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THOMAS B. SEEKER                                                                    

1234 Northern Star Circle
                                                                                                                Baltimore, MD  12345
                                                                                                                H: (410) 555-1212; W: (410) 555-2121
                                                                                                                E-mail: seeker@nettcom.com

Objective

Client Server Systems Architect for a high technology firm.

Qualifications Summary

Nine years of experience in designing, installing, and troubleshooting computing systems; a proven track record in identifying problems and developing innovative solutions.

Technical Skills

• Programming:  C, C++, Visual BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, SQL, OSF/Motif, UNIX Shell Script (sh, ksh, csh), BASIC, Clipper, Algol 68, and 80X86 Assembler.
• Operating Systems:  UNIX (bsd & SVr3/r4), MS Windows, MS DOS, MS Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, Ultrix AIX, VAX/VMS, and Macintosh System 7.
• Networking: TCP/IP, OSI, Microsoft LAN Manager, Novell Netware, DDN, Internet, Ethernet, Token Ring, SNA, X.25, LAN-WAN interconnection.

Professional Experience

Systems Engineer; Computer Engineering Corp., Los Angeles, CA, 1996 – Present
Provide systems engineering, software engineering, technical consulting, and marketing services as a member of the Systems Integration Division of a software engineering consulting company.

• Designed and managed the development of an enterprise-level client/server automated auditing application for a major financial management company migrating from mainframe computers, db2, and FOCUS to a workgroup oriented, client/server architecture involving Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Advanced Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 7, and UNIX.
• Conducted extensive trade studies of a large number of vendors that offer leading-edge technologies; these studies identified proven (low-risk) implementations of SMP and RDBMS systems that met stringent performance and availability criteria.
• Designed an enterprise level, high performance, mission-critical, client/server database system incorporating symmetric multiprocessing computers (SMP), Oracle 7’s Parallel Server, Tuxedo’s on-line transaction processing (OLTP) monitor, and redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) technology.

Systems Analyst; Business Consultants, Inc., Washington, DC, 1993-1996
Provided technical consulting services to the Smithsonian Institute’s Information Technology Services Group, Amnesty International, and internal research and development initiatives.

• Consolidated and documented the Smithsonian Laboratory’s Testing, Demonstration, and Training Databases onto a single server, maximizing the use of the laboratory’s computing resources.
• Brought the Smithsonian Laboratory on-line with the Internet.
• Successfully integrated and delivered to Amnesty International an $80,000 HP 9000/750 Server consisting of 8 Gigabytes of disk space and 9 software systems that required extensive porting work and documentation.

Education

• Computer Systems Technology Program, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Graduate Courses in Software Engineering and Computer Communications (24 quarter unites); GPA – 3.43
• BS, Mathematics/Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), GPA: 3.57, Major GPA: 3.62

Certifications, Honors, & Professional Affiliations

• MCP Trainer, DCS
• MCP Trainer, SDD
• MCP Certified Systems Engineer
• MCP Certified Project Specialist, Networking, MS TCP/IP, and MS Mail 3.2 for PC Networks.

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