From: rob@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rob Tanner)
Subject: System/Network (Unix/Mac/PC) Administration in Pacific Northwest
Reply-To: "Rob Tanner" <rob@sherlock.stanford.edu>
Organization: Stanford University, California
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 01:59:55 GMT


                            ROBERT J. TANNER

                            1265 Snow Street
                         Mountain View, CA 94041
                             (415) 903-1975



OBJECTIVE:

To advance my career in the position of system administrator/network
manager with a dynamic organization that can benefit from my diverse
technical background and experience, my ability to quickly adapt to
new situations, and that will allow me the opportunity for further
technical and managerial growth.  Desire to relocate to western
Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia.


EXPERIENCE:

Stanford University, Stanford California -- September 1984 to present

  System Manager, Provost's Office -- September, 1991 to present:

  * Specified, installed, and administer a SPARC/Unix network host
    providing file services to approximately fifty PC and Macintosh
    workstations, and print services for PC access to postscript
    printers on Appletalk.  The PCs are using Wollongong's Pathways
    Client NFS product.  The Macintosh workstations are interconnected
    via both LocalTalk and EtherTalk.  The SPARC is running CAP
    (Columbia Appletalk Protocol) which provides Mac to Unix Apple-
    Share services as well as providing Unix access to Apple printers.

  * Installed and manage two Shiva FastPath ethernet to AppleTalk
    gateways.

  * Wrote a number of C utilities for the SPARC, including a plain
    text to PostScript filter for printing plain text files on net-
    worked Apple laser printers, and a second print utility to take
    advantage of VT100 pass-thru printing to print plain text files on
    Apple and HP laser printers directly attached to a workstation.

  * Am a member of the FAAS database development team.  Our goal, which
    is substantially complete, is to develop a single data repository
    to serve the combined needs of the Office of Faculty Affairs, and
    the Academic Secretary's Office, as well as making those data which
    are neither sensitive nor confidential, available to the university
    at large.  The database itself has been developed in SPIRES (a
    Stanford developed hierarchical database management system running
    on an MVS mainframe).  Am responsible for all SPIRES programming,
    as well as database administration.

  * Active member of Expert Partners (Stanford's network for
    departmental computer support specialists) for the last four
    years, served on the Expert Partners Executive Committee, and as a
    member of the working group to develop university guidelines for
    computer support.
  
  Assistant to the Academic Secretary, Provost's Office -- June,
  1988 to present:

  * Provide hardware and software support for a heterogenous base of
    HP Vectra and Macintosh computers.

  * Developed a faculty legislative database using DataEase (a DBMS
    for the IBM PC) in support of the faculty electoral process.

  * Fully automated the elections processes for the several elected
    faculty bodies (including updating several fortran programs for
    processing preferential ballots).

  Data Systems Consultant, University Events and Services -- September,
  1984 to present:

  * Provide hardware and software support for a heterogenous base of
    PCs (both 286s and 386s), and Macintosh computers.

  * Developed a billing, work information, and job scheduling system
    using DataEase, and designed the billing component especially to
    interface with university mainframe accounting systems.

  * Developed a facilities scheduling system for all non-academic
    facility scheduling, and wrote utilities to print calendars, as
    well as other reports to track facilities usage.

  * Provide needs assessments.

  * Make recommendations for hardware and software purchases, as well
    as networking.

  * Developed and conducted specialized classes in Microsoft Word
    tailored for a non-computer sophisticated user pool.

  * Provide hands-on, one-on-one, training for Microsoft Word, Excel,
    and DataEase.

  
National Semiconductor, Systems Division, Santa Clara California --
June, 1981 to July , 1984

  Systems Programmer:

  * Developed test case suites to test system software against the
    original product specifications.

  * Maintained an IMP-16 assembly language debugger.

  * Conceived and developed a microprocessor based system emulator for
    the real-time testing of DataChecker point-of-sale hardware and
    software.  All code was written in Z80 assembly language.
   

Tektronix Graphic Division, Wilsonville, Oregon -- January, 1980 to
June, 1981

  Systems Analyst:  

  * Provided technical support for field analysts and acted as their
    factory liaison.  

  * Built fortran based graphics drivers for field demonstrating a
    number of different flatbed plotters.  

  * Served as the factory technical representative at the major
    graphics trade shows.
  

National Semiconductor Systems Division, Santa Clara, California --
May, 1977 to January 1980

  Technical Support Specialist:

  * Responsible for all headquarters point-of-sale mainframe technical
    support in the United States and Canada.

  * Provided technical and end-user hardware and software support for
    Power Management energy management systems used to control
    electrical consumption in supermarkets.

  * Conducted field training seminars for service technicians and
    field technical support personnel.


EDUCATION:

Numerous programs on hardware, software, administrative and personal
development conducted by Stanford University.

University of California at Santa Cruz Extension, Certificate in Unix
System Administration, in process.

San Jose State University, BA in Anthropology, with Great Distinction.
Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.  Received the Jack Pierce
Memorial Scholarship.


REFERENCES:

Available upon request.



Thank you for your consideration,

Rob Tanner
rob@sherlock.stanford.edu

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Rob Tanner                              Internet: rob@sherlock.stanford.edu
System Administrator
Stanford University, California