Howard S Shubs

84 Riverboat Village Road

South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075

(413) 533-4872

howard@shubs.net

Summary

Team Lead/Programmer/System manager with 23 years of experience in Information Technology on OpenVMS, Windows, Linux, Tru64, and AIX as well as some experience supporting MacOS, using various languages and tools. Industry experience in the Healthcare, Utility, and Telecommunications industries. Exposure to Oracle and Active Directory. Looking for a growth position with opportunities to extend my skills.

Expertise	System manager/admin, Application Support, Software Migration/Porting, Conversion of FORTRAN to C
Languages	FORTRAN 77/90, C, DCL, MACRO-32, Korn shell, perl, lex/yacc, Postscript, SQL, Pascal
Software	OpenVMS, MacOS X, Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, Linux, Tru64 UNIX: utilities; AIX, Oracle: SQLplus, Pro*C
Hardware	Intel, Macintosh, Alpha, VAX, StorageWorks

Employment

Hewlett-Packard, Rio Rancho, New Mexico

October 2010 – Present

Technical Support

Part of a multi-site team of advanced technical support technicians.
Supporting OpenVMS and HP-UX on a variety of PA-RISC, Alpha, and Itanium servers.

Environment: OpenVMS, HP-UX, PA-RISC, Alpha, Itanium

Syntel, Troy, Michigan

October 2006 – March 2010

Team Leader

Client: McKesson Corporation, Hadley, Massachusetts

Maintained the batch-based rebuild tasks, updating occasionally to incorporate new functionality.
Moved code from development to test to production environments.
Programmed and documented an MS-DRG grouper in C for OpenVMS. Maintained it between versions 25 and 27 inclusive. Implemented HAC in this grouper.
Guided a six-person offshore team located in Pune, Maharashtra, India through more than a dozen releases of McKesson’s TRENDSTAR decision management software product, v2007.1 through v2010.1-1.
Found and documented an OpenVMS Fortran run-time library error which was escalated to VMS Engineering. Produced a work-around in the TRENDSTAR code pending the release of a library patch.
Personally fixed more than fifty change requests and assisted others with their own changes requests.
Wrote technical documentation for the TRENDSTAR system management and internal development environment, as well as for training purposes.
Trained our replacements using the above technical documentation and the off-shore group.

Environment: OpenVMS, FORTRAN, C, BASIC, Alpha, Itanium

ISO New England, Holyoke, Massachusetts

May 2000 – March 2006

System Manager

Maintained Windows 2000/2003 with Active Directory, RedHat Linux 7.0 through Fedora Core 2, Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS Alpha, and AIX systems in production environment with triple redundancy and 99%+ uptime.
Performed hardware troubleshooting and repair on Intel-based equipment.
Used Active Directory to help manage both desktops and servers.
Wrote technical documentation.
Built systems, performed hardware and software maintenance.
Maintained McAfee VirusScan on samba servers and configured ePolicy Orchestrator.
Configured and troubleshot issues with samba.
Answered questions and handled issues produced by users.
Supported application developers and specialists.
Performed application support for multiple applications.
Wrote FORTRAN, perl, korn shell, and DCL code for internal projects.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, RedHat Linux, OpenVMS, VMware, Perl, bash, FORTRAN, DCL, Alpha, StorageWorks

Volt Services Group, Dallas, Texas

August 1999 – December 1999

Contract system manager

Client: Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas

Participated with small system management team to implement new OpenVMS Alpha cluster.
Supported a team of users on Macintosh computers using a Novell network. Interfaced between DART system management and this group

Environment: OpenVMS, Macintosh, MacOS, DCL, Alpha, StorageWorks, Novell

Computer Merchant, Norwell, Massachusetts

August 1997 – June 1999

Consultant/Programmer

Immediate client: Digital Equipment Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas

End Client: Texas Utilities Comanche Peak Power Station, Glen Rose, Texas

Ported FORTRAN and shell-based engineering and accounting software to Digital UNIX.
Made software Y2K-compliant.
Updated, adapted, and installed resulting software on a DEC Alpha.
Worked with engineers to produce new software to replace older packages using C, lex and yacc, and perl.
Travelled as needed to Glen Rose generation site, Dallas corporate headquarters, and Fort Worth location as needed.

Environment: OpenVMS, Digital UNIX (Tru64), FORTRAN, DCL, C, lex/yacc, perl, korn shell, Alpha

David Boyd Communications Consultants Inc., Herndon, Virginia

February 1997 – May 1997

Consultant/Programmer

Client: GTE Card Services, Irving, Texas

Environment: AIX, SQL, C, Pro*C, lex

Johnson & Associates, Plano, Texas

November 1996 – January 1997

Consultant/Programmer

Client: Southwestern Bell Corporation, Irving, Texas

Environment: OpenVMS, FORTRAN, Postscript

Digital Arts Group, Burlington, Massachusetts

April 1995 – August 1996

Contract system manager

Client: Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts

Environment: VAX, Alpha, OpenVMS, DCL, clusters, StorageWorks, FORTRAN, COBOL

Smoke ‘N’ Mirrors, Herndon, Virginia

March 1994 – March 1995

Contract system management/Software Test

Client: MCI, Richardson Texas

Environment: OpenVMS, AIX, TCP/IP, Wollongong, DCL

Contract Solutions, Salem, New Hampshire

September 1993 – January 1994

Contract system manager

Client: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire

Environment: OpenVMS, VAX

MicroTemps, Newton, Massachusetts

May 1992 – November 1992

Contract FORTRAN programmer

Client: Cabot Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts

Environment: OpenVMS, FORTRAN

Psyche Systems, Wellesley, Massachusetts

June 1987 – September 1991

System manager, applications programmer, system engineer

Environment: OpenVMS, RSX-11M+, VAX, PDP-11, FORTRAN, C, DCL, Macintosh, MacOS, VMSINSTAL, MACRO-32

Professional Development

Microsoft Windows 2003 System Administration, December 2004

Basic system administration and Active Directory under Windows 2003.

Microsoft Windows 2000 System Administration, December 2003

Basic system administration under Windows 2000.

Tru64 UNIX System Administration, March 2002

Basic system administration under Tru64 UNIX (Compaq UNIX) 5.1A.

Designed and wrote simple web sites (<http://www.shubs.net> <http://www.ibm1130.net>)

Education

University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 1992-1993

Courses completed toward a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Science. Developed an understanding of object-oriented concepts. Part-time Teaching Assistant

University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, 1987

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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