Experience

2001–Present

Astro Aluminum Enterprises Struthers, OH

IT Manager

• Manage day to day IT operations and staff.

• Supervise, direct and prioritize development projects.

• Track and negotiate software and support contracts with various vendors.

• Track and manage I.T. hardware and software assets. Ensure licensing compliance.

• Assess risk and always work to lower risk in various areas of IT

• Direct staff in R&D efforts to investigate emerging technologies.

• Advise and assist team in the scope of various projects, determining feasibility, ROI and TCO

• Present new ideas and projects to ownership and controller

• Acting lead DBA and Developer (see next experience section)

• Recent Projects

• Machine Control on N-Teir Architecture

Directed 2 developers in the development of machine control from a clustered web server environment on Linux. We developed our own C++ libraries to talk to SLC/500 processors and ControlLogix processors. Developed our own web server and integrated with the machine control libraries.

• Web-Based applications – Office, Production

Directed staff and helped develop many web-based application on Linux, Oracle, Apache architecture. Some applications include credit tools for A/R, profitability reports and financial statements, manufacturing applications tied to our manufacturing database, quality control applications, I/M applications for different departments like packaging, maintenance, paint line, etc.

• Web-based applications – PDA's

Directed staff and helped develop applications for Symbol 1D and 2D hand-held scanners to interface production control and interface inventory management systems over wireless network.

• Fiber ring architecture

Developed and implemented plant-wide plan for a fiber network consisting of 5 separate fiber rings to isolate impacted of outages in the event of a physical layer failure. We used Cisco equipment.

• Wireless LAN

Designed and implemented a system of 12 Cisco wireless AP's for total wireless coverage across the plant and to support hand-held units. Spec'd antennas and amplifiers, as well as, surveyed environment to properly place equipment to work in harsh environment of metal and liquids.

• SAN

Developed plan and architecture for a SAN on one campus, although geographically diverse on campus. The implementation utilized the existing fiber ring constructed earlier that year. SAN was built without single point of failure, utilizing redundant fiber runs, switches and nodes.

** These are the most recent and significant. I can provide a more comprehensive list of projects and upgrade initiatives upon request.

2000–Present

Astro Aluminum Enterprises Struthers, OH

Senior: Software Developer / Systems Analyst / DBA

• Proficient in SQL*PLUS, Oracle OEM, PL/SQL..

• Understand and can apply the use of Oracle procedures, triggers, functions, sequences, views, materialized views, database links, etc.

• Developed applications in Visual Basic 6, JSP, HTML, PHP, AJAX, CSS against Oracle, MySql and other databases.

• Understanding and able to develop in a 3 tier architecture environment utilizing Unix,Linux,Solaris and others.

• Can apply use of OS level scripting languages and combine them with database scripts to accomplish many tasks.

• Advise a team of developers on how to architect various projects.

• Administered Oracle 7.3.4,8.6,8.7,9I databases on linux and solaris

• Can work in/on Linux, Solaris, Windows platforms equally well.

1998 – 2000

Astro Aluminum Enterprises Struthers, OH

Network Admin

• Administered NT 4.0 network and Terminal Services / Citrix

• Built, installed new servers

• Started migration to Solaris/Linux with back end servers

• Understand network communications as it relates to client server networks

1997 – 1998

Astro Aluminum Enterprises Struthers, OH

PC Technician

• Repaired initial 39 pcs in company

• Built up, installed and maintained custom PC inventory  to over 100 PCs

• Built new custom servers

Education

1994 – 1996, 2000

Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH

• Major - BSCIS

• 88 hrs completed at YSU

Spring 2007 - Present

Aspen University Denver, CO – online

Bachelor of Science – 30 hrs completed

Expected graduation - summer of 08'

Interests

Community Service.

• 1994 – Volunteered at Mahoning County Food Bank

• Mahoning County Jail – since 2004

• Ohio State Pen. – since 2001

• Corrections Corporation of America – since 2004