NAME: ALIZA R. PANITZ
CITY: NEWARK
STATE: DE
ZIPCODE: 19726
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EMAILADDRESS: ******-**********@*******.***
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LASTUPDATED: 7/10/2001
RESUME: Aliza R. Panitz
500 Stamford Dr. Apt. 310
Newark, Delaware 19711
Position Desired
Senior Unix system administrator or network administrator, in a technologically-oriented company.
Summary of Experience
14 years of professional experience in the computer field, the last 4 as Unix system administrator on a wide range of Unix platforms.
Have also worked as a Webmaster, in database design, data modeling, scientific data reduction, programming in multiple languages,
requirements analysis, technical writing, and customer support.
Pertinent Experience
Senior Unix System Administrator
March, 1998
to presentComputer Sciences Corporation, Newark, Delaware
Work with a team supporting several hundred Unix hosts, running multiple versions of AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Digital Unix, and Solaris.
Support a variety of redundancy and reliability options, ranging from manual failover through mirrored disk systems and
HACMP/ServiceGuard. Provide 24/7 support. Products supported on these systems include SAP/R3, Oracle, Sybase, OpC, MQSeries,
and Unicenter TNG.
Day-to-day tasks include troubleshooting system problems, managing printers, adding and removing users, adding and configuring disk
space, overseeing automated backups, managing an internal team Web site, writing shell scripts for task automation, and training
less-experienced colleagues. Monitor security, including COPS and sudo violation reports. Assist in Y2K readiness.
System Administrator and Webmaster
April, 1995
to February 1998
AccessAbility Internet Services, Inc
., Potomac Md.
Work for small start-up company providing commercial Web hosting. Wrote and maintained automated system to periodically submit
customer sites to the major search engines. Managed automated traffic and disk usage reporting. Wrote and maintained CGI scripts for
general use as well as customer projects. Researched and recommended third-party software for internal and customer use. Set up and
maintained customer virtual host websites, including support for a full "virtual machine" with packages such as HyperNews and chat
servers. Helped customers troubleshoot CGI and network problems. Provided customer support for standard and in-house software
systems.
Build and tune Unix kernels, Web server software, and other commercial and publicly available packages. Configure system security
parameters and firewalls, including tools such as ssh and xinetd. Managed corporate PGP keyring and trained customers in the use of
PGP. Maintained DNS zones, nameservers, and corporate WAN. Configured and maintain Sendmail. Diagnosed and fixed server
hardware and software problems, 24/7.
Production servers run Apache and Stronghold Web servers on BSD/OS; development machines run BSD/OS, Solaris, NetBSD,
MacOS, Windows95, and other operating systems. Programming is in Perl, C, Bourne shell, and a proprietary interpreted HTML system.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
February 1994
to March 1995
R.O.W. Sciences, Rockville Md.
Headed a team that produced ERWin/ERx normalized data models and supporting documentation for over 300 health-related Federal
forms as part of a data analysis standardization effort. Documented meanings and uses of data contained within the forms, using
medical dictionaries and other research tools. Solely responsible for findings report with recommendations for consolidations and
standardizations, as well as a proposal for uniform database elements. Also produced a demonstration package, using FormFlow, for an
automated integrated forms-handling system.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
January 1989
to July 1993Hughes STX Corporation,
Lanham Md.
Wrote and maintained scientific data reduction software, mostly in VAX FORTRAN, Datatrieve, and DCL, on a VAX/VMS platform, in
support of NASAs Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. Coordinated and tested the work of a team of 10 programmers.
Maintained software version audit trail for software enhancements and bug-fixes. Worked to identify and correct problems in advance
of system software upgrades. Used performance analysis tools to identify and remove production bottlenecks.
During the satellites one-year primary mission, supported the science team with real-time data analysis, generated composite sky
images for presentations, and made numerous emergency software fixes and configuration changes.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
May 1986
to December 1988K.L. Ginter & Associates, Inc
., Beltsville Md.
Performed all phases of custom software development, from requirements analysis to design specifications to coding, testing,
documentation, and end-user training. Work was mostly on MS-DOS PCs, using Pascal MT, dBASE, Clipper, Btrieve, and in-house
data handling packages. Supervised junior employees. Several projects required working on-site, in a team effort with customer
personnel, as a "hired gun" to turn around overdue projects.
U.S.
CitizenReferences and salary requirements available on request.
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AIX
Apache
automation
Bourne shell
BSD
Btrieve
C
CGI
CGI scripts
Clipper
hardware
consolidations
customer support
data analysis
database
Datatrieve
dBASE
DCL
Digital Unix
DNS
documentation
ERWin
firewalls
forms
FORTRAN
HP-UX
HTML
http
Explorer
IRIX
MacOS
managing
Windows95
MQSeries
MS-DOS
network
search engines
operating systems
OS
Oracle
Pascal
performance analysis
Perl
personnel
presentations
printers
coding
Programming
proposal
real-time
reporting
requirements analysis
research
SAP/R3
scientific
Sendmail
servers
shell scripts
software development
Solaris
ssh
Sybase
user training
troubleshoot
troubleshooting
Unix System
Unix
upgrades
VAX
VAX/VMS
WAN
Web hosting
Web servers
Web server
websites
Web site
Y2K