Herein you will find a resume of MIS and Programming education and on-the-job training. Many of the skills developed during earlier work have been maintained through informal study and self-assigned projects.

Recent - Experiences

June, 1994 - Fall, 1995

On sabbatical - boating and other projects

1991 - 1994

Designed, developed and implemented IS standards for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Administration Division as their Manager of Administrative Information Systems (MAIS):

• Coordinated efforts to expand the Division's TCP/IP network from less than 20 PC's, to include approximately 200 PC's, 4 UNIX file servers, 5 Departmental IS contacts and 10 Departmental Software Specialists;
• Acted as inter-Division IS liaison;
• Co-designed and developed budget planning spreadsheets for the five departments within the Division;
• Designed and developed a computer asset inventory control and life-cycle tracking system;
• Designed and developed a user skills and user training database;
• Co-initiated formation of a committee to perform Institute data-flow documentation and systems analysis;
• Participated in vendor selection and system implementation for the following UNIX/Oracle-based systems:
  • Finance/Administration Information System (FAIMS)
    
  • Physical Facilities Management Information System (FAMIS);
    
• Initiated Internet explorations and integration with existing systems and work flow;
• Initiated use of Mosaic and WWW pages linking in-house documentation and applications, enabling employees to quickly locate appropriate information and run programs, macros, etc.; designed and developed related Web pages;
• Investigated and distributed utilities found on various ftp sites (e.g. spreadsheet macros, word processing macros, telecommunications programs, graphics, data processing)

• Provided training to staff in the use of:

  HTML pages HTML forms Mosaic/Netscape	MS Project MS Excel Q&E SQL
  SMTP/POP e-mail ftp network security	print servers file servers Gopher