Tom Stanik, Developer in Edison, NJ, United States

Tom Stanik

Software Developer

Location
Edison, NJ, United States
Toptal Member Since
November 8, 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.

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Portfolio

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

Location

Edison, NJ, United States

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

2010 - 2012

Head of Service Department

GCI Technologies
  • Managed team of technicians who repaired broken consumer electronics.
Technologies: Debugging, Hardware, Team Management, Jira
2009 - 2011

PHP Developer and Systems Administrator

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
2006 - 2007

System Administrator / Developer

NixTheMiddleman.com
  • Lead developer and system administrator (Linux) for NixTheMiddleman.com which sold retail consumer goods on the internet.
Technologies: PHP, osCommerce
2004 - 2005

Senior Manager

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

Head of Manufacturing

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
2003 - 2004

President

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
1985 - 2002

Member of the Technical Staff - Research Department

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

Experience

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.

Skills

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

Education

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