Resume

Freeman P. Pascal IV

Microsoft Word format - http://www.pascal.org/Freeman/resume.doc

Postal address available via e-mail.

Career Objectives

I have twenty years of computing experience with thirteen years as a professional working in IT/MIS and as a programmer. My experience includes UNIX/Windows system administration and programming, network security management, web administration and programming, and systems architecture. I am a self starter with an insatiable appetite for learning.

I am currently pursuing my BS/MS in Computer Science with an interest in wearable computing, pervasive computing, and human-machine interfaces.

It is my sincere hope and desire to be able to capitalize on my skills and experience with a compatible organization while pursuing my BS/MS in Computer Science over the next several years.

Experience

Work History

Rhinocorps, Ltd.
Senior Software Engineer
July 2002 - Present

Providing Java/C#/Coldfusion/web/Unix programming expertise for mission critical web applications for Sandia National Labs.

Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Senior Software Engineer
June 2000 - May 2002

Provided Java/web/Unix programming expertise for Lucas Online web assets. Contributing member of 3 man engineering team responsible for integrating and maintaining several key Java technologies (Java application servers, Java EJB/CMP, Java Server Pages, Java JDBC, and content templating) within the Lucas Online infrastructure. Responsible for supporting 2.2 million registered StarWars fans providing access to StarWars marketing, historical, and collectors content, as well as StarWars forums.

Provided technical expertise to integrate and support several key open source and near open source technologies (Apache web server, Apache Jakarta Java tools, Apache XML tools, TEA templates, Resin application server, and Jive Forum) within the Lucas Online computing infrastructure.

Acted as technical liaison between development and Unix/Network support teams, providing integration and administration expertise.

Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Senior Systems Engineer
November 1998 – May 2000

Responsible for design and administration of Lucas company business and web computing assets for five distinct Lucas subsidiaries, including Unix account servers, database servers, file-sharing, firewalls, print servers, and backup servers. Supported over 3,000 Unix and Intranet accounts for business users, production personnel, and software developers. Provided development, deployment, and administration support for several critical in-house intranet applications providing digital asset management, contract/licensing management, and call tracking/user management.

Provided support for JakStar computing environment for StarWars Episode 1 post-production, and StarWars Episode 2 pre-production.

VERIO Northern California, Inc.
September 1997 – November 1998
Senior Systems/Web Architect

Essential member of Verio Northern California’s architecture team, providing expert knowledge and leadership addressing business and technical challenges in integrating four disparate ISP infrastructures while maintaining quality of service, security, and maximum customer retention.

Designed and implemented fault tolerate, clustering business and personal web infrastructure to support twenty-five thousand personal web customers and seventy-five hundred business web domains per cluster. Participated in design of fault tolerate foundation services to support key infrastructure systems such as email, DNS, authentication, provisioning, and data storage.

VERIO Consulting Group, Inc.
January 1997 – August 1997
Senior Computing Technologist

Provided business oriented computing consulting, addressing computing architecture, computing infrastructure analysis, network and server analysis, and technology integration. Services provided included: enterprise jumpstart configuration, foundation services (printing, file-sharing, network access, resource management, system and network security), web server design and configuration, and web and Java development.

TRW Enterprise Solutions, TRW Inc.
February 1994 – December 1996
Lead Systems Administrator

Responsible for design and implementation of TES’s corporate computing infrastructure standards addressing network architecture, common workgroup servers, and Internet/intranet services (email, DNS, NIS/NISplus, file sharing, printing, and software licensing) targeted at increasing overall reliability and usability.

Primary responsibility was to provide high-level technical expertise to 24 member MIS group supporting 500+ developers, system integrators, testers, and support personnel on 1200+ UNIX, Windows, and Windows NT workstations.

Secondary responsibilities included NIS/NISplus, DNS, and NTP site management, software license management, computing infrastructure management, MIS asset and billing database administration (running Sybase), and corporate Web master. Provided top level technical support to helpdesk for escalated issues.

Primary architect in re-engineering TES’s computing infrastructure including software development environment, version control, change control, application maintenance, license management, security, NISplus domains, and file sharing.

Acted as MIS liaison to corporate tiger teams providing technical expertise and implementation addressing enterprise wide configuration management, development environment, and security solutions.

Verity, Inc.
July 1993 - February 1994
Lead Systems Administrator

Lead four member MIS team to support 100+ developers, testers, and support personnel on 275+ workstations running UNIX, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 3, and MacOS on 10baseT network utilizing TCP/IP, Novell, DECNET, and AppleTalk. Responsibilities included UNIX administration, network management, Internet security, NIS, DNS, and software license management

Managed and completed extensive network restructuring, upgraded existing flat network utilizing 10base-5 and simple distribution hubs with 10baseT and multiple Synoptics 3000 hubs, greatly increasing network reliability and ease of maintenance.

Researched and implemented corporate backup system to replace previously antiquated solution, saving approximately 7-hours/week management time and increasing reliability by 100 percent.

ARINC Research Corporation
March 1992 - July 1993
Staff Analyst

Systems and network administrator supporting 161 UNIX workstations, four DOS servers, and approximately 200 users located between five sites. Responsibilities included user training, hardware/software evaluation, network management for approximately 600 network nodes (Novell, Macintosh, UNIX, and VAX VMS), and development of standardized network monitoring and management tools.

United States Air Force
Active Duty: December 1987 – March 1992
North Dakota Air National Guard
October 1985 - December 1987
Telephone Inside Plant Switching Technician

Served as UNIX systems administrator for several Air Force units, providing user training, and site security and maintenance.

Professional Training:

Sybase Fast Track to SQL, Sybase, Inc.
Sybase Introduction to SQL, Sybase, Inc.
Sybase System Administration, Sybase Inc.

Raptor Firewall training

Sun NISplus training, Sun Microsystems Education

Introduction to Perl, Tom Christenson, USENIX 95
Perl GUI Programming, Tom Christenson, USENIX 95

Introduction to Perl 5, Berkeley extension course
Advance Perl 5 Programming, Berkeley extension course

Veritas Systems Administration, Veritas, Inc.

Personal Training

Self taught UNIX administration (all flavors). Self taught UNIX shell scripting (awk, Bash, Bourne shell, Csh, Perl, sed, etc.) Self taught C, CGI, HTML, Java, Java Servlets, JSP, Perl, and XML programming.

Currently exploring Microsoft .NET C# and VB.NET.

Education:

Divide County High School, Crosby ND, 1984

North Dakota State University - 1985, 2002
    1985 - 47 hours completed towards BS in Computer Science
    2002 - 11 Hours completed towards BS in Computer Science

Currently pursuing BS/MS in Computer Science at North Dakota State University

Community Service

Area Coordinator (New Mexico), Amateur Radio Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)

Vice President, Albuquerque Amateur Radio Club (AARC)

Personal Technical Achievements:

Built and maintain in-home personal UNIX/Windows network (Sun, FreeBSD, Linux, MS Windows) with connectivity to Internet via PPP/ISDN/DSL.

Own and maintain personal Internet domains: pascal.org, openve.org, wearforge.net, and wearforge.org.

Designed and built personal wearable computer for personal research into wearable computing, pervasive computing, and human-machine interfaces.

Hold General class amateur radio license, N5FPP.