Training Engineer

GARY L. DRYFOOS

P.O. Box ****** 617-***-****

Cambridge, MA 02142 abp2jh@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Experienced trainer, writer, and technical consultant seeking a position that will make use of writing, training,

web programming, content management and other varied communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Bash, Perl, HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, MS Excel, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Upromise Investments, Inc., Newton, MA April 2010 November 2011

Feeds Engineer, Operations Group

Maintained and enhanced the business critical data automation for large nancial records database.

Wrote and scheduled scripts to manage data exchange between our system and dozens of partner rms.

Expanded and maintained infrastructure writt en primarily in bash and perl, using revision control to

keep consistent backups during development.

Worked with our developers to diagnose and recover from feed system errors, including monthly

weeklong on call rotation, requiring 24 hour availability with response times of 15 minutes or less.

Built an automated template for verifying feeds holiday dependencies, elminating lengthy manual

comparison steps.

Freelance Consulting 2004 Present

Writing, Technical Consulting, Website Design

Work with a variety of clients on a wide range of consulting projects, including: a neighborhood governing

council, a local artist, a consumer advocacy group, a fraternal society, and others.

WRITING/EDITORIAL

Edited journal articles and an NIH grant proposal for researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

T ECHNICAL CONSULTING

Provided database consulting for a local political campaign.

Performed administrative support for university symposia.

WEBSITE DESIGN & ADMINISTRATION

The Cambridge Area 4 Neighborhood Coaltion (A4NC.org) is the community organizing voice for a

low income and working class district of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stephanie Kornfeld Unlimited (StephanieKornfeldUnlimited.com) is an online gallery for a local artist.

JunkSTOP (dryfoo.com/jsi) was a private campaign to enable people to cut down or eliminate the

amount of junk mail they receive.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1987 2004

Manager, Athena Training Group (June 1990 February 2004

Led all aspects of an Information Services training group sta ed by MIT student instructors. Target

audience: MIT faculty, students, and sta . Responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and advising

student instructors, minicourse developers and support sta ; overseeing development of all minicourses,

including scheduling, and advertising.

Taught a variety of technical courses, including: HTML/CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, FrameMaker,

MatLab, GNU/Emacs, and Unix/Linux Systems Administration, both on and o campus. Presented

demonstrations of IS resources to faculty and sta (in groups and one on one)

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Provided web development for the STELLAR course management system and served as primary

administrator for the group s cluster of Athena Unix workstations.

Authored user documentation, including a total redesign and revision of a private workstation owners

guide.

Training Consultant (January 1987 May 1990)

Designed, prepared, revised, and taught various mini courses for MIT s Project Athena, consisting of

introductory classes intended to help students, faculty, and sta become capable users of the Athena

distributed computing environment, and to introduce more experienced users to available Athena

applications.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA February 1985 June 1985

Technical Support Consultant

Consultant for U.S. Area Field Service Logistics, supported parts inventory database systems for several

regional maintenance and repair centers across the country.

Atari Research, Cambridge, MA January 1984 February 1984

Technical Editor/QA Tester

Edited and tested programs for a book on the Logo programming language, published by members of

the Atari Research sta .

Shaw Data Services, Inc., Boston, MA June 1983 October 1983

Database Developer

Designed, speci ed, and programmed an online lter and ranking report system for an investments

database.

Boston Consulting Group, Inc., Boston, MA October 1981 to May 1983

Programmer/Analyst

Redesigned BCG s revenue accounting system. Designed data and report speci cations, developed

training materials, and taught the accounting sta and o ce administrators to use the new package.

United States Trust Company of New York, New York, NY March 1980 December 1980

Programmer/Analyst

Maintained and improved the bank s stock performance database as well as a customer database

application.

Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. New York, NY January 1979 February 1980

Programmer/Analyst

Wrote and maintained programs for the analysis of mortgage backed securities, including Ginnie Maes,

Fannie Maes, and GNMA Project Loans. Also developed programs to present and explain these

securities.

EDUCATION

Union College, Schenectady, NY

Bachelor of Science, Psychology

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