I am ideally looking for a job that combines these interests that I excel in:
Cutting edge technology interest
Research and analysis, to specify solutions
Architecture and engineering skills, to problem solve
People skills, training, geek→english translation
Transparent, open environments (open source!)
Systems analysis and integration
Relational database development
Project and employee management
Open source integration
Systems engineering and design
Technical Documentation
Content Management Systems (
CMS)
Project management: with a technical edge, system development life cycle, system analysis, design, engineering, implementation, integration and testing
Database: SQL DBMSs, PL/
SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access,
XML,
XSD Schema, Postgres, MySQL, business related database design
Web: HTML,
XHTML,
CSS,
W3C standards compliant code, well formed code, seperation of structure, behavior, and presentation
Web Coding: PHP, JavaScript,
PERL; code in numerous web specs; promotion of well documented code
Linux: Linux/*nix command prompt, shell scripting, cron, LAMP stack, samba, ssh, apache, mysql, AFS, volume management, mdadm raid; Advocate of Open Source Software
Coding: C, C++, Java (J2SE, J2ME), Visual Basic for applications (Excel & Access); efficient, structured programming knowledge
Systems: Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix; Extensive
OS knowledge and support
Office and Visual: Mac Keynote; Microsoft Active Directory, Access, Excel, Word, Visio, FrontPage, PowerPoint; Adobe Photoshop
System Integration: Meticulously plan and formulate a wide variety of system, web, database, code, network, graphic design, and operating system aspects
Employee management: Direct management of three subordinates; I hired, advised, and assigned them work; they assisted me over a two year period in accomplishing departmental goals
Project management: over 15 systems with multiple-users, 3rd parties, risks, integrations, training regiments, timelines and scopes; I had the sole operational responsibility of a system at UMBC that spanned 200+ users, 30+ departments, and 600 gigs of mission critical data
Documentation compilation: technical, system, and user level nature; a self sewn wiki was used to document over 50 pages of technical information for use by others and myself
Technical Hiring: on 3 hiring process committees for professional level technical positions. I provided opinions, interviewing tactics, ideas, and advisement on where the job should lead and who best could fill it.
Procurement: technical goods and services via a third party in order to complete project requirements and guarantee enhanced relations for the future; One yearly budget that I helped manage was in excess of $50,000
Inventory management: hardware and software throughout a 40 user office
Communication: relate professionally with fellow workmates, users, and customers to accomplish a common goal; needs of others is always considered
Multitasking: task tracking of differing subject matter, from many sources; utilize technical and non-technical methods of task assessment; on-going task documentation
Diversification: value diversification of views and actions; open to new ideas and attempt to build ties with people of all backgrounds
Manage, upgrade, engineer, and administer current and future UMBC Graduate School information systems, business processes, department IT needs, and user IT needs. The role involves working with 200+ fellow workers, supporting 30+ departmental workers, 2000+ applicants (customers), ~20 major integrated systems, and an application system that costs $50,000+ per year to run.
If you are viewing this on the web, click any of the following links for in-depth project documentation.
Imaging Server Upgrade - Customized Linux software and hardware were upgraded to meet a set of primary goals; The project spanned 12 months, 200+ users, 30+ departments, and 600 gigs of mission critical NPI data was migrated
Data Migration Automation - Online applicants to the UMBC Graduate School are imported on a daily basis into our customized internal imaging system (ParaDocs). I
presented on this topic at a national conference.
Technical Documentation Wiki - An online, editable, documentation website. Technical documentation, procedures, projects, discussions, notes, etc. to be shared with administrative users of the UMBC Graduate School’s various technical outlets.
Faculty Database Upgrade - Requirements analysis, data architecture, implementation planning, and actual implementation of a project to upgrade a
MS Access database → Oracle to allow its contents to be read in real time by a webpage
Inventory Upgrade - Upgrade and complete reinstallation of the entire Graduate School computer fleet; Over 30 computers were meticulously cleaned, swapped around, upgraded, and
OS‘s reinstalled
ParaDocs online imaging system - linux, php based
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Systems: Systems inter-operations, user / system training, interaction, and encouragement, business ‘use case’ importance
Communication: Interpersonal communications skills, technical documentation writing / structuring, group presentations, and leading meetings
Management: Employee management, schedule management, task management
Procurement: Contract negotiation, contract writing, working with exterior vendors
Industry: Inner workings of the educational environment, graduate school business framework knowledge
Technical: Oracle DBMS,
SQL, PL/
SQL, Linux solutions, Mac solutions,
PHP,
CSS,
XHTML, ODBC, Microsoft Access,
VBA Coding, Crystal Reports, wikis, workflow systems, CMSs, see full list
above
Working for the campus architect, I was assigned web and specialty IT tasks. Web page templates from scratch, server side scripting project done with php oracle and proprietary systems, autoCAD manipulation, technical documentation creation.
Start-up business to solve local company’s web-based solutions needs. It was fully managed, funded, run, and implemented by myself.
Temporary placements in a variety of environments from local government to non-profit organizations. Jobs ranged from IT data manipulation to secretarial.
| 2006 - current | Masters Degree seeking in Information Systems Current GPA = 4.0 |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Science in Information Systems |
| 2001 - 2004 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Information Systems GPA = 3.0 |
| 1999 - 2001 | University of Maryland - College Park (UMD) Computer Science |
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Expert presenter to targeted users; Presented IT Systems Integration techniques
Company running the event paid expenses to present 2nd time around, I guess they liked me!
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Contacts are available upon request.
