Jay Dearien

Educational Background

• University of Idaho Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language.
• Carnegie Mellon University B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with 5 semesters of C.S. Courses) Q.P.A. = 3.75 (4.0 scale)
• Eagle Scout with Bronze Palm
• Sequent Unix System Admin course
• Hewlett-Packard Unix System Admin course
• Oracle Version 7 Training class. Developer/2000 Training.
• Passed Level 2 of Japanese Proficiency Test.
• NetWare Administration Training.

Work Experience

June 2008 - April 2009

Project Manager, IT Analyst Cisco Systems, Tokyo, Joho Technologies, Tokyo.

April 2005 - May 2008

Graduate Studies at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA. Invention and production of educational mathematical board game, So-Soo-Yoo. Projectionist, general staffer at Kenworthy Performing Arts Center.

March 2002 - March 2005

Entrepreneurial activities.

October 1996 - February 2002

Technical Project Leader Buena Vista International, Tokyo, Japan. Design and development of multi-lingual systems on Oracle and Windows NT in a multi-lingual environment. Supervised roll-out of Japan-developed system to Australia in January 1999. Also supervised reload/upgrade of HP/UX and Sybase server in April 1998.

September - October 1996

Globalmedia Inc, Consultant at ING Barings Japan, Tokyo. Teknekron support. Unix administration on SUN. Documented operational procedures on intranet web server while supporting Teknekron data replication as part of a rotating 24-hour cover.

August 1995 - August 1996

Data Base & Unix Administrator Goldman Sachs Japan, Ltd., Tokyo. Sybase on SUN. Supported a network of about 30 client and server machines running about a dozen Sybase servers. DNS, NIS, Zmail, Autosys, Applix, Lotus and WordPerfect for Unix.

June 1993 - July 1995

Data Base & Unix Administrator, Applications Developer Nu Skin Japan, Tokyo. Oracle7 on HP-UX and SUN. 100+ users on SQL*Forms 3.0. Designed, wrote, and supported SQL*Forms, PL/SQL, and Pro*C applications in a bilingual environment.

September 1992 - June 1993

Unix & Data Base Consultant Siemens Nuclear, Washinton State; Sprint, Washington, D.C.; Newmont Gold, Nevada; etc.

November 1991 - Summer 1992

Unix & Data Base Consultant Omaha Public Power District, Migrated SQL*Forms-based applications from IBM VM to Unix workstations. Wrote data base and system backup scripts, consulted about networking and X terminals. Helped to install and implement new software to allow users to access Oracle on Unix using IBM 3270 terminals.

Oracle Corporation

April 1990 - September 1991

Unix Systems Administrator, Data Base Administrator, Applications Developer Administered HP 9000/870s, Sequent S81s and two Oracle*Mail data bases serving some 200 users. Wrote data base and system backup scripts & performed data base recoveries. Developed inventory & personnel tracking application on SQL*Forms 3.0. Participated in moving Oracle's data center to a new building. Migrated a large Sequent S81 from Dynix to Dynix/psx (POSIX). Set up an Oracle data base on IBM VM.

January 1989 - April 1990

Data Base Administrator Administered Oracle's production financial data base on Sequent Symmetry. Wrote SQL & shell scripts for backups, administration, and security. Performed data base reloads and recoveries from hot backup. Supported over 500 users of Oracle*Financials, Unix and X.

1987 & 1988

Computer Programmer/Software Designer Scientech, Inc., Idaho Falls, Idaho. Designed, programmed, and helped to demonstrate a graphically-oriented data base application to be marketed in the nuclear power industry.

1987 - 1988

Translator Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Translated several chapters of a book on Artificial Intelligence from French to English.

1987

Computer Science Course Grader, Carnegie-Mellon University, Marked homeworks and programs for a 200-level Computer Science class.

1983 - 1984

Computer Programmer/Reference Assistant, EG&G Services, Inc., Idaho Falls, Idaho. Assisted in development of a hospital data base application and retrieved documents from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Technical Library.

Activities

Juggling, pottery, study of foreign languages.

Special Skills

Computer Languages

C, SQL, PL/SQL, Bourne and C Shell Script, Pascal, BASIC, Lisp, Assembly Language, FORTRAN, Oracle Developer/2000

Operating Systems

Unix, WindowsXP & NT, MS-DOS, OS/2, RSTS/E, VM, and Macintosh

Human Languages

English, French, Japanese, Spanish (all fluent), German

Et Cetera

Touch-typing, certified massage therapist, motion picture projectionist