Richard L. Goerwitz III

203 Woodley Street West
Northfield, Minnesota 55057
Phone: +1 507 645 7015
Richard@Goerwitz.com

Summary:

This c.v. describes a career that cuts across multiple disciplines and work environments, combining a strong academic background with extensive information technology skills - and these together with practical experience working as a teacher, programmer/analyst, and general IT consultant.

Education:

1993 - Ph.D. University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation defended with honors

Century Scholarship

1988 - M.A. University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

1985 - M.A. Yale University Divinity School, Bible

1983 - B.A. University of Chicago, Linguistics (honors, Phi Beta Kappa)

1981 - A.A. Bryn Athyn College (general liberal arts)

Research Interests:

• Corpus linguistics, computer-aided analysis and markup of text
• Enterprise directory services; identity management
• Full-text retrieval tools (esp. ones geared for biblical texts)
• Semitic philology

Information Systems Skills/Experience:

• Systems Integration: Skilled in linking diverse systems together for data sharing and automated configuration and maintenance. Able to draw on a wide variety of tools such as batch dumps, mes­sage queues, live SQL dumps/queries aimed at Oracle and SQL Server back ends, and APIs exposed by network operating systems. Well versed in capturing formal and in­for­mal busi­ness rules and man­aging complex data access and visibility restrictions. Able to resolve inevitable conflicts among stakeholders and keep complex projects moving. Key player in Carleton's web reporting and business intelligence projects
• Database Experience: Have worked as an applications developer with Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and MS SQL. Served as Carleton's interim DBA in the fall of 2003; became a full-time DBA in August 2004. Administered Oracle and MySQL, performing indexing, copying and backup of databases, and upgrading instances and databases across multiple versions and OSs. Have per­formed extensive slow query analysis and optimization for Carleton's web team.
• Identity Management: Designed and deployed Brown University's web-based single sign-on system in 1999 (it is robust enough that they are still using it). Designed, deployed, and still maintain Carle­ton Col­lege's enterprise directory. This directory merges/reconciles information from mul­tiple back-end systems, including an ERP system (Unidata-based), a mailing/recruiting sys­tem used by Admissions (SQL Server-based), a security card-access system (Informix-based), an alumni relations and development package (based on Oracle), and a network operating system (Netware + eDir­ectory). Carleton's enterprise directory now drives most new software on campus that au­then­ti­cates users or makes authorization decisions.
• Hands-On Programming: Expert mod_perl/Perl/Embedded Perl programmer. Have worked with C since 1994; also, Python and a number of other languages (including some fairly obscure, interesting ones, like Icon). Have used Java for the two years, mainly for uPortal and Luminis channel development). Willing to RTFM and work with a wide variety of environments, languages, and tech­nologies.
• Systems Administration: Big advocate of automated server configuration and management. Ex­tensive experience configuring and maintaining Unix machines (primarily Solaris and Linux; have worked with Unix variants, both BSD and SYSV, since the 80s). Extensive experience writ­ing shell scripts, Perl scripts. Can bring up nearly any networked service.
• Protocols, Standards: Have worked with all the biggies: TCP/IP, DNS/BIND, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, NIS, LDAP, HTTP, HTML; wrote one of the first existing XML validators for Brown University's recently disbanded Scholarly Technology Group. Have written WebDAV-aware portals, web-based remote-access systems (typically used to replace a cumbersome VPN). Worked extensively with XML.
• Documentation: Thousands of pages of online and offline documentation, from refereed scholarly articles, to newspaper editorial columns, user manuals, internal and external technical reports, and web-based multimedia tutorials

Employment History:

2004-present - Database Administrator/Applications Programmer, Carleton College

Manage Oracle database instances and install, integrate, and deploy Cognos reporting infrastructure. Lead Carleton's data warehousing effort, such as it is. Set up, design data marts; build ETL processes to load data from various sources, including SNMP agents, card-access systems, flat files, and OLTP databases. Tie data marts and transactional databases to Cognos CRN/BI 8, Access, and Excel. Assume leading role in enterprise application and systems integration projects, particularly ones involving databases, provisioning, and web-enablement of applications. Code applications as needed, and provide web infrastructure and general systems support, particularly with Linux and Solaris machines. Set up, configure Moodle course management system; automate course setup/rosters by tying Moodle to LDAP in 2005. Integrate GE PicturePerfect card-access system with ERP system. Help with similar CS Gold efforts. Set up MySQL instances, backup scripts.

2002-2004 - Web Technical Administrator, Carleton College

Handle web infrastructure, upgrades, database; handle most systems integration and identity management for Carleton College. Set up, administer LDAP; interface LDAP with other information repositories; design and code IdM/provisioning system. Interface with Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, and with NOSs. Provide general programming, database, systems administration support.

2001-2005 - Partner, Goerwitz Information Technology Consulting

Provide strategic planning, advice, custom programming, and systems integration services for clients spanning both for-profit and nonprofit sectors (e.g., the Nature Conservancy; Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc.; Brown University). My primary business has been helping institutions deploy secure remote-access web portals, single sign-on web systems, and database-driven web services.

1999-2001 - Programmer/Analyst, Computing and Information Systems, Brown University

Build, package, and deploy Brown's institution-wide web-based authentication infrastructure; work with mainframe, Unix, and micro support departments as needed; create, package, deploy Brown's university-wide remote web-access system (a custom-written Web portal geared specially for Library resources that uses Kerberos and/or LDAP for authentication); deploy web-based email solution for the campus; provide consulting services for a wide variety of other groups, projects, and initiatives (e.g., the Campus Security Task Force, Unix Systems Administrators group, etc.)

1996-1999 - Lead Research Programmer/Analyst, Brown Univ. Scholarly Technology Group

Develop new web-based software packages (full-text retrieval systems, CGI scripts, TCP/IP client-server apps., Apache modules, authentication systems, conversion software, web administration scripts, tools, and analysis software); set up, maintain SQL servers, DNS, DHCP, SMTP (+ spam fil­ters), NFS, AppleTalk, SMTP; set up and maintain over a dozen web servers; perform regular, com­pre­hensive security audits; maintain user accounts; ensure interoperability (on the filesystem level) of major platforms, Unix, Windows, and MacOS

1995-1996 - Programmer/Analyst, University of Chicago Oriental Institute

Bring up X-terminal based system for entering data for the Royal Achaemenid Inscriptions Project; in­stall, maintain TeX, many language interpreters; general systems software; do CGI, PERL, C pro­gram­ming; generally make things work on Unix-based servers.

1995-1996 - Lecturer, NELC, University of Chicago

Taught advanced biblical Hebrew to graduate students in both NELC (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) and the University of Chicago Divinity School. Developed a textbook specifically for students in this program.

Major Computing Projects:

2005 - Integrated Moodle Course Management system with Carleton College's provisioning and middleware infrastructures

2005 - Tied GE PicturePerfect to Carleton College's provisioning and middleware infrastructures; acted as internal lead on the upgrade from PicturePerfect 1.x to 3.x; set up data warehousing and reporting tools for this system

2005 - Integrated Heat/Hat Asset Tracking with Carleton's provisioning/middleware setup

2005 - Integrated Cognos ReportNet with Carleton's existing middleware setup and deployed ReportNet for campus use

2004 - Led LDAP integration project for Carleton Library, working both with Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges, as well as with the OPAC vendor, III, to add the ability to provide delegated, multi-institutional authentication facilities to the new joint Carleton-St. Olaf OPAC

2004 - Integrated the SCT Luminis portal with Carleton's provisioning systems (project died)

2002-05 - Designed, created, and deployed Carleton College's enterprise directory; coded IdM/provisioning system

2001 - Completely redesigned and redeployed Brown's remote web-access system

2000 - Designed/deployed Brown's secure web-based authentication/authorization system

1999 - Designed and implemented the first online OEB validator

1998 - Designed, implemented what was until '00 the best web-based XML validator around

1998 - Designed, implemented encrypted, passworded SSL-based VPN for Brown University

1997 - Created OED2 web-searcher; TEI10 registration system; SGML->RTF converter

1997 - Created the Quran Browser, an Internet-visible Qur'aanic concordance system

1996 - Created the Bible Browser, an Internet-visible biblical concordance system

1993 - Release of IBPAG2, an Icon-based SLR/quasi-GLR parser generator

1991 - Release of Bibleref, a Bible search and retrieval engine for Unix

1990 - Creation of FP, a multilingual Hebrew-Aramaic-English search/retrieval package

Presentations, Technical Documents, Short Pieces (samples):

2006 - Presentation: Presentation: “Using LDAP with III in a Consortium,” National IUG Con­fer­ence, May 22nd 2006, Denver (co-presented with Eric Hinsdale and Sarah Johnston)

2005 - Presentation: “Patron Verification and Security,” Minnesota IUG Meetings, May 26th 2005, St. Thomas Law School (slides)

2005 - Presentation: “Cheap, Easy Virtual Hosts for Web-Based Services,” Gus Day 2005, Bethel College (slides)

2004 - Presentation: “Carleton's Enterprise Directory Service (EDS),” lecture given to the Washington University IT staff, May 2004 (slides)

2003 - Presentation: “Integrating WebAdvisor into a Single-Credential Environment,” Datatel Users Group (DUG) session, Washington: March, 2003 (co-presented with Tom Hayes)

1996 - Short biography: Emanual Swedenborg. Co-written with David Cody (available via George Landow's Victorian Web)

1996 - “Students missing the Bible as literature” editorial-page column, Chicago Tribune, Sunday, April 28, 1996

1994 - "Is Tiberian Hebrew Segol a Phoneme?" presented at the 1994 (Chicago) Society of Biblical Literature meetings

1993 - Technical documentation: “An Icon-Based Parser Generator,” The Icon Newsletter 43 (November, 1993), 2-5

1990 - "Doubts about a Ugaritic Subjunctive in -a," presented at the 1990 (New Orleans) Society of Biblical Literature meetings

Presentation slides, technical whitepapers, documentation, and other miscellaneous writings may be found at http://www.goerwitz.com/docs/

Academic Publications:

2004 - “A New Masoretic 'Spell Checker' – or – a Fast, Practical Method for Checking the Accentual Structure and Integrity of Tiberian-Pointed Biblical Texts,” forthcoming (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; festschrift for Gene Gragg)

2003 - “Long Hair or Short Hair in Ezekiel 44:20?,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 123:2 (2003), 371-6

1998 - “Pass-Through Proxying as a Solution to the Off-Site Web-Access Problem,” D-Lib Magazine, June 1998

1997 - “Fear of Offending: A Note on Educators, the Internet, and the Bible Browser,” D-Lib Magazine, April 1997

1997 - Book Review: David Volgger, Notizen zur Phonologie des Bibelhebräischen (St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1992), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56:1 (1997), 71-72

1996 - “What Does the Priestly Source Mean by פרע את הראש?” Jewish Quarterly Review 86:3-4 (1996), 377-394

1996 - “Is Tiberian Hebrew Segol a Phoneme?” SBL Masoretic Studies 8 (1996), E. J. Revell, ed., 155-70

1996 - The Jewish Scripts,” a chapter in The World's Writing Systems, Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. (Oxford, 1995), 487-498

1996 - Book review: Walter Bodine ed., Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1992), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55:3 (1996), 208-209

1995 - “How do you say דבר?” Journal of Semitic Studies 40:1 (1995), 31-38 (co-written with Robert Johnson)

1995 - “A Simple, Practical System for Transliterating Tiberian Hebrew Vowels,” Hebrew Studies 36 (1995), 13-24 (co-written with Robert Johnson)

1995 - “Non-Judahite Dialects and the Diacritics of the Masoretic Text,” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 21:1, 49-57

1994 - Book Review: James Price, The Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 114:2 (1994), 276-77

1993 - Dissertation, Tiberian Hebrew Pausal Forms; a radical re-evaluation of Tiberian Hebrew (morpho)phonology as it pertains to the phenomenon of "pause" (co-directed by Gene Gragg and Dennis Pardee

1992 - The Accentuation of the Hebrew Jussive and Preterite,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992),198-203

1990 - “Tiberian Hebrew Segol: a Reappraisal,” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 3:1 (1990), 3-10

1988 - “Thoughts on Modern Hieroglyphic Theories and their Impact on Swedenborg's Intellectual Milieu,” Studia Swedenborgiana 6:3 (1988); view online

Personal Information:

• Born in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA on July 18, 1960
• Married 21 years to Amy Christianson
• Son, Richard (19 years old); daughter, Jariya (4 years old)
• At various points have coached little league, youth soccer
• Active in local school systems, both in Chicago and East Providence
• Favorite activities include hiking with my son, biking, skimming Slashdot, and reading anything published by O'Reilly; I'm also a racketball, tennis, and paddleball hound

This c.v. lives at http://www.goerwitz.com/resume/cvrlg.html.