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Item P2BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: July 15, 2015 Department: Mayor Danny Kolhage. District I Bulk Item: Yes X No Staff Contact /Phone #: Isabel eSantis, ext. 3440 AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval for the appointment of Steve Wainstead tote Climate Change Advisory Committee (CCAC), replacing Don Riggs who resigned, 06/05/14. ITEM BACKGROUND: on Riggs was appointed on 02/16/2011, resigned 06/05/14. PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval. TOTAL COST: INDIRECT COST: BUDGETED: Yes —No DIFFERENTIAL OF LOCAL PREFERENCE: COST TO COUNTY: SOURCE OF FUNDS: REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year APPROVED BY: County Attorney — OMB/Purchasing — is Management _ Included X Not Requirrf Appointment Information i FM RZT61 MOT, 179 M- Phone Numbers: Home: Work: Cell: Email: Date of Appointment: (The date of this BOCC agenda item" A MRM� a == � Climate Change Advisory Committee Danny L. Kolhage 717 Emma Street, Apt. "e West, FL 33040 M N/A NLA (917) 723-3094 wainstead(-@gmail.com QZZI 5/2015 10/01/2015 Don Riggs — (resigned) M, CAD Form/09/06/12 Steve Wainstead 717 Emma Street, Apt C, Key West FL 330 917-723-3094 b swain@panix.com I Software engineer with nineteen years of industry experience in applicati development with technologies such as server -side Python; large-scale PHP w applications; lava, servlets, 3SP and XML; SQL, LDAP, and many relation I databases; a strong background in development with various flavors of Uni f scripting languages including bash, Perl, and Python; and a passion development techniques and the craft of programming. ITr • SocialServe.com: Software Engineer, May 2011-present. Data collection, data analysis, and report generation in Python and PostgreSQL. Optimizing queries and stored procedures, testing and debugging ORM code, distributed development, extensive modifications of a large proprietary code base. • M yPhotoAl bum. com/Pola roid Studio. com: Software Development Manager, Oct 2004 - ]an 2007; Director of Development, ]an 2007-Dec 2010, New York City 0 Wrote a new company web property in Ruby on Rails: a lead generation tool for finding professional photographers. Included secure credit card storage and management. Release management was done via Capistrano. 0 Wrote the company's Facebook integration allowing users to upload once to MyPhotoAlbum.corn or PolaroidStudio.com, then choose photos to publish to their Facebook albums. This was very popular with our customers. 0 Modified and maintained large PHP code bases: OSCommerce, Menalto Gallery, and later the assets of Photrade.com (a professional photo sharing site). 0 Wrote and maintained a set of recursive, interprocess control scripts to maintain data integrity between 10OTB of image files, their associated flat files, and millions of database rows. This helped the company keep storage costs down by locating orphaned and undeleted files still on the filesystem. 0 Designed, maintained and oversaw further development on the company's order fulfillment system, written in 00 Perl; this ran under cron and managed image files, database information and flat files on our end and transmitted orders to vendors in XML or FTP and received status updates from them. Vendors included Kodak, District Photo, EZPrints and many more. A flexible design enabled the company to switch fulfillment vendors on multiple occasions with very short notice. Manager/Director, responsibilities included: 0 Reporting to the CEO; cooperating with other departmen� Steve Wainstead directors and participating in planning the direction of the company. Technical due diligence on two companies, one of which we acquired. Designed development environments so every developer had a complete sandbox of their own for all web properties. Introduced stand-up meetings . Managed the deployment process from development to tagging, staging, to rollout. • Software Developer: FortuneCity.com, November 2002-April 2004, New York City 0 Developed ISP/servlet systems to interface with the vendor's CORBA-based provisioning system for customer sign up and product purchasing. 0 Designed serviet based system to authenticate customers from the enterprise system to a mod—perl based customer support system 0 Developed lava and Python to interface with DB2 and LDAP for report generation, application code generation and scripting of the enterprise system. 0 Data migration from Oracle, LDAP, and DB2 to ySQL in two separate projects. * Java Developer: Capital Thinking, February 2002-August 2002, New York City. Worked on the document management system module of their Bluewir,.-- application (serviets, ISPs running on Tomcat and Oracle). * Consultant: Capital Thinking, October 2000 - April 2001, New York City. Worked with Dynamo, doing 3HTML, XML, XSLT and Java development. Developed a system to test the GUI with httpunit, Ant, Perl and Java. * Senior Technologist for Digital Channel Partners, May 2000 to September 2000, New York City. Perl programmer. Worked as part of a team at Forbes.com building a content management system for the new version of the web site. * Web Engineer for the New York Times Digital, February 1998 to April 2000, New York City. Responsibilities included Perl coding and maintenance on the house content management system for the editorial staff, Unix systems administration, working on a four -person team customizing an XML based content management system. Introduced Wikis to the NYTD. * Programmer for Cleveland Live (Cleveland.com), September 1996 - February 1998, Cleveland, Ohio. Responsible for CGI scripting and site design in Perl, C, C++, 3avascript and PHP. Sites included the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (rockhall.com). * Junior systems administrator for the Cleveland State University Library, May 0 Steve Wainstead 1995-September 1996, Cleveland, Ohio. Compiled and installed systems a applications including Linux, DNS, Solaris, web servers, CGI scriptin( Programming Languages Python, PHP, SQL, Java, Perl, Ruby, C/C++, Emacs Lisp, stored procedures (PL/pgSQL), shell scripting, Javascript, Expect (Tcl), AppleScript Technologies Linux, OS X, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Oracle, LDAP, Apache, Subversion, Git, Rails, Django, Emacs, Vim Education I i�achelor • Science, Computer Science, Cleveland State University (1996,� Significant Work • Co-organizer, Southernmost Tech & Telecommuters (http://www. meetup.com/SouthernmostTech/) • Cofounder, Vegas GiveCamp (http://vegasn'ivecamp.or q/), a weekend hackathon building solutions for local charities • Founder, organizer of the Las Vegas Developers Meetup (http://www.meetup.comlLas-VeiQas-Developers/) 9