Linotype - Hell (formerly Xenotron Inc.)

Woburn, MA

September 1985 - March 1991

Supervisor of In-House Test and Support Group 9/1988 - 3/1991

• Set up In-House Support and Alpha-Test Group for new products developed by Research & Development Group
• Supervised and managed team of two Product Quality Specialists, one System Administrator, and one Support Technician. Projects included Xenotron Display-Ad System (XDAS), Video Capture, ScriptMaster Software Evaluation, Relational Ad Management System (RAMS).
• Planned and set up Network, File Servers, Print Servers, and E-Mail systems for Macintoshes, VAXes, PCs, Sun and Apollo computers
• Provided support of all above systems for development engineers

Systems Manager; Computer Facilities and Systems Manager 9/1985 - 9/1988

• Configured and maintained in-house computing systems
• Set up VAX/VMS software development environment based on VAX-11/750. Learned Xenotron Display Ad System (XDAS) application (hardware and software)
• Designed, developed and implemented procedures and mechanisms for release, delivery, maintenance, backup and upgrade of Xenotron designed application software
• Interfaced with software development team as senior technical liaison. Installed and set up VAXes on initial customer site and provided technical support (hardware and software)
• Planned expansion of in-house development system to a VAXCluster - acquired VAX-8200 and moved to a clustered environment. Ported XDAS software to run in a clustered environment
• Upgraded customer sites to VAXClusters
• Planned and designed layout for new computer room and Local Area Network for in-house development system; this included a power conditioning system; switched over to use of terminal servers
• Acquired microVAX II and ported XDAS software to microVAX II. Installed Local Area VAX Cluster (LAVC) software on in-house development microVAX IIs
• Modified XDAS software to run on LAVC. Installed LAVC software on customers' microVAX IIs. Provided customer support for VAX hardware/software, and Xenotron application software
• Added third-party volume-shadowing to microVAX II XDAS product
• Set up Installations and Support Group for XSD products.

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