PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Systems Administrator 1993-  Present, East Texas Medical Center Hospital, Tyler, TX.

Duties include programming, integration, purchasing, and managing this hospital’s automated systems and IT personnel. Provided hardware and software support to hospital medical delivery systems, corporate accounting/billing, and network structure using TCPIP to over 2000 pc computers, 12 mini computers (IBM, SUN, COMPAQ)  We purchased and integrated fourteen (14)  hospitals and 67 medical clinics into our information systems WAN network.. Purchased, installed  and maintained seven (14) IBM RISC 6000 and three (3) AS400 servers connected to WAN networks via fiber, T1, T3, and wireless. Designed and installed a Disaster Recovery Site duplicating production servers to redundant backup servers through Asynchronous Communications on a real time basis providing high availability for critical systems.

Network Administrator 1991-1993, Zimmerman Sign Company, Longview, TX.

Duties included programming, integration, and managing this company’s automated systems.  Provided hardware and software support to the engineering, accounting, billing, and inventory production departments with over 200 computers in two manufacturing plants.  Supported software such as LOTUS, WORDPERFECT, dBASE and AUTOCAD. Maintained two NOVELL networks with telecommunications to and from each plant.

Integrator 1988— 1991, Medical Management Systems, Tyler, Texas.

Duties included installing and supporting software and hardware automated management systems. Used a multi-user 80386 INTEL UNIX platform to run software consisting of billing, receivables, payables, medical record tracking, word processing, and electronic third party claims submission. Also, programmed and integrated personal computers to hospital mini and main frame computers. Installed word processing and spreadsheet software.

Computer Salesman 1984- 1987, MicroAge Computer Center, Tyler, Texas.

Sold and supported business computers. Developed an educational resource center for delivering software technology to business customers. Taught courses in computer networking, Unix/Xenix, MS-DOS, computer literacy, Accounting, Graphics, Database, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, and Programming Languages. Other responsibilities included paid consulting, software development, supervision of support personnel, training of sales staff, and software & hardware installation & evaluation, Supervised four support personnel -

Computer Salesman 1983 1984, Computerland, Tyler, Texas

Duties included analyzing and matching customer needs to appropriate computer hardware and software. Also, provided full after-sale customer support. Educated the public through lectures and presentations on the installation of automated Information Systems.

Computer Systems Manager 1980-1983, San Diego County Head Start,

Developed and implemented computer software packages for the automation of accounting, budget planning, inventory control, management reporting and tracking. Duties included being in core administrative policy making unit reporting directly to the Executive Director. We were responsible for the decision making process for this seven million organization with 300 employees, 35 schools, and seven subordinate delegate agencies. Supervised five employees.

EDUCATION 1973- Received a B.A. at TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, Texas.

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