Christopher Herrick Email & Phone Number

Remote Systems Management

Allentown, PA

Assisted in updating network for new company; shared on call tech support.

Allentown, PA

Guard at a warehouse

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Maintained vaxes and alphas for a steel mill.

Trumbull, CT

Document, clean up, and work on client Alpha 4100 and ES47, running legacy ORACLE RDB database. Virtualization of the systems in progress. I also wrote documentation for after hours, off-shore support personnel, and will be devising a Disaster Recovery Plan.

Alpharetta, GA

• Remote phone hardware support - VAX, Alpha, Itanium, DL980
• Managed telephone and Internet hardware support calls for Alpha / Itanium / DL980 systems, diagnosed error and console logs, determined what parts needed replacement, devised an action plan, dispatched to Field.
• Communicated with customers on conference calls for severe issues

Started working for an ATT vendor Feb, 7Back to being a VMS Systems Manager!In charge of 26 VMS systems scattered across the US.

Staten Island, NY

VMS Systems Manager as well as Data Center Site Supervisor

Staten Island, NY

I supervised and supported six operators on a 24x7 operation - System backups, restores, moving tapes offsite, maintaining inventory, assisting System Admins and Techs as required.VMS Management/Administration for ATT LNSPerform daily checks of Production and Disaster Recovery VMSClusters to verify that all disks are mounted, all required processes are.

Jersey City, NJ

I was in the Security Group. I wrote DCL code to update various user fields in the System Authorization File, verify that new accounts follow JPMC standards for account information, disuser accounts of terminated users, and list all VMS Users.

South Brunswick, NJ

VMS systems manager/admin for 30 systems running telephone billing/circuit order apps.

NY, NY

Maintained and upgraded inhouse and client VMS systems; wrote and maintained procedures for inhouse software development tracking.

NY, NY

In charge of in-house Cluster - day-to- day operations, Tuning, Upgrading.Wrote and documented utilities used to maintain a history of software updates.Worked with the programming staff in resolving software problems.Worked with the clients in problem resolution.Upgrade client systems, both Operating System and application.Share After-Hours On-Call.

Kingston, NJ

Maintained in-house VMS systems (Vax 11/780, MVII, VAXstation 3100), and in-house client owned systems (MV II, VAX 6210) in an in-house DECNET LAN, with LAN bridges to four remote sites.Configured both software and hardware for in-house and client owned systems.Installed vendor software updates for both ADM and client owned systems.Wrote and ran disk.

Kingston, NJ

Developed and maintained modules for ADM's DBMS.Converted ADM's DBMS from PDP RSX to PDP RSTS/E.Worked with other programmers in maintaining CDC version of ADM's DBMS.Wrote in-house utilities in C and FORTRAN.

Princeton, NJ

Managed UNIX based PDP-11 for department.Wrote and ran computer usage accounting package.Wrote and ran system backup procedures.Designed terminal and printer graphics routines.Designed Novice User manual for UNIX.

Princeton Junction, NJ

In charge of departmental computers operating systems - batch and timesharing.Developed and maintained classified ad billing and circulation control systems.Wrote and maintained programs interfacing between production system and billing database.Sysgenned and installed software at customer sites.Performed software support duties for in-house and clients.

Master'S, Computer Science

Studied Computational Theory and Operating Systems. Worked in the University Data Center/

Ba, Computer Science, Business Administration

Computer Science and Business Administration

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

High School