Manager Engineer

John P. Rindge

*** ******** **. *****, ** ***** (Nelson County)

********@*****.*** Cell - 804-***-****

Summary

IT professional with solid business experience seeking to

utilize background for self-starter small to large

business and customer support projects. Open to travel.

Contract options welcome. Salary/hrly rate is flexible.

Experience Independent consulting (Nov 2008 to Present)

Private PC tutoring - residential clients

Circuit City Stores Corporate - Richmond, VA (Apr 2006 -

Nov 2008)

Senior Systems Analyst for MST systems Layoff

- Chapter 11

iSeries (AS/400) QA Environments Administrator and AIX

Configuration Mgr

Systems Administrator and Applications testing

administrator for 13 iSeries supporting legacy interface

for a major system's replacement project. Heavy ROBOT job

scheduling, full user and data security.

Operating System Support Software; Security and data

integrity; IP and ODBC interface to other platforms -

Oracle, AIX, Windows, TIBCO bridge.

Participated in and supported systems testing

AIX systems configuration manager - approve AIX change

management requests.

Tredegar Film Products - Richmond, VA (1999-2006)

Data Center Manager / Senior System Engineer

Managed day-to-day operations of a global 24x7 data

center consisting of 10

corporate and distributed iSeries servers in US and

Europe.

Responsible for guiding operations personnel and

consultants on configuration

and upgrade activities. Reduced operations personnel to

essential staff only

utilizing lights out methodology.

Assisted with JDEdwards CNC administration. Three tiered

JDEdwards

Enterprise One ERP system (iSeries, Citrix, Windows2003,

and HTML).

Responsible for new system planning, configuration and

contract negotiation.

Consolidation of 10 iSeries servers into 2 central LPAR'd

iSeries servers.

Implemented iTera high availability systems, supporting a

24x7 business

requirement. Assisted with new system stress testing for

multi-tiered

environment and WAN.

Participated in Sarbanes Oxley data center compliance

audit, resulting in "no

material weaknesses" finding.

Managed data center budget, vendor relationships, and

negotiated services.

Virtual Resources Inc. - Richmond, VA (1992-1999)

Independent Systems Consultant

Provided implementation planning, configuration,

administration and conversion services. Systems

design and development.

Data center operations and facilities management.

Disaster Recovery planning/implementation/testing.

Business systems analysis and project management.

Client list included: Tredegar Corporation, Union

Carbide, IBM, Compaq

Computer, Elizabeth Arden, BW Nuclear Technologies, and

General Railway

Signal.

Dexel Systems - Vienna, VA (1990-1991)

Senior Systems Consultant IBM Industry Remarketer

Responsible for pre & post-sale Technical consulting and

installations.

Responsible for the planning, configuration and

installation of over 70 AS/400s systems nationwide.

Staff member with the various consulting firms:

1983-1990

Applications design and development; systems

administration.

Client list included: Kodak Copy Products (honors),

Bausch & Lomb, Gould

Pump, Reynolds Metals, Massey Coal, Mobil Chemical,

Allied Fibers, others.

Prior Corporate Positions:

Clark-Schwebel Fiber Glass MIS Manager

Anderson, SC

Specialized industrial fabric manufacturing.

NCR Corporation Senior Consulting Analyst

Clemson, SC

Part of POS development team

Voplex Corporation Systems Manager

Rochester, NY

Automotive extruded plastics manufacturing

Wegmans Food Markets Systems Manager

Rochester, NY

Instrumental in implementing one of the first store

scanning systems in US

Raymond Corporation Programmer/Analyst

Greene, NY

Materials handling equipment manufacturer

Ingersoll-Rand Programmer/Analyst

Corning, NY

Heavy compressor machine manufacturing and foundry

Education

and Completed 3 years of study toward a B.A. in Business

Membership Administration & Computer Science (Norwich University,

Corning Community College & University of Buffalo).

Past Member of Richmond area Greater Area Technology

Council

Member Mid-Range Computing Group

Past Member COMMON

Participated in many technical classes and conferences

for related computing environments

Currently learning Unix

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