Robert
Phair
Curriculum
Vitae
OVERVIEW
- Computer industry consultant and designer with twenty years of
professional experience in system integration, programming and
networking
- Currently specializing in small-to-medium enterprise applications of
operating systems, multi-vendor software environments, and online
services
APPLICABLE SKILLS
- Solid working knowledge of Unix applications, open source software
development tools, networking protocols, Internet services administration,
network configuration, shell scripting, security, and operating system
internals
- Interactive, standards-compliant web server and site development using
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, HTML, XML and CSS
- Design of content-managed web sites with Joomla! CMS, interactive online
learning environments with Moodle, and business email and collaborative
software environments with Google Apps
- Thorough familiarity with tools and standards for web and print design,
including both Adobe Creative Suite (Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator,
Photoshop, Acrobat Pro) and open source design tools
- Exhaustive familiarity with end-user Microsoft operating system and
desktop environments based on years of troubleshooting and training for
home and business clients
- Comprehensive experience with Microsoft Office products for desktop
publishing, project planning, technical documentation, employee training,
financial calculation, and business communications
- Extensive experience in technical writing, technical training, software
design, quality assurance, and project management
EDUCATION
- University of California at Berkeley, BS in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, with High Honors (1991)
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:
- Deploying hardware, software, networking, and wireless configurations in
environments ranging from home offices to small-to-medium enterprises
- Planning long-term growth of small business computing, network, database,
application, and web services
- Integrating custom solutions in which online services, including Google
Apps, cloud computing and remote storage, have supplemented and/or replaced
conventional Windows file, database, and application servers
- Establishing and implementing training programmes for computer fluency
and office application productivity
- Designing custom web solutions for clients ranging from on-the-spot
simple web designs to content management systems (Joomla) and online
educational tools (Moodle)
- Marketing, advertising and sales of support, training, design and
consulting services throughout the greater Dublin area
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:
- PDF newsletter serialization and development of promotional content for
permission-based marketing
- Direct mail campaigns coupled with interactive web sites and services
- Design of CSS templates for rapidly-growing, strongly styled,
standards-compliant web sites
- Creation of business Internet servers with open-source operating systems
and preconfigured marketing software
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
organizations. 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:
- Planning, installing and customizing operating system configurations for
Solaris and Linux servers
- Managing directory services, NFS, and NIS+ configuration for resource
administration and security of all faculty, student, and staff accounts
- Maintaining hardware configurations of high-capacity, fault-tolerant
storage systems
- Evaluating third-party products and testing for compliance with
production standards
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:
- Managing the operating system and application environments of all
Solaris, Linux, and AIX servers
- Configuring and maintaining the FTP, external email, web, and network
news services used worldwide
- Ensuring the continuance of Year 2000 compliance on all hardware and
software platforms
- Providing on-call support for a high-availability data center
environment
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:
- Providing last-tier, 24x7 support for co-located corporate enterprise Web
server networks
- Implementing and demonstrating Year 2000 compliance for custom Netscape
Enterprise servers
- Ensuring continuous availability of local and remote database and
application environments
- Troubleshooting problems relating to network connectivity and resouce
usage
- Managing NFS, NIS, NIS+, and electronic mail systems
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
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 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 13 July 2010)