JIM COBABE
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HC 13 Box 30017 |
jim@cobabe.net |
Home: (435) 427-3523 |
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Fairview, UT 84629 |
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Computer systems professional with broad scope of training and experience in systems and application software engineering and administration. Specializing in trouble-shooting and maintenance of Unix servers in a production environment.
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Operating Systems: |
Unix (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Tru64), LINUX (Redhat), MS Windows |
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Major Features: |
High availability clusters, storage area networks, tape backup subsystems, network administration, distributed functionality, RAID storage devices |
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Primary Focus Areas: |
Hardware and software installation, configuration, trouble-shooting, system configuration and upgrades, performance and tuning, application and operating systems software development, shell/Perl/tcl scripting, C/C++ programming, HTML, DBMS, SQL |
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Major Vendors: |
Compaq, IBM, Sun, HP, Sequent, Data General, Microsoft, SCO, Veritas, Legato, Red Hat, Oracle |
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
June 2005 – October 2005
US Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
507
25th Street
Ogden, UT 84401
801-625-5388
Forestry Technician
Worked with forestry inventory survey crews.
April 2004 – October 2004
US Interior Department
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
3165 10th Street
Baker City, OR 97814
541-523-1256
Forestry Technician
Worked with BLM forestry maintenance crew.
December 2003
Zeropoint Corporation
Fairview, UT 84629
Linux Systems Consultant
Installed and configured Red Hat Linux web servers for Internet web hosting at www.zeropoint.com.
November 2003
SOS Staffing Services
(435)
789-9200
1147 West Hwy 40
Vernal, UT 84078
July 2003 – November 2003
USDA Forest Service
Ashley National Forest
355
North Vernal Ave
Vernal, UT 84078
435-789-1181
Forestry Technician
Worked with survey teams to collect Common Stand Exam data. Maintained FsVeg forest database Oracle SQL applications, AIX servers and W2000 workstations.
June 2002 – September 2002
ANALYSTS INTERNATIONAL
2700 Gateway Centre Blvd
Morrisville, NC 27560
(919) 460-6141
GlaxoSmithKline - Raleigh, NC
Systems Consultant
Technical support and administration of high-end servers hosting Oracle database in enterprise-class production and development/test environment. Compaq GS160 AlphaServer running Tru64 v5.1 with multi-terabyte mixed SAN and RAID, other assorted servers and workstations in heterogeneous network environment. Administered Networker and enterprise class tape library backups. Programmed, configured, and maintained administrative shell scripts, Perl, HTML programs, system utilities.
November 1999 – November 2001
4920
Centennial Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
(719) 272-4200
Intel Internet Media Services - Portland OR
Systems Consultant
Technical support of clustered GS60 servers for Intel commercial streaming media Internet services, with high-speed 24/7 highly available multi-terabyte SAN storage, interoperable file systems hosting for MS Windows edge servers. Tru64 v5.1, shell scripts and Perl programming.
National Center for Atmospheric Research - Boulder CO
Systems Consultant
Supported initial launch of COMPAQ AlphaServer ES40 based clustered high-performance technical computing platform, hosting climate and atmospheric large-scale database modeling applications.
August 1998 – November 1999
MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS
(719)
528-1971
2424 Gardem of the Gods Road
Colorado Springs, CO
80919
Administered UNIX systems platforms for server-based automated telcom call center Oracle program development, supporting development team servers and applications, SCSI and RAID storage subsystems. Various flavors of Tru64, multiple servers and workstations.
Februrary 1996 – August 1998
AMERITECH LIBRARY SERVICES
Provo, UT
801/223-5200
Software Support Engineer
Provided remote online call center support for customers of the Ameritech DYNIX library database management system.
Installed and upgraded AIX and HPUX system software, managed customer file systems, networks, peripherals, backup subsystems, DBMS; diagnosed and implemented solutions for a wide range of system level problems.
February 1993 – February 1996
UNISYS CORPORATION
480 North 2200
Salt Lake City Utah 84116
801-594-5000
Engineered new releases of UNIX system software, including development of new features, bug fixes, integration testing, diagnosis and solutions for system level software issues.
July 1991 – February 1993
INTERGRAPH CORPORATION
Huntsville,
AL 35824
256-288 Dunlop Blvd.
730-2000
Software Consultant
Ported SVR3.2 base of UNIX operating system software on Intergraph workstations.
Designed, reviewed and implemented trouble-shooting solutions for customer applications and operating system software.
April 1989 – July 1991
Software Engineer
January 1988 – April 1989
SOS COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Provo, UT
Applications Programmer for Credit Union management software
May 1984 – January 1988
Applications Programmer
EDUCATION
1989 Graduate Studies in Computer Science - Utah State University Extension
1983 Computer Science Studies - Utah Technical College
1979 Bachelor of Science, Plant Sciences - University of California
1977 Associate of Science, Botany - Ricks College
HPUX 11.00, HPUX System administration
HPUX Logical Volume Manager, HPUX Performance and Tuning
COMPAQ Technical Training and Development:
COMPAQ Tru64 System Administration
COMPAQ AlphaServer SC System Administration
COMPAQ GS160/320 Technical Training
Technical Training - Delft, AT&T:
C, C++ programming, UNIX MP Internals, UNIX Device Drivers, UNIX STREAMS Programming
Compiler Construction, Data Structures, Digital Signal Processing
Maryfaith
Snyder - Supervisory Forester
msnyder@fs.fed.us
United States Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
Ogden, UT
801-625-5724
Steve Coley
United States Interior Department
Bureau of Land Management
541-523-1323
Colette Webb
United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
435-781-5188
Burton Floyd
GlaxoSmithKline
Raleigh, NC
919-483-1284
Hal Gordon
Compaq Computer Corp.
Denver CO
303-677-3576
Michael Haase
MCI
Colorado Springs CO
719-687-1813