ALBERT S. BROWN

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El Sobrante, California 94803

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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ix years experience as DB2 DBA in both production and development

environments; extensive knowledge of DB2 Utilities, SQL and DDL; ability to

work independently and in a team environment.

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ritten and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate with people

of all technical levels.

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bility to anlyze problems and develop optimum solutions.

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xperience in data modelling, installing and upgrading DB2.

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ver 15 years experience developing and maintaining COBOL programs.

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bility to write program specifications and documentation.

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nderstands systems development life cycle.

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bility to transfer functionality from IBM Mainframe environment to Unix or

PC/MAC environment.

Pacific Management Technology, Sacramento, Ca.

Position: Systems and Database Administrator

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Performs consulting assignments supporting IBM Mainframe environments. Works with DB2, especially

in large systems environments. Performs consulting assignments for Cobol programming, development

and maintenance and software installation. Performs database tuning on DB2. Performs consulting

assignments as Systems Administrator.

Sysix Technologies/Rave Consulting, Atlanta, Ga.

Position: Senior Computer Consultant

Served as a database tuning expert for a large manufacturer. Solved severe performance problems of the

BaaN ERP system. Designed and implemented a technical plan to take the site from running one eight

hour shift per day to a 24X7 system operation. Performed major tuning on the Informix 7.3 database that

was contained on an HP AutoRaid unit/ Installed two additional HP K class computers and an additional

HP AutoRaid unit.Moved the BaaN environment (without re-installing) from one server to two other

servers. Performed data replication on the database using the High Performance Loader. Restored system

to maximum optimal performance. Taught junior system administrators how to maintain the Unix servers

and keep the database running at maximum efficiency.

Wrote and maintained Cobol programs on an IBM mainframe for a financial systems client. Developed

Cobol programs for an insurance provider.

Origin Technology In Business, Toronto, Canada

Position: Senior Computer Consultant

Worked with the Baan Company and Informix in benchmarking BaaN and the Informix database on the HP

9000 systems. Worked on the publishing of tips and tricks to technical consultants on the efficient running

of Informix in the BaaN environment on HP 9000 systems.

Wrote and maintained COBOL programs for finance system for a large financials services client.

Performed system sizing and database tuning for DB2 database.

Performed sizing of BaaN systems for the sales force in support of large clients.

Served as database consultant for a large automobile manufacturing company. Performed database tuning

activities and led a team of outside consultants to reduce the processing time of the system to a point that

would allow for a 24X7 operation.

Served as consultant for a large multi-national company, worked with customer personnel to properly size a

new BaaN system and suggest a realistic working budget for the first five years of system operation.

Served as consultant for a large electronics company. Setup procedures for worldwide backup system

across several sites in different countries. The databases used were Oracle 7 and Informix.

Simons-Eastern Inc, Greenville, SC

Position: Senior Systems Engineer

Responsible for the configuration and staging of PC’s, software configuration of host servers, setup of LAN

including shared printing by hosts and clients, development and maintenance of real-time knowledge-based

system for monitoring and control of large bakery operation. The real-time knowledge-baseed system used

was called G2. Performed troubleshooting duties for all bakery sites. Built Sun servers from scratch after

receiving shipped parts from the factory. Servers were staged burnt-in and tested, then shipped to bakeries

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for setup and operation. Developed and maintained sub-systems written in PL/1 used to interface PLC

devices to databases and to the G2 real-time knowledge-based system.

Performed integration of G2 platform to IBM mainframes, using Cobol and to Unix servers.

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc., Iuka, MS

Position: Lead Engineer

Responsible for the development of a real-time knowledge based system for monitoring and control of

manufacturing processes for the production of solid rocket motors for NASA. Participated in the proposal

for this contract, where I sold the concept of using artificial intelligence. This concept was a major factor

in Lockheed winning the contract. Served as system administrator for the development group. Established

and maintained a local area network consisting of a primary and secondary server with eight diskless nodes

and 2 nodes with their own disks. The LAN includes Decstation 5000, Decstation 3100, SGI and IBM

RS/6000 workstations.

Served as programmer/analyst in the development of application systems written in PL/1. Served as

programmer/analyst in the development of application systems written in the COBOL language. These

systems were written for the U. S. Navy and ran on the IBM mainframe. Responsible for the maintenance

of IBM mainframe systems. Served as Systems Programmer writing programs in IBM Assembly

Language.

Diablo Systems, Fremont, CA

Position: Systems Consultant

Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of an on-line manufacturing system, using the

just-in-time concept. Wrote and maintained programs in COBOL on the HP 3000 MPE system.

United Nations Dept. of Technical Cooperation Jakarta, Indonesia

Position: Chief Technical Advisor

Established computer centers for the Ministry of Finance. Worked as Adjunct Professor for University of

Hawaii and the University of Iowa. Trained Indonesian nationals in the development and operation of the

computer centers. Involved mainframes, minicomputers and system development in assembly, PL/1 and

Cobol languages. Established research computer center for the Department of Agriculture in Indonesia.

This task required the conversion of large statistical packages like BMDP, and Minitab from the IBM

mainframe to a Honeywell minicomputer. The conversion was done in Fortran.

Logisticon Systems, Sunnyvale, CA

Position: Project Manager

Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and customer support of real-time warehousing

systems usingTandem Non-Stop computers with SCOBOL and TAL. Led two development teams.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA

Position: Software Product Manager, Technical Marketing Manager and Senior

OEM Sales Representative

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Responsible for marketing computer languages, utilities, file systems, and database management systems

for the PDP-11 product line. The languages I brought to the PDP line were Cobol, and Fortran-IV-Plus.

Sold computers to OEM manufacturers, was 178% of quota.

Electronic Data Systems, New York, NY

Position: Project Manager

Led three development teams in providing systems development of brokerage house in New York City.

Redesigned and implemented systems for back office functions, using the IBM Mainframe and the Cobol

language.

RMK-BRJ (DOD CONTRACT) Saigon, South Vietnam

Position: Senior Systems Analyst

Implemented system to track material-in-transit to Vietnam. Implemented system to trace population

movements for the South Vietnamese Police. Programmed and maintained the IBM Mainframe system

using Cobol. Worked as systems analyst in IBM Mainframe environment.

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EDUCATION

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona

Major: ABD for doctoral degree in Education Leadership

GPA: 3.6

National University, Sacramento, California

Major: Master of Science, Software Engineering

Graduation: April 1992

GPA: 3.71/4.0

Project Leader of project team - chosen by classmates. Project team turned in best

performance on graduate software development project.

Boston University, Boston, MA

Major: Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science

Graduation: June 1975

GPA: 3.3/4.0

Emphasis on compiler and language development. Minor in Business Management.

Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center

Palo Alto, CA

Major: Artificial Intelligence

Graduation: 1988

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SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Languages: Ada, Apl, Basic, C, C++, Cobol, Fortran, P1/1, Pascal, Lisp,

Prolog, Smalltalk, Snobol, Perl, Awk, Sed, IBM Assembler, X-

windows/Motif, 80286 Assembler, Icon, TAL

AI Shells: Art, Clips, Kee, Nexpert, VPexpert, G2 Real-time expert

system, Lockheed Expert System (LES), Aion, NeurON-Line (neural

network) RT Works

OS: Unix, Ultrix, VAX/VMS, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95,

Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Linux, MVS, System 7,

SUNOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, ibm os/390, Transact/3000, Genera, TCL/TK,

SCO Unix

Database: DB2, RDB, Oracle, SQL SERVER, Rbase, Informix, IMS,

Dbase, Sybase

Misc: TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, ETHERNET, DISKLESS NODES, Electronic

Mail, Sockets, RPC, NNTP, NTP, Domain Name Server (DNS), WWW,

Gopher, Anonymous FTP, Telnet client & server, HP Omniback II

Backup and Recovery, OnBar backup and recovery system, Expect

ERP: BaaN Tools, BaaN Front Office, Triton 3, BaaN IV, BaaN V

HARDWARE EXPERIENCE

Machines: IBM PC, Dec Vax, DecStation 3100, Decstation 5000, Silicon

Graphics, IBM RS/6000, IBM 3090, Sun SparcStation 10, Sun

SparcStation 20, Dec Alpha, Mac, HP 3000, HP 9000, Symbolics

workstation, Tandem, Univac, Honeywell 2000, Honeywell 400

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AWARDS

Jointly wrote and presented a paper entitled "A Development Cycle for Knowledge-

Based Process Control Systems" at the Fourth Annual Lockheed Artificial Intelligence

Symposium.

Vice President's Award from Digital Equipment Corporation for product introduction of

Fortran-IV-Plus and COBOL.

DEC-100 Sales Club Award from Digital Equipment Corporation for achieving 178% of

combined quotas.

Honeywell Engineering Award, awarded by a team of hardware and software engineers,

for the design of the File Data Description Language (FDDL). This language provided

for the automatic translation of files to/from different operating systems.

Charles C. Case Scholarship Award - highest scholastic award of Boston University.

(only night school student to receive this award)

Letter of Commendation from Philips Consumer Communications – For the

implementation of the BaaN ERP product within five months. I was a technical member

of this worldwide implementation team.

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