Strategic: I want to work towards the realization of Human Consciousness Extension via enablement of ground-breaking technological and business development. I want to enable technology to be the next evolutionary leap for human-kind.
Tactical: To get to the above goal, I want to include alternate IT-related skills, away from the deep technical that I have focused on in the past.
Ex: IT business enablement, project management, tech transfer, team management, policy creation and decisive input.
I am ideally looking to apply the following qualities to a job:
Cutting edge technology interest
Research and analysis, to specify solutions
Management, people skills, training, geek→english translation
Architecture and engineering skills, to problem solve
Transparent, open environments
Systems analysis and integration
Relational database development
Project and employee management
Open source integration
Systems engineering and design
Technical Documentation
Content Management Systems (
CMS)
Project management: with a technical edge, system development life cycle, system analysis, design, engineering, implementation, integration and testing
Database: SQL DBMSs, PL/
SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access,
XML,
XSD Schema, Postgres, MySQL, business related database design
Web: HTML,
XHTML,
CSS,
W3C standards compliant code, well formed code, seperation of structure, behavior, and presentation
Web Coding: PHP, JavaScript,
PERL; code in numerous web specs; promotion of well documented code
Linux: Linux/*nix command prompt, shell scripting, cron, LAMP stack, samba, ssh, apache, mysql, AFS, volume management, mdadm raid, kernel compilation; Advocate of Open Source Software
Coding: C, C++, Java (J2SE, J2ME), Visual Basic for applications (Excel & Access); efficient, structured programming knowledge
Systems: Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix; Extensive
OS knowledge and support
Office and Visual: Mac Keynote; Microsoft Active Directory, Access, Excel, Word, Visio, FrontPage, PowerPoint; Adobe Photoshop
System Integration: Meticulously plan and formulate a wide variety of system, web, database, code, network, graphic design, and operating system aspects
Employee management: Direct management of three subordinates; I hired, advised, and assigned them work; they assisted me over a two year period in accomplishing departmental goals
Technical Hiring: on 3 hiring process committees for professional-level technical positions. I provided opinions, interviewing tactics, ideas, and advisement on where the job should lead and who best could fill it.
Project management: over 15 systems with multiple-users, 3rd parties, risks, integrations, training regiments, timelines and scopes; I had the sole operational responsibility of a system at UMBC that spanned 200+ users, 30+ departments, and 600 gigs of mission critical data
Procurement: technical goods and services via a third party in order to complete project requirements and guarantee enhanced relations for the future; One yearly budget that I helped manage was in excess of $50,000
Inventory management: hardware and software throughout a 40 user office
Documentation compilation: technical, system, and user level nature; a self sewn wiki was used to document over 50 pages of technical information for use by others and myself
Communication: relate professionally with fellow workmates, users, and customers to accomplish a common goal; needs of others is always considered
Multitasking: task tracking of differing subject matter, from many sources; utilize technical and non-technical methods of task assessment; on-going task documentation
Diversification: value diversification of views and actions; open to new ideas and attempt to build ties with people of all backgrounds
Project management: Systems development life cycle, system analysis, design, implementation, and integration
Systems management: Over 15 complex systems; One system spanned 200+ users, 30+ departments, and 600 gigs of mission critical data
Employee / Team management: Direct hiring and management of seven subordinates, created and lead meetings and initiatives
Business: Ex-entrepreneur and worked in startup environment; set policy for IT business advancement
Research: Have provided masters-level research with a 3.9 GPA ongoing; enjoy researching possibilities for work purposes
Technical Hiring: on 3 hiring process committees for professional-level technical positions
Budgeting: One yearly budget that I helped manage was in excess of $50,000
Enterprise Open Source: Familiar with how to sustain a business on an open source model
OS Systems: Expert on Mac, Linux, Unix, Windows
Office and Visual: Google Docs expert, Excel Master, Word, Access, Omnigraffle, Keynote, PowerPoint
Database: SQL DBMSs, Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL
E-commerce / Web: HTML,
XHTML,
CSS,
PHP, Python, JavaScript
Cloud Computing: Expert on not only what is out there, but how the backends work
Linux: Linux/*nix shell expert, LAMP stack, ssh, mysql, Advocate of Open Source Software
Coding: Python,
VB for applications (Excel & Access), MATLAB,
PERL,
PHP
Industries: Higher Education, Software Production, e-Commerce / Web, Cloud Computing, State Government, Startup, Enterprise Open Source
Supporting and Engineering large-scale technical solutions on linux systems for fortune 500 clients such as LinkedIn.com, Myspace.com, USArmy, Nintendo, VMWare, SAIC and cloud providers such as Rackspace.com and Hosting.com. Some systems contained 10,000 server nodes, and hundreds of millions of datapoints. A team and I helped Clients analyze, design, integrate, implement, and administer large monitoring and assurance platforms with Zenoss and other open source software. Customer-elation was a key success factor.
Rated 42nd fastest growing company, and 3rd Fastest software company in the country by Inc. Magazine. I had a hand in this!
Created virtualized testing platform that assisted 3 groups to propel satisfaction and sales upward for most quarters that I was there
Renewal customers, a direct side-effect of good customer service, was at above-industry rates, around 80% renewal
Customer satisfaction stayed above industry-average rates for our team, and I maintained a 95% non-complaint level
Systems: HA (Highly Available) architectures, Cloud architectures, CRM experience, Support Queue integration
Communication: Customer-focused, senior management, extremely technical employees
Management: schedule management, task management, meeting leading, objective creation, lessons learned log, startup business observations
Team Work: 5-10 person teams, distributed teams (telework), highly technical team members
Industry: Systems Management, Enterprise Open Source, E-business, Startup, Software product company, Cloud computing
Technical: Deep Linux / unix engineering, CMDB / ITIL, HA and scalable architectures, Distributed Architectures, Zenoss Monitoring Product, Cloud computing: Amazon ec2, Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft AD integration, syslog,
SMTP,
SSH scripting, Zope, Python, UX (User eXperience) design, trac, Sugar CRM, Jive, subversion, VMWare ESX, VMWare Infrastructure, Cisco UCS familiarity, Apache,
DNS, J2EE JMX, LDAP, MySQL,
XML,
XSL, Cisco Network Equipment, MSSQL,
IIS, top, screen, vi, wget, cron, OpenSSH, reverse ssh tunnels, linux services, CentOS, RHEL 5, SUSE
Product Mgmt: Priority management, product review meetings, product-agile integration, customer-needs analysis (trac & google docs), use-case scenarios, customer story familiarity, customer interview meetings (nintendo, facebook games)
Contractual Linux and Windows server programming, installation, upgrade, and management. Also worked on a self-employed professional-grade programming project to enhance stock market positions, using Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm principles.
Manage, upgrade, engineer, and administer current and future UMBC Graduate School information systems, business processes, department IT needs, and user IT needs. The role involved working with 200+ fellow workers, supporting 30+ departmental workers, 2000+ applicants (customers), ~20 major integrated systems, and an application system that costs $50,000+ per year to run.
Created policies and systems to help increase incoming student population by 30%
Assisted in creating a dozen new programs to bring in a diverse new set of customers
Spearheaded and implemented idea for variable pricing on Internet submissions, leading to cost-savings and enhanced user experience
Requisitioned for multiple student employee positions, then hired and administered the positions to successfully expand the departments IT abilities and goals
Ran a no-longer-supported vendor solution for 2 years beyond contract - allowing dept. budgets to stretch beyond normal capacity, and give time to roll in new campus-wide ERP software
Creator of a then-new style of webpage self-editing (wiki cms), that allowed us to attract and bring in a leading Dean of Engineering and IT, who in turn exploded UMBCs online IT masters program revenue.
Engineered, upgraded, and maintained over 20 IT systems and websites, allowing the campus-wide goals of expanding our customer-base, and enhancing the student experience to continue successfully
Spoke at and attended national conferences and business gatherings, to expand the public profile and knowledge of UMBC as a leading research university. UMBC made Newsweeks #1 spot for “Up-and-Coming National Universities”, as voted by educational leaders.
Co-creator and leader of an organization to create a “Departmental IT” group. This lead to the centralized IT group being able to handle their 20% workload increase with the same amount of employees.
If you are viewing this on the web, click any of the following links for in-depth project documentation.
Document Imaging Server Upgrade - Customized Linux software and hardware were upgraded to meet a set of primary goals; The project spanned 12 months, 200+ users, 30+ departments, and 600 gigs of mission critical NPI data was migrated
Data Migration Automation - Online applicants to the UMBC Graduate School are imported on a daily basis into our customized internal imaging system (ParaDocs). I
presented on this topic at a national conference.
Technical Documentation Wiki - An online, editable, documentation website. Technical documentation, procedures, projects, discussions, notes, etc. to be shared with administrative users of the UMBC Graduate School’s various technical outlets.
Faculty Database Upgrade - Requirements analysis, data architecture, implementation planning, and actual implementation of a project to upgrade a
MS Access database → Oracle to allow its contents to be read in real time by a webpage
Inventory Upgrade - Upgrade and complete reinstallation of the entire Graduate School computer fleet; Over 30 computers were meticulously cleaned, swapped around, upgraded, and
OS‘s reinstalled
ParaDocs online imaging system - linux, php based
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Systems: Systems inter-operations, user / system training, interaction, and encouragement, business ‘use case’ importance
Communication: Interpersonal communications skills, technical documentation writing / structuring, group presentations, and leading meetings
Management: Employee management, schedule management, task management
Procurement: Contract negotiation, contract writing, working with exterior vendors
Industry: Higher Education environment, IT Vendor relations, State Government experience
Technical: Oracle DBMS,
SQL, PL/
SQL, Linux solutions, Mac solutions,
PHP,
CSS,
XHTML, ODBC, Microsoft Access,
VBA Coding, Crystal Reports, wikis, workflow systems, CMSs, see full list
above
Working for the campus architect, I was assigned web and specialty IT tasks, including a self-directed system implementation for inventorying classrooms on the web. PHP, Oracle, autoCAD, and technical documentation creation were handled. Involvement and cooperation with 20+ employees, and 8+ departments.
CollegeNETs R25 software was used to engineer and developed a homegrown add-on interface that involved integrating inventory data to an existing web interface; system design and implementation for 70+ classrooms; the system is still in use today
Design of web site templates using various content creation applications (FrontPage, Imageready, Notepad)
Use of Oracle DBMS,
HTML, and
PHP along with creation of system documentation manual
Involvement and cooperation with 20+ employees, and 8+ departments
Extensive use of professional calliber design programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Distiller), and vector based applications (AutoCAD) in a business environment
Start-up business to solve local company’s web-based solutions needs. It was fully managed, funded, run, and implemented by myself. Received assignments from 4-5 clients, and a couple thousand dollars in revenue.
Created many sites from scratch
Start-up business to solve local company’s computing requirements and develop web-based solutions
Gained insights into the operation of a small business and sharing workloads with partners
Placements in a variety of environments from local government to non-profit organizations. Jobs ranged from IT data manipulation to secretarial.
Temporary placements in a variety of environments from local government to non-profit organizations
IT clerical, data input, and basic word processing skills
| 2011 | Masters Degree in Information Systems (proposed) Current GPA = 3.9 |
| 2006 - current | Masters Degree seeking in Information Systems |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Science in Information Systems |
| 2001 - 2004 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Information Systems GPA = 3.0 |
| 1999 - 2001 | University of Maryland - College Park (UMD) Computer Science |
Systems analysis, design, implementation and maintenance learned and adopted
Fully working Information System implemented for the Army at Ft. Meade Military Base
Gained an understanding of how the ‘big picture’ can help and hinder projects
Installed, created, and managed 4 separate Linux / Apache and Microsoft web servers
Implemented a secure online community for a Spanish class
Gained access to many server-side cgi methods;
PHP preferred
SQL querying, programming, interfacing and application development in multiple environments
Oracle DBMS setup, management, and usage was ascertained
Analyze, improve, and implement information systems containing database environments
Net+ certification rough equivalency; TCP/IP 4 layer stack and OSI 7 layer model covered in depth
Theory, engineering and technology of past, current, small and large computer networking
A+ certification equivalent; Computer, system, and network architectures
Technical specifics of computational hardware and software components
Procedural and data abstraction in a Unix environment; design, analysis, and structured programming
Code documentation and planning artistry capabilities
Standard java and mobile java (J2SE, J2ME)
Application of programming concepts to desktops and cell phones alike
Collaborated with a subordinate to achieve objectives of self-created training plan
Discovered what can be done, why it should be done, and where to find answers pertaining to web standardizations
1500+ mile Bicycle Touring Ride
60+ mile Yosemite Hike
Europe backpacking trip - 15+ countries, 1 month
Self made 3 TB cloud-storage setup for streaming HD media and time machine backups
Contacts are available upon request.
Scott Bass - Dean of the Graduate School - UMBC
Betty Douglass - Director of Graduate Admissions - UMBC
Stan Kahn - Manager Of Tech Services, Co-Worker - UMBC
Stephen Auvil - Director, Former Supervisor - UMBC
Mark Behm - Vice President, Administration & Finance - UMBC
