Computer related education

  • M.A.(Computer Science), June, 1991, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY. Operating Systems and Computer Programming.
  • Microsoft certified special courses (2000-2001):
    • Course #2153: Supporting a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure
    • Course #2152: Supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Advanced Server
    • Course #689B: Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Technologies
    • Course #922: Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies
    • Course #803: Administering Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Computer related experience

11/07-Present Principal Research Scientist, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

  • Installed, maintained and administered a Windows XP/2000/Apple Macintosh local area network.
  • Installed and implemented NetOp remote control software.
  • Installed and maintained a variety of hardware and software including scanners, color printers, CD-RW drives on the network.
  • Developed and maintained departmental and facility web pages using HTML.

11/93-10/07 Research Scientist, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

  • Installed, maintained and administered a Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 local area network consisting of a server and several Windows and Apple Macintosh clients.
  • Installed and maintained cross-platform networking and printing between Apple and PC.
  • Implemented the Windows remote access server for dialup connections from remote clients. Also implemented remote control software such as pcAnywhere and NetOp.
  • Implemented routine backup of networked computers.
  • Installed and maintained a variety of hardware and software including scanners, color printers, CD-RW drives, and graphics and database software on the network.
  • Developed and wrote small computer programs in Visual Basic, C++ and Fortran.
  • Developed and maintained departmental and facility web pages using HTML.

11/91-10/93 Research Scientist, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

  • Developed and wrote supporting computer programs for use with software interfacing lab instrumentation.
  • Installed and maintained hardware and software.

6/91-10/91 Computer Technical Support Consultant, Information Systems Department, Nabisco Brands, Parsippany, NJ.

  • Provided technical support to 150-200 users on a PC-LAN as part of a four-person team.
  • Installed Memory boards, Disk drives, Modems and other devices in PCs and Laser printers.
  • Installed popular spreadsheet, database and word processing software.
  • Installed Novell Netware 386, Token Ring, Quarterdeck memory managers at Workstations, Data and Print Servers.

2/84-5/89 Research Assistant, Department of Geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Designed and wrote programs to manage data base on minerals and their solid solutions and gases and used available programs to calculate Phase Equilibria.
  • Designed and wrote programs in DOS-Shell, FORTRAN, C, UNIX-Shell, PASCAL and BASIC.