Tim D. Nelson
PO Box 481 
Mission, SD  57555
 [Send email to request phone number] 54-2100

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:	
	
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, Sioux Falls, SD.  December 2007 to
October 2009.
Part Time Unix Systems Administrator
•	Provided remote support for various projects on IBM AIX servers
•	Documented projects and procedures
	

Velocity Technology Solutions, New York, NY.  August 2007 to November 2007.
	Technology Consultant
•	Provided primary AIX UNIX support for other consultants
•	Administered and provided support for Samba and Windows/UNIX connectivity.
•	Wrote various scripts in the Korn shell.  

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. January 2007 to June 2007. 
Systems Administrator 
•	Administered various SUSE and Ubuntu Linux servers and virtual machines.
•	Assisted in administering an AIX server.  
•	Provided primary support for the Moodle online classroom.  
•	Wrote various scripts in the Korn (AIX) and BASH (Linux) shells.         

Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, Sioux Falls, SD.  March 2001 to
July 2005.
Unix Systems Administrator
•	Maintained over 300 SSA hard drives connected to the AIX servers.   
•	Implemented various AIX upgrades, including AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5.2.
•	Created and maintained LPAR's on the P650, P630 and P510 machines.
•	Provided support for two IBM 3494 tape libraries with multiple IBM 3590 tape
drives.  
•	Documented all of the IBM equipment, changes, upgrades and procedures.
•	Wrote various Korn shell scripts to assist in system and backup
administration.
•	Maintained and supported Tivoli Storage Manager’s enterprise backup software,

	across 60 servers on various platforms.

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD.  July 1997 to May 2000.
Programmer/Analyst
•	Performed database and system maintenance on an IBM AIX server.  
•	Created ad-hoc SQL reports.  
•	Tested and provided training on various report writing software.  
•	Tested and modified Web based reporting tools.

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD.  February 1995 to December 1997.
Computer Technician
•	Provided campus wide hardware and software computer support.  
•	Repaired audio/visual equipment.  
•	Managed the repair budget.  
•	Recommend computer equipment purchases.   

Gateway 2000, North Sioux City, SD.  September 1993 to February 1995.
	Technical Support 
•	Provided technical support for customers and employees.  
•	Assisted corporate customers with networking issues.  
•	Developed training classes and material for other technicians.  

EDUCATION:	
Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY, December, 2008
M.A. Intercultural Studies 

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, July, 1993
Major: B.A. Computer Science
Major: B.A. Management Information Systems

LANGUAGES: SQL, Perl, C, C++, COBOL 85, Pascal, Korn shell, BASH shell.