Ed Summers
ehs@pobox.com

Expertise: object oriented design, web services, semantic web, 
           automated testing, metadata, information retrieval, 
           opensource, agile software development 
Languages: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, C, Scheme

WORK HISTORY

Information Technology Specialist
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
03/2006 - present
- digital preservation and repository software development
- lead software developer on the National Digital Newspaper 
  Project
- contributing member to the Semantic Web Deployment Group
  at the W3C

Consultant
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
07/2005 - 12/2005
- Python object oriented design
- automated testing
- implementing a reporting framework
- large scale refactoring
- quixote, pylucene, mysql, redhat administration

Senior Software Engineer
Follett Corporation, McHenry IL
05/2005 - 03/2006 
- building and supporting a distributed knowledge management 
  application
- requirements gathering and project planning 
- web service design and implementation
- Java performance tuning
- automated testing
- database administration
- Linux/Windows systems administration

Consultant
Performix, Chicago IL
02/2004 - 04/2005
- object oriented design
- refactored Perl code
- Perl, Apache, mod_perl, DB2

Consultant
Queens Borough Public Library, New York NY
06-2004 - 05/2005
- character encoding conversion
- controlled vocabulary mining
- Perl data processing training

Consultant
Notre Dame University, South Bend IN
06/2004 - 12/2004
- training in object oriented programming and unit testing 
- high volume metadata harvesting
- guidance and implementation search technologies
- ported Java Commonn Query Language parser to Perl

Applications Developer
Follett Library Resources, McHenry IL
07/2002 - 05/2004 
- PHP/Perl development in a Unix/Oracle environment
- determined project requirements, created task lists and 
  schedules
- designed and developed library collection analysis application
- unit and application level automated testing 
- Oracle/Apache stress testing and performance tuning
- XML processing
- distributed application design using SOAP/XMLRPC

Senior Software Engineer
CheetahMail, New York NY
02/2000 - 07/2002
- team lead in a group of 8 programmers
- developed data processing infrastructure for Fortune 
  500 clients
- designed/developed real time reporting system 
- creation and maintainance of web service API
- in depth knowledge of SMTP and HTTP protocols
- web services development
- technical representative for partners and sales 
- networking and systems administration as required

Electronic Resources Librarian
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
04/1998 - 02/2000
- SGML data processing for electronic texts for 39 universities 
  in Virginia.
- created current awareness system to alert students/faculty to 
  new items in their field of interest.
- created XML publishing system for archival finding aids.
- developed serials database for locating licensed fulltext.
- III/OCLC metadata management integration

Visiting Assistant Professor 
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
08/1996 - 03/1998
- web/database development (ASP/SQLServer)
- collection development and cataloging in Sociology and 
  Political Science
- preservation of 19th century criminology pamphlet collection
- managed reference services in the Social Science Library

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

- Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer, 2008. 
  http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
- LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data, preprint for the Proceedings of 
  the International Conference on DublinCore and Metadata 
  Applications, 2008. http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2855
- Following Your Nose to the Web of Data, Information Standards 
  Quarterly, 2008 http://inkdroid.org/journal/2008/01/04/following-your-nose-to-the-web-of-data/
- Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester, Ariadne,
  no. 38, Jan 2004.
- Cyril: Expanding the Horizons of MARC21, Library Hi Tech, v. 
  22, no. 1, 2004.
- A Consortial Approach to Cooperative Cataloging and Authority 
  Control: The Virtual Library of Virginia Experience, Resource 
  Sharing and Information Networks, v. 16, no. 1, 2003, p. 33-53.
- Paying Homage to Perl (PHP), The Perl Review, January, 2003.
- MARC it your way: MARC.pm, Information Technology and 
  Libraries, March, 2002.
- Comprehensive Access to Periodicals: A Database Solution, 
  Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services, v. 
  24, no. 2, 2000, p. 33-44.
- Show Me the Metadata, Against the Grain, v.11, no.1, 1998.
- Gateways to Social Work/Welfare on the Net, C&RL News, v.59, 
  no. 3, 1998, p.163-167.

EDUCATION

MLS School of Communications and Library Science
Rutgers University
1995-1996

BA English and American Literature
Rutgers University
1987-1991