TONY R. CURTIS Raleigh, NC ab6vx3@r.postjobfree.com

ph: 404-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

In most situations technical decisions must be made within the context of

larger business constraints. Throughout my career I have kept business

issues in the forefront, be it as an implementation technician performing

segmented test to capture defects as early as possible, or as the Network

Engineer for an enterprise system, allocating resources and prioritizing

enhancements to meet strategic objectives. Focusing on business imperatives

is a core value of mine, one that I bring to every project on which I work.

Demonstrated achiever with 12+ years of experience in Project Support and

Systems Engineering. Skilled and detail oriented engineer that recognizes

information technology can improve work flow processes.

Had years of corporate and healthcare technical experience in Wintel Server

and Ubuntu Linux Administration. Citrix Metaframe Administration . VmWare

ESX server . Helped coordinate network design and Wan design to eliminate

duplicate equipment and improve cost and efficiency . Host Bust Adaptors .

iSCSI . Have built core OS images for deployment. Skills in the software

area include but are not limited to SQL server, Open Office (Sun Solaris),

Virtual Center 1.3.1 . Congos . Hyperion Enterprise . Oracle 8 (9) .

PeopleSoft . F-Secure . IIS 5 and 6 . XML . HTML . MS Clustering .

Veritas Clustering

EDUCATION B.A., - 1991 North Carolina A & T

State University - Greensboro, NC

MLS, Library Science - 1997 North Carolina

Central University - Durham, NC

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

The Home Depot

03/2012 - present

Sales Associate

Ridgetop Ventures

10/2008 - 12/2011

Systems Administrator Engineer

Responsibilities include the development of the company's 5-year

strategic plan, analyzing business strategies, functions, and procedures

to determine the most effective business systems and software to meet the

needs of the organization. In charge of ensuring software requirements

- analyzing requirements to ensure they are accurate and complete.

Insured problem determination and resolution was timely, accurate, and

properly documented through the use of tracking software for work orders

and emergency repairs. Communicated effectively with all levels of

management concerning Systems Operations issues, and responded to senior

level requests on a daily basis.

Skanska

03/2001 - 10/2008

Implementation Manager / Network Administrator

Planning consultant: studied and analyzed existing financial record keeping

software to determine inadequacies and inefficiencies. Installed J.D.

Edwards, enterprise wide, and transitioned from the packaged data-base to

Oracle. Reported all desired customizations to RDA team to reach projected

transition goals. Implemented annual projections of operating expenses,

illustrating the cost savings of running one instead of multiple financial

softwares. Difficulty was in ensuring the integrity of security features in

that external subs logged in to check job financials; this was required by

stakeholders for external clients.

Atlanta Medical Center

11/1996 - 02/2001

ERP Project Manager

Implementation manager of a ERP software consolidation project consisting

of 2 sites, two campus buildings.

Orsos (Per-S Technologies) project involved coordinating efforts with the

applications group and the operating room staff for new OR software. This

was extremely time / schedule sensitive; the clinical management teams

objective was to execute this task with no downtime in the operating room

and same day surgery areas. Testing was performed in mock environments;

graphic interface changes were addressed immediately after clinical usage.

Tester would stand post for hours until interface and data-base issues were

resolved. All issues and conflicts were resolved without scheduled downtime

in surgery areas. This was a major goal of the hospitals senior managers in

that surgery was a major cost center.

Lockheed Martin-Technical Services Division, NC

05/1993 - 11/1996

Data Center Technician

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