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Eric G. Howton




ehowton@yahoo.com

316.708.0926

UNIX System Administrator

  • Jul 2000 to Present

Computer Sciences Corporation

Computer Scientist/Unix Lead

Contracted to Raytheon Systems from May 2007 to Present

Tasked with providing maximum uptime through hardware and software troubleshooting, research and integration of new monitoring products/testing and assisting the systems architect with the build-out of multi-million dollar refresh environments. Focus on leveraging F/OSS open-source solutions to save on expensive licensing fees through research, implementation and configuration. Install Solaris 10 Zones and multi-operating system VMware clients as a cost-effective virtual server alternative and strengthen security across multiple hardware platforms through the deployment of third-party tools and aggressive auditing. Further tasked with reporting Sarbanes-Oxley required activities..

Site Service Delivery Manager

Contracted to Ascension Health, from September 2005 to April 2007

IS Manager at the National Headquarters supporting the executive officers with a team of five while implementing our company’s best practices to create repeatable processes for maximum efficiency yet maintaining enough flexibility to respond to unique customer requests. Hiring and management of contractors as needed to augment staff and liaison to Project Managers in implementing new technologies site wide. Additionally, part of a rapid-deployment team responding to unique technical issues nationwide.

Computer Scientist

Contracted to United States Department of Agriculture, National Cartography and Geospatial Center, from October 2004 to September 2005
Preparing customer site for Production Operations; implementing real-time monitoring, creating redundancy, scheduling recurring security scans, and patching and hardening 40 Sun servers while creating initial start-up documentation and implementing web-based dissemination. NIS+ to LDAP migration.

Senior Member, Technical Staff

Contracted to Raytheon Systems from July 2000 to February 2002; February 2003 to October 2004

Responsible for installing, testing, troubleshooting, documenting, monitoring, and maintaining a multi-platform, midrange environment to include Sun Enterprise-class, SunFire-class, and Fujisu PrimePower servers, hardware, and operating systems (Solaris 2.6, 8, 9), and IBM RS/6000 H- and P-series servers (AIX 4.3.3, 5.2). Travel to customer site for System Administration augmentation and troubleshooting. Apache/Big Brother/Tomcat/HTML and light storage technologies (NetApp, Hitachi, EMC, SSA, Sun) experience.

Senior Member, Technical Staff

Contracted to Airbus Engineering from February 2002 to February 2003

Installed, tuned and administered Airbus’ debuted North American Engineering Operations remaining onsite as the sole UNIX administrator of 20 Sun servers supporting CADDS/CATIA in a High-Availability environment, and 65 Sun workstations, hardware, software and application interoperability as well as their NIS environment and Supercomputing needs on multiprocessor HP boxes running both HP/UX 10.20 and 11i. Responsible for quickly providing UNIX solutions in a highly fluid aerospace environment.

  • Sep 1998 to Jul 2000
    Sprint Paranet, Dallas, Texas

Technical Solutions Consultant

Contracted to Raytheon Systems from December 1998 to July 2000

Supervised Raytheon’s Network Operations Center staff as onsite UNIX System Administrator for HP/UX and Sun Solaris systems. Responsible for creating and maintaining user accounts, backups, restores, and monitoring network connectivity. Strong customer interface as a liaison between Raytheon, Sprint, and CSC to include providing smooth transition between contracts. Attended HP/UX 11.0 System Administrator and Networking class I & II.

  • Aug 1997 to Aug 1998
    Litton, PRC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Associate Functional Applications Analyst

Travel to customer site to install and troubleshoot operating system and National level imagery-suite software on HP/UX UNIX based machines. Technical writer for course on same. Train U.S. Navy personnel on operating system, application, and backup/restore procedures. Remain on-call for Help Desk second-level support for deployed U.S. Navy ships handling operating system trouble tickets.

  • Jul 1990 to Jul 1997
    United States Air Force

Mission Supervisor/Imagery Analyst

Exploited System 1, System 2, System 3, ASARS-II, Senior Gaze, and hardcopy imagery in a variety of arenas for different missions to include creating specially annotated airfield reference graphics for the national strategic response plan. (Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska), supervising and exploiting all aspects of collection, interpretation, collation and transmission of time-critical target analysis for Pacific Air Force (Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea), generating tailored products, updating National targets databases and responding to ADHOC tasking and instructing on System 3 (Langley Air Force Base, Virginia), and responding to National tasking for United States Forces in England through first-phase imagery reporting and annotating photographs for battlefield commanders (Royal Air Force Molesworth, United Kingdom and Shierstein, Germany).

CLEARANCE: TS/SCI, SSBI 1996

APPOINTMENTS: Serving the City of Anna on the Technology Advisory Commission board by appointment of City Council since 2007

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