Michael A. Foster
842 Westwood
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(814) 883-6761
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EXPERTISE
20 Years Experience In Database Applications Design, Tuning,Implementation and
Delivery
in Research/Academic and Time-Critical Manufacturing Environments.
OBJECTIVE
Database Administrator/Developer/Architect on Mainframe,Windows,Linux or Unix
Server
TECHNICAL SKILLS
OPERATING SYSTEMS: VMS(VAX), Windows (2000, NT), DOS,Red Hat Linux 7.2,
Ubuntu8-9,
fedora10-11.
DATABASES: Oracle 7.3, DB2, mySQL, MS ACCESS, INGRES,INFORMIX
Certified in Oracle at the 1Z0-001 level ( SQL and PL/SQL)
APPLICATIONS: PeopleSoft HR,Finance,ERP, Decision Support/expert systems, GIS
STATISTICS: SAS, SPSS, BMDP .
WEB: Apache, HTTP.
GIS: ARC-INFO, GRASS(public domain; Army Corps of Engineers).
KNOWLEDGE ENGINES: EXSYS, CLIPS(public domain; NASA)
LANGUAGES: PL/SQL, HTML, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Visual Basic,Python,
Linux,Unix Shell Scripts, PERL.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Penn State University ,University Park, PA
1/2002 - 5/2004
MySQL Database Administrator And Research Programmer on a 256-node Linux Cluster
SuperComputer
Corning TV Glass Factory
State College, PA
07/1997 - 12/2001
Business Systems/ERP IT Project Manager, Y2k-readiness Consultant
Penn State University
University Park, PA
01/1988 - 06/1997
Lab Coordinator,Data Architect,Supervising Programmer
(ARC/INFO) based for minimizing agricultural pollution of targeted watersheds.
Chief Architect and Supervising Programmer FORTRAN simulation model and GIS
(ARC/INFO)based for managing aerial application for gypsy moth control.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
10/1986 - 08/87
Research Biostatistical Programmer,Created custom biostatistical data analysis
FORTRAN software
Education
RECENT SOFTWARE TRAINING and CERTIFICATION
2004:
Certified in Oracle at the 1Z0-001 level( SQL and PL/SQL)
May 2009:
· PHP and MySQL/SQL and MySQL,
· CGI/Perl,
· Linux Partitions and Boot Process
June 2009
· Redhat Linux Technician
· SAS
(Please see Attached Certificates (MindLeaders).
PhD, 1984;
Major: Entomology/Crop Protection Simulation
University of Illinois, Urbana ,IL
MS, 1977.
Major: Biology ;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ,MI
BS, 1976 ;Major: Zoology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ,MI
SKILL DETAILS
SKILL Yrs Experience Last Year Used
FORTRAN 8 1987
ARC-INFO 10 1997
C/C++ 5 1997
COBOL 5 2002
JCL 5 2002
INFORMIX 10 2002
INGRES 5 2002
MS ACCESS 5 2002
VMS 5 2002
WINDOWS 2000/NT 5 2002
PEOPLESOFT: HR,FIN 5 2002
ORACLE 7.3 5 2002
Perl 3 2009
Redhat 7.2 2 2004
DB2 2 2004
Python 2 2004
MySQL 3 2009
PHP 1 2009
UBUNTU8.04-9.04 1 2009
fedora10-11 1 2009
SAS 7 2009
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