OBJECTIVE:

 Systems Administration, Support, or Operations positions in a casual, postive workplace near my home (Lowell, Billerica,
 Chelmsford area). Preferably one that will allow me to finish my degree, either part or full time.
 
 Work environment and location are primary concerns, and all levels of positions will be considered.

 Description of my perfect job:
 Working as a sysadmin or other support role for a local academic institution or small company.
 I'd like a progressive, casual work environment where the focus is getting the job done, and one where I can continue to learn and expand my skills. 

TARGET COMPANY Company Size: No Preference 
 Category: Computers, Software 
 Description of my ideal company:
 Either an academic institution or a progressive, technology driven local company. 

TARGET LOCATIONS Relocate: No 
 US-MA-Western/Springfield US-NH-Southern US-MA-Boston North 

WORK STATUS: I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. 

EXPERIENCE:

 5/2000 - 8/2001 Iris Associates Westford, MA 
 Release Engineer 
 Responsible for daily builds of automtated test software

 Resposible for daily test runs and pre-release 
 comprehensive testing

 Maintained test sytems in heterogenous environment
 including HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Macintosh 

 Created documentation detailing daily build process, current workarounds 
 in place for testing purposes, how to access test systems and initiate test
 runs, and how to validate logs generated by test runs.

 8/1998 - 5/2000 Fidelity, FMRCo. Boston, MA 
 Senior Operator 
 Monitored and supported operating environment for over 1,500 jobs in mixed Unix Solaris / NT environment using Autosys and other tools. 

 Provided assistance to oncall support personal, both domestic and overseas

 Oversaw weekly backups in excess of 17 terabytes. 

 Troubelshooting backup issues and assisted in capacity planning for backups. 

 5/1996 - 7/1998 MRS Technology, Inc. Chelmsford, MA 
 Assistant Systems Administrator 
 Assisted in management of 55+ Sun workstations, 30 Macintoshes, and 20 PCs in an environment using Mailtool, Elm, Eudora, Snapmail, DNS, NFS, NIS, PCNFS, Solstice, TCP/IP, and automount

 Assisted in maintenance of System 25 Voice Mail/PBX

 Responsible for backups of all UNIX filesystems

 Planned and implemented hardware and software upgrades to PCs in response to changing user needs, including integration of Windows 95 and NT systems into the existing Unix network 

 10/1994 - 1/1996 Teloquent Communications Corporation Billerica, MA 
 Internal Tech Support 
 Loading and configuration of:
 SCO UNIX, Informix,Teloquent Distributed Call Center, DOS 5.0-6.22, MS-Windows 3.0-3.1, MS-Windows for Workgroups, MS-Office, Visio, Lotus Notes, PC Eudora, cc:Mail, WinQVTNET, Visual C++

 Installation and configuration of most common forms of PC hardware, and the proprietary Teloquent ISDN card.

 Creation and maintenance of licensing and inventory databases

 Daily monitoring and maintenance of physical network

 Monitoring Octel voice mail system

 Configuration of Teloquent ISDN phones for internal usage

 Configuration of Teloquent Distributed Call Centers

 Document testing for Teloquent products 

EDUCATION 5/1994 Shawsheen Valley Technical High School US-MA-Billerica 
 High School or equivalent 
 Graduated Valedictorian in Data Processing 

 University of Massachusetts, Lowell US-MA-Lowell 
 B.S. Candidate in Computer Science

 Maintained 3.01 GPA while working 15-30 hours weekly
 After scholarships, financed 50% of tuition 

SKILLS  
Troubleshooting: PC, Macintosh, Novell, Unix

Working knowledge of C/C++, Perl, Shell scripts

OPERATING
SYSTEMS: UNIX (SCO, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris X86), MacOS 6.x-8.0 Windows3.0/3.1/Workgroups/95/NT4.0/W2K, MS-DOS 3.0-7.01,Limited VAX/VMS