Duane: Recent Projects & Tasks:

- Researched and updated the spam protection alogorhythm on the AIM mail server to address AIM staff complaints

- Programming the inline photo uploader and implemented in both the World Race and Next Step applications

- Establishing and implementing a backup plan for single points of failure on the server farm (firewall and sql server database)

- Hunting down and fixing a security breach that allowed Brazilian spammers to use our server for spamming, threatening a shut-down of services from our datacenter

- Establishing an off-site enterprise backup plan for AIM's critical data (waiting to hear back from Joe Countiss)

- Web server maintenance and management (patches, updating security accounts, troubleshooting email problems for AIM users, etc)