RICK A. SNYDER
2184 Albright Avenue                                 909-982-7829
Upland, California  91784                            rsnyder_@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY

Experienced, highly technical, results driven professional with proven
success managing UNIX NT operations.  Strong leadership skills with the
"hands on knowledge" to provide team direction to meet corporate objectives.
Highly effective in managing and negotiating vendor contracts.


TECHNICAL

Hardware:
  Servers: IBM RS/6000: R40 & 50, B80, H50, H80, S7A, SSA, D40, AS/400,
    HP RISC: D350, K220, K420, K460
  Sun: Netra t1, Ultra80, E450
  Optical Jukebox: HP 40fx, 320ex
  Tape Libraries: Qualstar: 46120, 4660 Sony: AIT2 50GB drives, HP DLT,
    IBM 3590
  Printers: HP, Xerox, and IBM

Software:
  AIX, HPUX, Solaris 7, Redhat Linux, CM/2, Windows NT & 2K, MS Word, Excel,
  Project, OS/2, VMS, Lawson, FileNet, Oracle 8i, Informix, HP OpenView,
  Novell, Lotus Notes, TSM, ADSM, NFS, NIS, DNS /binds 8, DHCP, Samba,
  ntp, print spooler, Sendmail


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDISON SECURITY/EDISON ENTERPRISES, San Dimas, CA         1999 to 2002

Senior Systems Administrator
Managed UNIX department in all aspects of operation and maintenance.
Developed technical, financial and personnel objectives for a staff of
five with an annual operating budget of $400,000.

* Supervised and maintained a 99% uptime on 22 critical servers operating
  24 hours a day.

* Developed centralized IT knowledge database of operations to insure
  continued coverage of computer systems independent of individual staff.

* Successfully project managed AS400, AIX, SMTP Lotus Notes Server,
  DNS/DHCP on NT servers, disaster recovery, site planning and Enterprise
  Back-Up project

* Led negotiations in purchase of Enterprise equipment resulting in a
  $200,000 savings.

* Re-negotiated service contract requirements to more closely meet company
  needs resulting in annual savings of $175,000.


IMPERIAL BANK, Redondo Beach, CA                         1999

Network Engineer IV=09
Maintained the RS/6000s supporting the bank's Automated Clearing House system.

* Identified and designed the DNS infrastructure using the AIX platform.

* Strengthened overall security for their customer's WEB enabled account
  access.


HOME SAVINGS OF AMERICA, Irwindale, CA               1993 to 1999

Senior Systems Analyst
Part of design team that created a Client/Server Loan Approval System using
IBM RS/6000s, Informix database, and Mainframe connectivity.  This computer
infrastructure project resulted in $300M annual savings in loan processing.


SYMANTEC CORP./PETER NORTON GROUP, Santa Monica, CA     1991 to 1993

Quality Assurance Network Coordinator
Network Administrator for QA and all test labs for NOS.  Responsible for
troubleshooting network incompatibilities, PC and MAC support, training and
equipment maintenance, budgeting department expenses, inventory tracking,
equipment evaluation and sourcing.


Prior to 1991
PC Systems Manager, Versyss Inc. /Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
Senior Field Hardware Engineer, Fujitsu Business Systems, Anaheim, CA
Field Service Technician, Lanier Business Products, Chicago, IL


EDUCATION/TRAINING

TSM Installation, Implementation and Advance Administration
HACMP Installation, Implementation and Advance Administration
AIX CATE Certified Professional
UNIX Advanced Sendmail System Administration and Troubleshooting
AIX Advanced System Administration, Networking, DNS, NIS, NFS and Scripting
HP Troubleshooting and Maintenance Management for LANs
Business Accounting, Business Administration from Chaffey College
Computer Programming from Cal Poly Pomona
AAEET from DeVry Institute of Technology


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

* UserBlue  * UUACS  * IEEE  * USNEIX  * SAGE