-scale, easily-administered, general online survey system with Email and Web user interfaces. Used in IU CS for all teaching evaluations. IUCS A348 "Mastering the World-Wide Web". With two teaching assistants, developed and taught this course to inaugurate the Web, Perl and Java into the Indiana University curriculum. IU CS Web Cultivated a robust, customized technical infrastructure for the IU Computer Science web servers, likely one of the first hundred sites in existence and rated with four stars. Developed a self-maintaining, award-winning departmental personnel directory. Established a secure Internet "playground" for students to run web servers. Picons Built and maintain these collections of over 13,000 user, domain and newsgroup icons for the Internet community. Developed unique picon applications and Internet services. ClipControl Developed this (once) popular, award-winning Java applet for flexibly embedding audio clips in Web pages. More information about most of these projects are at www.kinzler.com SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE ------------------ Leadership Can assume leadership roles when/as needed, and let them go likewise. Practice "servant leadership" as possible. Business Good understanding and deep experience in envisioning, developing, deploying, scaling and sustaining SaaS businesses. Expert in using automation for highly efficient processes. Programming Fluent in a number of procedural, object-oriented, functional, string processing, markup and scripting languages. Programming theory and practice, for both applications and systems software development. Internet/Web Technical webmastering and programming. Comprehensive Internet service administration. Active developer of unique network applications with the Web and Email. Since 1986. OS Operating systems administration and utilization, with practical expertise with most major varieties of Unix since 1982. Frequent developer of administrative & user programs. Networks TCP/IP-based communication protocols and software. Basic network administration and programming. Security Systems and network security technology, practice, management and auditing. Compliance Privacy standards, HIPAA, SOC. Analysis Strategic problem solving. Algorithm, software and data design. Complexity, cost and human/cognitive factors. Non-technical Good written and oral communication, team and individual work, self-learning, innovation, teaching and tutoring. AI Machine learning, data mining/KDD, neural networks, genetic algorithms, cognitive science/psychology and artificial life. SYSTEMS ------- Expert Linux, Unix, Perl, Shell (bash), HTML, CSS, CGI, Apache, HTTP, FTP, Email, RSS, LAMP, Open Source, ETL, Data transfer Competent Windows, Android, Java, JavaScript, C, Scheme/Lisp, HTML5, AJAX, XML, SAML, Web services, Web analytics, Oracle, SQL, SAS Enterprise Miner Git Learning Python EDUCATION --------- * Continuous self-education, conferences, trainings, workshops, etc * Indiana University, Bloomington IN Degree: M.S. in Computer Science; minor in Cognitive Science Candidacy: Ph.D. in Computer Science GPA: 3.95 of 4.00 * University of Jamestown, Jamestown ND (liberal arts) Degree: B.A. in Computer Science with Honors, Mathematics; minor in Philosophy GPA: 4.00 of 4.00, Summa Cum Laude HONORS ------ * National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention * US Presidential Scholar Finalist * University of Jamestown President's Key Award * University of Jamestown Fellow in Computer Science and Mathematics * University of Jamestown Dept Prizes in Chemistry, Mathematics and Philosophy * Alpha Chi and Gamma Sigma Honor Societies * Eagle Scout Attachment: "Toolman features Steve Kinzler", SAGE Feature article, Usenix ;login magazine www.kinzler.com/me/webrowse/usenix.pdf or www.kinzler.com/me/webrowse/usenix.html