SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of experience in: Radio broadcasting (both commercial and college) and Audio: production, engineering and restoration and transfer of audio under (and across) numerous digital and analog formats.
• Currently working (part - time) as on-air host of weekly music program.
• Very comfortable working with multiple media formats, including: all audiotape formats and configurations, digital audio tape (Tascam DA series, etc.), videotape (home and some professional formats) as well as DAW production and editing software (Magic Sonic Foundry/Vegas, Syntrillium Cool Edit/Adobe Audition) as well as experience with the use of outboard processing hardware (Pre-amps, Compressors, Limiters, Noise Reduction, etc.) as well as software plugins.
• Over 30 years of experience in: data research and analysis, development and life-cycle maintenance, requirements analysis, and design for government and private sector information systems.
• Extensive experience in: WebFOCUS and Developer Studio™ v5.3x thru 7.7.6 and Web Maintain (10 years) and FOCUS for Mainframe (27 years) and on IBM z/OS UNIX, VM/CMS and MVS/TSO platforms; PC-FOCUS, VM EXEC2, MVS CLIST and MVS JCL.
• Additional experience with: JavaScript, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle PL-SQL, Oracle SQL*Plus, Oracle Forms v3.0, Crystal Reports, SQR, MySQL, and Microsoft Office products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Hardware
• IBM and AMDAHL mainframes, IBM compatible PCs
• Operating Systems
• VM, VM/SP, VM/XA, VM/ESA, z/VM, CP, CMS, MVS/TSO, OS/TSO, MVS/XA, DOS, Windows- Networked PCs (numerous versions), UNIX, Novell LAN
• Database Management Systems and Related Products
• FOCUS (Mainframe VM/CMS & MVS all versions), PC-FOCUS V1.0-1.5, WebFOCUS v7.7.3-7.7.6; Limited experience with: DB2v10, MySQL, ORACLE, Sybase SQL, Informix SQL
• Related Programming Languages/Software: Web FOCUS and Developer Studio™, Web MAINTAIN, FOCUS Modify, FOCUS Table; FOCUS Dialog Manager, EXEC, EXEC2, REXX, HTML, CGI, TSO CLIST, MVS & OS JCL, IBM File Manager, IBM ISPF, JavaScript, ORACLE PL-SQL/SQL*Plus, ORACLE Forms 3.0, Informix SQL, Structured Query Reporting (SQR), Crystal Reports, MS Office (EXCEL, Word, etc.).
• Hardware (and related media)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Responsibilities:

• Member of the on-air staff of WNAV-AM radio; in Annapolis, MD. Host of weekend music and full-service formatted program since 2003 (experience with BSI* Simian v 2.3 lite programming product).
• Occasionally fills-in for weekday on-air personalities and perform board operator duties for over-the-air and streaming broadcasts of live sports programming (both locally produced and network fed) or other fare.
• Other duties during normal air shifts include: handling listener phone calls/requests; logging of transmitter activity for reporting to the Federal Communications Commission; extraction of network (or other providers) programming elements via digital feeds-including editing and post-processing using Adobe Audition and importing final elements in BSI Simian; previously performed audio engineering of remote broadcasts (2003-2007);

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Operated Analog 8 & 16, and Digital 24-track facility out of home during this period - Recording media was ¼” 8-track analog (TASCAM 388), dual-synced ½” 8-track analog (TASCAM TSR-8) and 3 linked ly to 3 Tascam 8-track DA-88 (Hi-8 Video format) recorders and Sonic Foundry (now: Magic™) Vegas and Sound Forge production software products.
• Recorded demos and full release-ready material for various DC and Baltimore area (and some out of town) musical acts.
• Also performed remote recording services for local bands and a few outdoor festivals.
• Developed a firm knowledge in the use of outboard analog processing, audio routing, analog and digital editing techniques.
• Performed repair and/or restoration/transfer of audio from numerous formats including: 8-track commercial and privately recorded stereo tapes, numerous cassette formats (Compact, L, mini and PlayTape™ formats); 78-rpm shellac discs, Edison Cylinders, various reel tape configurations (1/4” through 2” analog).
• Ceased operation of studio after sale of home in 2002.
• The Eddie Dimond Project (2016-Present) currently transferring to digital and remastering a nearly 150 reel collection of monophonic jazz recordings made by Washington D.C. pianist Eddie Dimond (d. 1990) of both his trio and other artists, made between 1954 and 1962. Many recordings contain unreleased performances by many jazz legends including: Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and others.
• The legal heir of the tapes (Mr. Dimond’s daughter) is researching the potential for licensing the recordings for possible commercial and/or research potential.
• The transfers are performed via a Tascam 3B 7” ¼” stereo machine, custom modified with a monophonic ½ track playback head to capture 100% of the program material from the tape.
• Program material is passed through one channel of a FOCUSRITE Scarlett D/A into Magic Sound Forge DAW software and then optimally processed (noise removal, normalization of levels and equalization, de-clicking and program trimming) after monitoring spectrum analysis of the recording.
• Since the tapes were produced in the 1950’s (original William Orr “Shamrock” brand), no issues with Sticky Shed Syndrome exist.
• However, the glue holding the edits on the 60+ year-old tape (and there are many edits) has dry-rotted; so these must be replaced with what remaining EditAll edit tape tabs I have remaining in my collection.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Broadcast team volunteer.
• Produced weekly 3-hour college radio program “Pennies From Hell” - a mostly free-form live program featuring talk and live/pre-recorded music elements.
• Typical program would include an eclectic mix of current and older music in all genre’s (pop, rock, country, international, noise, etc.) which provided interstitial space between live improvisational comedy and absurdist conversations designed to engage (and sometimes confuse) the listener.
• Program elements included frequent use of analog tape loops (prepared on the fly) either using ¼” reel tape (running on Ampex and/or Otari 5050 reel machines) or Fidelipac™ tape cartridges.
• Also produced live performances by local and travelling musical acts; often requiring the use of personal recording/live reinforcement hardware (mics, processing, mixer, recording) to produce most of these performances due to poor condition of the stations production equipment (which has long since been rectified).

Confidential, Washington, DC

• Assigned as a Mainframe Test Analyst under a support contract with The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington, DC.
• As a member of the Quality Management team; tasked with the analysis, development and execution test: plans, scripts and data as well as generation of automated reports and other documents to substantiate results of testing of changes to both semi-annual and one-off system changes made to NFIP application and support systems, running on IBM OS/TSO Mainframes running: COBOL, IBI FOCUS for Mainframe, OS-JCL, SyncSort™ and other tools.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

• Assigned to the Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of Earnings, Enumeration and Administrative Systems (OEEAS), Department of Business Intelligence & Analytics (DBIA).
• Member of the Confidential WebFOCUS Support Team, tasked with all elements required to maintain the operational integrity of all SSA WebFOCUS applications and infrastructure.
• Member of the FOCUS Decommissioning team, responsible for the planning, analysis, support, and migration of a myriad of legacy-mainframe FOCUS application systems (running on an IBM MVS/TSO mainframe) to either WebFOCUS running on IBM z/OS or via alternate solutions, as required. Major duties include:

Confidential

WebFOCUS Support Team

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for all WebFOCUS enterprise architecture, data architecture and accessibility;
• Installed, maintained and upgraded WebFOCUS BI systems and infrastructure supported by OEEAS;
• Worked with WebFOCUS vendor support and SSA Systems Office personnel to troubleshoot and resolved software and hardware issues and upgrades;
• Managed licenses, distribution and installation, and configuration of WebFOCUS Developer Studio and other Information Builders Inc. (IBI-WebFOCUS product vendor) products for developers;
• Advised on use and implementation of best practices related to WebFOCUS systems;

FOCUS Decommissioning Team

Responsibilities:

• Advised on use and implementation of best practices related to WebFOCUS systems;
• Analyzed legacy FOCUS applications and determines best practices for conversion of legacy FOCUS applications to WebFOCUS or alternate BI solutions;
• Worked with WebFOCUS Support and Decommissioning Team members to resolve migration issues;
• Provided guidance and assistance with Decommissioning of FOCUS applications and software;
• Produced FOCUS to WebFOCUS Decommissioning-related documentation (training manuals, user FAQs, white papers, etc.) for consumption by Decommissioning Team members, developers and end-users;

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Confidential in Washington, D.C.; supporting the Construction Appropriations Programming Control and Execution System (CAPCES); under the Confidential Planning, Programming and Administration Execution (PAX) System for the office of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management.

Defense Secret Security Clearance

Responsibilities:

• Principal support analyst for the Confidential for the Future Year’s Development Plan (FYDP) tool since 2007. FYDP supports Confidential analysts in the preparation of the Corps’ 5-year Military Construction budgets.
• Designed, developed and currently support numerous legacy CAPCES reporting and database management interfaces and launch pages using Web MAINTAIN, JavaScript, and mainframe MODIFY, TABLE, Dialog Manager utilities.
• Responsible for all CAPCES FOCUS DBA duties including REBUILD, Password control and batch job management.
• Provided ongoing support to Confidential and Confidential analysts including data-mining and analysis; complex ad-hoc data reporting, and data modifications to meet tight deadlines.