Sergiusz Stempel

Personal data

Email:	serge@stempel-1.com
Web:	http://www.stempel-1.com/serge/
Work Eligibility:	Permitted to work in US and most of EU countries for any employer.

Career Objective

To obtain a meaningful and challenging position that enables to learn the new technologies and allows for advancement

Education and Certificates

M.Sc.
Computer Science Department at AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland. Master thesis: “WWW interface in Java to the polish language dictionary database”. The project included, designing and coding interface in Sun JDK, inventing a query language to the dictionary database, designing and implementing translator of the query language to SQL in LEX & YACC, designing and coding CGI program in Oracle Pro*C for receiving queries and producing answers.

RedHat Certified Engineer - RHCE Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Certificate Number: 803004842210723.

RedHat Certified Technician - RHCT Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Certificate Number: 605007367515924.

Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA
Certificate Number: 386484726108DNCG (Cisco Certification Fulfillment Tracking and Reporting).

Professional skills

Programming languages

Perl, Sed, Awk, C shell, Bourne shell, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix C/C++, E/SQL, Java, HTML.
Databases

Operating systems (tuning and administration)

Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu), Solaris, VMWare, MS Windows in all flavors, HP-UX, SunOS, SCO UNIX/XENIX.
Hardware

Servers: Sun Fire, Sun Ultra-Enterprise, Sun Blade, Sun Ultra, HP9000, HP NetServer, Compaq Proliant, Compaq-Tandem NonStop.
Network equipment: Cisco Routers, Cisco Catalyst Switches, HP ProCurve, 3COM Superstack, Linksys SOHO (switches, routers and wireless), Symbol wireless access points and terminals.
Telecommunication equipment: Siemens HiPath 150E, HiPath 3750.

Professional Experience

October 1999 - present
Town & Country Industries, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA - acquired by ABC Supply Co. Inc, Beloit, WI, USA

System Administrator/IT Manager.

Oversee company's IT department including projects management, software development, hardware and software procurement
Performed Oracle database and system administration on all company's systems.
Deployment and maintenance of VMWare infrastructure ESX servers.
Implementation of Lawson Business Management System.
Implementation and supervision of a Lawson upgrade process from ver.7.0.3 through ver.7.2.4 to ver.8.0.3
Deployment of the Datex Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Deployment and management of Siemens HiPath PBX systems.
Management of the company local and wide area network.
Designing and implementation of a single password authentication based on Fedora Directory Service in a heterogeneous network build of MS Windows (2000, XP and 2003 Server), Linux (CentOS and Fedora) and Solaris (version 9 and 10) machines. Password synchronization between Microsoft and Linux/Unix word was established based on Fedora Windows Synchronization feature.
Full hardware support of SUN midrange server E3500 and E2900 (system boards replacement, memory upgrade, CPU upgrade, expansion of fiber channel storage system).

May 1999 – September 1999
Saville System, Edmonton, Canada; Europe Division - Galway, Ireland –acquired by ADC , Minnetonka, MN, USA

Software Developer. Involved in customization of Convergent Billing System (redesigning, tuning and implementation) for telecommunication clients. Used Oracle tools (Designer2000, PL/SQL) Perl, Awk and Sed. Responsible for interface between General Ledger module and SAP R/3 system.

July 1995 – April 1999
Quantum Software S.A. Kraków, Poland and Quantum GmbH Dortmund, Germany

Senior Programmer. Project Motex2000 - a warehouse's storing and distribution system. Designed and wrote in Oracle tools (Designer2000, PL/SQL, Pro*C). Responsible for interface to the customer systems, based on IBM MQSeries. Involved in designing and implementation PL/SQL and C code DDL generators.

Senior Programmer. AirMail Center Frankfurt (ACF) - an airmails' sorting and distribution system. Programmed in Oracle PL/SQL and Pro*C, designed in S-Designor. Experience in full project life cycle, applications development, stored procedures, reports, tuning and maintenance. Responsible for dispatcher process, some communication processes between ACF system and systems of Airport Frankfurt via TCP/IP protocol. Specialized in synchronization of concurrent processes.

Programmer. European Distribution System Management (EDSM) for 3M Corporation divisions France and Italy in CA Ingress database system. Responsible for transport subsystem module - freight costs calculation.

LAN Administrator. Responsible for supervising heterogeneous network, several Windows95 and WindowsNT workstations, Windows NT Server and Unix hosts (SunOS, SCO Unix, HP-UX, Solaris)

July 1994 - June1995
Marketing Department in Coal-Main “JANINA”; Libiąż, Poland

Made analyses and statistics with help of Informix SQL, FoxPro, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel. Supervised Novell NetWare server and computer infrastructure.

1994
Local Government House; Chrzanów, Poland

System and LAN administrator. Responsible for supervising Novell NetWare and SCO Unix servers, supporting finance (local taxes) application system.

1993
TechnoProgress Ltd.; Kraków, Poland

Software and hardware maintenance and installation (Novell NetWare, SCO Unix on Everex MP and other machines based on Intel architecture)

Particular strengths and assets

Experience in administrating heterogeneous computer systems.
Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems. Very flexible to adapt to different conditions of work.
Known for being supportive of subordinates and colleagues.

References

References will be furnished upon request