Lorin Kobashigawa			 lorin@sugoi.org
415.559.5643

Objective:	"If nothing else, it's nice to know things." 
					    - Frank Foreman
		
Skills: 
  Server-side Java experience: building complex web-applications using
  up to date J2EE technologies including: EJB 1.1, Servlet 2.2, JSP
  1.1, JDBC 2.0., BEA Weblogic, Orion Server

  Used JUnit for unit testing logic components.

  Believe in using logging frameworks throughout development. Familiar
  with IBM Alphaworks JLog and Log4J.

  Non-Java web experience: Unix administration, CGI/Perl web
  development with and without ModPerl, Apache administration and
  module-level modification, XML, D/HTML, JavaScript, website
  deployment, and administration of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
  
  Enjoy reading the latest published design patterns and methodologies
  and applying them to current projects.

  Ability to deconstruct complex problems into simple pieces.  

  Can co-ordinate development across a team of engineers.  

  Comfortable working in Unix, Windows, or MacOS environments, but a
  definate preference for Unix.
		
Experience:
  CriticalSense				   	6/01 - 12/01
  Senior Java Developer
    Developed a system of remotely configurable data extraction
    modules that resided on client POS systems. The extractors 
    retrieved sales data, converted it into XML,  and streamed 
    it across a secure socket to a data warehouse on 
    CriticalSense's servers.  
	
    Technologies Involved:
      Java Secure Sockets Extension (JSSE)
      Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
      Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
      Java Servlets and JSPs (J2EE)
      Perl 5.6.0
      JRun / Oracle 8i
	
  Robot6		                        6/99 -  2/01 
  Senior Java Developer  
    Java application design and implementation.  In charge of
    evaluating new technologies and developing coding standards.
    Primary systems included Orion Application Server, MySQL,
    PostgreSQL, and Apache Tomcat. 
    Projects included: 
      greatpets.com 
        Lead a team of 4 developers.  Designed a
        completely dynamic site with a flexible content hierarchy,
        human readable URLs, and automatically rotating periodic
        content.  (not yet launched)
      mySmartVisa.com 
        Senior developer.  Assisted in the architecture of a secure
        online credit card application tool.  Responsible for
        significantly reducing overall code size.  Assisted in choice
        and configuration of live, development, and staging servers
        for client.
      SportSpots.com       
        Lead developer. Developed a tool for locating sports venues
        within several cities.  Used GSP, a pre-JSP page compiler to
        dynamically serve up content, and manage cacheing of data.
      Headbob.com 
        Perl based shopping system.  Re-wrote commerce and page
        generation systems.  


  Organic Online		                1/99 -  6/99 
  Contract Content Engineer 
    XML developer for homedepot.com.  Developed XML templates for
    managing content in Organic's proprietary Frontier-based content
    management system.  Learned XML and Frontier.
    Project: homedepot.com

  Organic Online		                3/98 -  9/98 
  Contract Content Engineer 
    Worked with a team of Content Engineers managing a large amount of
    data for large dynamic websites.  Used Borscht (a proprietary
    Organic scripting language similar to JSP) to develop templates
    for dynamic pages. 
      Projects Included: 
      nortel.com
        Oracle driven, completely dynamic website with a remote
        publishing tool.
      rational.com        
        Primarily static site with a large amount of content.
      levis.com
        Lilith Fair subsite.  Light DHTML work.  

  Selective Media	                        6/97 -  2/98 
  Web Ops 
    Setup and maintained systems for adult oriented video conferencing
    sites.
    Projects Included: 
      inches.com WARNING* 
      hotcat.com WARNING* 

    *In some companies, visiting these sites is grounds for dismissal.
		
References:
  Lenny Gusel (lenny@criticalsense.com)		415.505.7576
  CTO - Critical Sense

  Jonathan H. Brown (jonbrown@gaffle.com)	843.571.5601
  Senior Software Engineer - Arthur D. Little
  (formerly CEO - Robot6)	

  Todd Moritz (tmoritz@earthlink.net)           
  Executive Producer - Organic Media