Brian W. Masinick
17 Quincy St.
Concord, NH 03301
Home Phone: (603) 856-7134
Email: masinick@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE: To secure a project leadership position; this will allow me to utilize my education and vast experiences toward the organization and team goals and objective.

SKILL SUMMARY: Project Management tools, Microsoft Office productivity tools, UNIX (Digital ULTRIX and UNIX, Sun Solaris), GNU/Linux, Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP) VMS, MVS, and VxWorks operating systems. Bourne, Korn, BASH, CLIST, and DCL shells, C, C++, PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, TCL/Tk, TCL/Expect, Perl, Python, and Java programming languages, MySQL and MS SQL database query languages.

EXPERIENCE:
7/2007 - 1/2009: Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH and Boston, MA
Project Manager
Managed a vendor relationship on a sensitive legal compliance project. Held the vendor accountable for their delivery agreements in the Statement of Work. Kept senior management aware of vendor failure to deliver as promised. Assisted the legal department in the deployment of a vendor provided legal billing system. Provided technical assistance to the vendor. Prepared test data for training classes for the billing system. Provided technical expertise (using Perl and Python) for a proof of concept project to categorize and protect unstructured data. Joined a project that was at risk to deliver regulatory imposed features. Informed senior management of the project issues and problems found, then developed and delivered project management documents and managed the quality assurance testing.

2/2006 - 7/2007: Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH
Project Manager
Responsible for the stability of the UAT (User Acceptance Test) pre production test environment for Fidelity Market Data, which provides streaming financial market data to many organizations within Fidelity Investments. Assigned to this position to help ensure tight communications with business partners and maintain a stable testing environment, meeting tight and aggressive project schedules.

9/2005 - 2/2006: Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH
Software Test Engineer
Worked for six months as a software quality assurance test engineer in the market data organization, testing Sun Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based financial software systems. Performed both functional and regression testing, reporting issues and retesting once fixes were provided. Developed shell scripts to automate repeating tasks and improve the reliability of results. Took on additional responsibility to prepare and conduct meetings to coordinate the testing and usage of the pre-production test environment, which led to a long term position as the project manager of the User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment and primary interface with customers in other groups.

8/2005 - Robert Half International, Manchester, NH
Worked two temporary assignments, first a nearby hospital to correct security and data integrity issues caused by a campus wide worm that spread throughout the hospital network on Windows 2000 desktop systems. Moved on to a brief assignment at a local college to help the students install and configure Cisco Clean Access Client software and update their anti virus protection on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS X systems connected to the dormitory and campus network.

2/2003 - 6/2005: Concord School District, Concord, NH
Temporary position as a Teaching Assistant, Rumford and Beaver Meadow Elementary Schools
Assist classroom teachers with emotionally handicapped students. Substitute teacher grades 1-12, Concord School District

Product Support Manager
3/2002 - 09/2003: Lycoris (Redmond Linux Corp). Redmond, WA
Provided operating system installation and configuration product support by Email for customers who purchased Lycoris Desktop/LX support contracts. Maintained the configuration code for the desktop.

Freelance Technical Writer
11/2001 - 11/2002: Ziff Davis Media, New York, NY
Installed, configured and tested Linux operating system and applications software. Wrote and edited technical reviews for Extreme Tech Operating System online forum.

Software Consultant
3/1998 - 6/2001 Ajilon SQP Labs, Nashua, NH, Mercury Computer Systems Chelmsford, MA, Thompson Financial Services Boston, MA, Fidelity Investments Merrimack, NH
Quality Assurance Testing for the Compaq Alpha Server SC (SuperComputer) project. Performed File System and Job Scheduler testing for multi-node, multi-processor, very high speed bus UNIX systems. Wrote test plans, developed Korn Shell scripts, performed functionality and regression tests, documented results, trained others in the effective use of UNIX tools, including shell scripts, text editors, and system administration tools.

Software Engineer
2/1985 - 3/1998 Digital Equipment Corporation Merrimack & Nashua, NH
Developed and maintained Digital UNIX CDE applications using C, C++, Korn Shell, TCL/Tk, and TCL/Expect, specializing in the localization and internationalization of Digital's UNIX desktop products. Managed UNIX and VMS workstations and server systems, installed software, configured, upgraded, and resolved problems for a tightly integrated network of approximately 450 workstations and server systems.
Represented Digital Equipment on the ANSI T1Q1 standards committee for Telecommunications Quality of Service and Performance. Developed the architecture for the first UNIX mail gateway that established the ability to exchange Email between the proprietary VMS operating system and the multivendor UNIX system networks.

Programmer/Analyst
6/1979 - 1/1985 General Motors Corporation Warren, MI
Developed and maintained software for the General Motors data communications network Served and contributed to the General Motors Telecommunications Planning Advisory Committee

EDUCATION:
7/2001 University of Phoenix US-AZ-Phoenix
Master's Degree Computer Information Systems, 3.82 GPA
6/1979 Michigan Technological University US-MI-Houghton
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
Project Time Management - Understanding a project's schedule requirements and the time-phasing of project tasks
Java Programming and Web Development, improving skills in Perl, Python, SQL, Java and Oracle. Emphasis placed on improving C++, Java and Oracle skills

AFFILIATIONS: 1979, 7/2001 - 2003 Association for Computing Machinery Member