Mark Steven Hermanns Sr.
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4135 Rector Road Cocoa, Florida 32926
Phone (321) 639-6240
Cell phone (321) 537-1674
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SUMMARY:
I am a degreed professional with twenty years of military experience and eight years experience in the private sector. Consisting of eighteen plus years of diverse computer experience, seventeen years experience in training development and instruction on numerous subjects, technical writing, ten years of management experience, eight plus years experience in communications security, fourteen plus years experience in radiological monitoring, sixteen plus years of nuclear experience. Programming languages known/studied are: Ada, BASIC, DG Business BASIC, C, C++, CLIPS, COBOL, FORTRAN, Micro-code programming, assembly code, PLC programming, Unix c shell, k shell, sed, awk, Tcl, Expect & perl. Systems experience UNIX, (HP-UX , bsd, Sun, Data General, RS-6000 AIX), DOS, LINUX, Windows, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, NT 4.0, Mac.
Breakdown of UNIX experience: HP-UX 1 year admin, AIX 3 years admin, DG-UX 3 years, SUN 2 years admin, BSD 4 years.
CAREER GOAL:
I am seeking to settle down to non-contract work, which has been the pattern since 1995, providing the opportunity to apply expertise and abilities, new computer technologies and methodologies to solve real world problems. In a technical management or instruction development position in information systems engineering, database management, program development. (Willing to discuss and consider positions outside of the IT arena in which I have expertise.)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Aug 2001 to present, Unemployed yet during this period:
Donate time to local church, Gloria Dei, Episcopal, distributing food to the poor, (ongoing). Assisted the city of Satellite Beach Police Department, when asked to aid them in reconstructing database schemas, which they had lost some how, thus giving them the ability of accessing 6 years of historical data; assisted several individuals in restoring PC systems and/or upgrading their systems, up to completely reconstructing a lighting damaged system. Created and personally maintain a web page see my URL. You will find few with as diverse and yet as integrated a background of technical skills and experience. I continue to seek employment. Continue to work with VA assistance in employment searching. I’ve learned how to maintain on a significantly reduced budget, military retirement not withstanding. Have acquired numerous domestic skills now regularly cook and maintain my home to assist my spouse who continues to work. Continue to support one son in college. You may not consider this work related yet its lessons have been well taught.
Jun 2000 to Jul 2001, Maxim Group now Teksystems, 1201 Edwards Mill Road; Raleigh, NC 27607, Supervisor, Russel Bryant, (888) 891-9139
Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer
Maxim Group Consultant. Performed contract work for Nortel Networks, RTP Technical Data Interchange and PRISM (Pricing Requirement Information System for Marketing) - Developed & Supported, performed program analysis and troubleshooting, reverse engineering, flowcharting & documenting of system programs. UNIX c shell, k shell, awk, sed, Tcl, Expect & perl scripts, sql, sqlplus, plsql, oracle, C, Jam and CLIPS, interfacing to Oracle db on various systems HP-UX 10.20, Apollo bsd 4.3. Task analysis and support of Ordering & engineering interface to cable manufacturers, supported other TDI UNIX programming requirements, contract with projected duration of six months do to the loss for six months of the primary TDI administrator, required to be up and conversant with and independently administrating systems within one week, original projected ending date of this contract 12/31/2000. Contact extended too 07/30/2001 closing date. Asked to write Oracle 8 stored procedures and triggers, supporting Nortel System House in completing short 6 day requirement, assisted and completed all requirements on time working 81.5 hours during the six day project.
Technical Data Interchange (TDI) and Prism were run on HP-UX machines, TDI in particular required continuous monitoring and UNIX administration as this system preformed TCP/IP data transfer functions sending engineering specification to cable manufactures world wide. PRISM preformed artificial intelligence routines run in CLIPS language developed by NASA and interfaced to Oracle databases use by marketing. The AI routines insured all necessary components were present in a marketing order and applied discounting and pricing offsets. Fifty hour weeks were not uncommon while reverse engineering, administration and documenting systems which had not been done adequately prior to this. Operating systems usage were 90% HP-UX, 9% NT, and 1% BSD UNIX.
During this period assisted a Huntsville, Alabama based group planning a startup with design of lab support and data archiving network, incorporating Labview, and assisted in the laying out the requirements for their administrative and corporate net, to include identifying the security concerns they could expect.
Sep. 99 to May 2000, Student Keiser College, Melbourne, FL
Student
Studies are to acquire my Microsoft Certified Professionals Rating (MCP). Completed. During this period did Data processing facility concept and technical layout proposal for VOS Technologies, Melbourne Fl. This included identification of systems IBM Netfinity servers, routers, switches, firewalls Cisco PIX, fiber, and 10Base100 & possible 10Base1000 requirements to include costs and incremental instillation.
Nov. 98 to Jul. 99, OAO CORPORATION, Office Desktop Initiative (ODIN). LMIT-KSC, HQ 2145, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899, Supervisor: Maury Sweeten, (no longer there replaced by Dan Houston), (321) 867-2785
IT Security Manager
Evaluated UNIX and NT, IT systems for security vulnerabilities, developed risk assessments, security plans, and contingency plans. Insured security compliance with NASA Policy Directives and Guidance. Oversaw security of NASA supported desktop Systems approximately 4000+ and 70+ servers. Insured safeguards were in place to protect these NASA Systems from hacking and compromise, and computer virus attacks. My position also required the assembling and submittal of documents for personnel screening by, NASA PRP. Conversant with hacking and invasive IT technologies and identifying their signatures. Some tools used CyberCop, ISS Internet Scanner, ISS Real Secure, ISS System Scanner, Trojan detection software and KANE System Scanner. Knowledgeable in techniques for analysis discovery and mapping of networks. Telephonic Dial-in-out capability controlled by Ascend centralized 56K RAS, capable of handling 35 simultaneous calls with dual T1 connections with 100% failover capability. Types of systems used Sun Solaris Sparc-20 and Ultra-S systems, NT 4.0 Intel and Alpha systems. NASA Personal Reliability Program (PRP) position.
I was during this period full time administrator of the Kennedy Telephonic Dial-in and out capability which was controlled and Sun Solaris Sparc-20 UNIX boxes which acted as authentication servers. Operating system usage during this period was 50% NT, and 50% UNIX in nature KANE system Scanner was the initial scanner used for all UNIX based systems which was replaced by ISS Internet and System Scanner.
Oct. 98 to Nov. 98, Networked Solutions, Satellite Beach, FL 32937.
Consultant, Information Systems
Business Basic, and C language Programming, UNIX and systems administration skills on a task-by-task basis to Networked Solutions Inc. Brevard County Occupational License #009950310.
Sep. 95 to Sep. 98, SATELLITE BEACH, Police Department, 510 Cinnamon Drive, Satellite Beach, FL 32937, Supervisor: Lionel Cote (Police Chief), (321) 773-4400
Information Systems Engineer
UNIX Programming and System Administration, troubleshooting, and System configuration for City Hall. Police Department, Building & Zoning, Fire Department, Public Works, and Recreation Services. Assisted day to day operations, budget processing, and data capturing for all aspects of the city operation. Data Base Administrator for the police department. Inventoried and maintained, assembled/disassembled PC systems and Mainframes and terminals. Ordered, received, unpacked data processing equipment, and in instances packed and shipped Mainframe equipment. Configure setup and administer local area networks for Building & Zoning Office, and Police Department. Maintained Florida Crime Information Center II and National Crime Information Center terminals and equipment. Oversaw technical aspects of Desktop Publishing of City monthly newsletter and Internet presence of the city. Maintained, upgraded and repaired PC's, printers, DG AVIION, IBM RS6000 and network systems. Assisted in Computer crime investigation for Police Department. UNIX/AIX administration. UNIX shell programming, Windows, Networks, TCP/IP. Programming, Miscellaneous electronics repair, A+ support, and web page creation.
Jun. 95 to Aug. 95, SATELLITE BEACH CITY GOVERNMENT. Satellite Beach, FL 32937
Consultant Information Systems Engineering
UNIX Programming, System Administration, troubleshooting, and system configuration for City Hall, Police Department and Fire Department. Assist in resolving system problems. automate date capturing, and printer configuration problems. Document software, troubleshoot data communication and information sharing conflicts between various offices of the city. Did document conversion as needed and training of personnel in UNIX and Windows. Data General UNIX, IBM AIX UNIX, UNIX administration. UNIX shell programming, Windows.
During the above period from Jun. 95 to Sep. 98 I provided 24/7 support of the Police Data General UNIX mainframe 49% and City Hall IBM RS6000 running AIX. 49% and Windows 2%
Feb. 95 to May. 95, GLOBETECH CORPORATION, 7910 Memorial Parkway, Huntsville, AL 35802
Computer Maintenance Technician
Maintenance, reconfiguration, setup, troubleshooting of PC systems in support of GlobeTech Corp. requirements. This includes testing of new components installed, setup of software and connection and configuration of printers. Limited short-term contract.
Computers, Windows.
May. 93to Jan. 95, COLSA CORPORATION, 76726 Odyssey Drive, Huntsville, AL 35806
Systems Analyst/Programmer
Conducted Manpower Requirements Criteria studies for U.S Army Missile Command, and U.S. Army Armaments Munitions and Chemical Command. Train and advise Junior Analysts conducting MARC studies. Performed logistical analysis and consolidation of data from: Military Occupational Classification and Structure data, Logistical Support Analysis Records, Provisioning Master Records, Consolidated Index of Army Publications, WORK Order Logistics Files, the Army MARC Master File and the Army MARC Maintenance Data Base, maintained by Logistics Support Activity, also accessed System technical Manuals, Army Master Data File, Sample Data Collection files, and Field Exercise Data Collection files. Verified and validated information contained in the consolidated file database and made all necessary corrections.
Provide hard copy MARC files to Major Subordinate Commands for review by' Subject Matter Experts prior to Subject Matter Expert Panel. Consulted with equipment specialists and document Maintenance Burden Data and developed and sent reports to Government Technical Monitors; Provided monthly progress reports detailing ongoing activities, to government representatives. Coordinated monthly In-progress reviews to discuss applicable issues. Assisted MSCs in conducting SMEPs. Corrected reports and supporting data files with panel results; updated the database before generating MARC deliverable package.
All function were performed on 95% UNIX based machines running BSD UNIX and 5% Windows.
Group leader, 11 personnel, systems analysts, computer specialists, programmers. Reviewed time cards, wrote performance appraisals, submitted overhead and G&A budget data..
Logistics. Computers, management, teaching, UNIX, C++. Networks. Internet. DDN. TCP/IP.
During this period assisted a Huntsville, Alabama based group performing wave form numerical analysis., In support of Scalar Electromagnetic Research.
Mar. 92 to Apr. 93, Directorate of Training, U.S. Army Ordnance Missile & Munitions Center and School (USAOMMCS), Redstone Arsenal (RSA), AL 35897.
Deputy Chief, of Distributive Training Division, 55Z5H, MSG (E8)
Directed 22 personnel comprising Educational Specialists, Curriculum Developers/writers. Ammunition and missile Subject Matter Experts, and Visual Information Specialists. Authoring Interactive Video Discs (IVD). Programming Computer Based Instruction and 'writing paper bused exportable active & reserve component training. Manager of the USAOMMCS knowledge Engineering Group and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory, managed investigative research and development in AI and multimedia technologies to meet future training needs of the Ordnance Corps. Programmed in many object oriented, AI and multimedia authoring languages to evaluate their degree of usefulness. Developed proposals for continued research from Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and the Department of the Army AI Development Center. Coding development used Sun Solaris UNIX systems. Information Systems Security Manager - responsible point of contact for all aspects of Information System Security IAW AR 11-2, computer security, management, training development, teaching, SUN UNIX systems, CLIPS. C++, Neural Nets in C++, Level 5 Object, Ada. Part time assistant instructor of DOS, Windows, and Lotus 123 for Calhoun Community College.
Coding development used Sun Solaris UNIX systems. I was not the primary administrator during this period, but I was knowledgeable and responsible for all security on the systems within my division.
Oct. 91 to Feb. 92, Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization, USAOMMCS, RSA, AL 35897.
Senior Analyst. 55Z5H, MSC (E8)
Senior analyst for Career Management Field 55 and team member responsible for collection, organization and analysis of data used to measure effectiveness of training at the USAOMMCS. Applied Statistical analysis methods to Skill Qualification Test results and attrition statistics retrieved from the military personnel database at Fort Ben through the Defense Data Network. Reviewed regulations, programs of instruction, and related course documents to ensure standardization. Served as member of school academic review board, Monitor for course reduction committees. Member of technologies planning group, looking at new technologies to support the ordnance school. Energy conservation officer, printing control officer. Terminal area security officer.
Sept. 90 to Sept. 91. Command Ammunition Office, 6th Ordnance Battalion (Bn), 19th Support Command, Tague, Korea.
First Supervisor, Ammunition Supply Branch, 55Z50, MSG (E8)
Supervisor at the theater Army area Material Management Center (MMC), responsible for the management of all U.S. titled ammunition in Korea, totaling over 692 thousand short tons valued at 4.4 billion dollars. Responsible for the supervision of the Decentralized Automation Service Support System (DAS3) computer center (Honeywell CYBER), supporting 12 ammunition depots and host nation remote data processing centers, through a wide area network. Directly supervised 15 military and 3 Korean national ammunition managers responsible for the stock status of U.S. Pre-positioned War Reserve, War Reserve Stocks for Allies, training ammunition assets and Unit Basic Load (UBL) for all major subordinate commands. Additional duties: responsible for computer security accreditation, computer equipment acquisition & training for the command, execution of the wartime operations center and assistant area noncombatant evacuation coordinator, conducted testing of the wide area network under simulated wartime data loads and conditions verifying network integrity. Unit Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) Noncommissioned officer (NCO).
During the period, instructed BASIC computer programming and Disk Operating System (DOS) part time for Central Texas College
Supervision:
Applied doctrine, regulations, and directives to ammunition operations. Advised on ammunition packaging and rigging loads for movement on all types of transportation. Inspect operations area to evaluate safety and efficiency of work. Institute corrective action. Supervise ammunition-related ADP operations.
Operations:
Assisted in surveying allocated areas. Layout and evaluate facilities for ammunition storage operations. Recommend employment of technical assistance teams. Plan requirements for labor, equipment, and supplies. Instruct in application of work policies, and procedures. Review evaluations and reports on operational training matters. Analyze ammunition stock with automatic data processing assistance.
Logistics. computers, management, teaching, chemical, DBASE, BASIC. COBOL.
Jan. 89 to Aug. 90, Munitions Training Department, USAOMMCS, RSA, AL, 35897
Chief Instructor, Special Ammunition Division, 55Z5H, MSG (E8)
Provide supervision and support for 24 Junior, Senior Noncommissioned officer and civilian instructors, advised the division chief on all mission activities impacting on the division. Planned and coordinated external mission requirements and responsible for military administration, nuclear surety, safety management, instructor development. Nuclear surety inspection, automation security. Principle instructor of nuclear fundamentals and principles for functional area 52, Command and General Staff College officers and Follow On To Lance (FOTL) project engineers. Additional courses taught: nuclear safety, nuclear command and control. Nuclear transportation and nuclear storage. Advised FOTL project office on radiological hazards, and assisted them in completion of environmental impact study involving the use of depleted Uranium in testing. Radiological - (Alpha) team supervisor. Radiological Protection Officer (RPO).
Computers. management, training development, teaching, nuclear, radiological, FORTRAN, UNIX, DBASE.
Jul. 87 to Dec. 88, Munitions Training Department, USAOMMCS, RSA, AL 35897.
Senior Technical Writer/Instructor, Professional Training Branch. Special Ammunition Division, 55G4H. SFC (E7)
Instructed commissioned officer, senior warrant officer, and senior noncommissioned officer courses. This included developing, writing, editing, and updating programs of instruction, lesson plans, and examinations for resident courses. and such nonresident training and doctrinal material as soldier manuals. SOT. Army correspondence programs, field manuals, and Army Training and Evaluation Programs (ARTEP). Designed and developed computer database for tracking 600 professional training branch lessons through their review process. Assisted in establishing computer baseline needs to automate lesson materials editing and update process. Additional duties as live emergency demolitions instructor, Academic Information Management System (AIMS) operator-VAX based system, & Alpha team member.
Computers, training development, teaching, nuclear, radiological, FORTRAN. DBASE.
Aug. 84 to Jun. 87, 559th U.S. Army Artillery Group, Vicenza, Italy
Senior Technical Advisor/Inspector, Nuclear Weapons Maintenance, 55G40. SFC (E7)
Instructed, inspected and evaluated special field artillery detachments and special ordnance company. Which were spread throughout northern Italy. Provided technical assistance to U.S. and Host Nation units at all levels of command on current procedures and regulations. Nuclear Accident Incident Response and Assistance (NAIRA), technical advisor, RPO for the Group. Provided detailed information on radiological hazards and procedures, NCO in charge of the Group Tactical Operations Center (TOC). Assisted in writing plans and operation orders. Technical point of contact for computer equipment acquisition for the artillery group. Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) member. Emergency Action (EA) team member. Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) - AR 50-5 position.