FRANK ROGER FARMER
ffarmer@frankandtepo.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
Retired consultant in Technology Systems Management in public service.
EDUCATION:
MS, California State University, Sacramento, 1990
Major--Management Information Science/Business Administration
BA, Sonoma State University, 1979 (with honors)
Major--Environmental Studies and Planning/Geography
WORK EXPERIENCE:
11/2014 to Present, Retired.
12/1989 to 11/2014, Systems Software Specialist,
California Department of Water Resources/Division of Technology Services.
- Design, document, install, and manage interconnected TCP/IP data communications networks.
- Develop and maintain hardware and software configurations on Internet/Intranet security firewalls, proxies, and monitoring systems.
- Develop and manage web hosting service unit operating over 50 Internet and Intranet websites.
- Maintain complex network naming services and routing and addressing tables.
- Develop and maintain interconnected electronic mail and server configurations.
- Install and maintain centralized help desk software configuration.
- Perform complex operational analysis, problem resolution, and capacity planning for communications networks, data processing systems, and on-line storage systems.
- As a team member, coordinate with technical staff from related Departmental support units.
- Coordinate vendor-supplied maintenance and consultant services in support of major Departmental Information Systems.
- Provide technical support to Divisional LAN Administrators.
- Write feasibility study reports, risk analyses, procurement specifications, contracts, and technical and management status reports.
12/1982 to 11/1989, Programmer/Analyst, California Department of Water Resources/Information Systems and Services Office.
- Installed and maintained INGRES DBMS and INGRES/NET client/server software on shared
UNIX server for O&M Maintenance Management Information System LAN/WAN Prototype Project.
- Prepared feasibility study reports for Construction Office Pay Estimate System,
Microfilm Services Job Tracking System, Division of Flood Management Data Exchange Center,
O&M MMIS, and Southern District Watermaster System.
- Designed, developed, and installed minicomputer-based FORTRAN application programs
and PC-based database applications.
- Procured and installed personal computers, trained users, completed management
reports, resolved customer assistance problems, restored equipment to
operational status, represented the Office in meetings.
8/1982 to 12/1982, Graduate Student Assistant, California Department of Forestry/Forestry
Resources Assessment Program.
10/1980 to 8/1982, Graduate Student Assistant, California Department of Water Resources/
Office of Water Conservation.
6/1980 to 8/1980, Participant, ICPSR Training Program in the Theory and Technology of Social Research,
University of Michigan/Institute for Social Research.
5/1979 to 6/1980, Graduate Assistant, National Second Step Project/Sonoma State University Department of Nursing.
RELATED COURSE EXPERIENCE:
NTL Human Interaction Laboratory, UC Davis Supervisory Skills, Systems Analysis, Data Communications, SNMP Network Management, TCP/IP Internetworking,
Domain Name Service, Network Security, State Emergency Operations Center Procedures, F5 Big-IP, JBoss Application Server, Checkpoint Firewall-1, iPlanet Enterprise Web Server,
Linux System Administration, Solaris System Administration, Microsoft Windows Server Administration, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, SunNet Manager,
Bay Networks Optivity, Cisco IOS, Remedy Help Desk,
Ingres DBMS.
REFERENCES:
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