Gilbert Healton Resume Center: Main Page

STATUS: ACTIVELY LOOKING

This web site was set up to help recruiters match or reject jobs for Gilbert Healton. Let Gilbert know you saw his web page when you contact him as he greatly prefers recruiters who actually care about quality of matches.

While his main focus on is on remote positions, Gilbert is also open to several different locations. The main geographical focus of such are the areas in and around central as well as Trenton area in NJ and the area North of Philadelphia, PA.

While you can jump ahead to resumes below the answers to popular recruiter questions follow.

Recruiter Quick Start

If you do not know flow charts then follow the arrows from START. Diamonds show yes/no choices, hexagons (wide diamonds) make other choices, rectangles show useful information, small circles are pass through connectors, and ovals show start and ending points.

Really interesting or attractive jobs can go beyond the commute limits shown here.

• Rough search area
  • Manhattan area Very limited for very super job.

Contact Information

Lives: New Jersey, 07728.
NOTE: To fight spam this email is changed from time to time. Please revisit this page periodically to be certain you have the current working email address. Also see the next section titled Email Subject Lines.

Email Subject Lines

To raise your email to the top of Gilbert's priority list, please put "Human-R" in subject lines of cold emails to Gilbert.

2038 Of Growing Importance

On Tuesday, 19 January 2038, at 03:14:07 many applications using UNIX/POSIX/Linux type systems will experience date failures unless fixed. Regardless of operating system this includes many applications and languages derived from UNIX, such as the entire family of "C" languages.

This "Year 2038 Problem" is gaining attention in the computer world. Similar to Year-2000, but with different everything, it can be very cheap to repair now but gets more expensive as time goes by. Unlike Year-2000 solutions have been deployed in most operating sytems... the trick is identifying which systems and applications need to be addressed and how to make use of known solutions.

My technical work in heading the reporting and repair side of AT&T Labs Year-2000 program for self-maintained equipment gives Gilbert a huge edge in understanding, locating, repairing, and training people across a broad scope of this problem. Literally I've done this type of stuff before.

As with Year-2000 legacy systems are going to be the biggest nightmares with naive programmers trying to place.

Short Summary

In addition to technical skills, experiences include working with diverse people across corporate structure as well as customers, including international customers.

Core Strengths: Highlights of Gilbert's skills follows:

• US Citizen. Background checks not a problem. Never had one but expect I could get a DOD clearance.
• UNIX environments, including Linux, Solairs, HP-UX, and more.
• UNIX shells: Korn, Bourne, Bourne Again, and Z.
• UNIX command lines: grep, awk, sort, tar, and so many more utilities.
• Languages of power:
  • perl, including OO, cgi-bin/HTML; building modules, LWP, TemplateToolkit, and POD.
  • C used more years than any other language.
  • Shell scripting.
  • SQL: including Oracle, MySQL, postgreSQL, and others.
• Languages, additional:
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
• Faded Languages used in the past:
  • C++
  • Java
  • HTML/CSS
  • more
• False Hits - technologies Gilbert does not currently use but bad scanners keep matching anyway [square brackets show mismatch reason].
  • .​n​e​t or any thing A​S​P [gilbert@healton.net does not make me a .​n​e​t person]
  • Have not worn a "U​X User e​x​p​er​i​e​n​c​e", though I pay attention to it [Have used HP/UX operating system]
  • J​a​v​a [have used JavaScript, which is not helping my long dormant J​a​v​a skills]
  • Enterprize or deep administration. Gilbert's administration is limited to administering development, SQA, and perhaps department servers as well as personal systems. While Gilbert can do more administration than most developers there are limits.
  Gilbert would like to know, or return to, these skills but they are not used now.
• Network skills include clients and servers, working with very high-volume data flows, TC/IP socket programming ("the socket dances"), Apache, and message queues.
• Designing and documenting software applications, full software life-cycles.
• Open person who shares knowledge and mentors new people.

Though Gilbert has System and Network Administration skills, and has developed in Microsoft Windows environments, he is neither a deep enterprise level Administrator nor a .net developer.

Relocation Limits

Typical contract jobs must be within commuting range of Gilbert's current location. Remote jobs are of high interest: The ideal job will be remote.

The general search areas for commuting jobs can be found on Google Maps. Remote jobs are anywhere within the United States, and other reasonable countries, will be enjoyed.

Gilbert is much more open to relocation for permanent positions that take him a bit into Pennsylvania or down into northern Delaware. Say a few hours drive from Levittown PA, which includes anywhere in or about Philadelphia, including about 30 minute drive from PA into New Jersey.

Get The Right Resume

		One page: human friendly, poor for scanners. PDF recommended.	(1 page)	pdf  01-21	odt  01-21
		Short: human friendly, poor for scanners. PDF recommended.	(2 pages)	pdf  01-21	odt  01-21
		Short: Two page classic format resume. ATS and OCR machine friendly.	(2 pages)	pdf  01-21	docx  01-21
		Perl and C: Four page classic format resume. ATS and OCR machine friendly.	(4 pages)	pdf  01-21	docx  01-21
		Longer, more detailed classic resume	(14 pages)	pdf  01-21	docx  01-21
		Perl POD resume for readers that are perl gurus. Can look odd to regular humans.	(8 pages)	pdf  11-27	txt  11-27
		Humorous resume written for stress relief years ago when I got tired of writing normal resumes and lightly updated recently. Recommend PDF.	(5 pages)	pdf  11-13	docx  11-13

Find Gilbert on LinkedIn.

While connection and job notices are reviewed, Gilbert defends his contacts by only linking up with recruiters he has good experiences with over a period of time. Bland "join my network" requests receive very low tractioin with me as I fear they are from bots.

Gilbert has been answering questions on stackoverflow and related communities for some time. You can view them at https://stackoverflow.com/users/693294/gilbert

Gilbert has also answered a few questions on the https://www.quora.com website. You can view them at https://www.quora.com/profile/Gilbert-Healton.

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About This Website...

This website was created, and is maintained by, Gilbert using his skills in HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and other technologies. This site was designed to be simple, reliable, and low maintenance. This site is aging and a newer one is progress. Gilbert's big hope is he will not have enough time to work on it before his next position.

Any ideas for improving this site to make it better on your future visits will be appreciated!

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