24 Freedom Road ∙ Providence, RI 02909 ∙ 401-331-5401

Robert Hurst

Robert Hurst

My expertise and education has prepared me for a senior information technology position you are seeking to fill.

I am enjoying success as a seasoned professional in information systems engineering, employing the hands-on IT skills I have trained and worked for my entire adult life. I work best in an environment that utilizes my analytical skills in collaboration with its decision-making process. Once decisions are made, to be then placed on its implementation to provide whichever technical role is required to enable its solution.

My breadth of experience enables me to provide ‘fit’ in any need of an implementation process, including hardware and software selection, configuration, and installation. As an accomplished systems and applications programmer, I can work all aspects of the software development cycle. I am conscientious of escalating IT costs, as I am creative and open-minded to consider alternatives that meet cost-benefit demands.

After having reviewed my résumé, I would appreciate having an opportunity to discuss your business information technology needs. I can be reached by phone or email listed above.

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Languages: Extensive knowledge of C, Caché, HTML, SQL, and Visual BASIC; experience with C++, IBM 4680 BASIC, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, VB .NET, and XML
  • APIs: ClanLib, GTK+, HL-7, and SDL
  • Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Xeon), Microsoft Windows (Xeon), OpenVMS (Alpha), HP/UX-11i (PA-RISC)
  • Desktop Software: Prefer to use OpenOffice; maintain working knowledge of Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Project, and Visio
  • System Software: Apache, CUPS, DHCP, DNS, emacs, ftp, IMAP, ipchains/iptables, ipvsadm, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Nagios, NFS, PostgreSQL, rsync, Samba, sendmail, stunnel, vi, Webmin, winbind, X
  • Technical: Ethernet cabling/termination, modems, PC desktop & peripheral, printer emulation, serial communications, terminal emulation

EXPERIENCE

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Boston, MA
  • Principal Systems Engineer under the direction of Rocky Grasso, 8/2005 – present
  • Provider of clinical information systems support for in-house classic and web applications running on InterSystems Caché and Ensemble. Designed and installed highly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, guests, and clusters on HP servers and IBM BladeCenters for production and disaster recovery datacenters. Support for Oracle-based systems including Peoplesoft for human resources and financial.
Retail Store Systems, Inc.
  • Cumberland, RI
  • Systems Architect under the direction of Scott Fonseca, 1/2005 – 7/2005
    Programmer/Analyst under the direction of Bob Hughes, 6/2003 – 4/2004
  • Provider of systems design and software development on IBM line of registers using IRES (SuSE Linux for Retail Solutions). Customize systems and applications that use the 360 Commerce JAVA point-of-sale, Linux operating system, and DB2 database. Clients include The Disney Stores, KB Toys, and Stein Mart.
The CCS Companies
  • Newton, MA
  • Sr. Programmer/Analyst under the direction of Paul Coyle, 4/2004 – 12/2004
  • Provided an immediate hands-on, leadership role for their software engineering needs to run a billion dollar credit and collection services information system. IT skills required include Caché and SQL databases, VB client programming, and server-side JAVA, DCL and Linux script programming.
Care New England
  • Providence, RI
  • Project Manager under the direction of Brian Hodor, 10/2001 – 4/2003
  • Provider of multi-year project planning for the transitioning of Butler Hospital’s clinical-fiscal information system into Care New England’s consolidated IT operation. Included staff training and documentation, as well as hands-on technical engineering of hardware and applications programming.
  • Project leader of KRONOS Workforce Central time and attendance system.
  • Application software developer of native HL-7 interfaces for SeeBeyond e*Gate, Cerner Millenium pharmacy, and IDX GPMS professional billing systems.
Butler Hospital, a Care New England hospital
  • Providence, RI
  • Director of Information Services under the direction of Walter Dias, 9/1988 – 9/2001
  • Provided management and assessment of hospitals computer capital expense budget and purchases; hospital hardware, software licenses, and maintenance; and department budget, goals, staffing, and projects.
  • Computer programming of Creative Socio-Medics clinical-fiscal management software, mainly Caché, an object-oriented relational database management system with SQL projection for both centralized and client-server platforms.
  • Systems installation and administration of VAX/VMS, Alpha UNIX, and Intel Linux systems.
  • Database installation and administration of InterSystems Caché, Microsoft SQL, and Linux PostgreSQL services.
  • Network installation and administration of campus LAN (switched fiber-based backbone) and Internet services: dhcp, dns, email, firewall, ftp, and web.
  • Desktop PC, terminal, printer, and peripheral installation and administration of over 500 devices supported.
Computer Programming
  • 4/1985 – 6/1988
  • Worked for professional data processing environments as a DEC PDP/RSTS and VAX/VMS systems and applications programmer, using languages: Assembler, BASIC-Plus, DCL, and DIBOL in conjunction with its database libraries: DMS and RMS.

EDUCATION

New England Institute of Technology
  • Graduated: September 2002
    BS – Computer Information Systems, Programming Track
  • Graduated: December 1984
    AS – Computer Programming

RELATED

InterSystems Corporation
  • Cambridge, MA
  • Ensemble Productions with HL7 v2009.1 under the instruction of David Nelson, 8/2009
  • Trained to use this middleware technology for healthcare information systems interfacing.
  • Caché 5.2 Administration under the instruction of Sue O’Leary, 10/2006
  • Trained to use new enterprise administration features including security, auditing, and database shadowing.
  • Rapid Application Development within Caché under the instruction of Joel Solon, 11/1999
  • Trained to use Visual Basic with the advanced use of their database architect tool, SQL, and Objects.
Red Hat Boston
  • Westford, MA
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, 12/2007
  • Trained to install, configure, and troubleshoot the new enterprise features including SELinux and Xen virtualization.
  • Passed its Red Hat Certified Technician and completed the Engineer exam.
New England Institute of Technology
  • Warwick, RI
  • Adjunct Instructor under the direction of Erik Van Renselaar, 10/2002 – 10/2005
  • Provide instruction of computer programming (C++, VB .NET) and systems administration (Linux) courses on a part-time evening basis.
  • Visual Basic .NET under the instruction of Scott Lambert, 03/2003
  • Trained to use Microsoft’s IDE, and VB .NET programming with ADO.
Bryant College
  • Providence, RI
  • Project Management under the instruction of Anthony LaPreste, 12/2001
  • Trained in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

NOTABLE

Red Hat