An Overview of My Experience

Over 25 Years of Experience

How I Started

I returned to college and obtained a 4.0 gpa and became a member of Phi Theta Kappa (No degree). My long and varied background in IT officially began in 1993 when upon my first day, in my first position as a programmer, I was asked if I would like to become a Unix Systems Administrator. I agreed and was immediately sent for training at Data General in Westboro, MA where I received my Unix System Administration Certification. For the next 25 years I did a combination of Unix Systems Administration, Windows Systems Administration, Business Analysis and Software Development in a variety of companies both large and small.

Where I Have Worked

Proven Data Solutions
Structured Computer Systems
ITT Hartford
Electric Boat
Connecticut Natural Gas
Torrington Research Company
Piedmont Natural Gas
East Carolina University
Wachovia Bank
RBC Centura Bank
Bank of America
Nortel
TransCore(Easy Pass Virginia)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Laureate Education
AT&T
Schneider Electric(APC)
SevOne
CVS Health
Nextworth
Comcast

Programming Languages

I have programmed in Visual Basic 3, 4, 5, 6, VB.net, ASP.net, C#.net, Ansi C, ColdFusion, Magic, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Canvas and Java.

Frameworks I Have Used

I have used Code Igniter, Laravel and Zend in LAMP environments and Django for C#.

My Scripting Languages

I have scripted using VBA, perl, bash, ksh, csh, jsp, python, GIT, Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Tools and Applications, I Have Used or Supported

OCS, Nagios, Puppet, WebSphere MQ, Ghost, Jira, Zendesk, NESSUS, Remote Desktop, Oracle Live Help, Symon Administration, SharePoint, Wikid, Apache2, Tomcat, IIS, Websphere Application Server, SNORT, Blackboard, Sakai, Touchpoint and Imaging

Unix Administration Operating Systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris 5 6 7 8 9 10, CentOS, SuSE and OpenBSD

Database Design, Development and Support

Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, DB2, Sybase, Access, Pervasive, PDM, EDM, PL/SQL and Postgres

Duties

Software design and development including websites both internal and external, database design and development, reporting, call center support, Blackboard support, server patching, networking, software installations and migrations, data migrations, environments management, release management and whatever other duties were required.