Hector Salas
Email: HS@HectorSalas.Com
Business and Information Technology,
Career and Technical Education, University of Georgia (UGA), 2005.
Master of Business Administration, Troy
State University, GPA 3.6, 1997.
A.A.S.,
Instructor of Technology, Community College of the Air Force, GPA 4.0, 1993.
B.S., Business Administration, Louisiana Tech University, GPA
3.5 (Cum laude), 1990.
Certified
on Test and Measurement, USAF Technical Training Center, 1993.
Certified Technical Training Instructor (CTT), USAF Technical
Training Center, 1991.
Certified
Unix Systems Administrator, HP & AT&T Federal Systems, 1990.
Certified Unix Systems Administrator, USAF Technical Training
Center, 1989.
Superintendent, Performance Technology Division, U.S. Air
Force, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
(1994 - 1998)
- Eight years of strong system support development experience in business
managing or supporting a diverse set of applications in a variety of computing
platforms.
- Five years hands-on experience with OS versions of AT&T UNIX, HP/UX,
SCO-UNIX, as a UNIX Systems Administrator with Oracle DBMS knowledge.
- Managed a group of professionals who were responsible for full life cycle
systems development and support for multiple platforms (HP-UX System 9000
Series, SCO-UNIX, and Windows 95/NT) primarily running in UNIX-Oracle.
- Served as the technology business planner/analyst for the division.
Developed and consulted on existing and new technology strategies to support
customer requirements.
- Primary technology contact with various partners, technology spokesperson
(internally and externally). Extensive experience with developing and
presenting business cases.
- Represented the company as the technology senior consultant both technical
and functional, in the area of multimedia presentation design, CD-ROM and WWW
development.
- Known as a hands-on manager and 'addicted' to new technologies.
- Experienced manager responsible for technology integration planning within
the planning team.
- Expertise in analyzing client requirements and managing the technology
plan for human resources - professional development environment.
- Responsible for the on-going development and maintenance of the technology
integration plan (hardware and software).
- Eight years of facilitating change, estimating and planning and problem
solving including organizing and monitoring processes.
- Experienced business specialist with strong communication and presenting
skills and business knowledge.
- Performed multi-year technical planning to meet client's business
objectives.
- Directly involved in planning and prioritization process to evaluate
technology initiatives and projects that aligned with the business strategies
and priorities of the organization.
- Developed department budgets, schedules, and managed resources, including
professional development of support team.
Technology Project Manager, USAF, Maxwell AFB, Alabama (1992
- 1994)
WWW Development/ UNIX Webmaster
- Excellent working knowledge of UNIX, TCP/IP networking, and Internet
services (such as FTP and Gopher), Web server software.
- Responsible for the implementation, operation and support of the
corporation's World Wide Web site and managing the quality of the Web site's
content.
- Proactively developed and maintained the site's information content so
that the Web site served as a strategic business tool for the corporation.
- Four years experience WWW page design and development, and file systems
management services.
- Directly responsible for Internet services marketing and promotion.
- Expert user of HTML and graphic software to design, develop, and implement
Web pages. Including use of TELNET and FTP to communicate with remote Web
server.
- Expertise in diagnosing problems with Web pages and taking corrective
action.
- Familiar with CGI scripts, and use of freeware tools to generating reports
of Web site statistics and create interactive Web pages.
- Extensive knowledge with Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Outlook, and other Web browser running on a variety of systems *(Windows 95,
Windows NT and Macintosh).
Multimedia Developer/Distance Learning
- Developed and consulted on Advance Distributed Learning (ADL) facilitator
preparation strategies.
- Supervised and managed the advance teleseminar (used for ADL) facilitators
course a $2.2 million dollar program.
- Experience liaison to the educational technology and instructional
technology community.
- Technical project manager, maintaining and developing segment (technical
and operational) strategies and presenting investment scenarios to the
owners/operators.
- Responsible for migration of the Instructional System Development (ISD)
processes to interactive multimedia design concepts and principles.
- Installed, configured and determined the strategies and plans for a highly
regarded computer-based authoring lab used for interactive courseware
development, providing far-reaching ADL influence.
- Four years of experience using multimedia authoring systems (Toolbook CBT,
Toolbook II Instructor, Authorware, PowerPoint), graphic manipulation/design
software, and Designer's Edge.
Senior
UNIX Systems Administrator, IT Manager, USAF, Kunsan AFB, Republic of South
Korea (1989 - 1991)
- Certified Standard Multi-user Computer Systems Administrator/Operator
(UNIX).
- Served as the technical project manager involving a five-person team
responsible for successful implementation of a supply-chain/warehousing
application running on a UNISYS 1000 system.
- Responsible for the planning and executing the advancement of business and
technical applications. Included system security planning, monitoring and
administration.
- Hands-on experience with OS versions of AT&T UNIX, HP/UX, SCO-UNIX, as
a UNIX Systems Administrator with Oracle DBMS knowledge.
- Excellent understanding of relational databases and SQL. Two years
experience developing support team RDBMS skills.
- System support development supporting a diverse set of applications in a
variety of computing platforms.
- Wrote procedures to maintain, operate and perform UNIX Administrative
duties; subsequently recognized and rated number 1out of 175 systems
implemented worldwide.
- Responsible for local infrastructure maintenance and advancement for UNIX
and LAN/WAN, including barcode for supply chain/warehousing management
environment.
- Selected to work as a team member with EDI to make recommendation for
systems improvements that would increase productivity, accuracy, and
performance. Included, UNIX-Oracle Field Qualification and Testing I
& II (FGT&E).
References, writing samples, and publications are available upon request.
For more information, please email me at HS@HectorSalas.Com