SKILLS

• Database and business logic programming
• Web based application programming
• Windows NT/2000/XP system administration
• Linux (RedHat, SuSE) system administration
• RPM and NSIS software packaging
• Mechanical engineering and maintenance
• Computer hardware troubleshooting and repair
• Computer network design and maintenance
• Project and staff management

PROFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES

• Languages: Perl, Perl-Gtk, shell scripting, HTML
• Databases: MySQL, dBase
• Servers: Apache, Sendmail
• Productivity Applications: Word, Excel, OpenOffice, Lyx

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fairfield Computers September 1997 to present
Fairfield, PA & Pocomoke City, MD
Proprietor/Owner
Offering custom designed PC compatible computers, web and database programming, computer repairs, network design and troubleshooting, and routine security patch and antivirus maintenance.

 
Piedmont Airlines (d.b.a. USAirways Express) January 1994 to present
Salisbury, MD
Director, Ground Support Equipment
Reorganized ground equipment maintenance department. Created and currently administer management systems to provide accountability for parts, labor and overhead expenses related to maintenance of equipment. Instituted program of preventive maintenance. Created programming for system of inter-related databases to track parts usage, labor time and repair history for all ground equipment used to service aircraft. Unified GSE maintenance operations for the three wholly-owned USAirways Express carriers as Director. Oversaw transition to FleetAnywhere on Oracle of equipment maintenance records. Administer annual budget of $12,000,000+ for maintenance of ground equipment, including monthly expenditure of $250,000+ per month in parts purchases. Currently manage staff of 76 equipment mechanics and various contract maintenance companies ($3.3 million annually) to maintain approximately 4270 pieces of motorized equipment in over 90 cities.
 
Devtec Corporation April 1992 to November 1993
Windsor, CT
Service Manager, Suffolk, VA office
Organized and implemented new branch office of the Devtec Service network to provide GSE service and factory warranty service in the Southeastern United States. This included negotiating accounts and credit terms with parts suppliers, building a customer base, and creating a computer system to handle purchasing, invoicing, inventory etc. Created an information database to track service work in order to provide summary information to home office and to customers. Provided customers with complete preventive maintenance and repair programs for GSE, offering quick and accurate diagnosis of problems and creative solutions. Customers included USAir, USAir Express, American Airlines, American Eagle, Delta Airlines, Dynair/CFE Services, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, Zantop International Airlines and the U.S. Coast Guard.
 
Accessory Controls & Equipment Corp. December 1990 to December 1991
Windsor, Connecticut
Quality Assurance Engineer
Reorganized and supervised quality assurance program, including inspection and testing personnel. Wrote new quality assurance manual conforming to MIL-I-45208A and MIL-STD-45662A and acceptable to production personnel within the company. Duties included technical evaluation of quality problems, reduction and restructuring of quality paperwork, and rebuilding of confidence and communication between engineering and production areas of the company.
 
Accessory Controls & Equipment Corp. January 1988 to December 1990
Windsor, Connecticut
Senior Engineer
Designed and developed new equipment for the aircraft ground support equipment market, including air conditioners, heaters, lavatory and potable water service vehicles. Supervised the work of three engineers and coordinated work with drafting, production, purchasing and quality control departments. Generated manufacturing data, purchase specifications, test procedures and technical descriptions, manuals etc. Supervised Prototype Assembly Department.
 
Developed and implemented customized, automated, data acquisition and testing system on a Macintosh computer platform. Work included writing an integrated package of software programs to acquire, analyze, store, index and retrieve data. Redesigned and restructured existing line of equipment to make a large number of optional features and configurations available using the minimum number of unique parts.
 
 
Air-A-Plane Corporation October 1980 to December 1987
Norfolk, VA
Product Engineer
Designed and developed new aircraft ground support equipment for the domestic and international market. Managed development teams on various central system and mobile air-conditioning products. Oversaw documentation of new products including drawing editing, bill of material and technical manuals. Set up production testing procedures for quality control purposes. Designed and conducted performance tests. Administered customer contracts for central system air-conditioning products. Specified manufactured parts to production department and located, specified and purchased parts from outside vendors. Provided upper management with load calculations, cost analysis and pricing analysis.
 
Set up and maintained office personal computer network including three Macintosh computers, Laserprinter, dot matrix printer and shared hard disk. Acted as system server and operator. Set up programs to handle cost analysis, bill of material and product performance testing. Set up and maintained computer based data collection system used in conjunction with testing.
 
Supervised electrical assembly shop. Supervised drafting department. Conducted field evaluations of 120 Ton diesel driven automatic air conditioner and heater, experiments in over the bridge air delivery ducts, and several air delivery hose storage mechanisms. Developed product known as Universal Utility Carrier to transport liquid and electrical services over telescoping passenger loading bridges. Developed line of air handling units designed for mounting on passenger loading bridges. Developed diesel driven direct expansion air-conditioner with automatic starting and regulating features. Developed control circuits for twelve separate air-conditioners including simple electromechanical to programmable controller based circuits. Designed and supervised construction of 4 gate centralized preconditioned air system at the remote parking pads, Los Angeles International Airport.
 
EDUCATION
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Studied Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Computers. Worked in Social Science research department. Designed measuring instruments for surveys, participated as assistant in studies of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and ran statistical analysis of data for other college departments. Participated in opinion survey of area residents during the crisis at Three Mile Island.
 
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Adult extension courses in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning theory and ASHRAE design methods, including heating and cooling load calculation, coil sizing and duct design.

SmartPlanet.com online training
Courses in Unix, Perl, Networking, C++, SQL and Object Technology
 
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
 
Society of Automotive Engineers
Member, July 29, 1988
Member of Technical Committee AGE-2C
 
February 1991, authored technical paper entitled "Method of Evaluating
Pneumatic Ground Power Supplies", balloted to the Air & Space Technical
Division, S.A.E. as Aerospace Information Report #AIR-4545.