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Ron Sweeney Resume

May 8th, 2008, by admin

Objective

A position relative to Health Information Technology that promotes professional growth and enables participation in recent technologies, while making positive contributions to the organization.

Abilities

Languages (years): Perl (3) Ruby (2) C# (3) Java (2) SLC500 (2)

Technologies (years): Win32 (10) UNIX (5) Linux (5) Mac OS X (3) .NET (3) Microsoft Clustering (3) SAN (4) Citrix (3) Active Directory (3) Vmware ESX (3) Samba/FastConnect (3) VTK (1) OsiriX (2) MIRC (2) dcm4chee (1)

Standards (years): HTTP (7) DICOM (5) HL7 (4) SNIA (2)

Web applications (years): open source development (4), Ruby on Rails (2), Web Services (3)

Proprietary Solutions (years): McKesson PACS (4) Cerner Millenium (3) OpenView (2) IBM Director (2) Witt Biomedical(Phillips) (2) Legato Disk Extender (4) IBM-TSM-HSM (2) See Beyond Egate(>1)

Technical Accomplishments

Engineered, Deployed and Support 5 Microsoft 2003 Clusters for FILE, PRINT, Cerner Warehousing, and SQL Server 2005.

Developed monitoring application for McKesson PACS that involved writing a WMI Provider, WMI Adapter, Web Services Front End and ASP.NET/C# Dashboard.

Proven programmer in C#, Ruby, JAVA, and Perl.

Extensive experience with SAN technologies including install, migration and clustering.

Experience with in-band and out of band storage migrations.

Substantial experience with Ruby on Rails, including the authoring of a complete CMDB for asset tracking and support of technology assets.

Installed MIRC Teaching Repository for Regional Use.

7 years System Administration experience in various capacities.

Highly effective troubleshooter and debugger. Proficient with Sysinternals software and Windows Debugging Tools.

Served as Technical Lead on multiple high profile projects in Radiology PACS, Cardiology PACS, and File/Print Services in Active Directory.

Authored and presented a successful Service Level Agreement Measurement application to a Radiological Society Conference in Orlando, FL.

Have drafted and made available whitepapers on practical uses of open source software including Zebedee, Nagios, Cacti, Smokeping, Ethereal, Ruby on Rails,

Chair of Special Session “Open Source Software in PACS” at SCAR conference in Austin, TX.

Engineered Red Hat Linux Cluster

Implemented Intrusion Detection Systems for Information Security both host based and network based

Work Experience

Spectrum Health

Grand Rapids, MI

Programmer/Analyst 4

2007 – present

Upgraded eGate 4.5.3 to 5.0.5 SRE.

HL7 Troubleshooting

Systems Integration with McKesson PACS.

Support roles in eGate.

Support roles in Cerner.

Spectrum Health

Grand Rapids, MI

Engineer 3

2003 – 2007

Implemented TSM-HSM.

Discipline in SAN attached servers.

Engineered Several Microsoft Windows Based Clusters.

Built from the ground up a full blown CMDB and tracking application with Ruby on RAILS framework.

Wrote several C# applications for general purpose system administration including Event Browsers, Enumeration utilities, and various WMI harvesters.

Implemented IBM Director on both the Linux platform and Windows platform.

Duties include provision and support of various platforms, such as virtual hosts, blade hosts, and other IBM hardware.

Support roles in Directory Services and Citrix.

Spectrum Health

Grand Rapids, MI

I&TM Programmer/Analyst 3

2001 – 2003

Served as PACS Technical Architect for implementation of Radiology PACS. Included Remote PACS viewing, ancillary site installations, HL7 interfaces, and DICOM configuration.

Served as Technical Architect for Cardiology PACS project.

Coded and implemented software to accommodate automating of proprietary software shortcomings.

HACMP monitoring and hardening.

Worked closely with vendors to ensure proper and effective implementation of new interfaces between systems.

Made available policies that pertain to disaster recovery and business continuity as it pertained to Radiology PACS.

Spectrum Health

Grand Rapids, MI

I&TM Analyst

2000 – 2001

Implemented monitoring for the Cerner application and related systems.

Made available policies that pertain to system integrity and the implementation of new/additional technologies.

Management of HP OpenView network management station.Â· SNMP v1/2c/3 secure implementations.

Wrote all ITO templates as it pertains to Spectrum Health Enterprise Monitoring Systems.

Scripted several Ad-Hoc reports and System Dashboards as it pertains to individual system monitoring.

Implemented Ciscoâ€™s â€œReady, Set, Go!â€? best practices as it relates to threshold monitoring.

Engineered, implemented and documented a secure solution for monitoring SNMP v1/2c for bastion hosts. Published the paper to various security related repositories and presented the solution at a local user group at Herman Miller ( REF ).

Policies: Create, enforce, and make available policies that pertain to system integrity and the implementation of new/additional technologies.

Coded a Cisco LEAP penetration tool that was published to Packetstorm and used for wireless auditing. Wrote an extremely sensitive signal quality graphical utility to investigate AP signal strength ranges, and a war driving utility and wrapper for dstumbler.

Spectrum Health

Reed City, MI

System Administrator

1998 – 1999

Implemented an effective and redundant data backup system to ensure data for disaster recovery policies.

Engineered and implemented an Intrusion Detection System on a fully switched network utilizing open source software and available hardware. System includes Web Logging, real time notification, and automatic report generation for security documentation.

Installed, configured, and made available an effective intranet server for campus specific operations. Authored and coded various web based programs used to help aid health care professionals at the facility.

Upgraded Windows 3.1 desktops to Windows NT paving the way for desktop driven productivity tools, and providing proper desktop and shared application security.

Worked closely with vendors to ensure proper and effective implementation of new interfaces between systems and medical instruments.

Made available policies that pertain to system integrity and the implementation of new/additional technologies.

Engineered and implemented a shared 10bT network to a fully switched, 100bT network with fiber and T-1 connectivity to two WAN sites.

Metz Baking Company

Grand Rapids, MI

Second Class Plant Technician

1997 – 1999

Install and configuration of manufacturing systems as required for the production environment.

Basic PLC programming

Ground up installation and configuration of APV pan line system and product movement system, which doubled productivity and reduced overhead on production costs by 25%.