Objective

To work in a production UNIX environment with the opportunity to learn Internet Server Admin, Oracle and other RDBMS Systems.

Experience

1996-Present Novadigm, Inc. Mahwah, NJ

QA IS Engineer

• High availability hardware and software logistics person for an enterprise client/server internet software manufacturer in a very fast paced, dynamic, and exciting software development and testing environment.

• Administer high volume Quality Assurance and Tech Support Software Testing Lab.

• Provide Lab hardware and software environments for testing effort.

• Administer high availability FTP site for customer maintenance and electronic product distribution.

• Administer testing environments on UNIX platforms as well as the machines themselves; backup, user accounts, disk quotas, etc.

• Administer and Secure busy technical support website with off-site web hosting service using BSDI UNIX. Aquired, customized, and set up Perl CGI scripts for interactive website customer forum.

• Provide HTML interface pages to Remedy Helpdesk System running on HP-UX and Oracle for Customer Service and Support Tracking System.

• Introduced Linux SAMBA servers for no cost Windows-like file sharing.

• Set up NT 3.51 DHCP Server for QA network segment, later migrated to Linux 2.2, and finally to Windows 2000 DHCP (at request of Network Admin Group).

• Set up Exabyte Tape Server on NT Server for for network backup/recovery using Network Associates ArcserveIT.

• Provide hardware/software/networking logistical support for annual user conferences and for various software technology tradeshows.

• Y2K/disaster recovery and redundancy planning for QA & Tech Support departments' operations and FTP/Website presence.

• Implemented a system for quick refresh of custom configured PC OS's for software testing, using hard disk imaging software.

• Archived custom OS disk images to CDR storage media.

• Multi platform administration: HP-UX, SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux x86 & PPC, BSDI, FreeBSD, Windows NT4, Windows 2000 Beta, Beos, OS/2, MAC, Windows.

• Interaction with all levels of personnel from the V.P. of R&D, down.

• Working with colleagues to create a HOWTO for connecting an internal LAN to a high speed DSL internet connection via a Linux based Firewall/Router machine/DSL modem.

1995-1996 Computron Software Rutherford, NJ

QA Department Sysadmin, Software QA Analyst

• Performed QA on Client Server Financial Software.

• Helped administer test environments on DEC-OSF, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, SUN OS, AIX, HP-MPE, DEC-VAX, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, DOS, MAC

1994-1995 PaperDirect, Inc. Secaucus, NJ

Software QA Analyst

• Performed quality assurance on PaperTemplates software for custom stationary mail order company.

• Worked with DOS, Windows 3.x, and MAC.

Education

August 1999 Hewlett Packard, Inc. Paramus, NJ

• Completed week long training course for HP-UX System Administration Level I

1995-1996 Montclair State University Montclair, NJ

• Computer Science coursework.

1994-1995 Bergen Community College Paramus, NJ

• Computer Science coursework.

1986-1991 Rutgers University Newark, NJ

• B.A., Political Science.

Interests

Network security, amateur astronomy, computers, history, reading, graphics raytracing, digitized music.