107 Birch Meadow Drive
Piedmont, SC 29673-7567
Phone: 864-947-1920, Mobile: 864-207-6187
twvaughan@gmail.com

RESUME OF THOMAS VAUGHAN

SUMMARY:

HARDWARE: IBM PC, HP MATTERHORN, HP KEYSTONE, SUN, MACINTOSH

OPERATING SYSTEM: LINUX, HP-UX, SOLARIS, X WINDOWS, WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/98, UNIX, MAC OS, SOLARIS, WIN 3.1

LANGUAGES: C, C++, BOURNE SHELL, KORN SHELL, PERL, JAVASCRIPT

SOFTWARE: MOTIF GUI, SAMBA, NFS, NIS, APACHE, MS OFFICE (EXCEL, POWERPOINT), OPEN OFFICE, DREAMWEAVER, PHOTOSHOP, SCCS, ORACLE, FILEMAKER, CANVAS, VMWARE ESX3.5, LUSTRE CLUSTER FILESYSTEMS

EDUCATION:

BS, Computer Science, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 1989.

EXPERIENCE:

2008 - Present IT Technical Trainer. Traintech Inc.

• Provide classroom training for Linux System Administration, VmWare Virtualization, Linux/Unix operations, Lustre Cluster File Systems, C, Bash Shell, Korn Shell, C Shell and Perl.
• Consistently meet or exceeded training expectations.

2007-2008 System Administrator – ICAP

• Provide System administration services for Clemson College of Engineering and Science in the form of scripts, programming, monitoring and help desk duties. Maintained Solaris Servers on day to day basis.
• Consistently met or exceeded expectations.

2004 - 2007 IT Technical Trainer. Traintech Inc.

• Provided classroom training for Linux System Administration, Linux Internals, Linux/Unix operations, C++, C, Bash shell, Korn shell, C shell and Perl.
• Consistently met or exceeded training expectations.

2003 - 2004 System Consultant. T. M. Floyd

• Created Perl programs and documentation for operational monitoring of mission critical insurance billing system over TCP/IP network at Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina.
• Created online WEB based logging system for systems status.
• Created Perl programs for autonomous system automation over network
  including backing up data to NAS and retrieval and processing of IBM
  mainframe data on Linux systems.
• Performed duties of System Administrator for EDI systems
• Maintained a high level of consumer satisfaction.

2002 - 2003 Computer System Trainer. Traintech Inc.

• Taught HP Keystone and HP Matterhorn high availability server line to HP service engineers. Classes involved internet based virtual training and local hands-on maintenance training.
• Consistently met or exceeded training expectations.

• Taught software classes at customer sites throughout the US that included C programming, C++, UNIX Bourne shell , UNIX Korn shell, Perl, IBM certified Red Hat Linux System Administration, HP/UX, Solaris, AIX and X Windows/Motif GUI.
• Designed training manuals for the Perl programming language.
• Updated and maintained manuals for Linux System Administration, UNIX Shell programming, C programming and Introduction to UNIX.
• Consistently met or exceeded training expectations.

• Provided software support as UNIX System Administrator for 5 years.
• Supported Reactor Operations in research and development.
• Responsible for Help Desk support after shut down of Reactor operations.
• Maintain, install, test, alter, and repair computer equipment at nuclear materials reactor site including fiber optic subsystems.
• Held DOE Q security clearance.


• Consistently met or exceeded work expectations.

Skills:

German (Minimal working knowledge).
UNIX Shell programming (Highly proficient), SQL (Proficient), Perl (Highly proficient), MS Office (Highly proficient), Linux System Administration (Highly proficient), HTML and webpage design (Proficient) and CGI (Proficient).

Education:

• 1989 BS Computer Science. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
• 2004 Macromedia Dreamweaver. Craven Community College
• 2002 IBM Red Hat Linux Systems Administrator Instructor. IBM
• 1996 Solaris System Administration Essentials Instructor. Sun Microsystems

Honors & Activities
Private Pilot

References:

On Request