Employment Experience:

• Feb. 1996 - Sep. 2009 – Systems Administrator at Noblis (previously Mitretek Systems); Falls Church, VA and McLean, VA
  • Assisted DBAs, developers, and users (disk space, access permissions, server performance, missing email, restoring files)
  • Monitored applications and services
  • Supported application upgrades and maintenance
  • Installed OS upgrades; maintained OS patches; installed hardware upgrades
  • Contributed to the System Security Plan: documentation, implementation, auditing
  • Disaster Recovery: planning, site configuration and installation, test planning
  • Monitored server security; monitored/reviewed server logs
  • Server backups
  • Created/monitored/removed user accounts
  • Documentation
  • Server inventories
  • Server maintenance; maintenance contracts
  • Improved site-wide configuration consistency
  • Wrote scripts for ad-hoc requests
  • Filtered spam
  • Applications and Services supported
    • Oracle (database)
    • Oracle Financials
    • PeopleSoft
    • JAMIS (time reporting)
    • Sunflower (asset tracking)
    • Sendmail (SMTP boundary gateway)
    • SecurID (access authentication)
    • FW-1 (firewall)
    • VTCP (VPN)
    • HP JetDirect (printing)
    • DNS
  • Classes
    • Sun Solaris 10 (Feb. 2005)
    • HIPAA Training & Awareness (Mar. 2004)
    • Computer Associates International Unicenter (Mar. 2002)
    • Harker Systems Sendmail and DNS Training (Nov. 2000)
    • Sun Solaris TCP/IP Network Admin (May 2000)
    • Sun Solaris 2.X System Administration (Feb. 1997)
    • Netrex Firewall-1 (Feb. 1997)
    • Sequent ptx/SVM (Feb. 1997)
    • Windows-NT Training (Nov. 1996)
    • MII maintenance training (Aug. 1996)
  • Awards
    • Noblis President's Award Team (Oct 2008) – establishing a corporate disaster-recovery site in Arizona
    • FISMA Project Team (Apr. 2008) – establishing, implementing, and documenting security policies and procedures to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act
    • Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft Upgrades Team (May 1999) – major application upgrades
    • Team Recognition Lunches
      • Payroll Disaster Recovery Luncheons (Jan. & Feb. 2008) – critical data correction
      • Daylight Savings Time Transition Appreciation Luncheon (Apr. 2007) – DST rule changes affecting applications
      • Noblis Brand Initiative Celebration (Mar. 2007) – corporate name change from Mitretek Systems to Noblis
      • VOIP Implementation Luncheon (Sep. 2005)
      • Oracle 11i Upgrade Luncheon (Jan. 2002)
      • Corporate Relocation Recognition Luncheon (Dec. 2001) – move from McLean, VA to Falls Church, VA
• Oct. 1989 - Feb. 1996 – Systems Administrator at The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
  • Duties and activities largely the same as at Noblis/Mitretek above.
  • Originally supported departmental computer labs; later supported corporate data-center servers.
  • Secret security clearance.
  • Classes
    • Sequent Dynix SysAdmin II (Apr. 1995)
    • Sun System Administration 4.0.3 (Feb. 1990)
• Sep. 1986 - June 1989 – Senior Programmer at Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc. in Princeton, N.J.
  • Designed and implemented flexible, color raster-printing support for PGT's IMIX (Integrated Microanalyzer for Imaging and X-Ray) system.
  • Designed, wrote, tested, debugged, and/or documented software for other PGT analysis systems including the System 900 (real-time monitoring and analysis of gold-plating baths) and the interim ColorLogic (image analysis) system.
  • Evaluated new hardware and perpherals including printers, Ethernet port servers, and SCSI disk and tape subsystems.
  • Provided tools for enhancing product documentation, including image-processing tools for manual illustrations.
  • Responsible for system administration of several small Unix systems.
  • Maintained uucp and mail, and installed News.
  • Supported PC-NFS installations.
  • Provided UNIX training and assistance to other programmers.
• Oct. 1982 - Aug. 1986 – Software Engineer at ORS Automation, Inc. in Princeton, N.J.
  • M.I.S. Administrator responsible for two DEC Vax 11-750 computers and a third VAX at ORS's Troy, Mich. branch.
  • Designed, wrote, tested, debugged, and/or documented software for various ORS inspection systems including the ScanSystem 100 (simple presence-absence detector), i-tect (CRT faceplate defect detection, measurement, and classification), i-lign (screen-print alignment), and i-bot (robot guidance). Code was mostly in "C", with some Pascal and 8086 Assembly Language.
  • Provided UNIX training and assistance to technical and administrative users of the VAX computers.
• June 1981 - Oct. 1982 – Independent Consultant specializing in IBM's MAPICS (Manufacturing, Accounting, and Production Information Control System) applications software on the IBM System/34.
  • Produced custom programming and modifications to the MAPICS package as requested by clients.
  • Principal client was the Kramer Trenton Company in Trenton, NJ.
• Sep. 1981 - June 1982 – Evening Operator at the DataRam Corporation in West Windsor, N.J.
  • Ran system backups weekday nights.
  • Automated the system backup process (i.e. eliminated my job).
• Sep. 1978 - Jan. 1981 – Programmer and System Operator at Sonic Instruments, Inc. in Ewing, N.J.
  • Served as sole operator and programmer on IBM System/32 (9/78-12/78) and System/34 (12/78-1/81).
  • Instructed users on the operation of IBM's MMAS (Material Management and Accounting System) and MAPICS applications packages (general-purpose manufacturing, production-control, and accounting packages).
  • Implemented the transition from System/32 to System/34 hardware and from MMAS to MAPICS application software.
  • Wrote many reports and data entry/update procedures (in RPG II) to enhance and supplement the MAPICS package.

Programming Languages:

• csh/tcsh, ksh, Bourne shell
• awk, sed, PERL
• C, Pascal, RPG II
• various Assemblers (8086, 6800, Z-80, 6502);
• BASIC, FORTRAN
• APL, PL/I, ALGOL, SNOBOL

Operating Systems:

• UNIX (BSD and System V)
  • Sun Solaris/SunOS
  • Mac OS X
  • Sequent Dynix
  • AT&T AIX
  • Apple AUX
• Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • SuSE
• AmigaDOS
• IBM - S/32 and S/34 System Control Product and OCL; CMS

Hardware:

• Sun Microsystems
  • Blade servers (T6320)
  • SunFire servers (V890, V880, V240)
  • Enterprise series (E4000, E3500, E3000, E450, E250, E220R)
  • Ultra series (450, 60, 5)
  • SunBlade workstations (1500, 150, 100), SunPCI cards (III, IIpro)
  • SPARCserver (690 MP)
  • SPARCstation series (SS-20, SS-10, SS-5)
  • IPC, IPX, LX, SLC
  • Sun 3 series (3/280, 3/150, 3/80, 3/75, 3/60, 3/50)
  • Sun 2 series (2/130, 2/80)
• EMC (CLARiiON CX500) and MTI (V400) SANs
• Sequent (S81, S5000/80)
• Apple
• Commodore Amiga (3000, 2000, 1000), C-64
• Timex/Sinclair (ZX-81); MicroAce (ZX-80 kit clone)
• DEC (VAX 11/750)
• IBM (System/34, System/32)

Educational Background:

• Graduate of Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Recreational Pursuits:

• Renaissance and Baroque music
• Bicycling
• Photography