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Synopsis
Greg has been working in the field of
communications, computers, and information technology for 30 years. Greg's
career started when he joined the U.S. Marine Corp in 1970 right out of high
school. He wanted to go to Vietnam and fight for his country. Because Greg
had such a high grasp of electronic technology and scored in the top 5% on
the U.S. Navy's basic skill test, recruiters felt it was best for Greg to
continue his electronics education then fight in Vietnam with a gun.
Disappointed, Greg goes back to school for another 2 years. Greg comes from
a family whose background is heavy in electronics and he majored in
electronics in high school.
Years
2003 – Present:
Greg does miscellaneous IT Support work;
develops a web site for Calvary Baptist Church, and
develops a customized
Microsoft Outlook Solution for a group of self-employed Beauty Consultants
Years 1995 – 2002:
Greg works as a Senior Software Engineer for a company called
Computer Task Group (CTG). CTG held contracts to maintain the
computers, the applications, and the networks of
British Petroleum
(Alaska), Inc. (BP Oil) and
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. During these years, Greg
works in the Oil Fields of Alaska’s
North Slope at
Prudhoe Bay doing technical support, application maintenance, and
converting and creating new systems to support internal oil field
operations.
Years 1983 – 1995:
These were Self Employment Years. During this period, Greg started 2
computer service companies, did some contract-for-hire work, and wrote &
nationally marketed a suite of business management programs targeted at
independent Mary Kay Beauty
Consultants. The suite was called "Beauty Bytes",
was written using the
Nantucket-Clipper Compiler programming
language, used dbase III database files and
was very successful for several years.
Years 1975 – 1983:
Greg was a Bendix Field Engineering Corporation employee contracted out
as an Operations & Maintenance Technician for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration's (NASA)
Goddard Spaceflight Center. His
work assignment, at the
Gilmore Creek Alaska STDAN Station, was basically the same as in the
Marine Corps (operate your gear & fix it when it breaks) but the cost
of his toys rose dramatically! Instead of working with $50,000 Univac
computers, he was now dealing with $100 million dollar satellite
spacecrafts. In time, he advanced to the position of Shift Controller which
was responsible for overseeing the overall activities of spacecraft
acquisition and sending scripted critical commands to earth scientific
satellites like
LANDSAT,
GEOS, and
NIMBUS. Programming activities during this time period was manually
loading computer memory registers with diagnostic programs from Mylar paper
tape and recalling scripted housekeeping commands from magnetic drum memory
to be sent to spacecrafts under acquisition.
Years 1971 – 1975:
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1971 – 1975, Greg worked as
an electronic technician troubleshooting & repairing computers and
communications gear that comprised the Marine Tactical Data Systems (MTDS).
Programming activities during this time period was manually loading computer
memory registers with diagnostic routines through digit switches for
troubleshooting purposes.
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SUMMARY OF RELEVANT
EXPERIENCE
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1. Staging Technician,
Networks Plus Technology Group (www.nptechgroup.com),
San Diego, CA, 07/2003
– 09/2003
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Configuring new Dell
Computers and downloading user data for the Navy/Marine Corp (NMCI)
Contract. |
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Executing automated
test scripts to QA/QC computers staged and ready for deployment |
2. Independent Software Developer, San
Diego, CA, 04/2003 – 07/2003
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Created a customized
Microsoft Outlook Solution for a group of self-employed Beauty
Consultants that use Outlook and the Pocket PC (iPAQ). The solution is
a MS Outlook 2000 series COM Add-In and it customizes standard desktop
tools for Contact, Inventory, Recruit, and Sales Management into an
integrated suite and ties-in the mobile capabilities of the Pocket PC.
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Technologies Used: COM, IDTExensibility2, OOP, ADO, ActiveX Controls, VB
6, VBScript, VBA, eMbedded VB, MS Access, Pocket Access, Windows CE,
ActiveSync, Outlook, Word, Excel |
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Tools
Utilized: Visual Studio 6 Enterprise, VISIO, MS Access,
Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0, Emulation |
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Advance
Features: Custom Outlook Forms, Custom Word Document Templates,
Outlook-to-Access Database Synchronization, Pocket Access-to-Desktop
Access Database Synchronization, Desktop Tools Automation |
3. IT Support Analyst/ Web Site Developer,
Calvary Baptist Church, San Diego, Ca. 12/2002 - present
Network Administrator (part time)
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Provide technical
support services for a 10 Seat Windows 2000 Active Directory Network |
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Manage all objects in
Active Directory |
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Troubleshoot network
resource problems |
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Manage the internal
(LAN) and external (Website) domains of the organization |
Web
Site Developer (www.calvbc.org)
Lead a project to
redesign an old web site. Developed overall site organizational
structure and design; provided content conversion services. Created
policies and procedures for site administration, maintenance, and
content integration.
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Technologies Used: HTML, DHTML, Flash animation, ASP, ADO, MS Access 2002
Web Database, Web Forms, MS Media Player Ver 6 |
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Tools
Utilized: MS FrontPage 2002, Macromedia HomeSite v5, Microsoft
Image Composer v1.5, Microsoft Photo Editor, Microsoft Gif Animator,
SWiSH v2.0 (Flash), MS Internet Information Server (IIs), ASP Maker,
Adobe Acrobat, MS Access 2002, MS Windows 2002 XP, WS_FTP
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Advance
Features:
Developed Access
database and associated form to collect email addresses of people who
visit the site; Developed contact web form that sends confidential
information via email to the pastor; Developed guestbook web form that
publicly post comments to a web page; Developed front-end web forms to
web sites that offer bible text study tools. |
4. Senior Software Systems Engineer,
Computer Task Group (www.ctg.com),
Anchorage, Ak., 05/1995 – 05/2002
CTG is an International IT Services firm and the
Alaska office held
maintenance contracts to maintain the computers, the applications,
the local area networks, and provide a technical help desk for major oil
companies drilling for oil on Alaska's North Slope. These companies
included British Petroleum (BP Alaska), Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company, Phillips Petroleum, and ARCO.
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For major Alaska
North Slope Oil Companies, was a team member that provided help
desk, technical support, network administration, and application
maintenance for a variety of production technical, scientific, and
business systems. Help Desk services were provided using Remedy AR
System 4.02 for Alyeska Pipeline and Vantive for BP, ARCO, and
Phillips Petroleum. |
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Worked in a
heterogeneous network environment with mainframes using IBM
MVS & VM OS
and servers using Novell
Netware, Microsoft
Windows NT,
Microsoft Windows 2000,
and UNIX
OS. |
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While employed with CTG for 7 years, I functioned in the 4 following
rolls: |
Tech Support Technician
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Worked in a 24x7
production control environment that monitored and help ensure
accessibility and continuous operation of mission critical production
systems |
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Provided desktop
support services to customers with problems not resolved by Helpdesk
Technicians |
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Troubleshot network
connectivity problems using
TCP/IP troubleshooting and testing tools |
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Carried an on-call
beeper & cell phone |
Senior
Software Engineer
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Worked in an
Application Support Center with a portfolio of over ninety (90)
applications across multiple platforms, using multiple languages and
software tools. |
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Provided operational
and development database support responsibilities in a mixed
Oracle,
Sybase,
SQL Server and
mainframe DB2
& SQLDS
database environment. |
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Used methodical
analysis and troubleshooting skills in problem identification and
solution development. |
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Worked with other
team members in migrating and reengineering legacy applications to
n-tier and/or web services based applications. |
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Created more then 20
business and technical applications for North Slope Oil Companies in
MS Access,
Excel,
and Visual
Basic by using analysis and development methodologies to
develop, code, test, and debug programs to meet business
requirements. A list of applications with functional descriptions and
technologies used is available upon request. |
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Developed operational
procedures and documentation for correctly running application
programs. |
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Created custom
Outlook forms for use in customer related projects |
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Designed databases in
Oracle,
SQL Server,
and MS Access
by creating entity relationship models or reverse-engineering existing
databases in VISIO.
Implemented database modifications in response to changing
requirements |
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Supported the Help
Desk Team's Remedy AR
Ticketing System by providing modifications and
programming support to the various system schemas and programming
code. |
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Supported Alyeska'
ADP Client Server Series (CSS
Rel 2) and
Peoplesoft HRMS mainframe applications by providing
modifications and programming support to the various system schemas,
people code, and SQR
programs. |
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Supported Alyeska's
Corrosion Data Management (CDM) and Technical Document Data Index (TDDI)
suite of applications by providing modifications and programming
support to the various system schemas and
PowerBuilder v5.04 code. |
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Reengineered
FileMaker Pro3
database applications to the
MS Access platform for BP Alaska
after their Common Operating System Environment (COE3) deployment |
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Provided individual,
project, team and technical leadership. |
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Effectively used
resources to solve problems and create solutions. |
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Applied current and
emerging technological developments and new products and services.
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Used Project
Management skills and MS
Project to manage the development life-cycle for
assigned projects. |
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Interfaced with
project managers and customers to understand business requirements,
processes, and objectives; ensured that testing and/or conversion
deadlines were met. |
Corporate
Administration (CA) Team Lead
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The Corporate
Administration Team was responsible for all administrative and
financial applications for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company |
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As the Corporate
Administration (CA) Team Lead, I coordinated and managed the various
administrative activities of 8 programmer/analysts of the CA
Self-Directed Work Team. These administrative functions included
budget and forecasts, project assignments, and other personnel
matters. |
North
Slope Applications Generalist
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Served as an
Applications Testing Generalist for the Eastern Operating Area of the
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field on Alaska's North Slope during British
Petroleum's (BP) worldwide new Common Operating System Environment
(COE3, MS Back Office Network) deployment. Was a member of a 3 person
team that tested all applications (legacy, mainframe, and server,
desktop, mobile) to make sure they would work under the new operating
environment. If they did not, then we analyzed the problems and made
the first line recommendations for problem resolution and kicked out
reports to Project Managers. The Project Managers wrote up detail
project plans for problem resolution or recommended to BP that the
application be scraped. I also wrote the software application that was
used to catalog, track, and report all of the testing details and I
provided assistance to users in transitioning their applications to
the new COE 3.0 environment. |
5. Owner/Manager/Imaging Systems Consultant,
IMT Management Corporation, Anchorage, Ak., 1990-1995
IMT Management Corporation specialized in seminars, research,
publications, and consulting for Records Management and Electronic
Document Management Systems which included Workflow, Text Retrieval,
Imaging, and multimedia. As an Imaging Systems Consultant, I advised
clients on the installation, integration, setup, training, and use of
the following types of equipment, technologies, and/or processes.
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Scanners, used to
convert paper documents to electronic form |
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Workstations, used to
view and work with document images |
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Printers, used to
recreate the documents in paper form |
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Optical and magnetic
drives and media |
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Jukeboxes, used to
allow unattended access to very large document collections
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Networks, used to
interconnect workstations and storage devices and to distribute images
to users |
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Document conversion
from existing paper or microforms to electronic format
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Document capture,
compression, and storage strategies and methodologies
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Use of document
images vs. information storage in coded-data form |
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Trade-offs in storage
and networking requirements based on image resolution, color or
grayscale content and compression methodologies |
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Optical character
recognition's (OCRs) potential contribution |
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Issues surrounding
database managers and indexing of images for optimal retrieval
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Standards (and the
lack thereof) affecting market acceptance of document imaging
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Cost Justifications
Strategies for document imaging |
6. State Legislative Aide,
16th Alaska State Legislature, Juneau, Ak., 1989
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Corresponded with
constituents, Tracked status of bills, Attended standing committee
hearings |
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Researched
information using various programs (BASIS, STAIRS, POMS, LTNS) on the
Alaska Legislative Computer System Network (ALECSYS).
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Wrote custom in-house
programs for tracking & status reporting of constituent contacts and
the plethora of documents a legislative office comes in contact with
on a daily basis. Wrote the custom software using the
Nantucket-Clipper
Compiler programming language |
7. Contract Professional
- Computer Services, Anchorage, Ak., 1988-1990
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Public Safety
Employees Association:
Contracted to procure and integrate all necessary equipment for a Workgroup-Based Document Imaging System.
Set up & wrote policies and procedure manuals (OPM) for document
preparation, scanning, indexing and records retention. Directed the
scanning of 15 years of vital records to optical disk storage. Trained
staff on the use of equipment and software. Installed and setup a 6
Workstation Lantastic
for Windows LAN with 486DX/50 EISA file server. Integrated a
high-volume Fujitsu document scanner with high-speed Kofax document
imaging controller; Integrated a Plasmon Multifunction SCSI-2 Optical
Disk Storage System. Installed and integrated
FileMagic document imaging
processing software. Installed and integrated Microsoft Electronic
Mail System with fax gateway. Installed and integrated the
Superbase
Relational Database Management System with
Microsoft Word and
Excel for
Windows. Created an on-line thesaurus (indexed
keywords by document content) for quick
document retrieval. |
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Union Labor Political
Action Committee: Contracted to procured, install, set up, and
custom developed a program for a 10 workstation multi-user
Computerized Political
Polling Management System. Installed ten 386DX/40
Workstations; one 486DX2/66 EISA file server;
Lantastic for DOS LAN. Wrote the
various network polling programs using the
Nantucket-Clipper Compiler
programming language. Created a
Visual Basic for Applications
module in Excel
to automatically input, analyze, and chart the polling output for
management. |
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Alaska State
Employees Association:
Contracted to custom develop a Conversion Program
that will take the State of Alaska’s Voter Registration data on
9-track magnetic tape and reformat it so that it can update records in
the customer’s membership tracking system. Wrote the custom program
using the Nantucket-Clipper
Compiler programming language. Interfaced program with
customer’s DataEase
Membership Tracking System. |
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Malaspina Properties:
Contracted to custom develop a Tenant Tracking
and Camper Park Reservation System and interface the
system with customer’s BPI
General Ledger System. Wrote the custom software using
the Nantucket-Clipper
Compiler programming language. |
8. Independent Software Developer,
Anchorage, Ak., 1986-1989
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Created and
nationally marketed a a suite of business management programs targeted
at independent Mary Kay Beauty Consultants. The suite was called "Beauty
Bytes"; was written using the
Nantucket-Clipper
Compiler programming
language and used
dbase III
database files. |
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Created and locally
marketed a custom software application for political campaigns management.
The application was called
"Elections Central"; was created using the
Nantucket-Clipper
Compiler
programming language and used
dbase III database files. |
9. Owner/Manager/Computer Technician,
Microbit Computer Service, Inc., Anchorage, Ak. 1978-1986
Microbit was a Data
Conversion Service Bureau Company specializing in
disk-to-disk,
magnetic tape-to-disk,
data & format conversions
of dissimilar computer systems, and high-volume
OCR document scanning. Microbit
was the first company to offer such a service in the State of Alaska.
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Planned, designed,
developed, and implemented all programming activities and supervised
all employees necessary to complete client work requests in a
satisfactory manner. |
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Developed
and marketed the first
Electronic Yellow Page System (audiotext) in the State
of Alaska. |
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Newspaper articles
written about Greg during this time period can be found at
http://home.att.net/~g.oliver/aboutme.htm |
10. Aerospace Telecommunications / Electronics Staff
Technician
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Bendix Field
Engineering Corporation,
Columbia, Md, 1975-1983: Responsible for verifying the operational
readiness of the various radio communications, signal tracking, and
computer based data handling equipment used to receive, decode,
reformat, record, and re-transmit real-time NASA Satellite Spacecraft
housekeeping, scientific, and engineering data at a remote NASA STADAN
Station at Gilmore Creek, Alaska. Set up and operated the equipment
before, during, and after satellite passes. Programmed the various
data handling equipment for new satellite formats, and performed
repair, and preventive maintenance on the various computer based
equipment. Other responsibilities included the operations training of
new personnel that entered the data handling area; the supervision of
a crew of six technician; the configuration of the station's
resources; the coordination of the activities involved in spacecraft
support; in addition, to frequently configuring and controlling those
elements of the station's real-time Computer Digital Data Processing
System (DDPS) that were necessary for spacecraft command and
support. Held a secret clearance |
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US Marine Corp.,
Cherry Point Marine Air Station, NC, 1971-1975: Responsible for the
operational readiness and repair of the various computer based radar
returns processing equipment used in the configuration of the Tactical
Air Operations Central (TAOC) complex. TAOC directed & controlled
battlefield tactical air strikes in conjunction with ground based
missile batteries. It is analogous to the U.S. Air Force AWACS Planes.
Supervised the training of new personnel in preventive maintenance
procedures. Highest grade attained was Corporal E-4; held a secret
clearance; released from active duty with an honorable discharge. |
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