Objective:    To obtain contracts for my companies, Information Brokers Inc., and Martin & Edwards Enterprises Inc. as consultant in the Information Technology field focusing in system administration, internet development, network design,  multimedia content production and web hosting.

Education: Bachelor of Arts. Philosophy with minors in Business & Economics, University of Md, College Park 12/89.

Training Courses Taken: C++ and Introduction to Oracle, Sun System Administration 1 & 2,  Oracle System Administration IBM's AIX System Administration 1 & 2, HACMP internship and DMS 250 Basic maintenance.

Current Projects since 3/99

Worked with Eric Williams to install a Windows NT proxy server based Voice over IP network for 40 pc's at the Doubletree Hotel using 4 telephone lines, 3com modem/routers, Netgear Hubs, and Microsoft's netmeeting. We supported Metters Media Network in their tasking for the AFCOM 99 conference in June.

Doing Business Development and Computer Consulting for Metters Media Network and USBOL. Designing a database for a furniture sales company named The Answer. Developing the Nexus. link list at http://www.infobro.com/red/, the calling card product page at http://www.infobro.com/red/guide.htm.

Starting Martin & Edwards Enterprises Inc., a continuation and evolution of my mother's sole proprietorship of Martin Enterprises. Martin & Edwards Enterprises Inc. will do entertainment management and  multimedia production focusing on webhosting of multimedia content and particular sites of interest to me.
 

Recently Completed Projects

Modifying the Housing and Urban Development's Interactive Voice Response System by adding the functionality of call transfer for seizing an outside line for the purpose of counselors making outbound calls to HUD's clients. This project is associated with the Hud Credit Counseling Service contract through Information Brokers Inc's biggest clients Metters Industries and Metters Media Network.  Testing and debugging of the African Nation of Benin's website, in the capacity of a consulltant to Metters Industries. The URL is http://leland.benin.mmnet.net

Succesfully Brokered a deal for T-1 access card technology between Ariel Corporation and Cybervale ltd., a Jamaican ISP. Ariel had originally planned to extend a deal they were offering solely to U.S. based ISP's. I was able to act as a broker of Cybervale's Linux development environment to Ariel providing a major discount to Cybervale while providing Ariel with a highly benificial beta testing partner for their, at that time still not commercially available, Linux version of their RS2000c T-1 card.
 
 

Employee Experience
MIS Administrator PVS Speer International Inc., Washington, D.C. 2/98 - 3/99

• Upgraded and installed PC systems for various television production and resource booking needs.
• Installed a Bay Router and coordinated replacement of a 56k connection to the Speer Headquarters in Nashville with a T-1 circuit which also connected to the internet via Nashville
• Installed and maintained Windows NT to create a PDC and BDC domain for the D.C. office
• Installed and maintained HP jetdirect card and 5 other HP jetdirect print servers for network printing and printing from an IBM RS6000
• Administered the Xytech systems software for booking of editing, studio and production resources.
• Taught classes on Microsoft Exchange's email application
• Serviced the PVS Speer client needs occasionally, which included NT Server issues with Healthweek, a NewsWeek subsidiary focused on health issues.
• Configured, maintained and provided helpdesk support for all desktop pcs at PVS Speer and some of their clients
• Worked with staff members/pc users to support pc needs
• Managed a Honeywell security card system for security badges needed after hours and on weekends
• Did various graphic conversions and modifications for labeling projects
• Convinced management to get a DSL circuit to support immediate client needs

Systems Integration Engineer/Prepaid Systems UNIX Admin Cable & Wireless Inc., Vienna Va. 7/96 – 1/31/98

• Setup network connectivity for Northern Telecom Billing Server & configure Cisco 2501, 2505 & 4000routers for TCP/IP, OSPF and OSI multiprotocol routing environments.
• Travel to Northern Telecom Laboratory in Richardson Texas to do initial testing for the Tandem to request and receive billing files from a Nortel Billing Server in the Nortel lab using Synoptics Lattishubs 2813, Cisco 2501 routers and US. Robotics 56k modems.
• Travel to New York to install a Cisco 2505 and reconfigure a Cisco 4000 to route CLNP protocol via Cisco’s implementation of CLNS, GTE FTAM Implementation on a Tandem Himalaya 2000 and Nortel implementations of the FTAM protocol on their Billing Server.
• Document and teach LAN/WAN diagnostic procedures to Computer Operators & New York Site Supervisor. I did this page to help teach the subject.
• Maintain 2 Prepaid Calling Systems. One was a cluster of 2 IBM RS/6000 R20's clustered via (High Availability Cluster Multi Processor) HACMP on AIX 3.2 and their own subnet. Subnets provide connectivity from the R20's to the local (Voice Response Units) VRU's and an EXCEL LNX 2000 switch. The Excel switch managed 26 ISDN PRI T-1’s coming from a Nortel DMS 250.Oracle system 7 was our database. Legato's Networker was used for tape backups.
• Travel to Jamaica to consult with the Telecomm of Jamaica, a Cable & Wireless member company, to teach the staff the daily maintenance and diagnostic procedures used to affectively administer their prepaid calling card platform.
• Liaison with various sound studios and other carriers. Did shell scripting in Korn and C shells for adding voice prompt headers and converting voice prompt files in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese to the various formats required by all prepaid calling card platforms.

Windows NT LAN Administrator,  Cable & Wireless Inc., Vienna Va. 9/9/95 – 6/96

• Create and maintain a Windows NT 3.51 domain within the CWI network for the SCS division
• Perform all necessary installation of hardware and software for all platforms for connectivity to Prepaid system 2 and Dial up access to Prepaid System 1. Provide any necessary technical support.

• Convert 15 user AT&T Starlan Network to Windows NTAS 3.5 LAN with Windows For Workgroups clients at Unisource
• Provide technical support for Unisource and the Federal Aviation Administration's AOP Department staffs in connecting to Telecommunications Information Management System (TIMS), an Oracle database running on Sun SparcServer 1000’s.
• Evaluate Windows NTAS 3.5 for communications features, i.e. PPP, and RAS. for AOP 600 division
• Administer the Unisource Internet access acount using TCP/IP on a Macintosh IIsi.
• Travel to regional offices of the FAA for TCPIP over Netware or Windows for Workgroups CLIENT / Sun SparcServer Solaris 2.3 SERVER installations of 270 users in Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Ft. Worth, Oklahoma City, Washington D.C, and Boston.
• Work on team of 4 consultants to teach end users and install Sun SparcServer 1000’s and client workstations in each Region. These servers ran Solaris 2.3 and an Oracle database accessed via databrowser. These regional networks ran either Novell netware at most sites or Windows for workgoups connected to NT servers.
• Liaison with the regional network support staff and team members to resolve any networking issues
• Be lead installation consultant for all client installations with

 PC Support Analyst, Syscon, Washington D.C. 3/10/92 - 5/15/94

• Provided network & PC related end user technical support for Office of Educational Research and Improvement division of the Department of Education. One of the government’s first NT Beta test sites.
• Install and configure LAN Manager and later Windows for Workgroups and NT network software on servers and client workstations
• Support users as a dispatched support analyst to any of the 5 sites of Dept. of Education
• Install software, CD-ROMs, fax/modems, memory chips, scanners, printers, Hard Drives etc.
• Provide basic LAN training to the users, describing how to use the network and what it had to offer.

Temporary Employee, Manpower and Tempworld , Rockville Md. 8/21/91-3/6/92

• Desktop Published Department of Veterans Affairs FY 1992 Budget using Ventura Gold
• Convert documents from IBM 5520 ASCII to WordPerfect format at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Edit WordPerfect Documents and configured an IBM PS/2 model 50 at FDA.

Computer Consultant, Public Citizen, Washington D.C. 12/90-7/91

• Provide hardware, and software support and taught classes in Pagemaker and Ventura 3.0
• Help supervisor install a small 8 user ELS 8 Novell network

Computer Consultant, Advantage Temporary Services, 7/90-12/90
Computer Consultant Chartered Health Plan, Washington D.C., 3/90-7/90
Database Administrator, Intl. Marketing Ventures, LTD., Greenbelt MD., 12/89-3/90
Contract Manager, Entre' Computer Center Lanham, MD. 6/88-12/89
Software 'N Things, College Park, MD. 3/88-6/88
Service Contract Salesman, Entre' Computer Center, Rockville MD. 12/86-3/88
Computer Technician Trainee, Man & Machine, Hyattsville MD., 6/85-1/86

• Wrote materials and taught introductory classed in PageMaker, Lotus 1-2-3, and WordPerfect 5.0
• Design Database reports in Paradox 3.0
• Update and maintained the database at Intl. Marketing Ventures
• Used Bitcom II and Smartcom II to download information from Dialog, an on-line database services.
• Draft, Desktop Publish and sell service contracts, software and hardware
• Submitted and won bids for Government and corporate PC service contracts
• Help technicians with help doing board level diagnostics and repair
• Provide On-Site computer repair at various government agencies that Man & Machine had service contracts with, i.e. Congressional Budget Office, United States Postal Service, and the IRS