DEBORAH KOBERNICK
Cell phone 301-***-****
Residence 301-***-****
N. Bethesda, MD 20852
**********@*******.***
SENIOR TECHNICAL WRITER
EDUCATION
MS, Computer Science and Education, Ohio State University 1982
BS, Mathematics, Ohio University 1981
AWARDS AND MILESTONES
Recipient of 4 Exceptional Service Medals at the Executive Office of the
President.
Winner of the Federal Government’s government-wide annual award for
Technical Excellence.
Throughout career, consistently received the highest annual performance
review rating possible.
LAST SECURITY CLEARANCE TOP SECRET – OCTOBER 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SENIOR IT CONSULTANT
Independent Contractor 1997 to Present
Currently serving as a senior technical consultant to a number of
government agencies and private sector businesses. Highlights include
the following:
U.S. Department of State – Served as Special Assistant to the
Director of the U.S. Department of State, Office of
Information Assurance. Over the course of two years,
completed a multitude of technical writing assignments
including security documentation, standard operating
procedures, technical and user manuals, procurement and
contract documents.
Westat, Inc.; wrote numerous technical documents including
requirements documentation, statements of work, technical
design documents, standard operating procedure manuals, test
plans, and proposal evaluation documentation.
Interliant, Inc.; served as the technical writer on a two
year effort to merge seven diverse web hosting systems into
one comprehensive system. Responsible for all of the
project’s documentation including the migration design
document, requirements analysis, systems documentation, all
technical and user manuals, customer documentation, human
resources procedural manual, training documentation, and
other various works.
Numerous shorter term contracts where work involved technical
writing, proposal writing, business and systems requirements
analysis, internet design and strategic planning, information
architecture designs, application test planning, quality
assurance plans, statements of work, procurement
documentation, and application programming.
DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Executive Office of the President 1987 - 1996
Responsibilities included managing the development and fielding of all
departmental computer systems in the EOP agencies including the White
House and OMB, and developing enterprise wide information architecture,
standard server and desktop configurations, and enterprise wide office
automation capabilities. In addition to developing 5 new departmental
systems, was responsible for transitioning the existing office
automation system to client/server technology and assisting in the
migration of 93 mainframe-based applications to the client/server
platform.
MANAGER, MINICOMPUTER AND MICROCOMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
NASA Headquarters 1986 – 1987
Responsibilities involved management of all departmental level computer
systems development to include all applications development and
maintenance.
PROJECT LEADER
U.S. House of Representatives, House Information Systems 1984 - 1986
Served as project leader of a special task force responsible for
development and implementation of a House-wide information processing
architecture employing leading edge data processing technology.
COMPUTER SPECIALIST
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency 1983 - 1984
Served as key member of the Agency’s microcomputer technical evaluation
group with primary responsibility for: preparation of contracts to
acquire hardware, software, maintenance and system development support;
assisting in contract development and monitoring of contract support
services; technical and functional evaluation of microcomputer
technology in order to assess its applicability to Agency uses;
evaluation of a variety of software and hardware microcomputer products
including printers, plotters, dynamic character recognition systems; and
coordinating with Agency and Department of Defense Intelligence
Information Systems (DoDIIS).
COMPUTER SPECIALIST
U.S. Air Force, Foreign Technology Division 1983
Designed, developed, and implemented a supportive database module to the
DoD wide Central Information Reference and Control (CIRC II) System.
This effort involved designing database structures; developing data base
specifications as well as functional systems interface specifications.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
COMPUTERS
Intel based microcomputers such as IBM, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, laptops,
Pentium processors; Dual processors, High end Servers, Rack based
servers, DEC VAX systems and VAX Clusters, Mainframes.
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Microsoft Windows NT server, and Microsoft NT workstation, UNIX, Windows
XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.X, VMS, DOS, OS/2
COMMUNICATIONS
FTP, Networking, and Security: Windows NT, Cisco Routers, NOVELL, SSL,
DNS, IPX/SPX, 3COM cards, Ethernet, TCP/IP, Routers, LAT, Asynch
communications, RSA Encryptions, Secure Card, HP Jetdirect
INTERNET
Microsoft Internet Information Server, Netscape Server, Verity Search
engine, Cold Fusion, Internet Explorer, Marketwave Hit List, SoftSpider,
Homesite, MS Frontpage, Netobjects Fusion, HTML, Perl, Java, SSL, DNS,
Trellix, Mercantec, Lotus QuickPlace, Zeus and Apache web server, SMTP
mail.
COMPUTER PERIPHERALS
HP printers and plotters, various modems, optical character
recognition, various scanners, digital cameras
PROGRAMMING/SCRIPTING LANGUAGES AND ENVIRONMENTS
XML, Perl, Java, OMNIS 7, Lotus Script, Visual Basic, Lotus Notes 4 and
Notes 3.X, Omniform 4.0, Omnipage
DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED TOOLS
Sybase, ODBC, MS Access, Lotus Notes, Crystal Reports, Report Writer,
Notes Reporter, Notes VIP, DB Artisan, SQL
DESKTOP APPLICATIONS
MS Office including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Access, and other MS
Office functions and applications, Adobe Photoshop, Quickbooks, MS
Project, McAffe Security Software, Norton Security Software, Lotus
Notes, Joomla, Netobjects Fusion, Compel, Mediablitz, Project Workbench,
Lotus 123, Corel Draw, Freelance, Print Shop.
OFFICE AUTOMATION AND ELECTRONIC MESSAGING
Lotus Notes, ALL-IN-1, PC Docs, X.400, SNMP, SMTP, MIME, Integrated Time
Keeping Software Platforms, Electronic Documentation Libraries, Internet
based conferencing.