R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst

ORCID iD icon orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903

Education

Mount Saint Mary's University - Masters of Arts, Humanities, May 2010
University of Southern California - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, May 2004
College of the Canyons - Associate of Arts, Humanities, May 1989

Current responsibilities

Application development for Caltech Library working with
- Aggregation and search related projects
- Content integration with ArchivesSpace, EPrints, Invenio RDM
- Content Migration from EPrints to Invenio RDM
- Applications for cross-walking data between systems

Technical Skills

Bash
C
Git
Go
JavaScript/Typescript
Make
Oberon
Pascal
PHP
Python
SQL/PSM
Various SQL/NoSQL database platforms
- SQLite3
- Postgres+PostgREST
- MySQL/MariaDB
Design and implementation of
- Web API and middleware
- content management systems
- automated content aggregation, migration and analysis
- in browser services

Current Projects

Build Cool Things for Caltech Library
- CMTools - CodeMeta Tools
- COLD - Controlled Object Lists and Datum
- metadatatools - identifier validation, normalization verification for Deno+TypeScript
- irdmtools - a collection of tools for migrating, managing and interacting with Invenio-RDM and EPrints repository software and metadata
- dataset - a tool for managing JSON documents on local disc or as a localhost web service
- datatools - a collection of command line utilities for working with CSV, JSON and Excel Workbooks

Past responsibilities

Data migration for old Caltech Archives system to ArchivesSpace and Invenio RDM
Senior Software Engineer for Web Services, Technology Enhanced Learning Division, Information Technology Services at the University of Southern California.
Software architecture and implementation for applications, APIs and data services for web and mobile devices
Technology evaluation
Code audits
Integration of security practices and tools into developer workflow
Mentoring junior members of our developer team
Specialties
- Back end content delivery systems
- RESTful API implementations
- Data migration and transformation
- Automating content analysis
- Special Purpose content management systems

Past Projects

Infrastructure research and planning
4th generation USC Event Calendar system (legacy, LAMP)
Safely-php - a PHP micro-library for creating RESTful services and sites (maintenance, PHP)
Developed DOM aware general purpose content migration tools between websites, legacy CMS and new CMS (completed, NodeJS+jsDom)
High performance JSON API, single blog search engine and news.usc.edu (retired, PHP+NodeJS+MongoDB)
2nd generation of our URL cache service (in production, LAMP)
Web content extraction of legacy USC websites for importation into Wordpress (completed, NodeJS+MongoDB+MySQL)
emergency.usc.edu infrastructure improvements (legacy, Blogger+NodeJS+UltraDNS)
3rd generation USC Event Calendar API (retired, LAMP)
USC Map data API - (retired, LAMP)
WSCORE3, 3rd generation common PHP and JavaScript libraries used by Web Services for data access, API construction and data sanitizing (retired, PHP)
Feed Management API for USC Reader (retired, LAMP)
Design, implement and deploy public webcam API (retired, LAMP)
Evaluating infrastructure options for replacing our legacy content management system and events calendar system (completed)
Architect and implement second generation webcam image and video processing (retired, LAMP)
Developed a strategy to support mobile web devices (legacy, LAMP)
Migrating our legacy first generation CMS to a VMWare environment (retired, LAMP+Unix utilities)
WSCORE2, a light weight general purpose library for PHP and JavaScript development. (retired, LAMP+JS)
Varanosaurus — a light weight monitoring system (retired, NodeJS+MongoDB)
Thornton Alumni Directory (inactive, LAMP)
Schedule of Classes API and caching service (legacy, LAMP)
JSON and XML API for the USC Events Calendar System (retired, LAMP)
USC Events Calendar System - Installer and configuration sub system, feed generation and management, custom calendar theme engine (retired, LAMP)
Project management, web application architecture and development, database architecture and development for Trojan Network (retired LAMP)
Project management, web application and database architect for Roger Sherwood’s Housing Prototypes (retired, ZOPE)
Project management, web application and database architect for USC International Alumni Conference 2001 (retired, ZOPE)
Web application and database design for APRU’s Distance Learning and the Internet (retired, ZOPE)
Courseware testing, evaluation, training, data conversion and management for USC’s Blackboard installation (retired, Perl/LAMP)
Software design and development for Visualizing Ideology with Dr. Steve Ross (site generation tools, interactive course modules) (retired, Perl/LAMP)
Project management, application architecture for Exercise Science with Dr. Jill McNitt-Gray (retired, Java applet for "digitizing" image points)
Tool development and design for Oral Pathology website with Dr. Bill Crawford (retired, Perl based site generation tools)

Presentations

A recipe for applications: Dataset & Web Components (Part I), 2025-06-12
COLD - curating objects with Deno, Dataset and SQLite3, Code4Lib SoCal meetup at Caltech, 2024-11-15
Newt, the second prototype, Code4Lib SoCal meetup at USC, 2024-04-19
Newt, a small system experiment, Code4Lib SoCal meetup at UCLA, 2023-07-14
Building software at the edges of heterogeneous repositories, at Montana State University for Open Repositories 2018, 2018-06-06
Command Line for Librarians, co-presentation with Heather Wilson for MMWCon 2016 at UCLA, 2016-11-15
Introducing the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python 3, presentation for the ArchivesSpace Member Forum 2016, 2016-08-02
Bash, curl, jq: Accessing the ORCID API, presentation for Code4Lib SoCal Summer 2016 meetup, 2016-06-20
Unified Search Box,presentation for Code4Lib SoCal meetup at Caltech, 2015-12-15
Safely-php presentation for the USC Web Council, 2013-01-24
USC Map and Calendar API demonstration presentation for the USC Web Council, 2010-10-06
Lecture on software development, practice and lessons learned in ITS Web Services for the USC Center for Software Engineering CS-577 graduate course, 2006-10-04
Lecture on software development, practice and lessons learned in the Center for Scholarly Technology for the USC Center for Software Engineering CS-577 graduate course, 2005-10-05
Lecture on software development, practice and lessons learned in the Center for Scholarly Technology for the USC Center for Software Engineering CS-577 graduate course, Fall 2004
Lecture on software development, practice and lessons learned in the Center for Scholarly Technology for the USC Center for Software Engineering CS-577 graduate course, Fall 2003
CLA Conference, CLA Institute Weaving the Web of the future: Distance Learning Tools, now and where they might be headed tomorrow, 2000-11-12
Educause 1999, Advanced Applications Showcase: SMIL and its Role in Presenting Multimedia Resources, 1999-10-26, 1999-10-27
Fall 1999 Quickstart: 1/2 day seminar
- Slam Dunk: One Course Website in One Day
- Introduction to CourseInfo. October 22, 1999
September 24, 1999, LACASIS Fall Workshop 1999, SMIL, integrating streamed resources on the Web
Spring/Summer 1999 Quickstart : 1 to 3 day immersive seminars for faculty. Workshops given
- Putting your site on USC Web covering FTP, Telnet and Unix file permissions
- Turn It Up, Streaming Audio on the Web
- Roll ’Em, Streaming Video on the Web
- Smile: You’re Gonna Love SMIL Introduction to SMIL basics.

Publications

Doiel, R. and Lundsten, A.
- Getting Ready for Internet2, April 2001 issue of Syllabus Magazine.
Doiel, R. and Lundsten, A.
- Digital Video and Internet 2: Growing Up Together for Aug 2000 issue of Syllabus Magazine.
Doiel, R.
- Forming a Good Courseware Environment for Handbok i IT-pedagogik för utbildare (Handbook in IT-pedagogy for educators) by Nyberg, Rainer & Strandvall, Tommy (Eds.) (2000)
Doiel, R. and Lundsten, A.
- SMIL, web sites of the future for CNET/Builder.com - Thursday April 22, 1999
Doiel, R. and Lundsten, A.
- Internet 2: better, stronger, faster for CNET/Builder.com - Thursday April 22, 1999

Technical Reviews for Publishers

Review and blurb for Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript by Tim Wright; Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August 5, 2012)
Review of The Java Developer's Toolkit: Techniques and Technologies for Web Programmers by Joshua Marketos for Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy Volume 8, Number 1, 1998
Review of Administering Usenet News Servers by James McDermott and John Phillips John for Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy Volume 8, Number 1, 1998