History with Automation
Built an (easy-to-use) command-line utility to assist a junior developer with PHP & Wordpress upgrades.
While contracting for PHREI a second time—now a subsidiary of the VA—Developed an application that interfaced with a legacy console application (VistA), parsed text reports and generated PDF reports performing tasks that previously took hours in seconds.
Developed a command line tool for automating Tomcat installations, upgrades, and app deployments. While working on upgrading a lecacy struts application for a client. The tool has proved to be useful many times since. You can find the source here.