06/97 -- Present     Senior Systems Administrator, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
                                148 Princeton-Hightstown Road, N1, Hightstown, NJ 08520-1450
                                Tel: (609) 426 - 7232

• Technical Project Lead/ Designer/ Engineer for various Solaris or Red Hat Linux projects performing the necessary work to bring them to a successful completion
• Perform all levels of System Engineering and Administration for close to 400 Development, QA, and Productions systems on Solaris and Red Hat Linux systems, including both physical and virtual servers.
• Efficiently able to work well independently or as part of a team by using excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels within and outside the company
• Performed interviews with potential employees and consultants to ascertain their UNIX proficiency

• Completed the conversion of the LANTECH bulletin board to a HTML environment
• Created a web server with content and applications for increased productivity
• Instrumental in Intranet development including TCP/IP and Netscape browser roll-out
• Specialized in LAN analysis and troubleshooting, customer training, research and development
• Completed classes on Windows 95 and Windows NT troubleshooting and analysis
• Banyan VINES Administrator
• Instrumental in creating a Help Desk manual and created Intranet web site for troubleshooting problems
• Administered a key database that housed information on outside counsel, cases, fees, and miscellaneous data

• Assisted the System Analyst on maintenance and troubleshooting of a UNIX Property Search system
• Learned the languages of INFORMIX, ACEGO, and PERFORM to create sub-databases, forms and reports that interacted with the main database
• Increased departmental productivity and efficiency so 4 people could do the work of 12