M. REX ESPIRITU, JR.

mailto:rex@espiritu.net
Voice: 413.812.5327
Fax:    419.574.4957
PASTOBJECTIVE Lead technical position involving research, planning, design, development, configuration, implementation, administration, management, maintenance and support of projects, systems and software. 
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science 
Columbia University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Class of 1986 
SOFTWARE
  C, PASCAL, LISP, FORTRAN, ASSEMBLY, BASIC, TAL, Postscript, SQL, UNIX IPC, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, RPC, uucp, kermit, ftp, telnet, gopher, inn, AppleTalk, Curses, SunView, OpenLook, HP-VUE, X-Windows, Motif, adb, dbx, lint, make, RCS, vi, Emacs, Wavefront, Unify, Sybase, Oracle, http, MacDraw, Word, Excel, RSG!, HyperCard, Netscape SuiteSpot. 
OPERATING SYSTEMS
UNIX (BSDI,Sys V, OSF), Solaris, DEC Ultrix/Unix, Apple A/UX, HP-UX, SCO-XENIX, VAX/VMS, Guardian, OS/2, Windows-NT, MS-DOS, MacOS. 
HARDWARE
Sun/SPARC/Netra, X-Terminals (NCD, NCR, Tektronix, HP), HP 9000/700, DEC VAX, DECstation/Alpha, Silicon Graphics IRIS 2400, SGI 4D/70G 4D/120S, SGI Indy, Tandem VLX/CLX/EXT, IBM PCs, Compaq 486, Toshiba T1000, Apple Macintosh, DECtalk, Tektronix 836 data comm analyzer, Network General Sniffer, Ethernet, Token Ring, Network Appliance FAserver. 
EXPERIENCE Logica Carnegie Group, Inc. (LCG)/(CGI), Pittsburgh, PA 
Systems Technology & Services 
Position: Senior Systems Engineer II, 1995 - 1999, Corporate Services
Position: Senior Systems Engineer, 1992 - 1994, Computer Services
Systems Support Services Responsibilities include:
  • Providing leadership in systems projects, support and integration of new services and technology. 
  • Managing configuration, maintenance and support of servers, network systems security, electronic mail and internet (intranet/extranet) technologies.
  • Providing X11/Motif and X-terminal consulting/support. 
National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), New York, NY
Position: Senior Programmer Analyst, 1990 - 1992, News Computers, 
News Production & Information Systems, NBC News
Position: Systems Software Specialist, 1987 - 1989, Computer Imaging
& Integrated Systems Development, Operations & Technical Services
Group(s) consists of from three to ten programmer/analysts specializing in computer graphics for broadcast, plant automation/control, and consulting. Projects entailed applications software development using mostly C and UNIX. 
Specific duties, responsibilities, and projects included: 
  • Project Manager for various Sybase RDBMS client/server software applications, including a Satellite Reservation System. This system used Unix signals, Open Server rpc's, APT-Lib, DB-Lib, triggers and stored procedures to implement the automatic update of APT 4GL screen forms in both character terminal and X-window display environments. 
  • Developing software to run Odetics TCS-2000 automated (robotic) video cart machine system for NBC News. Designed and developed an efficient and consistent user-interface suitable to News' requirements. Provided training, support, monitoring, and troubleshooting of operational issues. Software has been used daily on-air on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Today. 
  • Developing software utilities for graphics artists using Wavefront 3D software for image modelling and rendering. 
  • Participating in the designing, installing, documenting, and maintaining of a mixed-media ethernet connecting 30 Unix (TCP/IP) hosts, several PCs, Macs, X-terminals and terminal servers throughout the network. 
  • Providing systems administration of Unix hosts and assisting in the administration of mail and news connections to other internet sites. 
  • Administrating hardware and software maintenance contracts. 
  • Installing vendor supplied and free software, bug fixes, and system upgrades. 
  • Investigating new computer system technologies as they apply to News division needs and evaluating off-the-shelf software and hardware products. 
  • Providing consultation on development of integrated systems to meet News production needs. 
  • Selecting and developing computer software and system solutions to address News division production needs and providing training to end users. 
Columbia University, New York, NY 
Health Sciences Division
Position: Program Specialist, 1982-1986 
Responsibilities included clerical work, typing, filing, word processing, programming, and special projects as assigned by the Director of Personnel. Required interfacing with all the departments of a major college of medicine/hospital facility. 
CONFERENCES & TRAINING  Sun Microsystems, Milpitas, CA, 1988, New York, NY, 1992 
Debuggers (adb, dbx); Advanced UNIX Programming & Interprocess Communications, Advanced Solaris Network Systems Administration 
USENIX Conferences, San Diego, CA '89, LISA '93 & USITS '97 Monterey 
SANS System Administration & Network Security, D.C. '95, Baltimore '97 
WebSec '98 Web Security Conference & Expo, San Francisco 
Trusted Information Systems, Rockville, MD '96 Gauntlet(TM) Firewall Admin. 
Hewlett-Packard, Advanced HP-UX Network Systems Admin NJ '94-'96 
Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA '96 WebFORCE Webmaster Admin. 
UNIX EXPO, New York, New York, '89, '90, '91 C++ and X-Windows. 
Sybase, New York, NY, '89, '90 Fast Track and APT Workbench(TM) courses. 
Tandem Computers, NJ '89 Guardian, Requesters/Servers with TAL Syntax. 
BASYS, Yonkers, NY, 1990 Newsroom Computer System Manager Course. 
Wavefront, Santa Barbara, California, 1989 
ACM SIGGRAPHConference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988. 
SMPTE Conference, New York, New York, 1988. 
NAB Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1988. 
HONORS
  • NBC Special Awards, 1988 and 1991 
  • NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) paper presented on NBC-Odetics Automated Video Cart Machine System Project, 1988 
REFERENCES Furnished upon request.