Joseph E. Baker

mailto:joe.baker@compaq.com

(925) 694-7363

Employment Objective:

Continued career within the computer industry that will use my computer engineering knowledge, communication skills and partnering experience.  My optimum career choice will allow me to contribute in the development of the latest in computer hardware, software and network technologies and incorporate these efforts into strategic partner and customer projects.

 

Formal Education: 

v      Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with an emphasis upon Computer Systems from the California State University at Chico, 1994.

 

Employment History: (Presently employed by Compaq Computer Corp.)

 

Present                  International Competency Center Manager à On-site @ PeopleSoft Pleasanton, CA

6/00 to                   Compaq Computer Corporation à Enterprise Solutions Division

v      Provide Training, Consulting, tools and information directly to customers, field sales, integrators and geographically based competency centers in all phases of the implementation cycle to help plan, deploy and operate business solutions.

v      Manage all on-site engineering resources and personnel in order to provide project management from project definition and resource allocation to release.  This role encompasses PeopleSoft ERP, EPM and Vantive CRM, Clustering and Backup Strategies, System Sizing, Network and DB performance initiatives, High-water Benchmarking, Sizing methodologies, contract coordination, Marketing projects and trade show events.  

v      Provide new technology demonstrations, host customer visits, provide roadmap communications and consulting to customers, field sales support, Compaq management and partner engineers and executives.

6/00                        ERP Applications Project Manager à On-site @ PeopleSoft Pleasanton, CA

2/98 to                   Compaq Computer Corporation à Enterprise Solutions Division à San Bruno, CA

v      On-site engineering project manager for all Wintel related projects including PeopleSoft EPM, Vantive CRM, Clustering and Backup Strategies, System Sizing, Network and DB performance initiatives, High-water Benchmarking and Marketing projects and events.  

v      Laid the initial groundwork as sole on-site personnel for the Compaq/PeopleSoft Alliance Solution Center.

2/98                        Database Engineering Strategic Project Manager à On-site @ Oracle, Sybase & Informix

6/95 to                   Compaq Computer Corporation à Enterprise Solutions Division à San Bruno, CA

v      Managed multi-company engineering project teams from project creation to release, encompassing High Availability solutions, DB development, TPC Benchmarking, Communications and Alliance/Marketing projects with Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, SAP, BAAN, PeopleSoft and Informix.

v      Provide new technology demonstrations, full scale project plans, resource procurement, partner contract coordination, trade show support, customer visits, roadmap communication and on-site consulting to customers, field sales support, Compaq management and partner engineers and executives..

v      Supervised Compaq’s emerging technology, high availability, DB benchmarking and engineering projects at product reviewer (PC Week, InfoWorld, Ziff-Davis, etc.) as well as partner and customer sites.

v      Laid the initial groundwork as sole on-site personnel for the San Bruno based Database Technology and Solutions Center.

6/95                        Strategic Alliance Partner Program and Project Manager

6/94 to                   Compaq Computer Corporation à Systems Marketing Division à Headquarters @ Houston, TX

v      Managed a joint Compaq/Intel engineering/marketing seed program with Intel Corporation where I was responsible for monitoring relationships with over 50 independent software vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, Computer Associates, Dun & Bradstreet, Sybase, Novell, Informix and SCO ensuring that the program goals were met.

v      Coordinated hardware, software and partner presentations at industry events such as DB Expo, SCO Forum, International Sybase User Conferences and Networld/Interop to ensure quality technical presentations.

v      Coordinated the configuration, installation and administration of 86 network servers including Oracle 7.1, Sybase 10 and Microsoft’s SQL SVR 6.5 databases and all their connected client stations and networking infrastructure.

v      Only support technician to support over 100 LANs and WANs for the Compaq/Intel Client Server Partnership program.

6/94                        Global Network Administrator and Support Contact

4/94 to                   Sybase Inc. à Network Support à Emeryville, CA

v      Trained in the setup, configuration and support of many routers, bridges and network operating systems for their multiple topology and protocol LANs and WANs.

12/93                     Systems Programmer

8/93 to                   IBM of San Jose àArnovick Software Engineering Center

v      Designed and updated the IBM PCBO system.  This involved the revision of a currently running forms processing system from 1970’s BASIC code to 1990’s C-code while keeping the system on-line and running in real-time.

6/93                        Wide Area Network System Consultant

12/92 to                 Glenn County, California Government à Arnovick Software Engineering Center

v      Designed a WAN with several integrated LANs for interconnecting the counties’ many government offices.

v      Created a complete design and cost analysis for the entire system that was published, submitted and subsequently approved by the County and is currently under construction or in use at this time.

 

Related Knowledge:

v      Special training and extensive experience in the entire line of Compaq hardware from laptops to Alpha based servers.

v      Storage technologies -> RAID Arrays, Fiber and SCSI technology, Database and Application layout related to Storage Buses and Hard-Disk Layout for performance and scalability.

v      High Availability à Extensive Knowledge of MS Cluster Server, Oracle Parallel Server and Load Balancing SW.

v      Special training and experience which makes me a recognized professional and knowledge source for the Installation, Configuration, Tuning, Maintenance and Administration of WINDOWS 95 and NT, Microsoft Cluster Server, Oracle Fail-Safe, Oracle Parallel Server, SCO UnixWare, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, and PeopleSoft applications.

v      Completed multiple personnel and project management courses and have a proven track record in the management of strategic inter-company engineering teams at Compaq, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase and Informix.

v      Combination of proven communication skills and strategic engagement training within Compaq and years of experience representing Compaq as a strategic project and relationship manager.  I am able to properly represent a fortune 100 company and make the decisions and engagements that are necessary and advantageous.

v      Experience with independent software vendors including SAP, BAAN, PeopleSoft, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Novell, Sybase, Informix, Oracle, Platinum and others resulting in the ability to learn new products quickly and effectively.

 

Special Training:

v      Commerce One Buysite SW.

v      Vantive CRM functionality and implementation.

v      Microsoft SQL 7 Clustering implementation.

v      BMC Patrol and InControl implementation.

v      PeopleSoft ERP and EPM implementation.

v      Database Associate’s Client/Server and Distributed Computing seminar series.    

v      Microsoft’s Tech Ed series. (Installation, Configuration and Performance Tuning of Windows NT, SMS and SQL Servers)

v      Oracle Architecture, Administration and SQL Query language training.

v      SCO UNIX Installation, Configuration and Administration training.

v      Microsoft’s NT Bootcamp and Microsoft Windows NT Certification (MCSE) courses.

v      Windows NT Administration and Performance integration.

v      Sybase CSP (Certified Sybase Professional) training.

 

Computer Hardware Systems Experience: 

v      Implementation and configuration experience of Intel based Systems from Compaq (Intel & Alpha), IBM, HP and Dell.  This includes EISA, ISA, PCI , SCSI and Fiber Optic technologies.

v      Hewlett Packard 9000/850s and 3000, 1000, 800 and 300 series mainframes.

v      Compaq (Intel & Alpha), NEXT, HP, and Sun workstations and servers.

 

Network Operating Systems and Utilities Experience:

WINDOWS NT to 2000

Windows 3.0 to 98

Compaq 64 bit Unix

SCO UnixWare

TCP/IP Protocol

IPX Network Protocol

LAN/WAN Admin

NetBEUI Protocol

Ethernet topology

Token Ring topology

Banyan Vines

HP/UX

Switch, Hub, Router & Bridge configuration and integration     

Network Design Software

 

 

Software Experience: 

Microsoft Exchange, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access and Project to Office 2000        

Microsoft SQL Server 7

Microsoft Cluster Server

Microsoft SMS

Microsoft Domain Administration

PeopleSoft ERP & EPM

Citrix Winframe

BEA Tuxedo

Microsoft WorkLoad Balancing SW

Oracle Parallel Server

Lotus Notes

Borland C++

Mercury LoadRunner

Vantive CRM

Microsoft IIS

Commerce One BuySite

BMC Patrol & InControl

Sybase System 11.5

Sybase Professional

Informix 8.2(XPS)

Microsoft Terminal Server

Oracle RDBMS to 8.1

Oracle Interoffice

AutoCAD

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