Howard S Shubs

Littleton, Colorado

413-563-2848

howard@shubs.net

Summary

Team Lead/Programmer/System Manager with experience in Information Technology on Linux and OpenVMS, using various languages and tools. Industry experience in the technology, healthcare, utility, and telecommunications industries.

Expertise	Problem Solving, Scripting, Programming/Application Support, System Manager/Admin, Application Support, Software Migration/Porting, Conversion of FORTRAN to C language
Languages	bash, python, DCL, Postscript, C language, perl, ksh, lex/yacc
Software	RedHat Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS, MacOS X, SSH, cron
Hardware	Intel (x86), Integrity, PA-RISC, Macintosh, Alpha

Employment

Gainwell Technologies, Irving, Texas

C Programmer

November 2021 – Present

Learn local programming environment and context.
Exposed to AutoSys.
Introduced to Coverity.
Update existing modules with new requirements.

Environment: AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), C language, telecommuting

Radiant Systems, Plainfield, New Jersey

Programmer

December 2020 – March 2021

Client: Athena Healthcare

Convert scripts from DCL on OpenVMS to bash and python on Red Hat Linux for new customer’s client.
Create new scripts in bash, DCL, and python as requested.
Help others as needed.
Wrote documentation to help people continuing the project to understand how to use my code templates. This was very much appreciated by the team lead.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, OpenVMS, telecommuting

Radiant Systems, Plainfield, New Jersey

Programmer

May 2018 – August 2020

Client: GE Healthcare / Virence Healthcare / Athena Healthcare

Convert scripts from DCL on OpenVMS to bash and python on Red Hat Linux.
Initiate template to streamline creation of new automation and increase revenue for same.
Create new scripts in bash, DCL, and python as requested.
Schedule scripts in cron and help others with cron.
Help others as needed.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, OpenVMS, telecommuting

Innovar Group, Denver, Colorado

Linux System Administrator

March 2017 – April 2017

Client: Charter Communications

Attended training sessions and read documentation on CloudTV.
Helped with Quality Control of new Guide.

Environment: CentOS Linux

Insign Global, San Francisco, California

Linux System Administrator

January 2016 – April 2016

Client: Workday, Pleasanton, California

Participated in a CentOS upgrade project, using JIRA to track scheduling and progress.
Participated in a capacity expansion project

Environment: CentOS Linux 6, JIRA

TangoMe, Mountain View, California

Linux System Administrator

November 2014 – August 2015

Production Operations / NOC
Monitored, diagnosed, and fixed systems using Nagios, New Relic, PagerDuty, and Subversion using internal tools, log files, and experience
Modified the Nagios setup.
Wrote Nagios check scripts in bash.
Learned to restart Tomcat to solve issues.
Used JIRA to track issues.
Introduced to AWS, initially by creating a web server just to show I could, as an intro assignment.
Exposed to VMware.

Environment: CentOS Linux 6, AWS, bash, Intel (x86), JIRA

Tata Consultancy Services, Edison, New Jersey

Linux System Administrator

June 2014 – October 2014

Client: Apple, Cupertino, California

Worked in a group of Level 3 Linux system administrators interacting with Level 1 in India and with internal customers handling QA Operations.
Performed remote diagnosis of HP, IBM, and other systems using SSH and iLO or equivalent. Acquired permission from stakeholders to change and/or fix their systems. Directed hardware techs to perform changes and fixes.

Environment: Oracle Enterprise Linux, HP and IBM servers with related hardware, various disk array systems

Infobahn Softworld, San Jose, California

Linux System Administrator

July 2013 – January 2014

Client: Kelly Temps, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Client: Intel, Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Maintained and updated a group of often pre-production servers used for benchmarking performance running Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, including all implied services such as DNS (bind).
Supported customers of this group of servers.
Worked with other members of the group, including supporting them in their endeavors.
Occasionally directed interns.
Exposed to Open Stack.
Organized equipment racks, arrange for power and network connectivity.

Environment: Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, Intel (x86), AMD (x86), and ARM-based servers with related hardware

Hewlett-Packard, Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Technical Solutions Consultant III

2010 – 2012

Part of a multi-site team of advanced support technicians.
Support OpenVMS, HP-UX, and Tru64 on a variety of PA-RISC, Alpha, Itanium, and VAX servers.
Trained on various Proliant models.
Support hardware and software relating to servers, including older, otherwise unsupported devices.
Coordinate support in every case handled, from first to last, including customer engineers, level two, and other resources.
Used internal tools to diagnose and solve issues relating to software and hardware.
Studied ITIL.

Environment: OpenVMS, HP-UX, PA-RISC, Alpha, Itanium

Previous relevant experience upon request

Professional Development

Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator training, May 2013

RHEL 6 virtualization administrator certification

Red Hat Certified Engineer training, September 2012

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 advanced system management certification

Red Hat Certified System Manager training, August-September 2012

RHEL 6 basic system management certification

Member of USENET Big8 Board, October 2011 to March 2015

HP-UX Boot Camp, March 2011

Basic UNIX system administration refresher

Education

University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Courses completed toward a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Science. Developed an understanding of object-oriented concepts. Part-time Teaching Assistant

University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.