Jeff's Employment History

Gather requirements from engineers to help in the evaluation of Rational's products and services.

Perform demonstrations to manage the evaluation of Rational's products to a successful technical conclusion.

Devise and implement plans for deployment of Rational's solution, including installation, training, and consulting.

• Commuted from Minnesota to the Boeing Company to work on the DCAC-MRM project, the most extensive business process redesign ever undertaken at Boeing.
• Served as team lead and developer for the Cimlinc/Boeing Application Integration team, producing Java-based CORBA application interfaces.
• Served as sole liaison for technical issues between Cimlinc and Boeing. Responsible for verifying, debugging, and recommending solutions for technical issues, as well as mentoring Boeing employees on coding challenges.
• Member of Boeing's Partner Technical Advisory Board, a group of vendor representatives providing input into Boeing's technical strategy.
• Integrated Cimlinc's applications with Boeing's application response measurement system.

• Part of a seven-member team maintaining a network of 900 Sun and Macintosh workstations. Responsible for all areas of UNIX administration. Primary duties included network security, printer management, file system management, and cross-platform integration.
• Led project to develop and implement a company-wide call tracking system.
• Coordinated four-month project to upgrade all Suns from Solaris 2.3 to Solaris 2.4.
• Developed an account administration application, which improved service quality while saving the team several hours of work per week.
• Researched, developed, and implemented a system enabling workstation and servers to automatically "install themselves", reducing the time required to install a workstation from several hours to less than one hour.

• Responsibilities included installing and moving workstations as well as troubleshooting hardware and software problems.
• Learned UNIX system administration skills along with hardware repair/maintenance.
• Developed an application which allowed users to more easily create archive tape.

• Served as part-time peer advisor for undergraduate computer science students.
• Responsible for advising and program planning as well as assisting in career path decisions.

Ensured that riff-raff didn't enter the apartment building unescorted.

Made sure the paperboy didn't bring his dog in with him.

Configured and maintained a computer lab consisting of Macintosh and IBM computers.

Assisted students in using various applications.

• Called a five-second violation with ten seconds left in the championship game.