Rick Jasper
 
JASPER at ALMADEN                                           Advisory Programmer
 (408) 927-2731                                             139 Farnham Court
tieline 457-2731                                            San Jose, CA  95139
 
 
 
Job Objective:
 
     To help exploit the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web by 
     developing Web content.  Other possibilities would be a C++ or Java
     programming position.
 
 
Highlights:
 
   - Twelve year VM System Programmer.  Know VM inside out, top to bottom.
     Responsible for CP, CMS, IOCDS, real-time debugging of hardware and
     software problems, hardware planning, and local modifications.
   - Three years AIX System Administration.  Working toward knowing AIX as
     well as I did VM.  Emphasis on network installs and problem determination
     and resolution.
   - TCP/IP debug experience with Name servers, security, web and ftp servers
     on both the internal intranet and external Internet.
   - Exposure to OS/2, DOS, Windows/95, Lotus Notes.
   - Proven team leader and project planner.
   - Excellent communication skills.
 
 
Major Professional Accomplishments (Reverse chronological order):
 
   - Took over Almaden's external web and ftp server.  Cleaned up years of 
     history (read, garbage), making the service more hacker-resistant and
     audit-ready.

   - Established Almaden's AIX 4.1 network installation (NIM) server.
     Installed the filesets needed for an Almaden "standard" system from CD.
     Wrote Korn shell, post-installation scripts that customize TCP/IP, install
     AFS client code and AFSR commands, and maintain common, site-wide files
     (e.g. password and printer queue definition files).

   - Initiated, planned and executed project that saved the Almaden laboratory
     over a million dollars in depreciation expense by eliminating and
     consolidating mainframe DASD usage.  Successfully reduced usage enough to
     cancel $608K of DASD already on order and discontinue existing DASD with
     $770K remaining depreciation, all with no disruption to the lab.
 
   - VM/ESA Conversion Team Leader.  Coordinated 15 person team to convert the
     Almaden VM system to VM/ESA.  Planned entire project and did 90% of the
     work.  Conducted weekly meetings to insure all the potential problems were
     identified and addressed, and to track the rest of the work.
 
   - 3090-300J Processor Removal Team Leader.  Found an IBM site that needed a
     3090 processor.  Led 10 person team to remove the 3090 Almaden had running
     MVS, saving the lab $750K of remaining depreciation expense.  Reconfigured
     the VM processor to accept the displaced MVS system image and hardware.
 
   - ALMVMD Node Name Change Team Leader.  Coordinated and led 25 member team
     to remove 3081 processor and consolidate the two VM images into one.
 
   - VM/XA Conversion.  Almaden was a leader within IBM to successfully put 
     VM/XA into production use.  The effort involved thirty people and six 
     months before the conversion to insure everything worked.

 
Recent Education (since November, 1994):
                                                   # Days
   - AIX for Users                                   2
   - AIX Basic System Administration                 3
   - AIX Advanced System Administration              5
   - KORN Shell Programming                          3
   - OS/2 Fundamentals for End Users                 1
   - AIX Problem Determination                       2
   - AIX 4.1 Overview                                1
   - AIX 4.1 Migration                               4
   - AFS System Administration                       3
   - TCP/IP Networking                               2
   - Networking Services - NFS, NIS, DNS             3
   - Beginning HTML                                  0.5
   - Advanced HTML                                   0.5
   - Introduction to C Programming - AIX/UNIX        5
   - C++ Programming Language - AIX/UNIX             5
   - WWW; What a Web We Weave                        1
   - Internet Security                               5
   - LAN Problem Determination                       3
   - Advanced UNIX Utilities and Shell Programming  10 nights
   - Advanced UNIX Software Development Tools        8 nights
   - OTU Java Programming                            5
   - Programming the Web with JavaScript             1
   - AIX Version 4 Performance Management            4
   - AIX Application Programming Environment         5
 
Formal Degree:
 
     B.S. in Computer Science from Chico State University, CA in 1982.
 
 
See my home page at http://w3.almaden.ibm.com/~jasper (IBM-Internal Only).
I've even got an external one at http://www.jps.net/TheJaspers, but I don't
have much on it yet.