Brian P. Evans
rrhain@ix.netcom.com
- Objective
- To obtain a position as a Computer Systems Consultant including
Systems Analysis, Programming, Technical Writing, Teaching, and Help
Desk.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of
New Mexico.
- Work Experience
- May/June and August-October 1996: Help Desk for AirTouch Cellular.
Duties included fielding and redirecting of phone calls; maintenance of
user accounts, printer, and computers; user management of cc:Mail; some
in-house document processing. Systems supported included Sun Solaris,
Windows 3.1, MacOS, and dumb terminals (WYSE and Citoh). Networking
using NetWare 3.12.
- November 1995: Graduate Assistant for San Diego State University
Drama Department. Created database for indexing of materials (scripts,
scores, books, magazines, and newspapers) owned by Musical Theatre
Department using FileMaker Pro on Macintosh and Microsoft Works on PC.
- April 1994-July 1994: Software Tester for Excalibur Technologies.
Tested installation and usage of Electronic Filing Software on VAXen
and Alpha computers running VMS and OpenVMS concentrating on
installation procedure and ISO Latin-1 compatibility. Successful beta
release occurred during stay.
- January 1990 - present: Private Consulting. Have done work for
various companies and organizations in the public and private sector
including: Horizon Healthcare, First National Bank, Computer and
Information Resources and Technology at the University of New Mexico,
and the Retired Officer's Association. Projects included teaching and
training of individuals in setup, analysis, programming;
troubleshooting of equipment; technical writing; customer service;
applications installations; and systems analysis.
- November 1992 - July 1993: Computer Operator for Excel Temporary
Agency. Have been sent to local businesses performing various duties
in data entry including database administration, record-keeping,
accounting, and computer setup.
- February 1987 - November 1989: Computer Consultant for Computing
Services of Harvey Mudd College. Duties included: running the VAX/VMS
Help Desk, maintaining system integrity, monitoring system
requirements and providing solutions, maintaining backups of the
various VAXen computers, maintenance of the various printers including
Printronix printers and Apple LaserWriters and ImageWriters, file
handling, maintenance of terminal server network from both DEC/VT
terminals and Macintosh, answering user's questions about the system,
teaching and training of users in various packages on the system as
well as general usage, fielding phone calls, redirecting questions to
the proper authority, special projects, purchasing of manuals,
monitoring of IBM PC and Macintosh labs.
- Related Skills
- Wrote manual for UNIX less utility for the Free Software
Foundation.
- Can program in C, Pascal, BASIC, some C++, some FORTRAN, some
Microsoft Windows programming using ObjectWindows.
- Web authoring in HTML through 3.0 including Netscape extensions.
- Familiarity with various software programs including DEC DCL,
VAX/VMS Mail, MATHLIB, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Adobe PageMaker,
CorelDraw!, Eudora, cc:Mail, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Medusa,
TeX , LaTeX, Texinfo, various TCP/IP programs (FTP, Telnet, etc.)
- Helped with the digitizing of the Claremont Colleges map of the
colleges using the Medusa CAD package.
- Modified DVI-to-PostScript program and wrote on-line help for it
at Harvey Mudd College.
- VAX/VMS and various dialects of UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Window95,
Windows NT, DOS, OS/2, and MacOS.
- Wrote the student help manuals for the Macintosh and IBM PC labs
at Harvey Mudd College and helped write the student help manuals for
the TeX and LaTeX document preparation software at Harvey Mudd
College.
- Writer for four years for the Harvey Mudd College newspaper:
The Muddraker
- Copy Editor for two years for the Harvey Mudd College yearbook:
Spectrum
- References and Samples
- Available upon request.