Tom Stanik, Developer in Edison, NJ, United States
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Tom Stanik

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Edison, NJ, United States
Toptal Member Since
November 14, 2012

Tom is a seasoned electrical/computer engineer with 15+ years of industrial engineering and coding experience, beginning with work at AT&T/Bell. He is a dedicated, top-notch problem solver with proven ability to get the job done.

Portfolio

GCI Technologies
Debugging, Hardware, Team Management, Jira
smsPREP, Inc
SMS, Joomla, PHP
Zandigo.com
MySQL, Linux, Apache, PHP, Drupal

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, Zend Studio, CVS, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is Robotic software that automatically steps a wafer prober to preform testing of semiconductor integrated circuits, i.e., test/measurement.

Work Experience

Head of Service Department

2010 - 2012
GCI Technologies
  • Managed team of technicians who repaired broken consumer electronics.
Technologies: Debugging, Hardware, Team Management, Jira

PHP Developer and Systems Administrator

2009 - 2011
smsPREP, Inc
  • Joomla! component development to allow for the sending and receiving of millions of multiple choice questions and responses via SMS.
  • Kannel SMS Gateway development and integration.
  • Cron configuration for sending of automated SMS practice questions.
Technologies: SMS, Joomla, PHP

2007

2007 - 2007
Zandigo.com
  • PHP developer and system administrator.
Technologies: MySQL, Linux, Apache, PHP, Drupal

System Administrator / Developer

2006 - 2007
NixTheMiddleman.com
  • Lead developer and system administrator (Linux) for NixTheMiddleman.com which sold retail consumer goods on the internet.
Technologies: PHP, osCommerce

Senior Manager

2004 - 2005
Forticon, LLC
  • Developed and sold a polyurethane system to to mold concrete building materials.
Technologies: Manufacturing

Head of Manufacturing

2004 - 2005
NeoPad Technologies Inc.
  • Head of Manufacturing - responsible for the team which produced prototype polyurethane polishing pads used in the semi-conductor industry.
Technologies: Production, Manufacturing

President

2003 - 2004
Wi-On Networks
  • WiFi - designed wireless coverage for large deployment of WiFi (Hotels).
  • Networking - networked each of the access points back to a central server room.
  • Routers - configured routers to use/bypass network.
  • DNS - customized DNS servers for network topology.
  • DHCP - customized the IP address allocation for different network segments.
Technologies: DHCP, DNS, Networking, WiFi

Member of the Technical Staff - Research Department

1985 - 2002
AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories
  • Integrated circuit (IC) design and simulation.
  • Wafer fabrication.
  • Unix system administration.
Technologies: Hardware Design, Engineering, Perl, AWK, C, Unix

Drupal CMS

Drupal site used as landing page for my personal domain.

vBulliten

Private vBulletin site used for managing parts inventory and internal messaging.

SugarCRM

Private SugarCRM installation used to manage contacts.

Plone

Private Plone CMS site used for file transfers.

Jira

Private Jira site used for bug tracking and software development.

Confluence

Private Atlassian Confluence website used for record keeping.

Languages

C, Perl, AWK, Bash, C++, PHP, Python

Frameworks

Plone

Tools

Jira, Git, SugarCRM, Apache, CVS, Vim Text Editor, Zend Studio

Platforms

Linux, vBulletin, Joomla, osCommerce, Unix, Drupal, System V, FreeBSD

Other

Embedded Software, System Administration, Team Management, Hardware, Debugging, SMS, Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, Hardware Design, WiFi, Networking, DNS, DHCP

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL

1995 - 1997

Masters Degree in Computer Engineering

Princeton University - New Jersey

1989 - 1994

Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken, New Jersey

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