Allen S. Rout
1428 NW 7th Rd; Gainesville, FL, 32603
(904) 373-0906
asr@cise.ufl.edu
EDUCATION:
B.S., Computer Engineering, December 1996.
EXPERIENCE:
- 1992 : Constructed inventory/billing management system for The Extra
Closet of Fort Myers, Inc., Package still in use in updated form.
- February, 1993 to December, 1996: Student consultant to the Computer
and Information Sciences department at the University of
Florida. Primary responsibility for backups, including design,
implementation, and maintenance of backup management software for CISE
system and user disk space,with capacity to restore to any status in
the last 21 days, with 24--hour granularity.
- Fall, 1994 to present: Served as consultant on Internet presence to the
President's Office, University of Florida. Advised the Associate Vice
President for University Relations on web and Internet issues. Work
included the design and implementation of the UF Calendar.
- Fall, 1996 to present: Student employee and (beginning March, 1997)
Systems Programmer, NERDC, UF. Work duties included
- implementation and administration of enterprise backup services
- design and implementation of in-house applications
- maintenance and modification of legacy in-house code (C,sh,ksh,PERL).
- participation in design of University directory services
- new code to support the 'GatorLink' campus services
- DB/2 database installation, maintenance, and design
- UNIX Systems administration
- support and maintenance of Remedy ARS three-tier trouble-ticket system.
- Fall, 1999 to present: Database design and systems programmer for
Marion Brechner Citizen Access
Project, public-access resource repository for information on
citizen access issues in state and local government in the United
States.
- Fall, 2000 to present: co-chair, HORIZONTAL workgroup of Legal XML standards organization.
Packages and major projects currently in production use:
- ufl_auth, and ufl_admin, "middleware" in support of
the UF GatorLink infrastructure, which allows systems not capable of
native Kerberos authentication to do less-secure authentication making
use of a Kerberos server.
- Custom TACACS server supporting the University of Florida's central
dialup services, access control and accounting for 1100 lines.
- Web-based, mysql-founded database for managing undergraduate chemistry
labs, 2000 students at a time.
- The UF Calendar, the official calendar
of events for the University of Florida. Version 2 in development.
- "The Extra Closet", Microsoft Access application automating
many functions of a storage business, including the allocation of
storage units, billing, and tax recording.
Languages:
Fluent: PERL, C
Knowledgeable: Java, C++, unix shells, Microsoft Access
Some experience: lisp, e-lisp, FORTRAN, COBOL, Visual Basic,
62000 and 62HC11 assembler
Design philosophies:
Fluent: procedural, Object-oriented
Some experience: functional
OS'es: AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows
Buzzwords:
XML, XSLT, Open Source, Emacs or VI, mysql, SQL, DB/2,
References available on request.