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Engineer Software

Location:
Allegheny, PA, 15226
Posted:
April 05, 2010

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Resume:

Jason P. Smith

**** ********* ****

Pittsburgh, PA 15226

Home: 412-***-**** Cell: 412-***-****

**********.****@*****.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

Obtain a position as an engineer or related position which offers key

participation; team oriented tasks, immediate challenges, and career

opportunity.

Professional Work Experience:

Hyperactive Technologies INC

06/2009 - 02/2010

Pittsburgh, PA

Implementation Specialist:

. Plan implementations for proprietary software packages for perspective

clients along with established clients

. Strive to deliver successful rollouts for hardware and software

packages by working as a team player

. Travel onsite to assist engineers with the installation of quick

service restaurant drive thru software technologies such as: Order

Conformation Boards and Drive Thru Lane Timers; hardware solutions

such as Dell PC hardware, POS(Point of Sale) hardware; Ground Loops,

Loop Detectors and DABs(Data Acquisition Boards).

. Train the franchise owner, general managers, plus restaurant staff on

the use of the software, hardware and web reporting tools

. A great deal of knowledge with both, hardware and software allowed the

ability to train effectively

. Time management skills are very important for making sure that each

client remains properly balanced with their products running smoothly.

. Created and implemented comprehensive needs assessment mechanism to

help forecast demand for services

. Trouble Shoot issues with Crystal Reports that where not meeting the

clients specific criteria.

Teletracking Technologies INC

04/2006 - 06/2009

Pittsburgh, PA

Implementation Engineer: Onsite engineer in charge of installing,

configuring, and the creation of training materials used for product

training. This position was 100% travel. Interaction with the client was

three stages:

Engineering Week 1: Work with the hospital IT staff onsite to install

hardware such as Intel Dialogic cards for inbound phones calls to the

server as well as run and punch down standard phone lines. This included

splitting and crimping cables. Also would verify that all OS software was

installed properly. This included the Windows Server 2000 and 2003 software

along with IIS. The next step was to install Teletracking Technologies

Workflow Automation Software onto the windows server and configure the

software outlined in the client specifications and special requests. Ran

SQL scripts to import data into multiple databases that were created during

the install of Teletracking Technologies Software. Creation of the training

documents, to be used to the coming weeks, always making sure to tailor my

documentation to meet the specific needs of the department and hospital was

an intricate part of my first week onsite. To wrap up my first week I

would conduct the first part of System Administrator training, followed by

a status meeting with all department heads.

Training Week 2: Train all the users of the hospital that would have access

to the system. Training classes ran every hour throughout the day.

Training included a variety of users on different aspects of the system,

including use of the GUI as well as phone and general pager functions

Go-Live Week 3: This was the week that the client hospital went live with

the Teletracking Technologies Software. Assisted with any needs the users

had during this week. This could mean last minute training or running to

the different departments within the hospital to ensure that all users were

using the system properly.

Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities included remotely supporting Teletracking Technologies

client user's by diagnosing and resolving issues in a timely manner via

telecommunications, primarily phone and email. Used the following remote

control utilizes: Remote Desktop Protocol, PC Anywhere, Dame Ware and VNC.

Worked within a team setting to handle a high volume of calls during 24/7

shifts. Knowledge of Windows Workstation as well as Windows Server OS was

essential to position. It was necessary to determine if issues were

related to Teletracking Technologies Software or something related to the

OS. If issue was within Teletracking Technologies Software would created

test servers to recreate the issue to determine a resolution. SQL Duties

included performing general SQL database maintenance by creating scripts

and running them against the client's databases, installing both SQL 2000

and 2005 on the clients' production and test servers, detaching and

reattaching SQL databases within the client's SQL servers. Making full

back up of SQL databases to restore to new SQL servers, client back up SQL

servers, or in-house test SQL servers for testing purposes was a weekly if

not daily occurrence. Documented all software defects and reported them to

the Q/A Department for immediate resolution.

Mellon Financial Corporation (Robert J DePaul & Associates Inc)

05/2005 - 04/2006

Pittsburgh, PA

CSD Helpdesk Technician II

Responsibilities included taking inbound phone calls from both internal and

external clients. Troubleshooting software issues, escalating hardware and

network issues as well as password resets were daily tasks. Using remote

control utilities such as Dame Ware, SMS, Remote desktop and XP to XP

remote assistance to fix a wide array of software issues, troubleshooting

Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003 issues such as Outlook crashes and

program failures where all part of my daily workload. Uninstalling and re-

installing all Mellon used software, running vbs scripts for rights. Used

triage to fix unfamiliar problems as well as escalated issued to help

resolution. Also met and excided the call statistics set by the help desk

manager. Worked the helpdesk ticket queues in Service Center and resolved

ticket issues promptly.

MEDRAD, INC. (All-Tech Staffing)

06/2004 - 05/2005

Indianola, PA

IRT Support Specialist

As the primary point of contact for all MEDRAD North America users, I

handled phone calls from local users as well as Field service and Sales

representatives on a daily basis. Ability to diagnose and resolve a wide

array of issues including, remote VPN access, hard drive failures,

Microsoft Windows and Office errors and both IBM PC and Laptop hardware

issue. Technical ability to perform hard drive, motherboard and RAM swap

outs for IBM T series laptops were an everyday task. Ability to diagnose

and resolve system hardware issues on HP, Compaq and IBM desktops was also

essential to my position. Main focus was on a speedy turnaround time while

offering high quality tech support.

Kennametal INC. (TEK-Systems)

01/2004 -05/2004

Latrobe, PA

Help Desk Analyst

As part of the Global Support Team responsibilities included answering

phone calls on an array of issues. Dealt with the following issues: account

lockouts in Windows, Lotus, SAP and Black Book applications, modem and VPN

connectivity issues, as well as KLS (UNIX) system to maintain users,

printers and scales. Used the Remedy ticket system with PC Support issues

opened during the day and to have a users escalated to the next level of

support. While working the position I gained a basic understanding of SAP

Business system, maintained user accounts and performed transport moves

from Development to Test to Productions environments.

Education: ICM School of Business

Degree: Associate Degree in Specialized Business, Computer

Management Network Engineer 6/2003

Hardware and Software Knowledge:

. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2003 Server platforms

. Microsoft Active Directory

. Microsoft Windows XP

. Microsoft Windows Vista

. Microsoft Windows 7

. Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2007

. Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008

. Microsoft Exchange Server Administration

. Symantec Ghost imaging software

. Intel Dialogic Software

. PC Platform Hardware, Motherboards, Expansion Cards

. Server Platform Hardware, Motherboards, Expansion cards

. Intel Dialogic Server Boards

. Crystal Reports 2008

Proprietary software:

. Teletracking Product Suite including, Service Tracking, Bed Tracking,

Transport Tracking, Transport Tracking XT,

CMS (Capacity Management Suite) XT, Patient Tracking OR and HL7

Compliant software

. Hyperactive Product Suite including HyperActive Bob, Hyperview and

QTimer



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