Employment

October, 2007 -  November, 2007
Senior UNIX Engineer

Repaired several issues reported by users on servers.
Preformed upgrades on servers when needed.
Built Red Hat Linux and Solaris 10 servers.

May, 2006 -  May, 2007
Senior UNIX System Administrator/ CAD Support

Unix System Administrator for the entire site of about 55 engineers. Provided support for Linux and Solaris UNIX machines.
Installed patch releases that were pertinent to our environment.
Executed Red Hat kickstart installations on Ultra 10s and 20s and server class machines.
Responsible for resolving all issue, support for Windows problems.
Provided support for all CAD related issues.

Provided training class for Cadence related products. Provided assistance with the Veritas backup system that covered 1.5 terabytes of data that was setup using Soltice DiskSuite.

January, 2005 -  October, 2005
Senior Computer Systems Technologist Six- Sigma Specialist

System Administrator dealing with Windows XP, Solaris and Linux in all capacities. Installed RHEL3 for AMD on a Sun Ultra 10 Workstation with a 64 - bit AMD processor. Installed and tested the following applications on this machine : Xilinx ISE v7 .x, Synplicity and the Mentor Graphics tools Design Architect and ModelSim.
Provided some test machines with SuSE Linux to evaluate applications with this OS.
Lead Offsite Storage engineer. Setup daily, weekly and monthly backup. Ran duplicates every month and sent tapes to our offsite storage facility.
Lead Application Engineer for the following tools : ModelSim, Synplicity, PSpice, OrCAD, CAMtastic, LABView and Ansys. My responsibility with these applications is to evaluate, test and install.

Setup a training class for OrCAD and PSpice for the engineer that wanted to get better usage out of the tool.
Provide local support for Mentor Graphics Design Architect along with writing AMPLE code to customize our environment.
Provided documentation for all areas covered so there would be no issues during time away.

June, 2004 -  January, 2005
CAD Engineer Consultant

Provide CAD support for Mentor Calibre and Cadence Assura.
Test design kits provided by Mentor Graphics local AE.
Developed a backup strategy for the file server and computer servers.
Installed and supported the Red Hat Linux 7.2 machines.

March, 2003 -  May, 2004
CAD Engineer

Modify the LVS and DRC Run-sets to match changes made in the Design Manual.
Developed a test bench for testing changes made to the run sets and testing errors reported by engineers.
Lead local support for LVS and DRC issues for any process.
Lead support for LVS and DRC issues in 110nm process.
Created documentation used to help new engineers with company standard devices.

September, 2000 -  July, 2002
Power PC/Embedded Processor

Responsible for installation and maintenance of Genesys-Pro a random verification tool on the AIX UNIX Systems
Responsible for installation and maintenance of Meteor a core coverage tool on the AIX UNIX Systems
Responsible for installation and maintenance of SCUBED a batch job submission tool on the AIX UNIX Systems
Developed the methodology for the use of random verification of core design
Reduced time of Genesys-Pro installation from 1 week to 1 day

July, 1996 -  September, 2000
UNIX Systems Administrator/Applications Engineer

Provided test machines installed with Red Hat Linux to test applications with the OS.
Provide support for various CAD/CAE tools, Verilog, VCS, Verilint, Signalscan, Synopsys and VHDL
Responsible for the setup and maintenance of Avanti Apollo WAN license
Developed application used by model engineers to perform VHDL simulations using license and compute server in Japan
Developed a method using Verisure s to check IP test bench coverage
Responsible for setup of centralized license management and monitoring license utilization using FLEXadmin
Developed web applications used to monitor license utilization and track software revision/updates
Developed wrappers for various CAD applications
Evaluated and purchased LSF used for an application usage queue
Developed script used to monitor project utilization of file server space and notify project lead when utilization exceeded
Responsible for Auspex 7000 file server and Sun compute cluster administration.
Assisted in setup of a frame relay connection from MSAI to Japan.
Responsible for the setup and maintenance of remote access using ISDN and Secure ID.
Responsible for the setup of communication between a Windows NT server and Solaris Workstations using Wincenter and Samba.
Responsible for setup and maintenance of file server backups using Netbackup and Veritas. A backup plan was developed and approved for the 30 server.
Responsible for the setup and maintenance of Design Engineering Intranet.

May, 1989 -  July, 1996
System Administrator

Education

Training

HP-UX - HP-UX System Administration for Series 300/400/700 , HP-UX Troubleshooting
Solaris - Advanced System Administration for Solaris
Windows - Understanding Windows NT Architecture , Windows NT 4.0 Server
Flexadmin Introduction to FLEXlm License Management for System Administrators , FLEXadmin
Synopsys - Chip Synthesis , Verilog Application Workshop , ATPG with TetraMAX
Cadence - Assura Rules Writing Workshop

TECHNICAL
Languages : VHDL , Verilog , Assembly C , C++ , Perl , Korn Shell , C/TC Shell , Sed , Awk , Lex , Yacc , HTML , Expect , Tcl , Tk , Assura Rules Writing , Skill , AMPLE
Software Tools : Cadence Leapfrog , Assura , PSpice , OrCAD , Mentor Calibre , ModelSim , Design Architect , Genesys-Pro , Meteor , SCUBED , RCS , Verisure , Verilint , VisualHDL , Signalscan , Synplicity , Synopsys PM , VCS , LSF , PostgresSQL , Systems Tools : Soltice DiskSuite , Veritas Volume Manager , Veritas Cluster Server , FLEXadmin , NetBackup , Backup Express , Ultraseek , Netscape Enterprise Server , Samba
Responsible for the daily maintenance and support of a HP-UX and SGI Computer Lab .
Responsible for performing and maintaining system backups , installation of new system hardware and software and resolving network and system conflicts .
Responsible for determining the growth of the Computer Lab and evaluating new hardware/software products needed to maintain computer facility .
Worked with various vendors to obtain new product information to aid in evaluation of hardware/software for computer facility .
Responsible for assuring Division wide network connectivity .
Responsible for installation and configuration of PC network devices and software and resolving various network problems .
Responsible for installation of HTML server and development of HTML pages for Division's internal network .
Conducted research to investigate the possibility of increasing the computational performance of an algorithm executed on a Custom Computing Platform verses a traditional computing platform .
Implemented computer network system for high-speed data acquisition
Developed a simulator/trainer for naval operators of underwater vehicles using FORTRAN and C programming languages .
Implemented software revisions for underwater vehicle simulator/trainer .
Designed and implemented circuitry for water tunnel testing of miniature underwater vehicles .
Collected and analyzed data from test runs of miniature underwater vehicles .
Assisted in test runs of full-sized underwater vehicles .
Designed and implemented a controller to release an underwater vehicle after reaching a specified water depth .


Publications

Co - Author Implementation of a finite difference method on a custom computing platform Journal : Proc . SPIE Vol . 2914 , p. 44 - 53 , High-Speed Computing , Digital Signal Processing and Filtering Using Reconfigurable Logic ; 10/1996