| Objective |
To become a member of a network team where my technical skills
and experience can be used to full advantage; an opportunity with
challenge and growth potential. |
| Summary of qualifications |
Over one and a half decades of experience primarily as a
contract employee in computing and network communications spanning
legacy IBM SNA to internet TCP/IP and analog POTS circuits to digital
ISDN PRI circuits. |
| Work experience |
1996 - Present InfiNet/ Network Two Norfolk, VA
Network Operations Engineer
- Performing turn-up, testing, troubleshooting and monitoring
for over 100 points of presence (POPs) for a national internet service
procider (ISP). Harware includes Cisco routers, Lucent Postmasters, US
Robotics Total Control, Xylogics Annex remote access servers, Sun Sparc
servers, LarseCom and Adtran CSU/DSUs. Telco circuits include POTs,
loop-start, wink-start and aggregate T1, and ISDN PRIs. Management
platforms include HP OpenView, 3Com AccessView, US Robotics TCM and
Lucent PMVision. Authentication protocols consists of RADIUS and ERPCD.
filled-in for the Driector of Telecommunications Engineering during an
extended leave of absence.
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1993 - 1995 U.S.Postal Service/ElectroCom Automation
Martinsburg, WV
Systems Specialist/Electronic Tech
- Responsible for maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting
the remote bar-code image processing system and associated LAN/WAN
Network. System was primarily comprised of a DEC VAX server, Intel
Multibus application-specific CPUs, SCSI storage drives, Racal brouter,
Intel workstations, Thick ethernet and point-to-point T1 circuits. Test
equipment included Sniffer and LANPharaoh.
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1900 - 1992 Department of Veterans Affairs/Opsys Inc.
Martinsburg, WV
Network Analyst
- Performed oversight functions for start-up of the nationwide
15,000 port Sprintbased X.25 network for the Department of Veterans
Affairs. These functions primarily consisted of writing and canning
Oracle SQL reports for VA management. This provided for tracking,
verification and reporting on the contractors deliverables in the areas
of network implementation and build-out, trouble ticket tracking,
traffic statistics and service credit calculations due to network
service interruptions.
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1989 - 1990 Department of Energy/CDSI, Inc. Rockville, MD
Senior Telecommunications Analyst
- Determined and facilitated appropriate transmission mediums
for end-user connectivity to various applications on the DOEs nationwide
telecommunications system. Mediums included dedicated and switched
telco links to satellite and terrestrial-based switching nodes.
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1988 - 1989 City of New York/Boeing Computer Services
New York, NY
Senior Network Technician
- Planning for rehoming of 5,000 IBM 3270 LUs from a
multi-linked SNA environmnet to a more cost-effective single link SNA
backbone. Duties included designing the NOC layout and writing the PU 2
physical layer test procedures.
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1988 Computer Sciences Corporation/ATR Herndon, VA
Network Technician
- Responsible for insuring that the vast number of cutovers to
the X.25 based Consolidated Data Network (CDN) were coordinated
properly. This included making sure that the various X.25 PADs, telco
circuits, network hardware and software parms were in place prior to the
scheduled cutover window.
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1987 - 1988 Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant/Westinghouse
Plymouth, MA
Programmer
- Responsilbe for designing a relational database and writing
aplications to track and provide automated reporting to plant management
of behalf of the tasks performed by Westinghouse Engineering. Platform
consisted of a standalone IBM PC running dBase III+.
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1985 - 1986 Hershey Chocolate Company Hershey, PA
Telecommunications Analyst
- Accomplished tasks included a 50% reduction in remote site
switched access costs which entailed analyzing data link layer traffice
followed by changing software parameters and hardware to operate in
half-duplex mode. Reengineered and rebuilt a voice keyset system to
integrate both voice-mail and data traffic. Responsible for
troubleshooting chronic and 2nd level escalated netowrk problems in the
IBM SNA environment.
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1984 - 1985 SEI, Inc. Wayne, PA
Senior Telecommunications Technician
- Responsible for troubleshooting the vast netionwide financial
services network which included over 800 point-to-point and multi-point
circuits. Network hardware included various time-division, statistical
and frequency-division multipexors, network concentrators and modems.
Utilized various VF transmission test sets and protocol anaylzers to
test and troubleshoot.
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1981 - 1984 Northeast Regional Data Center/
Univ. Of Florida Gainesville, FL
Teleprocessing Technician
- Addressed various end-user and network related problems in
the IBM SNA environmnet. Utilized, now Netview products, NCCF and NDPA
to control and manage the various domains, cross domains, PU and LU
sessions. Installed and c onfigured 327X controllers, 3270 terminals,
ascii-dump terminals and modems.
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| Education |
1981 - 1983, Electrical Engineering, Unviersity of Florida, Gainesville,
FL |
| Community activities |
Police Community Relations Advisory Committee-Member, Community Civic
Leauge |
| References |
Glady furnished upon request. |