Robert Phair

rphair@cosd.com

Curriculum Vitae


OVERVIEW

APPLICABLE SKILLS

EDUCATION

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

March 2005 to present – Computers of South Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)

Founded and directed an independent IT consultancy specialising in on-site technical support, education and design services, including:

November 2003 to March 2005 – CoTangent (Dublin, Ireland)

Established a unique design practice addressing online marketing needs of growing businesses in the United States and the European Union.  Services included:

November 2002 to August 2003 – cosd.com (Helen, Georgia)

Developed a custom software package for medical professionals to manage information related to their clients, private practices, and affiliated organisations.  The package was developed under RedHat Linux with an Apache web server, PHP language interpreter, and the MySQL database package.

January 2002 to September 2002 - Centre for Open Systems Deployment (Quito, Ecuador)

This ongoing project involved several months of global economic research, with the goal of introducing Linux-based open systems into the South American business climate in an appealing and cost-effective manner.  Project goals included identifying local industry partners interested in benefiting from the self-sufficiency, reliability, and low cost of Linux client and server architectures.

MOST RECENT CAREER EXPERIENCE

October 2000 to March 2001 - Harvard Business School (Boston, Massachusetts)

Managed all campus UNIX-based Internet services, both internal and external, including:

May 2000 to September 2000 - Lotus Development Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Supported the information infrastructure for the development and production computing environments at the Lotus corporate headquarters.  This included:

November 1998 to April 2000 - GTE Internetworking (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Provided top-level support for Distributed Systems group and Web Hosting Operations group of a major corporate Internet service provider in a high-availability environment, including:

SUMMARY OF PRIOR EXPERIENCE

January 1998 to July 1998 - Eaton Semiconductor Operations (Beverly, MA) - Planned and executed the initial stages of an departmental migration to Solaris 2.6, including the design of Solaris development and application servers and a Linux STMP mail gateway

August 1996 to January 1997 - Levi Strauss & Company (San Francisco, CA) - Engineered and administered a large network of HP/UX and SunOS servers for use by both UNIX and PC clients at the Levi corporate headquarters

September 1994 to January 1995 - Quickturn Design Systems (Mountain View, CA) - Managed a Sun network of 250 workstations and servers during an operating systems migration from SunOS to Solaris and a transition to contemporary Internet services

August 1993 to June 1994 - Sun Microsystems (Palo Alto, CA) - Led a consulting staff responsible for the Solaris migration of Sun's corporate headquarters, training and directing all staff, preparing necessary automation, and developing a migration plan for all desktops and servers

February 1991 to June 1993, January 1995 to June 1995 - TCSI (Berkeley, CA) - Managed a large software development network, and developed a configuration management package to support development of telecommunications network management software

October 1991 to February 1993 - Pacific Gas and Electric (San Francisco, CA) - Consulted for a large staff of professional programmers during the migration from legacy mainframe systems to a workstation-based environment, developing and teaching UNIX training classes

November 1988 to February 1991 - University of California at Berkeley - Managed the instructional computing facility used for all Electrical Engineering and Computer Science courses, consisting of Sun, DEC, SGI, and HP hardware

May 1988 to August 1988 - Concept Omega Corporation (Somerville, NJ) -  Managed a diverse network of UNIX systems used for software product development and wrote assembly language routines for floating point arithmetic

June 1987 to August 1987 - AT&T Communications (Morristown, NJ) - Designed a database program to store management information for the AT&T product line and implemented a tracking system to determine critical paths during product development

REFERENCES

Available upon request

(CV version 11 February 2012)