Terence Tomes

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Harrisburg, PA **111

717-***-****

email: ya97v4@r.postjobfree.com

The Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Science, Meteorology

Boston University, Masters of Science, Computer Information Systems

Oracle Database Administration, New Horizons, October 2009

27 years service in the US Air Force including 2 tours in hostile fire zones.

Skills Summary

• 12 years administration experience with SCO Unix, Red Hat Linux, 4 years with Windows Server

• Scripting: 10 years experience with Perl, bash, sed, awk for automation of systems administration tasks (disk space, tuning)

• Databases: 4 years experience with Oracle 10g, SQL server and Progress (version 9)

• Networks: TCP/IP including Workstation and network security

• Technical Writing, system documentation and procedures

• Applications: Microsoft Office (all applications), ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Squid

Self Employed (September 2011 – Present)

• Troubleshooting and repair of Windows XP and Windows Vista computers.

• Configuration of home wireless networks including addition of Intrusion Detection software.

• Teaching English as a Second Language to teenagers and adults.

• Teaching and Tutoring Algebra, Calculus and Microsoft Office 2007 applications.

Trecom Systems Group - Database Administrator (May 2011 – September 2011)

• Administration, security and maintenance of Oracle and SQL Server databases connected to the Commonwealth of Pennsylavania’s Wells Information System (WIS).

• Use of Toad and Dynatrace Dashboard in daily monitoring of Oracle database health.

• Monitoring, maintenance of Linux and Windows servers, including monitoring servers using the Red Hat Virtualization Manager.

• Troubleshooting of issues involved in web-based application interfaces.

• Assisted clone of Oracle production database for use in testing important conversion effort.

PA Air National Guard - Weather Forecaster and Supervisor (April 1997 – May 2010)

• Weather support of Army Combat Aviation Units in Kosovo and Iraq.

• Training of new members on weather forecasting in Southwest Asia locations.

• Preparation, presentation of weather impacts to Army Aviation at various locations worldwide.

• Network configuration of weather computers in Army tactical operations center.

• Preparation and presentation of Microsoft desktop computer software training.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – Systems Administration (June 1995 – January 2010)

• Installation, configuration of Red Hat Linux servers supporting Comptroller clients applications.

• Patch installation and testing on test and production Linux and Unix servers.

• Administration and performance tuning of Unix, Linux and Windows 2003 servers.

• Maintained Java on IBM MQ server for data transfers from Linux servers to Windows servers.

• Creation, Maintenance of Sed, Awk, bash and Perl scripts for Linux and Unix Systems Administration duties.

• Load of geospatial files from agencies and contractors to Oracle 10g databases using ESRI ArcGIS Catalog tools and ArcSDE.

• Periodic monitoring, correction of system errors and tuning of Oracle 10g databases.

• Extensive use of SQL*Plus commands for database queries.

• Testing, quality control for spatial data, ensuring changes did not break current applications.

• Administration and troubleshooting for Windows Server 2003, Oracle and SQL Server databases.

• Configuration and monitoring of nightly backups using Symantec Backup Exec

• Installation and configuration of ArcGIS Server and Apache Tomcat.

• Performed Configuration Management functions for Progress Database 4GL language.

• Configured system security including changes to ipchain configuration, distributed security products (tcp wrappers), and performed security audits.

• Administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of backups on SCO Unix and Linux servers.

• Development of Disaster Recovery plan for server environment.

• Installed and monitored log files for Apache Squid proxy server.

• Upgraded Progress database engine, converted 30 individual databases to multi-volume configuration with no production server downtime.

AAI/Systems Management - Software Engineer (October 1994 - February 1995)

• Developed, maintained C code supporting the National Weather Service and Federal Aviation Administration Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) Project

• Performed extensive testing of ASOS algorithms, reducing field problem reports by 25%.

• Worked with customers creating and modifying datasets, ensuring data reflected complete meteorological conditions, reducing code rework and implementing code changes on time.

US Air Force – AFWA - Software Engineering Process Group (February 1993 - August 1994)

• Updated project leaders, senior management on TQM improvement projects and milestones.

• Guided teams re-engineering the software development methods at AFGWC.

• Developed Strategic and Tactical Action Plans supporting software process re-engineering.

• Developed a code inspection program, resulting in 25% fewer program implementation errors.

US Air Force – AFWA - Systems Analyst (July 1991 – February 1993)

• Knowledge of intricacies, biases associated with meteorological models.

• Extensive use of Statistical Application Software (SAS) on Sun Solaris workstation to pinpoint model issues and identify corrective measures.

• Implemented an improved verification statistics package for meteorological model output.

• Developed a terrain blending algorithm; improved model stability, in support of Desert Storm.

US Air Force - Weather Communications Officer (September 1986 – November 1990)

• Integrated US military systems in Europe with indigenous systems and protocols.

• Monitored, provided corrective actions to weather data networks in the European Theater

• Coordinated host nation approval for US military weather facsimile communications hardware.

• Implemented a weather dissemination system, saving $100,000 annually in maintenance costs.

• Implemented and tracked a program to replace outdated weather radar in Europe.

• Set up infrastructure for a worldwide fixed meteorological instruments upgrade.

US Air Force - Systems Analyst (October 1983 - September 1986)

• Wrote, maintained code for worldwide climatological database used in military planning and contingencies.

• Wrote Operational Climatic Data Summaries for use by DOD units deployed worldwide.

• Provided extensive climatological conditions for cloud heights, temperatures and precipitation for use in the planning phase of the Grenada and Panama military operations

• Completed a reorganization of the Software Library prior to a massive software upgrade.

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