e-mail rbt@zort.ca
1107 - 25 GrenVille Street • Toronto, On M4Y 2X5 • Phone (416) 963-8424

Rod Taylor

Experience
| 2000 - present InQuent Technologies Toronto, ON Database Developer Integration of legacy systems with new systems via creation of middleware. Ie. IAF / Horizon -> Billplex -> InQuent Provisioning System interaction. Designed and Developed enterprise systems to meet business requirements with Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL on Solaris based systems. Assisted marketing in product design and documentation from a technical perspective. Planned and implemented large scale migrations of client accounts between systems.
| 2001 - present BarChord Entertainment Inc. Toronto, ON Design Lead and Technical Consultant (part-time contract) Completed generic database design according to business plan – SQL92 Spec. Developed interface as per specification documents – PHP. General server cluster maintenance and configuration – FreeBSD.
Computer Proficiency
| Platforms: Unix (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux), Win 2k/NT/9x, OS/2, DOS Languages: PL/SQL, PL/PGSQL, Perl, PHP, TCL, C, ASM, VB, Pascal, Rexx, ASH Database: SQL92/SQL99, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Tools: ERWin, Data Architect, DocBook, MS Viseo, Vantive, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access), Lotus Notes, OpenOffice, Gimp, CVS, Unix Tools, ... Network: TCP, UDP, Firewall (ipf, nat, ipsec), Routing, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, Samba, ... Web: PHP, CSS, JavaScript, CGI, Apache, SSL, XML, HTML, ...
Education
| 1998-2000 RCC College of Technology Vaughn, ON Honours Electronics Engineering Technologist 95% during all programming related courses. Analog and digital circuit design, computer analysis, and PCB prototyping. Designed, developed, implemented microcontroller controlled, five band, Parametric Equalizer in team of two over period of 8 months.
Interests
| Peer 2 peer design theory, indie music distribution (barchord.com), squash, fuseball, electronics design theory, database structure analysis, myand tearing things apart – software or hardware – to see how to they could work more efficiently with increased stability.