Manager System

Gary Quiring

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Matawan, New Jersey 07747 Email:

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Accomplished IT professional with over 25 years experience. Strong hands

on experience with Solaris/UNIX and Linux systems. I have extensive

experience as a software developer and manager. Excellent troubleshooting

skills and very detail oriented.

EMPLOYMENT:

ActionEmco, North Bergen, NJ (out of business) Sept 1995 -

Jan 2009

IT Manager Office Products Wholesaler

I was responsible for the company's entire computer infrastructure. I was

also the Unix admin and Informix DBA. The system served approximately 600

users for order entry, accounting and warehouse functions for two

facilities in NJ and MI. I installed and maintained Solaris 7 & 9, Red Hat

Enterprise 5.x, and 160 PC/Windows clients. I was responsible for all of

the company's hardware including Sun 880, 490, 440, X4150, V20z, Dell and

Compaq servers. I utilized Logmein.com, VNC and VPN software for remote

management for after hour issues. I also used VMWare workstation to test

various Linux distributions and apps.

I wrote many korn/awk/kermit scripts to automate various functions. I had

scripts to monitor programs, disk arrays and server issues which email all

key personal when an issue arises. I also used MRTG to monitor FTP logs,

Cisco firewall and temperature readings.

Migrated and setup Informix 7.3 & 9.4 databases on Solaris 7 and 9. I

utilized Veritas Volume Manager to setup the raw devices to avoid using a

cooked file system. I used fiber channel RAID 10 on a 3510 array to

maximize the database speed. I also used utilities from the International

Informix Users Group including many of Art Kagel's utilities like myschema

and dbcopy. I automated the database tuning using dbstats to avoid lengthy

update statistic processes.

I setup the company email server using Sendmail 8 on Red Hat Enterprise 5

using a Sun 4150 x86 server. The server was also used as the primary DNS

server utilizing Bind 9. I also setup a DHCP and a VPN on Red Hat using

PopTop. I also setup all network shares for PC clients using SAMBA.

I managed and troubleshooted ActionEmco's proprietary electronic ordering

(not EDI) application for receiving purchase orders. I wrote a very

complicated script which monitors all incoming orders and sends emails to

various staff members based on the issue. Prior to my arrival they had no

idea if an order failed. I worked with 3rd party vendors in

troubleshooting all issues. I worked with the programmers to redesign the

application to be more reliable and provided user definable options to

eliminate hard coded features for individual accounts. I also designed and

wrote the FTP specification to modernize the ability to receive orders over

the internet. I also implemented Kermit for any customer using a legacy

system.

Designed and provided sample code to our developers for a PHP/XML

application to perform real time stock checks. Setup Apache 2.x on Solaris

9 with PHP 5.x and used an Informix PDO to perform SQL queries within the

PHP environment.

Designed an interface to integrate VSI-FAX with the Tecsys Elite system.

The interface required several shell scripts that would be invoked from

cron and the distribution system. I also automated an email notification

when faxes did not go through.

Marlboro Computer Corporation (MCORP), Edison, NJ May 1984 - Aug 1995

Director of Research and Development Software developer -

hospitality industry

I was responsible for all programming development, design and maintenance

for ImagInn (Property management system), BAMS/Q-INN (Property management

system for the military) and FSMS (Furnishing Supplies).

Provided training for the technical staff for installing and supporting

UNIX, XENIX and NOVELL Netware systems. I worked frequently with

communication tools - breakout boxes and datascopes, and have a strong

background in installing and troubleshooting PC hard drives, multifunction

cards, modems, network adapters and printers.

I have also installed several Netware and SCO UNIX systems with-in the

Marlboro organization. The network includes Ethernet and Arcnet.

Designed and programmed the ImagInn property management system which is

installed at over 1,000 properties. This system includes front desk,

cashiering, housekeeping, accounts receivable, reports and folio/manager

libraries. I also designed and programmed the following interfaces:

Credit card auths and electronic funds transfer for NaBanco, CES, Transnet

and Nova.

Point of sale interface for Micros, Posi-Touch, Mini-bar and NCR.

PBX interface for Northern Telecom, Hitachi, Mitel, Harris and Digital

Voice.

Movie interface for Spectradyne and Lodgenet.

Central reservations for AMR, Choice, Days Inn, Best Western, Howard

Johnson and Innlink (HIS system).

Call accounting interface that is user definable to work with almost any

system with no custom programming.

Fax module using DIGI-FAX to allow any report within ImagInn to be faxed.

Designed and developed a very flexible verb to allow for a standard pull

down menu and point and shoot tools to standardize a common look within all

applications.

Billeting Automated Management System (BAMS). This system was used by more

than 100 US NAVY installations. It includes PBX and housekeeping

interfaces. This system was originally designed for a DATAPOINT mini

computer system. I completely converted all programs to run on XENIX and

UNIX systems. The conversion included converting random access file

routines to ISAM and overhauling all of the database setup utilities. I

improved the technique of calculating availability and created common sub-

routines to eliminate duplicate code. I also wrote modules to provide

popup windows and scroll bar routines.

Inventory system utilizing Intermec portable bar code readers. I developed

the handheld application using Intermec's IRL language. An interface was

also written to download the data from the reader to UNIX where the file

would be processed to update various files and produce several reports.

I also wrote numerous UNIX shell scripts to aid in installing Marlboro

products, provide automated backup using tar, repair the UNIX print queue

and automated conversion tools for system upgrades.

Creative Applications, Avenel, NJ Nov 1983 - May 1984

Senior programmer Software developer - pager

industry

Developed software for Radio Communication Carriers. Created a system to

send and receive telex messages and stock quotes through WESTERN UNION'S

EASYLINK system. I was also responsible for all system upgrades and

network configurations.

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY June 1981 - Nov 1983

I worked in their Foreign Exchange and Commodity Financing divisions as a

member of their programming staff. I was also responsible for all

Datapoint hardware for the Commodity Financing system. I also wrote

several programs in Applesoft BASIC.

I was also a Shareware author. Below is a list of software packages I have

written:

Clone Invader - Arcade game which is very similar to Space Invaders. This

game is very popular and I have received hundreds of letters and

registrations acknowledging how much they liked the game. Written in

Microsoft Quick BASIC.

Disk Crash - Arcade game. Very popular game which was sold by many

catalog companies.

GQMENU - User definable menu system designed for NETWARE or DOS. It

includes multiple menus, calendar, printer functions, and mouse support.

Written in Quick BASIC.

I also wrote my own graphic editor which was used to design the shapes

used in Disk Crash and Clone Invader. It supports a mouse and uses CGA,

EGA, and VGA graphic modes. It saves the graphic images out in a format

which can be used in C or BASIC.

Personal:

Born: NY

I am a computer hobbyist. I build my own PC's using AMD and Intel systems.

I have several PC's at home including a dedicated Linux server and NAS

technology. I also host a photo gallery for the Thomas Edison Radio

Control flying field. The server is running Apache and MySQL utilizing

Gallery 2 and PHP BB on CentOS 5. I also enjoy digital photography using a

Canon 40D SLR and I use Photoshop to improve my photos.

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