Employment:
Director of Engineering CypherEdge Technologies Inc. 04/15/07 – 02/01/08 Bellevue, WA
Providing direction for 15 software engineers, creating a new mobile application, and maintaining legacy software used by T-Mobile. Responsible for all business technical architecture, budgeting, and all IT infrastructure used by the company in Washington (USA) and Malaysia. Managed both software engineering teams, infrastructure teams, QA team, and contract employees.
Consultant Structured Technical Systems LLC 01/15/06 – present Beaverton, OR
Providing consulting to CODA Inc. for installation of new Electronic Medical Record Software suite, and new Financials Applications, by gathering business requirements and converting them to technical direction, mapping business processes and providing gap analysis for integration with new software packages. Managed all contract negotiations with software vendors and management of all professional services personnel.
Consultant Cascade Business Group, LLC 01/01/05 – 11/23/05 Seattle, WA
Providing consulting to Cingular (ATT Wireless) for technical architecture, technical direction, and system support for all conversion activities of the billing systems from ATT Wireless to Cingular.
Consultant Structured Technical Services, LLC 4/2003-12/04 Beaverton, OR
Provided consulting to primarily medium to large sized businesses for technical architecture, technical direction, and providing Disaster Recovery and Business continuity planning (certification from DRI 10/03). Providing technical readiness assessments, system administration and project management expertise to enterprise corporations.
Consultant Applied Information Concepts 11/2002 – 4/2003 Woodburn, OR
Consulting to primarily medium sized businesses for technical architecture, technical direction, and providing them with Disaster Recovery and Business continuity planning. I also have been performing technical readiness assessments, and providing project management expertise to medium and enterprise corporations.
06/1997 – 11/2002 Xerox Corporation
Director, IT Technical Services Xerox Corporation 01/2001-11/2002 Wilsonville, OR
For the Office Printing Business reporting to the CIO, managed the UNIX system admin, the NT admins, the DBA team (Oracle), the Network Services team (enterprise), the Web technology team (E-commerce), and the Security team for the OPB division of Xerox. Functioned as the senior technical architect for the Oracle 11i implementation, the production Web infrastructure, and the Open Uptime server migration. Was the focal point for the corporate roll out of the Active Directory and XP clients for our division world wide, as well as local the adaptation of LDAP for our Oracle instances. Created strategic technical architecture documentation (two year planning cycle) for the organization for Enterprise data warehouse, financials, and CRM applications, as well as the E-commerce applications and systems.
Manufacturing and Financial (OMAF) systems world wide. Traveled to Europe and South America to install/upgrade systems (both Unix and Citrix) to enable the OMAF systems for the various manufacturing sites and distribution centers. Worked with Sun and Oracle as lead technical liaison when problems arose. Was sent into the field to resolve hardware and software technical issues (such as network connectivity or printing issues), for which an award for outstanding performance was received.
Was promoted and transferred to Wilsonville to work in the OPB division.
Technical Services Manager (Unix and NT administration)- CSS division Xerox Corporation 09/1998-01/2001 Webster, NY
Corporate Strategic Services/Information Management (CSS/IM) Lead the Unix admin team, the Citrix/NT admin teams for the manufacturing division of Xerox. Provided system administration, technical architecture and other support roles (disaster recovery/business continuity, security) to the larger organization. Main focus was Oracle
Team Lead - Consultant Xerox Corporation 06/1997-09/1998 Webster, NY
As a contractor, lead the Unix admin team and the Citrix/NT admin teams for the manufacturing division of Xerox. Provided system administration, technical architecture, and other support roles (disaster recovery/business continuity, security) to the larger organization. Main focus was Oracle Manufacturing and Financial (OMAF) systems worldwide. Was involved with the upgrades of the Oracle applications and Unix systems for each manufacturing site.
Hired by Xerox (converted) see above
Senior Unix Administrator - Consultant Eastman Kodak Company 11/1996-06/1997 Rochester, NY
Lead the Unix administrators (7) and network administrators (3) that supported the engineering group at the Elmgrove facility for Kodak. Senior technical architect for the Sun environment (approx. 120 Sun workstations) and for backup and recovery, and the senior administrator for the NT and Citrix server environments. Also supported the Cisco switches and hubs to support the network environment for the engineers in the building. Was involved with the WAN environment to connect the engineers in Germany with the engineers in Rochester.
Senior Unix Administrator Electronic Data Systems at Xerox09/1995-11/1996 Webster, NY
Supported and installed the Oracle Manufacturing and Financials systems world wide for Xerox (initial rollout of production 10/1/95 on Sun Solaris 2.5.1 running Oracle 7.3.4 RDBMS and 10.7 applications in text mode). I was the senior Unix administrator (team of 7) and the technical architect for the OMAF systems as they were rolled out globally, and installed them on each site. Helped to create Service Level Agreements with Xerox and EDS, to ensure the technical accuracy of the documents.
Technical Services Support Manager Oregon Steel 10/1989 –08/1995 Portland, Oregon
Lead the day-to-day hands on activities for the technical support team and help desk functions. These included; running the mainframe, building and installing PC's to the desktops, operation of the Unix systems (HP), managing the network services (LAN and WAN), and maintaining the IT systems and peripherals for the five steel mills in the organization.
Unix Systems (installation, training, and support Intersoft09/1988 –10/1989 Beaverton, Oregon
Performed Systems Administration and Training for various clients. Installed various Unix systems (ATT, SCO, Unisys) and networks (LAN,WAN) nation wide, and trained the clients to administer them. Provided system support via the phone, and created documentation establishing procedures for support. Training was on site and off site.
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