Highly motivated and out of the box thinker constantly working on web applications and automation both on the Internet side and for internal applications. Specialties: In depth troubleshooting experience with applications written in numerous languages, databases, networking, firewalls, load balancers, and others. Strong oral and written communication skills,. Well learned (Ruby on Rails, Java, AJAX, HTML/DHTML, C, Perl, Oracle, Postgres, MySql, shell scripting, git, subversion, PL/SQL, Chef, etc.)

Developer @ Developing applications in Nodejs and Ruby From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Owner @ Web application development using Ruby on Rails and other emerging technologies. From June 1991 to Present (24 years 7 months) Senior Platform Engineer @ Developing in Ruby on Rails and Chef on AWS to provide solutions for Retail and Consumer Credit Card products. Led two contractors in developing application to provide automated deployments of Capital One’s Store Card applications. Designed and began development of an application with potential for Capital One to avoid $750,000 of external consulting fees. Lead knowledge transfer associate to add excellence to other associates knowledge and abilities. From March 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 6 months) Consultant - eSupport @ Responsible for maintaining existing environment as well as architecting enhancements to the eBusiness site utilized by HSBC’s North American Internet and intranet applications for all deployment and monitoring. Existing environment is in shell scripts and flat files. Re-architecting this in Perl and Java Servlets using the Mysql database for the backend. From April 2010 to March 2013 (3 years) Sr Systems Developer / Technical Lead @ Responsible for architecting and implementing new software to support our online customers as well as internal applications, data modeling, and maintaining existing systems. In-depth use of Java Servlets, JSPs (Java Server Pages), XML, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, Oracle, Java Stored Procedures, and PL/SQL on Solaris servers. Frequently used as a resource for complicated network, Solaris administration, Big IP load balancers, and Nokia firewall issues. Have served as the technical lead on numerous projects. Served as backup for my manager, Director of Development for SRDS. Roles also included project management on highly technical projects. From January 2009 to April 2010 (1 year 4 months) Sr Systems Developer / Project Manager @ One of a team of developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing our production web applications. Primary duties include Java, JSP, HTML, XHTML, AJAX, Oracle SQL & PL/SQL, and Solaris. In March of 2008 I gained an additional responsibility of managing projects with external consultants and working on developing convergence strategies for the business. In December of 2008 SRDS was acquired by WPP and allocated to the Kantar Group. From December 2004 to December 2008 (4 years 1 month) Sr Systems Engineer @ UNIX System Administration including hardware maintenance on all our Sun servers (including the oracle database servers) as well as application administration for email server for 150+ employees, LDAP, DNS, proxy and several web servers, load balancers and associated network switches/routers. From February 2001 to December 2004 (3 years 11 months) Senior Systems Administrator @ Administrator for all of the companies UNIX based servers as well as their load balancers, firewall, DNS servers and associated network equipment. From June 2000 to February 2001 (9 months) Senior Systems Administrator @ Senior UNIX System Administration including hardware maintenance on a number of the Chicago Board of Trade Sun Solaris servers including those responsible for the Project A electronic markets. Included DNS, NIS, sendmail, networking, troubleshooting and off-hours maintenance. From September 1998 to June 2000 (1 year 10 months) Consultant @ Evaluated a number of solutions to provide the 5000+ employees with PC or Mac based software through a UNIX application server. Aided in coordination and administration of a pilot program for WABI, a Microsoft Windows emulator running under Solaris, allowing users to access PC applications on their X-terminal. From 1995 to 1995 (less than a year)

Karl Meiser is skilled in: Core Java, Java, Eclipse, Ant, Log4j, C, Linux, Solaris, Sendmail, MySQL, Perl, Unix, PHP, Mentoring, Integration