Industrial Training Independent Consultant

Resume of Roger F. Duronio

Computer Consulting Contractor

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Bogota, NJ 07603

Cell: 551-***-****

email: *********@*****.***

System Administrator, WebSphere Administrator, Project Leader, Data Base Administrator, Programmer, System Analyst, System Architect, and test planner.

Production Languages: C, C++, FORTRAN, Pascal, and Assembler

Exposure Languages: Perl, Tcl, Tk, Java, Python, HTML, COBOL, and Lisp

Hardware & Operating Systems:

IBM RISC/6000 - Series 500, 300, 200, C10, R20, F30, F50, 43P-140 thru 44p-270, p620,p640, J30, X-stations, etc. programming in C, FORTRAN, ksh, Perl, Tcl, Tk, etc. using X-windows, NFS, TCP/IP, HACMP on the AIX Operating system 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.3.3, 5.1.

IBM SP1 and SP2 Super Computers 8 through 512 nodes, POE, PVM, Script coding, System Management, Product installations, PSSP 3.0 – 3.2.

SUN SPARC 5, 10, 20; ULTRA 2, 250, 450, 3000, 4000 running Solaris 2.4 to 2.8

SUN SPARC/4 running SunOS 4.2

IBM MVS/XA 308x, 3090 - programming in C using ISPF/PDF

IBM VM on 9370 - programming in C and FORTRAN.

IBM-PC 8080 through Pentium, running MS_DOS (v1.0 to 6.2) Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, NT,XP, Windows 7, 8, & 10. Linux (both Redhat, to 7.3 and Slakware), Ubuntu 9 to 17.

AT&T 3B2, 3B15, Amdahl 5860, SEL 65 under UNIX System V.

Digital VAX/63xx, VAX/8650, /785, /780, /750, and Micro VAX-II all running VMS (from v2.0 through 5.2)

PDP-11 /23 /34 /70 running RSX-11-M & M+

HP-9000 HPUX, HP - 3000 running MPE; HP - 1000 running RTE-VI and RTE-IVB

HP - 64000 an 8085 Micro Processor Development System

Education:

M.S. Degree in Physical Chemistry 1978 -B.S. Degree in Chemistry 1976 University of Pittsburgh

Work History

At Shawnee Trucking Company, 10/2015 to present

Courier, driving packages and small boxes from clients to their destination. Steady contract work, 5 days a week.

At Simple Computer Solutions 12/2014 to 1/15

Part time assistant to PC system manager of several Schools. Assisted in stringing cables, setting up printers, and installing software upgrades of system software on Windows based and Apple based Personal Computers in school rooms.

RETIRED 2007- 2014

At ASCAP as Brokered Contractor 1/05 – 5/06

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Administrator, running server version 5.2 and client versions 5.2 and 5.4. The Tape Library was an IBM 3583 with 60 LTO tape capacity. Backed up 2.5 terabytes nightly on the IBM 650 running AIX 5.2.5. Thirty plus AIX client nodes and 16 Windows 2000 nodes were backed up to the library. The library had 4 LTO tape drives connected to a SAN. The LAN was gigabit Ethernet. Implemented sysbacks to TSM. ASCAP was going through a transition where a third party vendor was writing a full new system using WebSphere, Oracle, and IBM’s version of the Apache HTTP server. I assisted the operations group in learning and efficiently using TSM, TDPO with Oracle’s RMAN. Some WebSphere 5.4 Admin and AIX 5.2 Admin. I tutored the operations staff (6 operators and a manager) in AIX, TSM and learned Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS) along with them. I interacted with the development group and helped formulate the backup and scheduling policy for the firm.

Independent Consultant 11/03 – 12/04

Installed and supported various home and small business systems including AIX v.5.1 Solaris 8, and WIN XP on LAN’s. Set up home routers and DSL modems to make home networks.

At Advertising Software Support Co. NY, NY 6/03 to 9/03

Websphere Administration, 2 and 3 tier with cloning, on versions 4.0.1 – 4.0.6 in production (ported 4.0.x applications to 5.1 on test and QA) running on Redhat Linux 7.3, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. VMware installations, operating system installations and upgrades ( kickstart and manual), WebSphere installations and J2EE application deployment under WebSphere, minor scripting, minor network support, exports and imports of applications for backup and Disaster Recovery. Basic System Administration on Linux, XP, Sun, and AIX: Operating system installs, user account creation and support, disk partitioning and file system creation, etc. I installed WebSphere 5.1 on AIX 4.3.3 and the ported 4.x WebSphere Applications to the 5.1 vewrsion using IBM’s scripts for this purpose. Initially this was proof of principle work and went fairly well; minor problems with early versions of EJBs needing to be converted to later versions by the developers, and then the applications on WebSphere 5.1 went to QA.

As a brokered Contractor to DressBarn, Suffern, NY 3/03 to 6/03

Shell scripting for port of Novel/MSDOS system to AIX 4.3.3. Over 900 MSDOS *.bat files converted to Korn Shell scripts. Printer Configuration and Cobol interfacing were prime objectives accomplished for this port of AcuCobol programs from Novell/DOS to AIX. Some C coding and AWK and Sed for tool creation; but, mostly all Korn shell.

As a brokered Contractor to Metlife, Bridgewater, NJ 5/02 to 12/02

WebSphere administrator v 3.5.x and 4.0.x. The environments are Solaris 8 and NT. The WAS repository databases and the application databases are UDB-DB2 and Oracle. The databases are both local and remote access. I installed Websphere 3.5.x and 4.0.x on both Solaris and NT and deployed 3rd party vendor applications as well as internally developed applications. Three tier and two tier architectures were implemented. WSCP.sh startup and shutdown scripts were written as well as machine recycle startup Korn shell scripts. The Web server httpd daemons, on various projects, were both Netscape and IBM HTTPD which is an apache port. The Websphere Application servers and HTTPD web servers were configured to run as non-root users.

As an Employee of a Major Wall Street Brokerage Firm 7/99 to 3/02

AIX Administrator and manager of three other Sr. AIX administrators. Standard system admin of over 200 local RISC/6000 machines and 3 SP2 machines ( 2 and 3 frames up to 40 nodes on the production frame): install and upgrade the operating system ( 4.x to 4.3.x, 5.1 on non-production machine), create user accounts, attach EMC scsi attached volume groups, wrote KSH, SH, AWK, and PERL scripts, install and upgrade 3rd party and in-house developed applications. Did non-production proof of principle Java servlet development and utility C/C++ programs as needed. Maintained HACMP redundant control workstations on the SP2 machines and a few sensitive database machines. Did machine sizing and some purchase recommendation.

WebSphere Administrator - version 2.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.5 Installations and some deployment and minor Java development. Three Tier Architectures and various Data Bases for the repository and session data. Different jdbc and jconnects for the Enterprise data retrieval and update. SP2 nodes and Sun Systems used for the webservers with websphere both local and remote to these http servers. Installed the MQ series client code on the application servers. Did not set up the queues.

As a Brokered Contractor to (same as above) Major Wall Street Brokerage Firm 4/98 to 6/99

Same as above, only contractor. Additionally did Y2K system upgrades on over 400 AIX RISC/6000 and Solaris Sun machines.

As an hourly employee of Bedford Associates, Norwalk Conn. 7/97 to 4/98

System administrator for a set of 12 to 15 SUN machines running Solaris 2.4 through 2.5.1. I maintained and installed operating systems, tcp/ip communications hardware and software, and application software packages; set up user accounts, NIS+, set up dialin dial-back connections through a Xylogics Annex and an associated modem pool. The SUN hardware ranged from Classics, Sparc 5, and Sparc 10, through Ultra 2, Ultra 3000, and Ultra 4000. I also maintained a Cisco 2500 router and a Cisco PIX firewall. Admin tools used were Admintool, Solstice Metadevice MD tools, etc.

As a Brokered Contractor to (same as above) Major Wall Street Brokerage Firm 2/97 - 6/97

Same as above: As a member of a team administering over 100 local support RISC/6000 machines. On help desk with user community supporting requests for disk space, user ids, locked accounts, etc.; responding to crashed systems, network outage, printer spool failures, etc. Monitoring of disk usage, paging space, network connectivity, etc. Added software upgrades, hard disks, AIX 4.2 installations, Sybase installs general trouble shooting. Supporting 800 field systems on a rotating schedule. Some Korn Shell and Perl coding.

- As a Brokered Contractor to Merrill Lynch, NY, NY 12/96 - 2/97

Member of a team administering 3 SP2 Machines, 1 Frame each, along with 20 to 30 other RISC/6000 running AIX 4.1.3 & 4.1.4. The SP2 machines were running CICS/6000, Informix, and had several ESCON channels to the Legacy Systems. One of the Frames used SSA-Disks, mirrored, with normal capability of being varied on to an adjacent node if the primary node went out of service. Maintained and tested two or three HACMP pairs. I made accounts across the SP2 systems, maintained disk space, responded to the needs of the user community, installed software, analyzed performance bottlenecks, and fought fires as called upon or directed.

-As a Brokered Contractor to Beth Israel Hospital NY, NY 8/96 - 11/96

System management of RISC/6000 R10, J30, etc. running AIX 4.1.3, 4.1.4.

Installed Alltel/TDS Openhub software on the RISC HACMP pair: This is a middleware product receiving SNA transmitted HL7 format documents and forwarding the documents over TCP/IP to Satellite Health systems, such as Lab, MRI Imaging, X-ray, etc. Tested this vendor supplied Health Care system between the Mainframe CICS region and the RISC/6000.

-As a Brokered Contractor to Prodigy Online Services, WhitePlains, NY 8/95 - 7/96

C programming on RISC/6000, System management of AIX 4.1.3

Wrote Prodigy Internet News Group moderator tools and "dirty word scanner". Installed DB2/6000 on the RISC. Created DB2 schema and wrote embedded SQL calls in C programs that communicated using Berkley Sockets. Tested the code with HTML and CGI calling the database through the Moderator Daemon functions. Installed and configured Apache HTTPD daemon on the RISC.

Wrote TCP/IP socket code to get Prodigy News Article from the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) on an IBM 3090 mainframe,to the Internet News Protocol, NNTP. Used Win95 with Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and HotJava browsers to read the NNTP news articles on AIX from PCs and RISC machines on the TCP/IP Network. Built Innd, nnrpd, etc. on AIX, from Web Supplied Code, to prove the TPF to NNTP data port.

- As a Subcontractor to MCI at Atlanta,Georgia 4/95 - 6/95

C++ Coding using Versant Object Database

Working in an IBM SP2 environment I wrote several reports in C++ for a new Billing system prototype, designed as Object Oriented and implemented in AIX C set 2 C++. The persistent objects were kept in a Versant Object Database.

- As a Brokered Contractor to ISSC at Blue Cross, Pittsburgh, PA 10/94 - 3/95

Analysis and study of MUMPS and COBOL Systems on RISC/600 & ES9000.

Integration of RISC/6000 Managed Care Product with ES9000 Indemnity: Analysis of integration path for Legacy Indemnity Product on the ES9000 written in COBOL, IMS, VSAM and DB2 data sets with a RISC/6000 based Managed Care System from HSII written in MUMPS.

Coded MDI Middleware client code on AIX calling Remote Stored Procedures on the ES9000/MVS CICS regions to obtain the data listed above.

- As a Brokered Contractor to IBM, Kingston, NY 6/93 - 9/94

C, Korn shell, Tcl, Perl programming, Code Control and Product Build

At the Highly Parallel Supercomputing System Lab.: As a member of the Scaling Team helped in determining problems in going from 64 node SP2 machine to 512, 1024 and more nodes. Wrote parallel scripts to do multi-node UNIX commands: pexec, pcp, pls, pdf, etc. bring back filtered responses from selected nodes.

As a member of the Super Computer 93 Show support group assisted in gathering, installing and preliminary testing of user supplied parallel demonstration programs for the roughly 20 demonstrations given in Portland, OR.

As a member of the Parallel Operating Environment development team : Assisted in release and Product Packaging of the Parallel Environment Software developed to run on massively parallel 16 to 64 node racks of RISC/6000 Computers under AIX 3.2.3 communicating over an IBM proprietary switch and dual TCP/IP ethernets on the racks.

- As a Brokered Contractor to Chemical Bank, Manhattan 2/93 - 6/93

System Manager, Product Builds and Packaging

Installed RISC/6000 machines, 220, 350, 370, 560, etc. along with AIX 3.2.x versions of the operating system. Constructed a set of makefiles for the consistent build of newly developed Derivative Product Trading Group programs within Chemical Bank. Designed and implemented a packaging and distribution philosophy to take the Group's new Derivative Product Calculators and install them around the world in Chemical's Derivative Trading Groups: New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

- As a Brokered Contractor to IBM, White Plains, NY 10/92 - 2/93

Technical Support for Voice Recognition Marketing Group

Applied IBM's Continuous Speech Recognition Product code, example application code, and developed demonstration voice recognition applications in support of the Marketing effort. Demonstrated most of the applications at several Technical shows. The work was at White Plains, NY. and performed on PS/2s under OS/2 2.0 and RISC/6000's under AIX 3.2.

- As a Brokered Contractor to IBM, Kingston NY 5/92 - 10/92

Software Build & Integration Team Leader

Took over the responsibility of building and integrating 4500 C programs for an ongoing Graphics Information System development effort. Used CMVC on RISC/6000 930 and 950 machines as the code repository. Installed SDE, IBM's version of Workbench.

- As a Brokered Contractor to IBM, Kingston, NY 7/91 - 4/92

System Manager on more than 70 RISC/6000 Machines

At IBM, Kingston, NY I was system manager on a large set of RISC/6000 machines: ( 320, 340, 350, 520, 530, 540, 730, 930, and 950 models ) Set up the hardware, installed the operating systems, ( 3.1.x, through 3.2.2 ), the xlc, xlf and xlC compilers, Oracle DBMS, and program products. Additionally I set up an HP-9000/720 and a SUN SPARC/4. TCP/IP over token ring and ethernet. Installed Objectstore OODBMS and did some non-production coding in C++.

- As a Brokered Contractor to IBM, Kingston, NY 5/90 - 2/92

, FORTRAN, and X-Windows on IBM RISC/6000 under AIX

At IBM, Kingston, NY I assisted in porting a large Graphical Information System from 370 architecture to the RISC/6000. I was responsible for C programs that replaced 370 Assembler functions that are called by FORTRAN under the VM Operating system. I assisted in setting up the TCP/IP communications and the Network File System between the IBM 9370 computer and the RISC/6000s. I was responsible for configuration control, backing up, and pre-release product distribution within IBM. I did some coding and assisted in debugging some of the original X-window programs used in the porting of the product. Installed the AIX Operating system and Licensed Program products. Installed update versions of system software. Installed RISC/6000 systems, 320, 520, 530, 540, 930, and the requisite software.

- As a Brokered Contractor to Fiduciary Trust 2/90 - 4/90

UNIX System Management, Shell, AWK, etc.

At Fiduciary Trust Bank of NY at World Trade 2, I was responsible for system management, Product installation, tape handling programs and scripts, on HP/9000 and two older version systems running AT&T UNIX V.2

- As a Brokered Contractor to SIAC 6/89 - 1/90

VAX C in VMS using SYBASE DBMS

As a Consultant to DEC working at SIAC ( Securities Industry Automation Corporation),

a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York and American Stock exchanges, I was a team member replacing an existing overnight orders function. I was responsible for applying any stock splits, dividends, and other transaction algorithms to existing unfulfilled orders that would affect the cost and number of issues involved in fulfilling the existing orders. The algorithms were supplied by the client.

- As a Brokered Contractor to Bellcore 4/88 - 4/89

C in MVS, UNIX, VMS, and MS-DOS

As a Consultant to Bellcore ( Bell Communications Research ) wrote portable C programs for a common inter-process ( & inter node ) communication method, using an ANSI compatible C compiler. Operating system unique features of the programs were incorporated via different "include" files and "ifdef" controlled conditional compilation. This project was part of Bellcore's MVA/PTS (Multi Vendor Architecture / Product Tracking System ), a configuration management system for Bellcore development and product software, to be used in building and maintaining software in Bellcore's Application Environment ( BAE - All C code designed to work on many vendor systems)

- As a Brokered Contractor to AT&T 6/87 - 4/88

UNIX C - Informix DataBase Management System

As a Consultant to AT&T Federal Systems Services wrote several reports for the DEMON billing and tracking system. The programs were written in C and interfaced with Informix SQL Database, Report Writer, Screen generator, etc. These programs were developed on an AT&T 3B2/400 series computer running UNIX System V and were installed and run on an AT&T 3B15 and an Amdahl.

- As a Contractor to the Department Of Energy 3/87 - 6/87

MS-DOS C

Implemented C programs on a PC Compatible for the upgrade of an Energy Management and Environmental Alarm system at Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center for the Department of Energy. The programs were written in C, compiled by a Lattice C compiler, and were to interface with FactoryLink software and Topview multiprocessing program. The code was designed using Demarco and Yourdon diagrams.

- As an Employee at Scientific System Services ( SSS ) 4/86 - 3/87

VAX VMS FORTRAN

On the North Star Steel Project: Using a Micro-VAX II and Micro-VMS operating system, wrote a data ARCHIVER. This set of routines removed data from large installed global sections, put the data into sequential RMS files, copied these files onto tape using the VMS BACKUP Utility, and logged the file names, time stamp, and tape label onto an RMS indexed file keyed on those fields.

On the Concast Continuous Steel Caster Project for National Steel: Wrote the metal strand tracking routine for tracking the metal through the 2 strands of the caster. Each foot of metal was tracked and data for each foot, such as the metal temperature, water sprayed per unit surface of the metal, speed of the metal through various zones, etc. were recorded for each foot of metal. These foot records were merged into slab records when slabs were cut from the strands. The design philosophy had the routines responding to VMS mailbox messages. The system was event driven from programmable controllers, at the Purdue "Level 1-2".

Wrote DCL command procedures for "garbage collection" on Historical data files that were routinely transmitted across DECnet to level 3-4 machines.

Wrote the Alarm handler: A set of routines for logging messages, compiled and linked using the VMS Message Utility, on selected terminals and hard copy printers. The selection of output device was a function of Alarm/Message "class". There were 5 classes of messages, ranging from severe to informational.

- At Dravo Automation Systems 1/85 - 3/86

VAX VMS FORTRAN

Supplied technical support for sales, marketing, and startup of Software Maintenance Services, a new offering of Dravo Automation. Prepared data flow diagrams and Structured English, following the Yourdon Design Techniques, for the Algoma Steel tubular stretch mill. Designed and programmed a Callable DECnet file copy routine and a set of programs for internodal mailbox access through DECnet. Performed research and made a recommendation on the Local Area Network for Dofasco Steel Co., on their Continuous Caster Project.

- At Westinghouse Industrial Training and Technology Center 6/84 - 1/85

SEL 65 & 85 MPX and UNIX FORTRAN

Designed and implemented a test subset of a TRASYS relational Database to be used in testing prototype programs for the Engineering Working Model of a newly designed Nuclear Plant Control Room.

- As an Employee Of JWK International, Pittsburgh Office. 2/83 - 6/84

VAX VMS FORTRAN; UNIX C, INFORMIX, DBASE-II

Project leader involved with design and implementation of an interactive menu driven information retrieval system containing coal liquefaction information. The system used DBMS-32, a CODASYL compliant Database Management System and FORTRAN code. Wrote a mailing list handler on Zilog S8000 under UNIX, C & Informix. Wrote several convention registration packages on an IBM PC-XT using DBASE-II and C ( CWARE C under MS_DOS) .

- As an independent contractor to Westinghouse Synthetic Fuels 1983

VAX VMS FORTRAN

Designed and implemented the computer code for a given empirical model of a coal gasification plant. The model encompassed a set of default initial conditions that could be interactively altered by the user. A user manual and programmer manual were also supplied.

- As a contractor to ALCOA 10/82 - 1/83

MODCOMP CLASSIC FORTRAN

Served as librarian of source code and object files for several completed projects of ALCOA.

-As an Employee & Contractor 8/78 - 10/82

o Designed the control system for vendor supplied automatic cranes and carrousels in a material handling system. HP-1000 in FORTRAN

o Assisted in installing and modifying an MRP system supplied to Westinghouse Transportation by Boeing Computer Services. HP-3000 under MPE and FORTRAN.

o Developed a system to control engineering changes to a large set of drawings at Westinghouse Transportation. VAX FORTRAN RMS files.

o Team member programming the control system for the China Steel Cold Rolling Mill. Specific responsibilities were the first stand x-ray gauge control and data path controller. This was done at Westinghouse in Buffalo NY on an HP-64000 micro development system. The code was in Pascal but debugged in assembler while in emulation mode.

o System Manager and team member developing a distributed system for monitoring and controlling liter quantity pilot plants for Exxon Research and Engineering. HP-1000s and FORTRAN.

o Developed the data acquisition system for the liquid sodium to water heat exchange unit for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. The work was done at Westinghouse Advanced Reactors Division on HP-1000s and in FORTRAN.

o Modified a distributed data acquisition system's calibration program to run in 1.5 hours when it previously took 11 hours. At Advanced Reactors Division on HP-1000s and FORTRAN.

o Team member on the Pitney Bowes Material Handling System. Prime responsibility was the file management system: requisition file, purchase order file, parts, and inventory files. This was done at Westinghouse ISD on a Westinghouse 2500 computer under POS and in FORTRAN.

Personal affiliations:

The American Physical Society ( APS )

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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