I've had the good fortune to review hundreds of resumes and interview dozens of candidates. Many of them stuff their resumes with references to items they had only touched, seen, or read about.

It ends up being quite a challenge for the interviewer to determine the truth. I'm hoping the no-nonsense summary below will make it easy for you.

In general, I have a wide exposure to micro, mini, and mainframes with a particular emphasis on network, mail, and web technology. My business for a number of years has been evaluating and implementing new technology, and I have written many research reports on product selection and overall methodology.

I have developed project plans, policies and procedures, administered servers, held conferences and training events.

I maintain close contacts with key vendors and have met with executives at their headquarters. Vendors include Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, HP, IBM, Lotus, and EMC.

Hardware / Operating Systems

• Designed and managed multi-rack installations of Windows NT and HP Unix systems.

• Installed and configured IBM RS/6000 AIX workstations

• Assisted installations of IBM 3090 Mainframe

• Installed Eight Terabytes of storage plus backup and off-site disaster recovery

• Familiar with most PC hardware and peripherals

Software

• Programmed in C, Visual Basic, xBase, Rexx. Familiar with many other languages

• In depth experience N-tier programming and performance issues

• Lotus Notes administrator and developer

• Installed Oracle and developed applications using it, but not an expert.

Network

• Working knowledge of NT, AIX, TCP/IP, SNA, DNS, and SMTP.

• Bit-level debugging with protocol analyzers

• Managed staff responsible for Filenet, Clarify, Oracle, Notes, HP-UX, Linux, Sun Solaris, RightFax server, Raptor firewall, Apache/Netscape/IIS web servers, and others.

See the interests page for an ancient shot of my home systems, circa 1981.