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

Accomplishments

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.

Team Lead:

Led a six person off-shore group consisting of three Quality Assurance techs and three OpenVMS programmers located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Trained off-shore developers on OpenVMS system and development tools.
Wrote technical documentation for the TRENDSTAR system management and internal development environment, as well as for training purposes.

Programming:

Performed OpenVMS programming tasks on the TRENDSTAR product using FORTRAN, C, and DCL including writing a MS-DRG Grouper for v25 through v27.
Designed and wrote simple web sites. (http://www.shubs.net http://www.ibm1130.net)
Ported 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.
Worked with clients using Oracle w/ SQL, and UNIX.
Introduced to object-oriented design
Wrote software to emit queries and updates on client’s live database using Pro*C and lex.
Helped streamline procedures.
Wrote “accounts payable” form emitting program.
Acted as teaching assistant

System management:

Worked in system management team to maintain Windows 2000/2003, Linux, Tru64, OpenVMS Alpha, and AIX systems with redundancy and 99%+ uptime. Used Active Directory to help manage both desktops and servers. Wrote technical documentation. Built systems, performed hardware and software maintenance.
Worked with small system management team to implement new OpenVMS Alpha cluster.
Worked with large system management team to assist users with problems on over 60 large/mixed architecture OpenVMS clusters, including mission critical 24x7 systems.
Worked with other platform groups to resolve multiplatform issues.
Interfaced group of Macintosh computers to Novell network.
Performed small programming tasks to fix specific problems.
Learned TCP/IP management under AIX and VMS.
Tested installation/upgrade procedure for OpenVMS VAX V6.1.
Designed backup policy
Performed remote system management on client sites
Negotiated and arranged maintenance contracts for hardware and software

Employers

Technical Support:

Hewlett-Packard

October 2010 – Present

Team Lead:

Syntel, Troy, Michigan

October 2006 – March 2010

Programming:

Texas Utilities Comanche Peak Power Station, Glen Rose, Texas	contract, Aug. 1997 – June 1999
GTE Card Services, Irving, Texas	contract, Feb. 1997 – May 1997
Southwestern Bell Corporation, Irving, Texas	contract, Nov. 1996 – Jan. 1997
Cabot Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts	contract, May 1992 – Nov. 1992
Psyche Systems, Wellesley, Massachusetts	1987 – 1991

System Management:

ISO New England, Holyoke, Massachusetts	May 2000 – March 2006
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas	contract, Aug. 1999 – Dec. 1999
Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts	contract, Apr. 1995 – Aug. 1996
MCI, Richardson Texas	contract, Mar. 1994 – Mar. 1995
Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire	contract, Sep. 1993 – Jan. 1994

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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