Adavicity and Windows last
update August, 2009
Adavicity has been supporting PC systems since
the days of the IBM-XT and MS-DOS. We
are excited about Windows 7 and the Power Shell, but we are committed to
supporting today’s systems: XP, 2000, servers 2003 and 2008.
Windows is an important part of the computer
landscape and will be for years to come.
Adavicity is positioned as a Systems Administrator for Windows bringing
in-depth knowledge of PC Hardware and the software components of this important
platform. But Adavicity brings expertise
in other operating systems as well: Linux, Mac, VMWare and legacy systems. Add to this, proficiency in networking and
you have a powerful ally to help you keep your systems ticking and your
business running.
Adavicity is all about windows applications like
the Office Suite: Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Access and Visio to name a
few. We support IIS for web, intranet
and Sharepoint. We support Internet
Explorer and the many applications that run inside of it. We support Adobe, many media players, CD
burning software, all major virus scanners, backup software of various kinds
and major database vendors.
Adavicity
Achievments at Cambria.com
At
We are currently developing a trouble alert
solution and automated Web Site verification suite for
[February,
2009 to Present]
Adavicity
Contributions to Hudson-Bergen Light Rail;
There are two separate networks in use at the light
rail. The one used to control and
monitor the light rail vehicles contains Unix servers and 8 Windows desktop
systems. The administrative LAN is much
larger and contains 6 server machines running Windows 2003.
Adavicity supports the IT infrastructure of
both, with primary responsibility for the control system. We support a transportation application
called Spear and the Oracle 9i DBMS it uses to store all of the company
data. The software is installed on several
dozen Windows desktops.
Creating and upgrading scripts in perl, batch
and VBScript is a strategy for managing backups and disk space. While other items, such as DNS/DHCP diagnosis
and troubleshooting, resolving LAN issues, firewall and router configuration
are manual.
Other
Contributions at Hudson-Bergen
Set up company sharepoint (WSS) using IIS under
Windows Server 2003. Administer other
intranet sites in IIS. Maintain admin
procedures, scripts and database reporting.
Upgrade/enhance Access program that uses ODBC to Oracle database. Using perforce version control. Troubleshoot Windows time issues and NTP.
Upgrade Oracle from version 8.0 to 9i,
recreating all users, views, stored procedures and Crystal Reports. and
maintaining data integrity with no user impact.
Administer Oracle daily operations.
Support train control system operations and maintenance and
database/reporting applications. Plan,
implement and support upgrades.
Create/enhance/upgrade automated maintenance, backup and report
generation scripts/applications using Oracle, Windows and Unix scripting in
Perl and VBScript/Excel/Access VBA.
Other Achievements:
§ Replace old, failure-prone
excel VBA reporting process that took over 5 minutes to run with a
fuller-featured perl script running in 2-3 seconds.
§ Upgrade “Spear 2000”
database package and Oracle through nine versions (1999 to current) with no
operational disruption while modifying a half-dozen interfaces
§ Enhance Excel VBA
program. Add a toolbar to accept dates
as an input.
§ Create VB/WSH script to
automate train performance data correction & database import
§ Automate Unix file archiving
and backup using perl/bash scripting
§ Institute Configuration
Management using “Perforce” CM product
[May,
2006 to Present]
Adavicity
at TelAmerica Media
Our experience at Telamerica taught us never to
limit what we can contribute. While this
was mostly software development, the company moved its offices in the midst of
the project (using a VM solution) and it was natural for our consultants to
contribute in solving network problems, supporting users and testing
applications.
Other
Major contributions at TelAmerica
Participate
in all phases of design and development of agile SOA Enterprise application
(core business infrastructure) using .Net 3.0/C# and WCF. Port Boost Graph
Library, write C++/CLI wrapper and C# interface. Write stored procedures for SQL Server
database. Create API and custom User
Control. Created the System Topography
Service as part of core business logic.
Serve as CM/QA, writing VSS and devenv scripts to compile, deploy and
startup.
[October,
2006 to August, 2008]
Adavicity
at Health Information Technologies
Develop software to process and forward
insurance claims from Doctors to Insurance Companies from MC68000 point-of-sale
devices to a Stratus server and on to the HMO system. Support system
development. Lead POS development
effort. Support production and shipment
of terminals and customer service department.
Work with Novell LAN Administrator to manage system resources for
development. Support testing
environment.
Created customer service PC utilities used to
support this system. Upgraded PC support
systems to provide for building and shipment of terminals.
Installed, configured and administered PVCS,
Make, PC Lint, several editors, Novell’s Btrieve database and associated and
third party tools, as well as several C compilers and many other programming
tools. Taught C class.
[1990
to 1993]