Edwin R. Carp (erc@pobox.com)
10010 Whitehurst #2203
Dallas, TX 75243

940/367-2744 Cell Phone
Web Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~erc

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

IS management consultant with 20 years combined systems and management experience seeking a management position which would leverage policy-level decision-making capability in software development.

COMPUTER EXPERTISE:

Hardware:
Datapoint 2200/5500/6600 DOS/ARC, Univac UDS2000, 1900/CADE 1100/80, IBM PC/PS2/RT, AT&T 3BX/7300, Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun SPARC (1, 1+, 2), Hewlett-Packard, Apple Macintosh.

Software:
ASM (Datapoint, 8080, 8086), BASIC, C, DATABUS/DATASHARE, X11R4/R3, ACF2, Microsoft Visual BASIC (Professional Edition), HTML.

Operating Systems:
SunOS (3.5 to 4.1.2, Solaris 2.x), System V (5.3, 5.4), MS-DOS (2.1-6.22), AIX, BSD 4.2, SCO XENIX, A/UX, HP-UX, Apollo Domain/IX, Linux (0.10-1.1.x), Datapoint DOS, Microsoft Windows.

MANAGEMENT/TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

ITRS Consulting, Dallas, TX
March 1999 to July 1999
Consultant
Lead responsibilities for set-top box development in VB and C for Windows 98 and Linux platforms.

Maxim Group, Dallas, TX
October, 1998 to March, 1999
Senior Consultant
Responsible for coding multiple server paging application for large utility company in VB 5.0 using MS Access databases.  Required reverse engineering parts of commercial application so that VB application could “hook” into commercial app.  Application required paging 200 pagers/15+ paging companies in 10 minutes.

Responsible for GUI design for document generation project for large telecommunications company in VB 5.0 using MS Access databases.

Multi Technology Services, Richardson, TX (purchased by Cable Plus, Bellevue, WA)
July 1997 to September, 1998
Technical Services Manager
Responsible for day-to-day MIS operations, including help desk, disaster recovery, data security, and revenue assurance.  Assist and support MIS Director as needed.  Responsible for 8 MIS professionals, $5M/month revenue stream, and $3.2 million budget.  Reported directly to MIS Director.

Technology Investments, Dallas, TX
January 1997 to May 1997
Director, Information Technology
Responsible for technology infrastructure for Dallas office.  Implemented Windows NT servers, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes over WAN for corporate communications and office infrastructure.  Consulted with corporate offices in Tampa for their infrastructure needs.  Wrote several infrastructure support programs in Visual Basic, including a client/server alphanumeric paging system, pegboard and messaging systems that interfaced with Exchange and Outlook, and a contact manager that interfaced with Schedule+. All work done in VB 4.0/Access 7.0/OLE 2.0.  Also wrote conversion routines in VB to import data into Oracle and Informix databases from flat files.

Independent Software Consultant (W-2)
 June 1988 to August 1995
Berger & Co., Dallas, TX
April 1996 to January 1997
Senior Consultant
Responsible for providing management and IS architectural consulting services to a wide variety of clients in the telecommunications, food service and computing industries.  Used Visual Basic 4.0 extensively with Access to provide customer solutions.

DSC Communications, Plano, TX
August 1995 to April 1996
Senior Operations Analyst
Responsible for planning and administration of Sun SparcCenter 2000 production systems running Oracle.  Planned and implemented corporate-wide roll-out of Microsoft Access, wrote utilities in Visual Basic 3.0 to facilitate.  Planned, implemented, and maintained departmental WWW server with corporate-wide access and wrote utilities in Visual Basic to access the WWW server.  Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues.

Fidelity Trust, Salt Lake City, UT
July 1995 to August 1995
Project Manager
Had complete responsibility for planning, design, implementation, and documentation of credit card delinquency reporting system in Visual Basic 3.0.  Project was completed under extreme time constraints.  Successfully completed project where two other consultants had failed.

Prodata, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
March 1995 to June 1995
Project Lead
Responsible for maintenance and upgrade planning for personnel applications software for the State of Utah courts system.  Used Microsoft Access 2.0 and Visual Basic 3.0.  Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues.

Advanta Financial Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
January 1995 to February 1995
Project Manager
Responsible for planning, developing, and deployment of communications application using commercial VBX libraries and Microsoft Access data controls.  Designed and wrote application using Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0.  Application supported multiple dial-in clients, upload/download capabilities using the ZMODEM protocol, and database access for logon IDs and transaction logging database (written to interface with Microsoft Access/SQL Server databases).  Completed project under extreme time constraints.

GTE Directories, Dallas, Texas
July 1994 to November 1994
Security Consultant - Project Leader/Technical Lead
Lead responsibilities for conversion of ACF2 security database to UNIX platform.  Responsible for project from planning stage through inception.  Required familiarity with ACF2.  Ported ACF2 logonid database to IBM RS6000 platform.  Wrote Visual Basic 3.0 and Microsoft Access front-end applications to Oracle database.  Kept project plans up to date, scheduled and conducted technical review meetings, and coordinated communications between team members. Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues.

Platform Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario
March 1994 to June 1994
Senior Systems Engineer
Responsible for support engineering and programming.  Wrote installation scripts to automatically configure and install products.  Wrote curses-based install and configuration programs.

Yggdrasil Computing, Inc., San Jose, California
July 1993 to March 1994
Senior Systems Programmer/Technical Services Manager
Responsible for kernel-level and OS development planning and management for the Linux operating system.  Set up and maintained on the Internet a network of 386's and 486's running Linux, including full name resolution services and a full news feed.  Wrote and maintained a menuing shell for outside users (500+) and customers, including a custom multi-user chat program and curses-based menus, seamlessly integrating with various UNIX utilities.  Various system administration tasks performed, including scheduling daily backups, and automating trimming of news, syslog, and uucp logs for the gateway system (the gateway system was designed to be run in a totally unattended mode).  Managed technical services and support. Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues

Lifescan, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson), Milpitas, California
February 1993 to June 1993
Infrastructure Manager
Responsible for infrastructure implementation for network of 800 workstations for migration project from DEC VAX and MIPS machine to Sun 690's, including workstations, telecommunications, and data processing.  Reported to acting IS Director.  Had senior management responsibilities for 40 employees and 3 managers.

Unisys Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
June 1992 to February 1993
Senior Support Programmer
Responsible for systems-level support of major OEM UNIX SVR3 and SVR4.  Responsibilities included debugging UNIX software (utilities, kernel, drivers) and developing fixes for field personnel and customers to install. Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, California
January 1992 to May 1992
Senior System Administrator
Responsible for configuration management, system administration, and database administration for VAR database for major UNIX system OEM.  Database manipulation routines written in PROGRESS database language.  Hardware included SPARC 2 and Sun 690 (Galaxy) servers.

Pacific Gas & Electric, San Francisco, California
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California	
July 1990 to November 1991
Senior System Administrator
Responsible for system management, including system security (physical and electronic), hardware and software upgrades, and internetworking issues for major San Francisco area clients.   Required extensive knowledge of system administration and security issues, as well as intimacy with various flavors of UNIX (HP-UX, Apollo Domain/IX, and SunOS). Most work done on Sun SPARC workstations (1, 1+, 2) and Hewlett-Packard UNIX workstations.  Programmed and maintained X11R4 printer routines for communication with MacX client.  Required port of R4 code to R3. Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues.

Litton Integrated Automation, Alameda, California
TSC, Inc., Walnut Creek, California	
May 1990 to July 1990
Senior Developer
Responsible for UNIX kernel and device driver work - ported HDLC device driver from 68000 to SPARC architecture for clients.

IBM Corp., Austin, Texas
August 1989 to January 1990
Senior Systems Programmer
Developed bug fixes for AIX kernel, device drivers, and utilities.  Required extensive knowledge of kernel internals, utilities, and device driver internals.

3M Corp., Austin, Texas
March 1989 to August 1989
Senior Systems Programmer
Interfaced Hewlett-Packard DACU controller (via National Instruments IEEE-488 board) to Sun 386i system for a proprietary testing application.

CompuAdd Corp., Austin, Texas
January 1989 to March 1989
Senior Systems Programmer
Interfaced 80186-based caching controller to 80286 and 80386 machines running SCO XENIX, Interactive UNIX, Bell Technologies UNIX, and Microport UNIX.  Advised on changes to caching controller's firmware to conform to SCO XENIX device driver/kernel interface.  Required familiarity with XENIX kernel and disassembler. Consulted on intranet/internet and TCP/IP issues

Ryan-McFarland Corp., Austin, Texas
October 1988 to January 1989
Senior Systems Programmer
Worked on projects dealing with COBOL and FORTRAN support in a multi-system environment.  Assisted customers in resolving various system-related problems.  Responsible for supporting VARs with technical information and expertise regarding UNIX and XENIX operating systems, utilities and internals.

IBM, Inc., Austin, Texas
June 1988 to September 1988
Senior Systems Programmer
Responsible for software development of API's under OS/2 for Query Manager.

Electronic Data Systems, Dallas, Texas
June 1985 to May 1988
Senior Systems Engineer/SE Consultant
Responsible for UNIX system administration for AT&T 3BX series and Sun 2 and Sun 3 systems, kernel and systems-level programming, and applications programming.  Led teams of junior programmers.  Developed the following for General Motors:

· Polling-type LAN for use on token bus
· Various system tools for use by programmers
· Automated software distribution system
· Generic menuing and data entry systems.

Used UNIX (System V and BSD 4.2) and C heavily.  Developed cryptosystem for transmission of secure data over phone lines.  Developed CURSES compatibility package for MSDOS, alarm() system call, etc. for UNIX/MSDOS programming compatibility in C and 8086 ASM.  Modified System V kernel and device drivers.

Advanced Microsystems Software, San Antonio, Texas
May 1984 to June 1985
Director of Software Development
Responsible for all software development.  Milestones: Computer-assisted dispatching system written in BASIC, encode/decode utility written in 8080 ASM, a new console command processor for CP/M operating systems, reporting routines for COBOL-based accounting system on a PDP 11/23, a system librarian for source and object code written in BASIC, a mail utility written in DATABUS, and a DBMS program generator written in BASIC (later converted to C).  Most software written for MS-DOS and UNIX System V operating systems.

MLC Systems, San Antonio, Texas
September 1983 to May 1984
Systems Programmer
Developed telecommunications routines in 8080 ASM for the NEC PC-8000/8800 system.  Supported DBMS, data entry, word processing, and operating system software.  Developed inventory control system in use by several large local firms.

Kennedy Associates, San Antonio, Texas
April 1981 to September 1983
Systems Software Programmer
Developed inventory control and key-to-tape/tape-to-disk data entry system in assembler for use on Datapoint DOS/ARC.  Assumed additional responsibility for maintenance of computer-controlled communications equipment.

Acme Delivery Service, Denver, Colorado
May 1980 to December 1980
Data Processing Manager	
Responsible for all programming and maintenance on Datapoint ARC system, as well as management of computer operations and staff.  Reported directly to vice-president.

Sperry-Univac, Salt Lake City, Utah
October 1979 to April 1980
SQA Programmer
Developed software QA programming and procedures for Univac data-entry equipment.  Used Spectron Datascope to troubleshoot communications network using 2780, 3780, HASP, and U100 protocols.  Worked closely with software development.

Datapoint Corp., San Antonio, Texas
April 1979 to October 1979
Systems Software Programmer
Developed utility and database management software in DATABUS, PASCAL, and Datapoint assembly language.  Assisted in compiler design, communications software, and  DOS operating system modifications. 

EDUCATION

San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
Major:  Data Processing.
Minor:  Physics, Photography.

East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
Major:  Computer Science.
Minor:  Physics.
90 hours completed toward bachelors degree.

SECURITY BACKGROUND

Current Peace Officer license issued by the State of Texas.  Sheriff’s Department/Constable’s Office, Bexar County, Texas – specialized in Special Weapons/Tactics, VIP protection.  Currently employed as a Police Officer for the City of Rhome, TX.

MAJOR CLIENTS LIST

IBM, Apple, Pacific Gas & Electric, 3M, CompuAdd Corp., Litton, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, GTE Directories, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity Trust, DSC Communications, PrimeCo PCS.