Skills

Brent Washburne has extensive skills with the management, use and applications of Open Source Software:

• Can "talk tech" and speak to business needs at executive levels
• Has led the acquisition of Open Source technologies at companies
• Directed hardware and software development around the world
• Delivered business metrics and operating statistics to sales, marketing, editorial and design departments
• Authored functional specifications for management and engineering
• Gave talks to internal groups and at public conferences

• UNIX Operating Systems: Solaris, SunOS, Linux, FreeBSD
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP Intel Assembler, Pascal, PL/M 86, BASIC, Fortran, Lisp, Prolog
• Rich Media: Macromedia Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
• Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS): Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, MySQL
• Windows Applications: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio
• Internet Protocols: HTTP, FTP, LDAP, DHCP, NTP, Z39.50
• Web Scripting Languages: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XML, CSS
• Web Servers: Apache, Netscape
• Web Applications: CGI, Apache modules

• Object-oriented programming
• N-tier client/server architectures
• Mathematical and statistical programming
• Code optimization and performance tuning
• Graphical representation of information
• Multi-million record database manipulation
• Systems architecture
• Database schema normalization