Timothy Ridge Simkins

Email: tim.simkins@tandj.net
Website: http://www.tandj.net/~simkintr/

Objective

To be challenged by an environment that takes advantage of my multi-disciplinary skills.

Employment History

Web Developer, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, University Park, PA

April 2008 to Present

• Part of a team that migrated over 300 college websites from various platforms into the Plone CMS over seven years.
• Part of a team that integrated Plone, Magento, Salesforce, Cvent, and other systems to support the Penn State Extension website
  
• Modified Plone's look to conform to college branding requirements.
• Developed Plone products and modified existing ones to add functionality to college websites.
• Managed upgrades and patching of college Plone environment (multi-Zope client ZEO instance,/Varnish proxies, and Apache webserver on a Linux server.)
• Worked with Plone at a very low level to automate tasks such as content migration, and site-wide changes.
• Developed expertise in web accessibility, enhanced accessibility of college sites, and assisted with content providers in understanding accessibility techniques.
• Used Google Analytics (including Google Analytics APIs) to assist in decision making.
• Trained content providers in using Plone, and provided support on a daily basis.
• Built tools to analyze and report on college web environment.
• Implemented monitoring of web servers using Nagios and Munin.

Web Developer, C-COR, State College, PA

October 2005 to March 2008

• Assisted in managing C-COR's Cold Fusion based Intranet and external websites.
• Created custom Cold Fusion based applications on C-COR Intranet.
• Added features to C-COR's Content Management System.
• Learned Cognos 8 Framework Manager and Report Studio in order to create reports from Oracle Financial.
• Assisted in managing Oracle PL/SQL based Intranet system.
• Implemented Nagios systems monitoring for web systems, and assisted in configuring OpenNMS monitoring solution for network devices and servers.
• Assisted in maintaining C-COR's HR information system, including creating a VMWare ESX Server development environment.
• Extracted sales forecast data from external web application via SOAP.
• Assisted in setting up F5 Firepass web SSL VPN.
• Assisted in Unix troubleshooting and scripting.
• Trained new web software developer on C-COR's systems and processes.

Backup Express Support Engineer, Syncsort, Inc. Woodcliff Lake, NJ

June 2005 to September 2005

• Trained in Backup Express product, issue management system and handling calls.
• Provided technical support via phone and email for Backup Express customers.
• Created Perl script to package Backup Express patches.

Architecture Specialist, Enterprise Systems Management Group, Prudential Financial, Roseland, NJ

June 2000 to June 2005

• Managed, monitored, streamlined and provided metrics on five AutoSys (Computer Associates' Batch Scheduler) environments.
• Part of a team that planned and performed a rollout of AutoSys 4.5 to the enterprise, encompassing two environments and 400 users, and managed the migration from AutoSys 3.4 to Autosys 4.5.
• Supported customers for 200+ applications using AutoSys, and the Operations group monitoring AutoSys on a 24/7 basis.
• Assisted customers in troubleshooting issues with their applications in AutoSys.

• Developed a complete Perl-based Tivoli DM Management system to manage monitoring on ~3000 Tivoli Endpoints.
• Assisted in transitioning management of a Tivoli environment from vendor-managed to internally managed.
• Designed Tivoli DM and T/EC standards for 3,000+ Unix and NT servers.
• Assisted in managing, supporting, consolidating and twilighting two interconnected, multi-tiered Tivoli environments.
• Assisted in managing and automating a Tivoli migration from 3.6 to 3.6.4., including documenting and auditing DM monitors and tracking the migration.
• Assisted in migrating Tivoli Netview 6.0.3 to Tivoli Netview 7.1.3, including developing a Perl-based program to model the Netview map and construct a location.conf file.

• Learned the ARS Remedy System, and created a time tracking application within Remedy.
• Created a Perl-based socket server to facilitate the automated creation of Remedy tickets using the Remedy API and ARSPerl.

• Part of a team that developed Network Compliance Reporting application correlating Netview network data for ~50,000 devices with 10+ other data sources, and analyzed and reported on compliance of those devices to Prudential policy.
• Developed AutoSys batch streams to manage the Network Compliance Reports and other applications.
• Created Perl and DBI based reporting and automation tools for the AutoSys, Asset Insight and Tivoli environments.
• Developed a Perl, DBI, and GD::Graph based front end to the Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Designed and supported a web based tool used by Network Operations personnel to manage DNS entries for 13,000 network devices.
• Created and supported multiple web based systems management and tracking applications.
• Created, standardized and modularized the ESM and various product web sites.

Intern, Adelphia Powerlink, Coudersport, PA

June 1999 to August 1999; December 1999 to January 2000

• Trained in technical support for cable modems, split path and phone ISP.
• Applied Perl knowledge to provide automation solutions.

Injection Molder, Encon Safety Products: Coudersport, PA

June 1997 to August 1997; May 1998 to August 1998

• Operated plastic injection molding machines that made parts for safety glasses.

Clerical Assistant, Insurance Department, Adelphia Communications Corporation, Coudersport, PA

March 1994 to August 1996; May 1997 to August 1997

• Responsible for managing, maintaining and reporting on data on insurance claims, property and assets, and Motor Vehicle Records.
• Provided limited automation in managing data.
• Informal office technical support.

Education

Clarkson University: Potsdam, NY. Class of 2000

• B.S. in Technical Communications .
• Two Years Majoring in Electrical Engineering.
• 3.336 Overall GPA.
• Clarkson University Amateur Radio Club (K2CC)
• DJ and Tech at Clarkson Radio (WTSC)
  
• Clarkson University Photography Club.

Coudersport JR/SR High School: Coudersport, PA. Class of 1996

• Ranked 3rd in class of 88 students.

Current Skillset

Past Skills

Additional Information

• Member of the Plone and Python User Groups at Penn State.
• Attended Penn State Web Conference and Plone Symposium East/Midwest annually.
• Web Liaison for Accessibility for the College of Agricultural Sciences.
• Attended Zope 3 training.
• Built applications in Django and Flask frameworks using Diazo theme engine.
• Attended Fundamentals of Magento Development course.
• Completed Cognos 8 Business Intelligence training for Report Writing, Data Modeling and Server Administration and Content Administration.
• Completed Basic and Advanced Backup Express training.
• Formally trained in AIX, Tivoli DM and Tivoli T/EC.
• Highly skilled in written, oral, and visual communication to varied audiences.
• Received Prudential's Rock Solid award for AutoSys work in 2000.
• Currently hold a Ham Radio License - Callsign: KB3DLK.

Availability

• Negotiable.

References

• Available upon request.