RÉSUMÉ

Andrew Church
<achurch@achurch.org>

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Background

I am a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science with considerable expertise in software and system engineering. I primarily use and develop for the Linux operating system using the C programming language, though I have extensive experience with other environments and languages. I have independently developed hundreds of diverse programs for personal and professional use, totaling over 500,000 lines of code, and my systems operation experience includes management and emergency response for user-facing systems at Google Inc. as well as the establishment and operation of an independent Web service provider.

Additionally, I am highly proficient in the Japanese language. I have passed level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and I can speak with near-native fluency in both daily conversation and technical discussions, as well as translate accurately between the two languages. The twenty-plus years I have spent in Japan have also given me an in-depth grasp of Japanese society and culture.

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Skills

Computing environments:

• iOS
• Linux/Unix
• PlayStation Portable
• Moderate experience with: AmigaOS, Android, MacOS, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, VMS

Programming languages:

• Assembly language (x86, 68000, ARM, MIPS)
• Bourne shell
• C/C++
• Lua
• Perl
• Python
• Moderate experience with: BASIC, Java, Javascript, Lisp, ML, Pascal, SQL

Certifications:

• Japan ITEE: Information Security Specialist
• Japan ITEE: Network Specialist
• Japan ITEE: Applied Information Technology Engineer
• Japanese Language Proficiency Test: Level 1

Member, Association of Computing Machinery

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Experience

Independent software development

I have developed a number of programs for individual clients or for the community at large; I also spend much of my personal time pursuing software development, to hone my skills or experiment in new fields. Some of my significant independent projects include:

• Ports to tablet devices of award-winning PC games including Aquaria (see http://aquariagame.com/) and FTL: Faster Than Light (see http://www.ftlgame.com/)
• Cross-platform middleware for game engines, used in the Aquaria and FTL tablet ports and recent versions of FTL for PC as well as several private projects, with extensive functionality tests (see http://achurch.org/SIL/)
• Services for IRC Networks, an IRC privilege control service daemon, maintained for a full life cycle of 15 years (see http://achurch.org/services/)
• System administration utilities for Dragonfire Internet Services (see below)
• Custom HTTP and SMTP server software for my personal domain, achurch.org

I have also contributed to a number of distributed open-source projects, such as Transcode (a tool for transcoding video and audio streams; see https://bitbucket.org/achurch_/transcode), and I frequently publish small changes or improvements to open-source software (see http://achurch.org/patch-pile/).

Google Inc. (January 2011 - February 2013)

Employed in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) group at the Tokyo office, handling both incident response and stability/performance improvement for multiple user-facing and internal services. I also spearheaded several improvements to automated monitoring systems, including a tool to significantly reduce overhead in monitoring configurations. My work was consistently rated highly, and I received several peer commendations for efforts both within my group and in helping other groups.

8-4, Ltd. (December 2006 - October 2009)

Employed for video game localization and internal software development. I was involved in the localization of several game titles, including:

• NieR (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360), translation assistance and quality assurance
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360), project lead
• Tales of the Abyss (PlayStation 2), translation
• Wild ARMs 5 (PlayStation 2), project lead
• Wild ARMs XF (PlayStation Portable), project lead

I also proposed and developed a Web-based project/content management system tailored to the specific needs of video game localization, greatly increasing productivity across all of the company's projects; as of 2019, that system reportedly still forms the backbone of the company's project management.

Elpis Corporation (April 2004 - October 2006)

Employed for software research and development. Projects included:

• Development of network monitoring software
• Research into next-generation network protocols, including a redesigned Web communication protocol allowing increased security and communication efficiency

NTT Comware Corporation (May 1999 - January 2004)

Employed for software research and development. Projects included:

• Design of a web bulletin board for a groupware system using an SQL-based web scripting language
• Construction of a Linux environment for the L-Box (a low-power Linux system), including environment configuration and modification of system software to meet requirements of the environment

Dragonfire Internet Services, owner and system administrator (December 1994 - February 1999)

Dragonfire Internet Services was a Web provider (provider of Web site storage and access services, but not dialup services) which I started on a free basis and later took commercial. Dragonfire's user base reached approximately 5,000 users at its peak. See http://achurch.org/dragonfire-retrospective/ for more information.

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