SUMMARY:
Communications, Radar, Avionics, R&D Engineer and Computer Hardware Field Service engineer (over 15 years experience) and Unix Administrator and QA Test Analyst with over 20 years of IT experience. I specialize in UNIX administration of Solaris (2.6-5.8), HP-UX, Linux (RedHat, Slackware or Mandrake) and Digital True-64 UNIX systems and quality assurance and testing of application software and systems using both automated and manual testing tools. My strong communication and interpersonal skills would make me a valuable asset to any company.

LANGUAGESVisual Basic, C, Perl, Bash shell, korn and C shell, Fortran, FORTH.

HARDWARE IBM PC, SUN SPARC, ULTRA SPARC,ULTRA SPARC, SUN Servers, Digital and analog circuit design, RF circuit design, Tape drives, CRT Terminals, IBM Mainframes.

SOFTWARE / ANCILLARY Star Office, Rational Test Suite (Robot), NIS, MS Office, Telnet, Exchange, dns, named, proxy server, vi, ADSL, TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, ssh, Samba, Legato Backup, Veritas Netbackup, ISO 9001, Macromedia MX, FrontPage 2002, Sierra Web Studio.

OPERATING SYSTEMS Red Hat 5.0 – 8.0, HP-UX 10.1, Solaris 2.51 - 5.8, Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT, UNIX / Digital, Linux Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Suse, PCLinuxOS.
DATABASES Oracle 8i, Access, SQL, RADAR (Land, Ship & Airborne), Microwave, Avionics.

EXPERIENCE:

• Confidential, Indpls, INJune 2011 – August 2011 Supervisor on various size projects reporting to Operations Manager

• Assists theOperations Manager in meeting project completion schedules and labor budgets as directed. This may be a duty of multiple projects at one time due to size and duration
• Ability to run a project of at least 7-15 personnel and one or more foreman on different projects with little direction from theOperations Manager
• Maintains a daily time, material, and event record for job status information and provides documentation, reports, and information toOperations Manager as directed
• Ensures 100% compliance to H&M policies and processes
• Insures the quality of workmanship, tracks production, and monitors safety procedures
• Approves and insures the accuracy of time sheets and expense reports, as well as completing disciplinary and evaluation forms for those employees assigned to his/her projects
• Develops work-around procedures for maintaining crew productivity during delays caused by other trades, customer, lack of materials, absenteeism, etc. in conjunction with the project schedule
• Constantly monitors project budget to meet or exceed estimates
• Assists in realizing changes to the scope of work and documenting change orders. Reports, coordinates and supervises all aspects of a project as directed by theOperations Manager
• Works closely with other Site Managers and/or Operations Management in development and implementation of installation, testing, and documentation practices and procedures
• Furthers oneself through ongoing education either corporate or specialty courses

• Confidential, Franklin, INOctober 2009 – May 2011Sales Associate Cell Phone Sales Associate.

• Sell Cell Phones, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and various Pre Paid Phones.
• Responsible for selling Laptops and Desktop Computers, Routers and other accessories.
• Also sell HDTV’s Surround Sound Systems and accessories.
• This position requires vast technical knowledge and excellent Customer Skills.
• Sales of Cell Phones increased over %400 under my tenure.
• Increased sales of Computers and HD TV\'s.

• ConfidentialSeptember 2007 – February 2008AvionicsTechnicion:

• Avionics Specialist: Installing new Garmin GPS, aircraft communication and navigation equipment.
• Work in aircraft as well as on the repair bench, manufactured cable harnesses for new installations.

• ConfidentialMay 2007 – July 2007CMI Administrator.

• Environment: HP 11.11 Unix. Maintain HP UNIX on a legacy CMI system (PICK Database) during transition to SAP. Also maintained Sun Solaris Work Stations through out the plant. Terminated due to a Merger and consolidation of Unix/SAP/EDI duties. Tools used were korn shell and Perl. Used SAM for backups.
• Responsible for providing management with reports pertaining to backups and system usage, and for License tracking and management.
• Required a strong working knowledge of performance and event monitoring for servers. (Unix and Windows Servers)

• ConfidentialJune 2006 – August 2006Test Analyst 
  Environment: Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Red Hat Linux.

• Software Validation Engineer – Validation of ICE Portal software to be used for Lilly employees to connect remotely to internal Lilly content. Test suite included using Rational Test manager, Rational Requisite Pro., Soda for Word, and Remedy.

• ConfidentialMarch 2004 August 2005Senior Validation Engineer

• Environment: Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
• Software Validation Engineer – Clinical Trials. Instrumental in validation of software, which can save time and monies in Clinical Research, by expediting FDA approval of new drugs. This software would allow more studies to be possible with the existing staffing and to be completed sooner. A successful launch of this product could mean many millions of dollars of savings.
• Write Test Scripts and SQL Scripts, WEB testing, Oracle and SAS AS400 & UNIX back end.

• ConfidentialSeptember 2003 January 2004Senior IBM Installer
  Environment: Windows XP

• IBM Installer for State Farm Insurance agents for the State of Indiana.
• Responsible for installing new IBM Servers, (Windows Server 2003) configuring software and network using SMS.
• Responsible for Converting existing Laptops and Workstations to Windows XP installing network drives and printers, and troubleshooting.
• ConfidentialMay 2003 August 2003Senior IBM Installer
  Environment: Windows XP

• IBM Deployment team at Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana.
• Work in a team deploying IBM Desktop, laptop and Workstations.
• ConfidentialMay 2002 August 2002Senior UNIX Administrator
  Environment: Digital True-64 Unix 4.6d, Solaris Unix 2.6, 5.7 & 5.8, Oracle 8i, Bash, korn, and Perl.

• Responsible for backup strategy and implementation of the Engineering Department using Legato Backup and Veritas NetBackup. On call 24x7 with pager.
• Responsible for daily UNIX admin activities, user maintenance, & monitoring of systems, applications & networks with minimum supervision.
• Install software & OS upgrades.
• Analyzed and resolved hardware and software problems on 75 Sun Work Stations besides the Digital and Sun (E-1000, 420R, V880 & 220R) servers.
• Worked with Remedy and Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. Responsible for constant supply of status reports to upper management.
• ConfidentialAugust 2000 September 2001Senior Solaris Test Engineer
  Environment: UNIX, Solaris, Oracle, vi, NIS, NFS, Samba, DHCP, Bash Scripting, and Perl.

• Tested High Availability Software running on Solaris 5.8 using various applications to simulate high CPU loads. (This was testing Disaster Recovery Software for UNIX, Windows and NetWare made by NSI.)
• Involved in testing Disaster Recovery Software on Solaris 2.51 through 5.8.
• Was UNIX mentor to the younger staff members.
• Used Oracle 8.05 and Oracle 8I (8.1.6, 8.1.7) as system load for testing.
• Involved in automating the testing process by writing Bash Scripts and creating test programs in Perl.
• ConfidentialMay 2000 – August 2000SQA Test Analyst
  Environment: Windows 2000 - Web Testing (Internet Explorer & Netscape) and Sun Solaris.

• Tested an ORACLE database application front end written in C++, MFC, and Sting Ray.
• Evaluated Rational Test Suite, Seque Silk, QES EZ, and Vermont High Test to determine which testing tool best fit the company’s needs.
• Acted as a UNIX System Administrator for an HP9000 System.
• Environment: HP9000, Unix, Oracle, Rational Test Suite, Seque Silk, QES EZ, Vermont High Test, C++, MFC, and Sting Ray.
• ConfidentialNovember 1999 – December 1999Test Analyst
  Environment: Windows 2000 - Web Testing (Internet Explorer & Netscape)

• Tested an e-commerce web site using Rational SQA Suite 7.1.
• Used object oriented testing, which required using Robot and writing automated test scripts as .sbl and .hbl modules to test the HTML code.
• Environment: Rational SQA Suite, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, OO Testing, Rational Robot, and HTML.
• Responsible for developing Test plan from requirements, writing test script and test cases.
• ConfidentialMarch 1999 – September 1999Test Analyst
  Environment: PowerBuilder, Oracle, MS Word, SQL Suite, and SQL.

• Schooled in Ration Suite (Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, and Robot)
• Tested PowerBuilder-developed Oracle database application.
• Worked with MS Word and Rational Robot SQA Suite to automate testing tools for clinical trial data collection.
• Responsible for developing Test plan from requirements, writing test script and test cases.
• Wrote test scripts which used SQL.
• Trained new testers in proper script writing skills.

• ConfidentialMarch 1998 – January 1999Sr. UNIX System Administrator
  Environment: Unix, Solaris, HP Server, and Windows NT

• Installed, configured, and supported an Electronic Documentation Management System consisting of 3ea HP-UX servers 2 gigabyte ram each, sharing a common EMC storage unit.
• Installed FIDI and 10 base-2 cables, Solaris Ultra Sparc workstations with 2ea Kodak 950 Image Scanners serving approx. 195 WinNT 4.0 clients hooked to the HP servers
• Responsible for networking security, user administration, back ups, day to day operations, providing customer troubleshooting, and software maintenance.
• Responsibilities included Windows 2000 clients and maintaining users, DHCP, DNS and NIS on the UNIX Servers.

• ConfidentialOctober 1997 – February 1998Software Validation Engineer
  Environment: Rational SQA Suite and SQL

• Schooled in Ration Suite (Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, and Robot)
• Tested PowerBuilder and ORACLE database applications
• Automated testing tool for the pharmacy and laboratory activities using Rational SQA Suite
• Responsible for developing Test plan from requirements, writing test script and test cases.
• Responsible for working within the FDA guidelines to write test scripts.
• ConfidentialJuly 1997 – September 1997UNIX Systems Administrator

• Short term contract. (Emergency basis – IT Manager had abruptly left with no warning)
• Administered Digital and Solaris Unix Servers.
• Responsible for Legato network backups.
• Worked with large size LAN network including a DNS server and about 250 gigabytes of disk storage.
• Had to develop Documented on the daily activities plus the back up procedures and system updates. (There was nothing left behind by the previous Sys. Admin.)
• Performed administration duties preparing for the company\'s planned merger.

• ConfidentialOctober 1994 – June 1997Firmware/Software Validation Engineer

• Responsible for patient care software verification and validation of firmware.
• Developed information mapping, trace matrix, and software validation protocols.
• Developed software simulators for testing software with information as provided in the software requirements specification.
• Ensured compliance with GMP, FDA and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Participated in development teams at project conception to completion.
• Programmed in C an emulator for testing production test jigs.

• ConfidentialNovember 1993 – March 1994DATA Manager

• Responsible for archiving and tracking CAD data on an IBM mainframe DB2 database and transferring CAD data between the CGA (mainframe) and Uni-Graphics (Sun UNIX) environments and controlling the access to outside vendors.
• This position required a UNIX and CAD background.

• ConfidentialJune 1993 – September 1993Electronic Engineer

• Responsible for the expansion into the electronic area of biomedical servicing.
• Responsibility included maintaining and installing computer systems, incubators, centrifuges, and the more state-of-the-art biomedical safety cabinets with solid state controls.

• ConfidentialDecember 1989 – May 1991

• Customer Service Engineer: Responsible for installing and maintaining computers and peripheral equipment used for color separating in the pre-press industry.
• Installed hardware, software including optical R/W drives, SCSI, Ethernet, Apple-Talk, and proprietary networks.
• Worked with HP-2000, UNIX, Intel RMX, Macintosh, and OS-2.
• Was responsible for customer training both on the hardware and software in the interim till formal training occurred.

• ConfidentialNovember 1988 – August 1989

• Systems Engineer in charge of site selection, site preparation, installation, and maintenance of Sun UNIX Workstations and ComputerVision CAD systems.
• Field service functions on Intel based CAD systems marketed by CAD/CAM. Required knowledge of Auto Cad, GCD and ComputerVision CADS-4X.
• Developed Pascal program to interface with a page scanner for reading resumes.
• Installed UNIX CAD systems and LANs with disk-less clients, loaded software on Sun workstations and installed LANs. Performed initial System Manager and Operator training.

EDUCATION:
EngineeringInstructor,

LICENSES:
FCC Amateur Radio Operator, Extra Class N9BK
FCC Commercial Radio Telephone with RADAR Endorsement (Formerly the 1st Class)
FAA Commercial Pilot, Airplane Single & Multi-engine Land Instrument Airplane – 3000 hrs.

Accomplishments:

• Eagle Scout .
• Honorably discharged .
• NCOIC (Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge)
• Instructor.
• Instructed course in telescope making
• Past Vice-president
• System Operator of various Apple & IBM Bulletin Board Systems
• Designed serial device driver for PC-Board BBS for Apple II-e using Promethus serial card and external 1200/300 baud modem.
• Designed IEEE-488 to RS-232 converter and wrote driver using FORTH.
• Computer Consultant for over 15 years.
• Amateur Extra Class Radio Operator, N9BK.
• Owner The Computer Specialist
• FCC First Class Commercial Radiotelephone License with RADAR endorsement.
• Commercial Airplane Pilot, single & multi-engine, land with instrument rating. 3000 hrs exp.
• Flight time in: PA28-161, PA38-112, CE-172, CE175, CE-150, PA28-140, PA28-R200, M20J, BE-A36, PA-28RT, PA28-RT201, PA44-180, and 7AC-2650.