11 Woodspring Court

North Augusta, South Carolina 29860

H(803)278-3393 rsimmons@digi-reflect.com

EDUCATION

BS Electrical Engineering And Computer Engineering, 1987

University Of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Bridgestone Firestone, South Carolina Co. Graniteville, South Carolina 1998 to Present

• Responsible for systems programming, systems maintenance, and project support.
• Perform hardware swap-outs, operating systems upgrades, tuning, and networking, trouble-shooting, and installations.
• Support to a large user base of multiple sites exceeding 600 users, 300 workstations and 30 servers. Identify and eliminate numerous problems.
• Support of IBM AS/400, Windows NT, Back Office Applications and 10/100 Ethernet with 1 Gigabit backbone for Business, Shop-Floor Process Control, Development, Production and Redundant systems
• Responsible for developing long term maintenance and support strategies and design.
• Responsible for plant systems infrastructure from plant startup through full production.
• Responsible for budget planning and spending for systems maintenance purposes.
• Support of Corporate Microsoft Exchange E-mail server applications and production databases running on Microsoft SQL.

Camber Corporation, Savannah River Site, South Carolina 1997 to 1998

Systems Engineer

• Responsible for systems programming, systems maintenance, and project support.
• Perform hardware swap-outs, operating systems upgrades, tuning, and networking, trouble-shooting, and installations.
• Responsible for developing system documentation, audit manuals, and generating contract deliverables on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Support to a large user base of multiple sites exceeding 400 users. Identify and eliminate numerous problems.
• Support of VAX and ALPHA OpenVMS systems for Shop-Floor Process Control, Development, Production and Redundant systems.
• Support to Internet related projects and Web Development with heavy emphasis on video and multimedia applications.

MEDAC, Augusta, Georgia 1997 to 1997

Systems Manager

• Responsible for systems programming, systems maintenance, and project support.
• Responsible for Network strategies and long term development.
• Responsible for developing project plan for replacing character based system with GUI interface and SQL relational database engine.
• Responsible for IBM AIX and Windows NT servers.
• Support of PC’s.
• Supervisor to others.
• Development of Corporate standards manuals and IS Documentation.
• Managed multiple contractors and the projects they work with.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER, Augusta, Georgia 1994 to 1997

• Responsible for systems programming, systems maintenance, and project support.
• Perform hardware swap-outs, operating systems upgrades, tuning, and PC networking including LAN/WAN support, trouble-shooting, and installations.
• Maintenance of Corporate standards and selection of Corporate-wide applications.
• Support to a large user base of multiple sites exceeding 400 users. Identify and eliminate numerous problems.
• Perform database maintenance, upgrades and tuning. Maintain and configure database structures including multi-volume PROGRESS databases as large as 50 Gigabytes.
• Support of UNIX / PROGRESS database servers for an Office / Manufacturing environment.
• Support of VAX and ALPHA OpenVMS systems for Shop-Floor Process Control systems.
• Support to corporate Mail Server using Lotus Notes 4.0 running on Windows NT Server utilizing Multi-Processor Compaq 4500 Series Computers.

BOISE CASCADE, DeRidder, Louisiana 1990-1994

• Responsible for development of mill-wide computer network, distributed applications, systems management / programming, network administration / programming, and application programming.
• Supported and managed on-line Process Control systems.
• Systems and network selection, design, installation, configuration, administration, and training of users.
• Trained co-workers. Became a resource for technical knowledge for people inside and outside the company in Boise Cascade’s largest mill.
• Developed site specific user manuals and on-line documentation for systems and applications.
• Numerous communications projects involved selection of efficient and cost effective strategies to perform desired goals.
• Task Force Leader with a group of ten co-workers with responsibility for the selection and implementation of a CIM Quality system used for Quality Control, Customer Information, Departmental Information and Communications in a production environment.
• Managed Contractors performing tasks on projects.
• Previously responsible for BAILEY NET-90 DCS configurations and engineering.
• Promoted to Engineer II October 1992.

ASEA BROWN BOVERI, Columbus, Ohio 1988 to 1990

Field Service Engineer

• Contractual Process Control duties performed at Kimberly Clark tissue mill. Worked intensively with the tissue-making process. 30% of time was spent trouble-shooting process problems.
• Served as ABB’s Liaison and Customer Relations Representative to site managers for systems management, software support / modification, and automated control systems. Performed analysis and trouble-shooting for systems and process problems, data analysis / interpretation, process control tuning and system modifications.
• Achieved 100% system availability and 99.4% systems control utilization.
• Was recognized as the regional SPC expert. Responsible for training the Southeast Region in SPC.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Department of Science and Math 1987

• Full scale operational duties performed while enrolled at USC in VMS/VAX environment. Responsibilities included system security, software installation, programming and modifications for three VAX 11/780 systems. Wrote VMS User’s Manual which was mandatory publication for some university courses. Involved in network configuration for planned installation of Ethernet LAN.

• VMS (2.1 through 6.2) Heavy experience (10 years) Heavy DCL
• ULTRIX (3.0 through 4.2) Heavy (4 years)
• UNIX SVR4 Heavy (10 years)
• c, bourne, korne shells Heavy (10 years)
• QNX OS medium (2 year)
• MS-Windows NT (Beta through 4.0) Heavy (3 years)
• OS/2 (1.3 through 2.0) Heavy (1 year)
• IBM AS/400 OS400 (V4R2 - V4R4) Heavy (2 years)

• Microsoft Windows NT Beta 3.0  - Windows 2000 Heavy (6 years)
• VAX/VMS CLUSTER: Network programming, software maintenance, security, administration, end-user training. Heavy (4 years)
• DECNET Phase IV Heavy (8 years)
• CTERM, NCP, LAT, LATCP, MOP, LAD, LADCD Heavy (10 years)
• PATHWORKS (3.0 through 4.2) Heavy (4 years)
• PATHWORKS / NOVELL COEXISTENCE, PATHWORKS CD-ROM SERVICES, DECNET, TCP/IP SIMULTANEOUS PROTOCOL STACKS Heavy (2 years)
• WOLLONGONG WIN/TCP for VMS (5.0 through 5.2) Heavy (6 years)
• Multinet TCP for OpenVMS (3.0 through 4.0) Heavy (1 year)
• UNIX protocols: TCP/IP, TELNET, FTP, FLOGIN, DLOGIN, RLOGIN Heavy (10 years)
• Open Connect Systems TCP/SNA GATEWAY Heavy (4 years)
• MS-LAN MANAGER (2.1 through 2.2) Heavy (4 years)
• Microsoft Protocols: ODBC, NETBEUI, DDE Heavy (4 years)
• Various PC-LAN NOS such as PCU, PCI, and NFS.
• IBM AS/400 OS400 Heavy (2 years)

• Database management, maintenance, point definition, application programming, documentation, user training, layered product upgrades, client / server installations, application inter-operability. Mini and server based applications.
• Microsoft SQL (2.0 through 7.0) Heavy (4 years)
• PROGRESS (6.2 through 7.0) Heavy (3 years)
• AIM System (7.0 through 7.2) Heavy (3 years)
• PI Systems Medium (3 years)
• INFORMIX Medium (1 year)
• DISKEEPER (4.0 through 6.0) Heavy (4 years)
• LOTUS NOTES (4.0) Heavy (1 year)
• SAS, MASS-11, ALL-IN-1

• MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE (1.0 through 97) Heavy (8 years)
• MICROSOFT SQL SERVER (2.0 through 7.0) Heavy (4 years)
• Microsoft Exchange Server (5.5) Heavy (2 years)
• Microsoft SMS (1.0 through 2.0) Heavy (1 year)
• LOTUS NOTES (4.0) Heavy (1 year)
• Other PC-Based Applications include: VIEWPOINT, MICROSOFT PROJECT, Q+E, NORTON UTILITIES, LOTUS SMART SUITE, WORDPERFECT, AND MANY MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS.

• MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC (1.0 through 4.0) Medium (3 years)
• MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ (1.0 through 2.2) Medium (2 years)
• HTML Heavy (4 years)
• FORTRAN Medium (7 years)
• C Heavy (5 years)
• BASIC Light (1 year)
• 68000 Assembler Light (1 year)

• ALPHA 150, 233, 275
• VAX 11/780, 4000-300, 4100
• MICROVAX 3100, 3300
• VAXSTATION GPX 3100
• INFOSERVER
• DECSYSTEMS 5400, 5500
• UNISYS 6100, 6065, 6550, 5400
• COMPAQ 4500
• DELL Poweredge 4200, 2300, 6300, Optiplex GXa, GX1, Latitude CP, CPi, Inspiron 7000
• MACINTOSH, AMIGAS and other 68xxx based systems
• SCSI, SCSI-II, SCSI-III, DSSI, MASSCAB, IDE and EIDE based storage systems for all mass storage type devices.
• ETHERNET, FDDI, ARCNET, FRAME RELAY including all associated equipment over fiber and copper.
• GANDALF, ASYMETRIX multiplexers.
• SNIFFER and TTC Network Analyzers