James P. English

mailto:english@apartasreality.com

http://www.apartasreality.com/~english

 

 

CAREER OBJECTIVE

 

A senior level position that utilizes my skills in infrastructure design and technical project management to enhance company innovation and technical capabilities.

 

 

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

 

Diverse experience engineering innovative solutions in a global enterprise.  Developed and installed web based application servers/services to aid in business unit communication and increase productivity.  Designed and implemented application and database server solutions utilizing Microsoft Windows NT.  Great communications and team skills. 

 

Experience includes:

 

·    Web Design:

o     Graphical User Interfaces

o     Database Interaction (ASP, Cold Fusion)

o     Graphic and Logo Design

o     Web Application Hosting (Windows Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe)

o     E-commerce solutions (Microsoft Transaction Server, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server)

·      Project and Vendor Management

·      Enterprise Server Engineering (NT, Windows 2000, Documentum)

·      Web Server Engineering and Administration (IIS)

·      Large Scale Software Deployment

·      UNIX Operating Systems (Red Hat Linux, Solaris, HP-UX)

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

BP Amoco Corporation, Tulsa, OK

1995 - Present

Documentum Systems Engineer (Systems Specialist)

1999 - Present

 

Architecting an infrastructure and service line for a document management application (Documentum) and other host applications, globally.

 

·         Created repeatable processes to establish a hosted application as a service line (including the architecture and management of implementation) globally.

·         Managed vendor relations and expectations to ensure infrastructure arrived on time and was established correctly.  (Established a world-wide infrastructure under great time constraints: within 1 month – hardware delivered within 10 working days)

 

Global Systems Engineer (Senior Systems Analyst)                       

                        1999

 

Engineering application and database server solutions on a global scale utilizing Microsoft Windows NT and communicating with an array of other server operating systems.

 

·         Enhanced application communication and process standardization by authoring and documenting processes for engineering and implementation of NT application and database servers.

·         Consulted on the design of a Web-based e-commerce solution involving emissions ticket trading between all corporate plants and refineries.

·         Prototyped a corporate webtop for web application hosting using web published applications on Windows Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe.

·         Designed and implemented an Intranet web presence for the Global Host Services organization.

·         Customized the user interface for an Internet portal prototype using Sun Microsystems’ iPlanet software.

 

Senior Customer Service Analyst                       

                        1995 - 1999

 

Ongoing client-side support for a 1200 user client base.

 

·         Designed and implemented an Intranet web presence for the Tulsa Customer Service organization, supporting 3600 clients.  This provided clients with news and information, as well as acting as an interface between the clients and customer service.

·         Authored a process to integrate an original OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) operating system distribution with the corporate standard computing environment, decreasing deployment time (from 2 hours down to a time of 45 minutes) and preserving the reliability of OEM hardware drivers and software configurations.

·         Lead team of seven in deployment of corporate standard computing environment to 1200 desktops.

·         Member of the Mobile Computing Standards committee.

 

 

Déjà-Vu, Tulsa, OK  

   1992 - 1995

Partner

 

Installation of personal computer systems and application software on a consulting basis.

 

·         Helped clients save time and gain a greater understanding of personal computer systems and software by assisting them with installation and configuration.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Tulsa, 1995

 

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

 

Microsoft Windows 95

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server Enterprise

TCP/IP in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Microsoft Active Directory Design

Sun Certified Java Programming

Ziff-Davis Java Programming

Caldera Linux Administration

Documentum Administration

 

 

INTERNET VIEWABLE WEB DESIGNS

 

Most of my work has been internal to BP Amoco, but I have two personal web pages that are Internet viewable.

 

Club Sol Oklahoma - http://www.apartasreality.com/okiesol

(an orginzation which I coordinate for Oklahoma Honda del Sol lovers)

 

the Lionrock Den  - http://www.apartasreality.com/lionrock

(all the information you could want to know about Justin Robertson and Lionrock)

 

Apartas Reality - http://www.apartasreality.com

(an umbrella for a myriad of multimedia production and entertainment)