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Employment

10/11- / Contractor, Agree Systems, Sys Admin, supporting e-discovery project for State of Louisiana v British Petroleum, EMC Kazeon, StoredIQ
12/10-5/11 / Contractor, Abacus Solutions Group, San Antonio, TX, Sys Admin, securingUnix/Linux systems tuning and configuring LOM services
8/06-8/10 / LiveWorld, Inc. Operations Manager/Security Officer/ Senior Systems Administrator for an applications service provider with clients including eBay, American Express, and Johnson & Johnson.
9/03-8/06 / Weekend operator of the LSU Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices synchrotron storage ring (SCADA controls), and consultant for local clients. Attended Louisiana State University Center for Internal Audit program and completed my BSIE degree.
8/97-9/03 / Contractor, providing services to corporate clients ranging from Unix system administration to disaster prevention/recovery planning. Longer assignments include consulting for a large ASP—providing support for clients including Intralinks, Niku and Sony/E-marker; Live World large web/chat presence; and Senior IT Consultant for the County of Santa Clara Social Services Agency. Network monitoring and system tuning.
6/95-8/97 / Unix and NT Projects Manager, Digital Services Division of Advanced Office Systems, providing consulting services in mixed network environments including Unix, Novell, and NT servers. Originally a client, when AOS decided to form a consulting division, I was invited to be a part of the team. AOS became a MS Provider in 1996.
1980-5/95 / Independent Consultant, handling a wide variety of projects, including (but not limited to): writing, porting, and testing of various simulation and economic forecasting programs for government; providing support to computer dealers; assisting clients in making correct hardware and software purchases; advanced training in applications varying from word processing and desktop publishing to data-base design; custom network installations; design of custom printer drivers; and implementation of multi-vendor data communications. Special projects included laboratory automation and data collection programming SCADA, analysis of 3D data from horizontally drilled pipeline crossings, and simulations for watershed and dam failure analysis.
1977-1980 / Production Manager, Interactive Computer Systems, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Responsible for hardware and system design, manufacturing, program maintenance, technical documentation, development and implementation of training programs.

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Education

Formal: / LouisianaStateUniversity, BSIE Industrial Engineering with emphasis on Systems Analysis, Simulation, Robotics, and Statistical Analysis
Louisiana State University Center for Internal Audit / passed CIA exams
ISC2 CISSP
USENIX The World Wide Web Seminar: Designing and Building Your Enterprise World Wide Web Server
SCO ACE Certification, Microsoft MCSE
IBM authorization training in Advanced Scientific Product and Local Area Network Product lines.
Two Years, USN, Electronic control systems maintenance and repair.

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Operating Environments

Current Environment / Large, mixed Microsoft, RHEL, VMWare platforms runningon Dell, Sun and other hardware, supporting e-discovery systems.
ASP Environment / Social media platform hosted on Apple and Sun servers in a multi-tiered, load balanced, secure configuration. Over 1100 devices and services monitored to maintain an SLA of 99.95% for web services.
Government Environment / Sun enterprise-class servers ranging from E-450 through E-3500 run Solaris 2.6 and 2.8 supporting 42 sites with ~3K users. MS Exchange services are provided to ~1200 PC users. Unix systems support e-mail, web, Ingres and Oracle applications, SNA gateways, plus file and print.
Web Environment / Over 30 Sun enterprise-class servers ranging from 220-R through E-4500 run Solaris 2.7 using Veritas VM on critical systems. Sun storage products include D1000, A3500 and D5200 configured for various levels of redundancy. Designed for migration to Veritas VCS.
Personal Computers: / PC-DOS, MS-DOS, Windows NT Server and Workstation, AIX, Unix and Xenix operating systems; Microsoft Office; Microsoft Exchange; "C", FORTRAN, and Macro-Assembler; TCP/IP and MS-SNA Server; and various communication products.
Minicomputers: / Unix, AIX, Solaris, Regulus, VMS, RT-11, RSTS, RSX-11, and AOS operating systems running on equipment from AT&T, DEC, Data General, IBM, Sun and others; Veritas file system, VM, and VCS; EMC and Network Appliances storage systems; Database products including Informix and Unify; 4GL products PRO-IV and Accell; Programming languages including "C" and FORTRAN; Network protocols including TCP/IP, uucp and DECNET; and various communication products.
Mainframes: / MVS, VM, GCOS, and Unix running on equipment from IBM, Honeywell, Sperry, and others; Programming languages including FORTRAN, COBOL, and Assemblers; Applications range from economic and statistical analysis to automated traffic management via personal computers emulating IBM 3278 terminals.

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