Seth I. Rich |
2035 Pemberton Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146 |
(215) 790-0709 |
seth@op.net |
Detail-oriented professional with experience in diverse areas of computing. Eclectic knowledge of networking, Internet and Internet services, security, and programming.
January 1997 - present: Lead Programmer, Frontier Media Group (Malvern, Pennsylvania; later Icon CMT and Qwest Internet Solutions). Served as technical lead for a large number of Pharmaceutical client projects, including webmastering a public site, extensive Oracle and PL/SQL work, Active Server Page (ASP), Java, and Perl coding within the Microsoft IIS environment, Netscape Enterprise, and Apache web servers, on Microsoft NT, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX servers. Installed and maintained web (IIS and Apache), email (sendmail), ftp (WAR FTP), database (studying for Oracle DBA certification), firewall (Linux masquerading), and other security solutions internally. Some Project Management, extensive documentation. Heavy use of Windows95.
November 1995 - April 1996: Systems Administrator/Webmaster, Maguire Products, Inc. (Media, Pennsylvania). Installed and configured mail (sendmail), FTP (wu-ftpd), and Web servers (NCSA HTTPD and Apache), for Maguire Products, and linked their existing network to the Internet. Also installed packet-filtering for security, and created their World Wide Web site. Environments included Windows 3.11, Linux, and Solaris.
May 1995 - January 1997: Systems Administrator/Internet Development, HYGNet, Inc. (Aston, Pennsylvania). Primarily responsible for coordination and execution of Internet-based World Wide Web projects. Installed and configured servers and networks for electronic mail, FTP, and HTTP. Environments included Windows 3.11, Windows95, and heavy use of Linux.
November 1994 - May 1995: Systems Administrator, The Anterra Network (Hatboro, Pennsylvania). Responsible for configuring, troubleshooting, and resolving network communications issues for an Internet provider. Projects included installation and configuration of new UNIX hardware and software (SCO Unix and Linux), configuring and debugging a UUCP-Internet link, and installation and maintenance of Internet utilities such as IRC and WWW browsers (lynx, Mosaic) and server (NCSA HTTPD).
June 1991 - March 1993: Programmer/Analyst, Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program (Cleveland, Ohio). Responsibilities included installing and maintaining all PCs on an eighty-PC WAN (six Sun SPARCstations running SunOS, PCs networked with PC-NFS, and Macintoshes). Responsible for maintaining and improving configuration, hardware, and software, both on the PCs and on the servers. Responsibilities also included the design of software to maintain user databases, maintaining licenses on software, and writing documentation on the office network. Final projects included establishing a user Help Desk for network and remote users and giving training on various aspects of the office system.
May 1990 - December 1990: Telecomputing Coordinator, CWRU Project STEP-UP (Cleveland, Ohio). Coordinated computer- and network-related activities for CWRU's inner-city tutoring program for at-risk teenagers, including acquainting students with computer networks, the Cleveland Freenet, and Internet utilities such as email and USENET. Responsibilities also included managing a tutoring site, assigning tutors to tutoring students, and handling conflicts among students.
January 1989 - December 1990: Assistant Researcher, Tantalus, Inc. (Cleveland Heights, Ohio). Designed and implemented code (in QuickBASIC, Gauss, Fortran, and SPSS/PC+) for research. Clients included Rutgers University, the National Science Foundation, and the Association of Research Libraries. Projects included multivariable function minimization, battle simulations, statistical analysis, and graphical representation of computer/user/operator interactions.
June 1987 - August 1987: Undergraduate Intern, John von Neumann National Computer Center, Consortium for Scientific Computing (Princeton, New Jersey). Wrote security programs and utilities (in C for Ultrix), did independent research into prime numbers (Fortran and C, for Ultrix and Cyber 205), and wrote help utilities (C for Ultrix).
Mandel School of Applied Social Science (Cleveland, Ohio). Several courses in fundraising, grassroots organizing, and unionizing.
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). Student of theoretical mathematics, philosophy, problem-solving, and ethics.
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey). Studied English composition, and calculus using a nontraditional "hyper-real" methodology.