1. Overview

    2. System/Network/Database Administration, Analysis, Design, Code, Test, Debug, Conversion:

    With 20 years experience in heterogeneous environments, I prefer challenging tasks. Experience in databases (extensive RDBMS, with Oracle, Informix, & others; SQL, tuning, installation, administration), network installation and management (TCP/IP, ISO, XNS, ethernet/FDDI/tokenring). X Windows 10/11 (installation, tuning, development), C/C++/FORTRAN/PL1/Basic (analysis through debugging) in both UNIX and MS Windows environments, OOA/OOD/OOPS (spiral development, Yourdon Structured Methods, Information Modeling & ER/Chen, SA/SD (teaching and using) since 1981). Development Environment Toolsmith (installation of programming tools & environment). Various compiler systems (Borland, Zortech, WMT on MS Windows, dtksh and C++ on Sun Solaris under CDE/Xwindows, X/Windows 11.6 coding, 11.6 installation, setup, tuning.

  2. Experience
    1. Feb 1987-current; RSS, inc.; Senior Contract Consultant

      2. UNIX SVR2-4. XWindows10-11, DOS 2-7, MS Windows (286, 3.0, 3.1/3.11, WFW Win95/OSR2, NT 3.5/4.0), C/C++ (Borland, Zortech, GNU, ANSI, AT&T), PL/1, FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, SGML, some HTML & JAVA.

      1. Personal research

        2. Database, compression, 3D fault tolerant graphics, parallel computng

        1. RSS, inc.

          2. My own company, first as a sole proprietorship, later incorporated, in New Jersey, then North Carolina.

        2. Oct 1987 - ongoing

        286 to Pentium and other hardware; UNIX & MS/Windows; text, data, image & audio compression. Various ad hoc contracts, student teaching on the side. Heads up display RFP for military pilot system; word processing and resume shop with my ex-wife, various text and word processing assignments and expertise; personal database research & study (OO, typed, data versioning & warehousing, temporal journaling).

      2. System Administration

        3. Help Desk, Web, Networking.

        1. NC A&T University

          2. Greensboro, NC.

        2. Sep 96 - Apr 97

        IBM PC/clone & Sun SPARC; Sun Solaris 2.5 upgrade, Web/ethernet/TCPIP installation and setup; general help desk and mentoring; equipment installation & configuration (digitizing table, UMAX scanner, HP peripherals, disk installation on SPARC).

         

      3. HP Server/Workstation Administration
        1. Omni Services, inc.

          2. In Culpeper, VA.

        2. Dec 97 – Apr 98

        HP 9000 series systems (4xx, 7xx, 8xx, and K series), network of about 65 database servers, 110 application servers, 50+ remote sites, and around 1000 HP X stations; all aspects of senior level systems administration on systems running HP/UX 9.03 to 11.0; including network debugging (OpenView and other tools), system tuning, peripheral rconfiguration, Informix database (versions 4.xx, 5.xx, 6.xx, and 7.2x), backup/restore, application debugging, and ad hoc support. Netscape/Comunicator 4 on HP, Applixware (mail, spreadsheet, word), and ancillary tools (HP/UX support).

      4. PC Workstation Administration
        1. USDA

          2. At NC A&T University location, in Greensboro, NC.

        2. Sep 96 – Mar 98

        IBM Pentium clone, Windows 96 installation, HP scanner, Corel, MS Networking setup, web setup for workstation using Netscape and plugins, HP color printer configuration, modem/SCSI/ethernet hardware conflict resolution (IRQ/port/DMA); general tool setup (MS Office Pro and others for presentations).

      5. Sun Solaris Administration

        6. Informix DBA

        1. MCI

          2. Perimeter Park, RTP.

        2. Oct 96 - Dec 96

        Sun SPARC 20/ES3000, Sun Solaris 2.1-2.6, Informix ES7.21 and New Era tools installation and setup; NFS configuration, data structure analysis on customer large networking provision project.

      6. System Administrator

        7. Network monitoring support and ad hoc.

        1. CIBA/GEIGY/Novartis

          2. Greensboro, NC.

        2. Mar 96 - July 96

        Sun SPARC 20/SC1000, DEC Alpha, Sun Solaris 2.1-2.5 and DEC UNIX; Oracle support for SAP on DEC UNIX; Networking tools support on Sun systems; IBM PC setup for MS Windows/96 and NT X Windows support (Hummingbird and FTP XOnNet); Informix and Oracle database support.

      7. System Administrator

        8. Web services support on IBM PC clone (Linux) and SUN SPARC 1 Solaris.

        1. Spyder Byte

          2. Oak Ridge, NC.

        2. Dec 95 - Mar 96

        Sun SPARC 1, Sun OS 4.1.2/Solaris 2.5 installation and tuning, networking setup, web services configuration, instream customer services support and frontline phone help desk for old and new customers.

      8. System Administrator

        9. Realty Listing Service production support.

        1. Offutt Systems, inc.

          2. Greensboro, NC.

        2. Oct 95 - Dec 95

        Sun SPARC 1 under SunOS 4.1.2 using LISP under Interleaf 5; various PC clones and Windows 3.1/3.11; networking and modem support.

      9. Summaries

        10. Short form summaries of the various contracting posts I have held over the years; a more detailed description is available (the full resume runs to 20+ pages in detailed form.

        1. System Administration

          2. DB tuning on AIX 3.2.3 RS 6000 using SAS & ODBC with Informix to/from OS/2, WFW, and Win 95/NT workstations.

        2. System/Network/DB Administrator

          3. HP9000/7xx, Sun 20/SC1000, Solaris 1.1-2.4, AIX 3.24 on SP/2, netoworking, Informix, Sybase 10, NIS/NFS.

        3. Database Benchmarking

          4. DG Aviion series for TPC benchmarks; IO for disk subsystems and TCP/IP networking.

        4. System Administrator/3D Packing

          5. AT&T/NCR StarServer on SVR4 using Informix 4/5 for small package packing.

        5. Laser Cartridge Remanufacture

          6. System administration, laser toner cartridge remanufacture and printer/peripheral support services.

        6. CAD/CAM Installation

          7. HP 9000/425/710 workstation support for tool manufacturer.

        7. EM Emission Test System Development

          8. 3B2 hardware testing for EM emissions compliance on military Tempest and Guardian specifications for AFCAC 951 contract.

        8. EMC Laboratory Administrator

          9. AT&T UNIX hardware and software for EM emissions testing within AT&T, non-military.

        9. Customer Site Capacity Planning & Networking

          10. U.S. Army ISM prototype systems capacity planning and allocation.

        10. MLS Realty Database/System Administrator

          11. Unisys 500/6000, Intel, and Prime EXL 3xx systems using SCO UNIX and Oracle database. Custom hardware installation, and tuning support, database administration and tuning.

        11. Army Weapons Documentation Conversion

          12. From Xerox 8600 internal system to DP/Publisher format on Integraph UNIX (using tagged ASCII import for SGML into multicolumn format, and scanner input using Caere Omnipage).

        12. System Administrator/Trainer

          13. On AT&T 3B2 under UNIX SVR3; set up MERLIN 1030 PBX using ARS.

        13. Desktop Publishing

          14. Word processing and resume shop on AT&T UNIX SVR2 using troff typesetting language.

        14. System Administrator & Development Toolsmith

          15. X10/11, C/C++ (compiler modifications), source code control and development environment setup under UNIX SVR3.

        15. System Administrator/Developer

      AT&T 3B2 using UNIFY/Accell database product under AT&T UNIX SVR3.

    2. Jan 1985- Dec 1986; AT&T, inc.; Senior Support Manager

      3. Summary form:

      1. Technical Support Manager

        2. Supported vendors porting their products to AT&T UNIX software and hardware.

      2. Technical Support Laboratory Administrator

      Installed, tuned, networked configured the 3B series systems used to support the above project.

    3. Feb 1983- 1985; Bell Labs, inc.; System Administrator

      4. Summary form:

      1. UNIX Computer Center Administrator

      On Western Electric 3B20 and DEC VAX 11/780 equipment, provided systems administrator support for some 70 sytems with 6others for UUCP, NSC Hyperchannel, RJE; installed and evauated packages and databases, provided help desk councelling, wrote drivers for the S Statistical package for printers and monitors.

    4. Jul 1981- Dec 1982; AT&T, inc.; Programmer/Administrator

      5. Summary form:

      1. FORTRAN IV Programmer

        2. DARCS System to port from IBM VMS.

      2. Videotext System Administrator

      On AT&T/CBS "Venture I" field trial in Fair Lawn, New jersey (later to become Prodigy).

    5. Jan 1981 - Jun 1981; Yourdon, inc.; Structured methods Seminars

      6. Summary form:

      1. Structured Methods Seminaring

      SD/SP seminars tauht; learned SA/SD under Tom DeMarco, John Palmer, Ed Yourdon, Steve McMenamin, Matt Flavin, Ira Morrow, Akan Brill, Tim Lister.

    6. Jul 1977 - Dec 1980; Western Electric Co.; Programmer

      7. Summary form:

      1. System Administrator

        2. UNIX PWB, MERT, UNIX S4 on DEC PDP and IBM hardware, using C, shell coding.

      2. C package port

        3. RBCS system form old "stdio" to new "stdio" using C language.

      3. Data purification system programmer

        4. Using RJE to IMS database on IBM mainframe under PL/1 language.

      4. COSMOS telephony inventory system programmer

      On UNIX pre-standard release 6 system using FORTRAN IV.

    7. Jan 1975 - June 1977; UNC Computation Center; Student Operator

    Student operator, dispatcher, remote RJE substation operator, help desk.

  3. Software

    4. A very brief summary:

    1. Languages

      2. C, C++,COBOL, FORTRAN IV, PL/I, shell, perl/awk/lex/yacc, SNOBOL, APL, others.

    2. Windowing & Graphics

      3. X Windows 10.3 to 11.6, MS Windows 286 to MS Windows 95 OSR2 and NT Workstation 4.0, OpenLook/Motif, GEM, Vermont Views, HPGL, SAS, layers, di-3000, VESA/VGA hardware.

    3. Databases

      4. Oracle though 7.0.15, Informix through ES 7.21 and New Era, Sybase r9 and r10, UNIFY/ACCELL, FOCUS, MARK IV, IMS< Lotus 1-2-3, MS Office 95 Pro (Access 2.0), MS Excel, S, Ingress SAS, IMS, dBase III to V, Tuxedo TPS.

    4. Structured Methods/CASE

      5. SA/SD through Yourdon methods, Cadre teamwork, Software Through Pictures, Objectory, HP Softbench, SPARCWorks suite, OOA/OOD, DSD, DD, ER diagramming, Decision table analysis, Gane/Sarson, Warnier/Orr.

    5. Networking/Protocols

      6. UUCP, netnews, TCP/IP, URP, ISO, extensive modem configuration, RJE on UNIX, TLI/sockets/RPC/XDR.

    6. Multimedia/Publishing

      7. DP/Publisher, MS Office Pro 95, Lotus Smart Suite, Ventura Publisher and Corel 3/4/5/6, audio/video capture and compression, various graphics formats,, scanning/OCR interfacing (Caere Omnipage, HP Scanning Gallery, others).

    7. Operating System Internals/source

      8. UNIX nternals access and minor bug fixes to S4, SVR2, SVR; AT&T UNIX internals training; device drivers under MERT; IBM OS360 internals.

    8. Development Tools

    make/nmake, SCCS/rcs, awk/lex/yacc, various shells (sh, ksh, csk), lint, parswrs, sar/pa/kp/dp/iostat/vmstat/glance, MRCS/CMTS/Sable/Solid, CASE tools (various), ATRIA ClearCase, SunSPARCWorks suite.

  4. Systems/Hardware

    5. Brief summary:

    1. UNIX
      1. Linux

        2. Various IBM PC clones.

      2. Sun Solaris

        3. Sun SPARC 1/2/10/20/512/SC1000/ES3000, x86 IBM PC clones.

      3. SVR4

        4. RS/6000 (120-580), DG/UX Aviion 3xx-5xxx, AT&T/BCR Star Server S/E SMP, HP 9000/100-700, others

      4. SVR3

        5. AT&TB 3B series, AT&T 6386 WGS, Sun 3 &4, & SPARC ½, Intergraph IP 2020/125/225, TI 100, SCO UNIX 3.2/4, Unisys 5000/6000, Prime EXL 320, VAX 8650, Amdahl 470, IBM PC clones through Pentium

      5. SVR0-2

      AT&T #B2 through 4000, VAX 11/780/785, PDP, DG Aviion, others

    2. Microsoft
      1. DOS

        2. Many PC clones from DOS 2 to 7; also DR/DOS, MOS.

      2. Windows

        3. Many PC clones from Windows 286 through to date, including variosu SoftPC emulation packages on Sun Solaris and other hardware.

      3. OS/2

      Various PC clones.

    3. IBM Mainframe

    S360, S370, 30xx, Amdahl 470/570 series; CICS, MFT/MVT, HASP, TSO, MVS

  5. Education

BS in Mathematical Sciences (ORSA (Operations research & System Anslysis), Statistics), UNC, Chapel Hill, 1976; Structured Testing Seminar, 1986; Yourdon Structured methods, 1981; ACM & IEEE Voting member, 1981 onward. Extensive Personal Research.