OBJECTIVE:

To find a suitable environment in which I can grow and develop innovative skills in communication technologies and management.

EXPERIENCE:

The University at Albany S.U.N.Y.
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222


Data Communications Analyst (Sr. Programmer/Analyst)
Developing and managing Communication equipment and networks
for a University environment.


Duties:

Comparing telecommunication equipment from various vendors and recommending purchases for the University.
Designing and implementing Network for NY Giants summer camp.
Creating and maintaining WEB pages for Communication Dept. and GSO.
Implementing and Maintaining the Resident Hall project (RESNET), providing 6000 Ethernet connections to students.
Managing the University's wide area network(WAN).
Managing the University's terminal servers (900 ports).
Managing the University's bridges and routers.
Managing the University's dial-in modem pool system.
Hiring and training Student Interns to help with network functions.
Interfacing with the University's users on networking and modem use.
Holding mini-sessions (classes), and writing articles on modem use.
Helping incorporate the Library's various data feeds into the network.
Created a video tour of the campus's computing network (1992).
Serving on the University's SLIP/PPP task force.
Coordinate and plan new installations and moves for Network access.
Engineering data cable runs and acting as liaison between electricians and contractors and the user community.
Serving on the University's Backbone/RFP committee.
Helping the University's computing club (A.C.M.) with various projects.
Data communications work for Career Expo at Knickbocker Arena (May 1991).
Project Tester (Wellfleet Bridge/Routers) for the state wide SUNYnet.
Serving on the University's Senate Library and Computing Services Committee (LISC).

December 1980 to June 1989

Citicorp North American Investment Bank
55 Water Street, 47th Floor
New York, New York 10043


Manager, Data Communications
Managing the Data Communication network and assigning hardware for a 500 position trading floor, engaging in foreign exchange, U.S. treasury bonds, and corporate underwriting with 18 billion dollars being exchanged daily.


Duties:

Finding cost efficient methods for providing financial data.
Managing a staff to interface with various user communities which resolves 800 service calls monthly.
Maintaining a "Micrognosis" video switching system for various trade entities.
Project Manager of trading floor re-organizations that take place several times a year.
Chief liaison between the traders and vendors such as: Marketvision, Knight-Ridder, Telerate, Reuters, Cantor-Fitzgerald, Garban.
Engineering data runs and a liaison between the electricians and the vendors.
Contingency/Security: Offsite processing for disaster recovery. Various software controls (passwords), i.e., Guardian, ACF 2, and Top Secret.
Hardware Selection Committee (Ad Hoc) to evaluate mainframes and operating systems supporting various systems - VM/MVS.
Analytical type reporting to high level management: 100% per circuits/per system, accomplishments, future planning, and reducing cost.
Helped design and build a 500 seat trading floor at 55 Water street, which was the largest in the world (1986).
Installed and tested trading floor system in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Managistics
Woodside, New York 11377
Programmer

Duties:

Writing assembler macros on a Data General MV20000 system. Writing and updating COBOL programs on an IBM/370 system.

EDUCATION:

M.A. Communication, University at Albany, expected June 1998.
B.S. Degree, Regents College, June 1993.
A.A.S. Degree, Kingsborough Community College, June 1987.

Other Training:

Belden/Krone 350meg wiring certified. June 1996.
Cisco Router Configuration, Protocol Interface, Inc. 1995.
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Douglas Comer (INTEROP) 1993.
Network Trouble Shooting, Digital Equipment Corporation 1990.
Wellfleet Bridge/Router Configuration, University at Albany 1989.
Data Communications Technology, Columbia University 1987.