Lyon, Anthony L.

UNIX/Internet Admin Position Wanted

ANTHONY L. LYON

Work:
Information Technology Division
1010 
NUBS
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(313) 936-5496
Home:
815 South First St. #5
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

(313) 995-3298

E-Mail: tlyon@umich.edu

URL:	http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tlyon




EXPERIENCE



October 95 - Present ITD/LSA Partnership, University of Michigan
	As member of three person team administered 200 + UNIX
	Workstations in the Mathematics Department, consisting
	of Sun Sparcstations and HP-UX machines. As part of
	four person team administered environment of Sun, HP,
	SGI, and Digital UNIX machines and three Sun Sparc servers
	for the Department of Physics. Administered four subnets for
	Mathematics and three for Physics.  Administered departmental
	printing department-wide for Mathematics. As member of three-
	person team administered AFS cell for Mathematics, and as member
	of 4 person team administered AFS cell for the College
	of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Responsible for backup procedures
	for the LSA AFS cell. Authored several management scripts in 
	Perl and Csh. Also coordinated and planned monthly meetings of
	the UNIX Special Interest Group in the University community.



June 94 - October 95  School of Education, University of Michigan
	Performed duties of Local Area Network Manager and UNIX
	Systems Administrator for the School of Education.

	Designed, maintained, and expanded a Novell 3.11 network
	environment consisting of approximately 200 nodes. Network
	protocols involved included Appletalk, IPX, and TCP/IP.

	Designed and implemented a UNIX server environment, consisting
	of two Sun Sparc 20 Model 60s.  Compiled and installed software
	for various Internet services including gopher, www, anonymous
	FTP, and usenet. Authored the original web presence for the School.

	Maintained FoxPro database for Admissions. Administered
	a two post-office ccMail service.  Maintained an Asynch and
	SNA gateway for communication to campus network resources.

	Established and recommended policies on Conditions of Use
	of School information technology resources.  

	Evaluated and recommended hardware and software solutions
	to faculty needs, and wrote purchase requests and justifications
	for purchase.  Maintained equipment inventory.

	Departed the School of Education to pursue opportunities
	as part of a team of administrators in a more homogenous UNIX
	environment.



October 91  - June 94  Information Technology Division, University of Michigan
	Served as front-line technical consultant to campus community.
	Duties included answering the technical support hotline for
	the campus (764-HELP), and answering questions on all ITD supported
	hardware and software (Macintosh, Wintel, MacOS, Windows, MS-DOS, 
	UNIX, MTS, TCP/IP Applications, and various word processing, 
	spreadsheet, and database applications).  Acted as contract
	consultant for departments needing assistance, and maintained
	and administered NeXT, Macintosh, Novell, and UNIX networks.
	Acted as second-level user support, including the answering of
	"referrals" from an Apriori system on networking, communications
	software, UNIX, and TCP/IP client software.  
	
	Was responsible for migrating 15 person Planning Group from MTS
	(an IBM mainframe system) to UNIX-based computing, in advance
	of campus-wide deployment of UNIX systems to replace 
	the mainframe system.  Served as Appletalk and Banyan VINES
	administrator for the Planning Group.

	Served as administrative support for the Planning Group
	form my date of hire (October 91) until I was promoted
	to the position of Computer Systems Consultant in June 92.

	Departed ITD to pursue opportunity to manage, maintain and
	administer the LAN and UNIX services for the School of Education.



June 1980 - August 1986  Lyon Underwriters, Inc.
	Served as commercial underwriter in an excess and surplus
	lines insurance brokerage.  Calculated and quoted rates
	and coverages for commercial auto, truck fleet, aviation,
	primary commercial liability, umbrella liability, and 
	other specialty coverages.  Designed and implemented 
	communication link (primitive e-mail) with Lloyds of London, 
	our primary source for coverages. Implemented and administered
	turnkey system (CPM-based Zylog Z-80 processor, 10 meg HD, 64K RAM)
	for calculating rates, producing coverage forms and endorsements, 
	and tracking billing procedures.

	Departed to pursue college education.


EDUCATION

August 1986 - July 91  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
	Obtained Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Russian History
	and Russian Language (double major).  Overall GPA 3.97

	Completed courses in Russian History from the Hanseatic
	League period of Novgorod to the Gorbachev era. Completed
	courses in Russian language and literature, including an
	intensive summer course at the University of Washington.
	Served as President of the UF Russian Club. Served as
	student coordinator for semester at Moscow State University
	overseeing 20 students from UF.  

	Also completed courses in COBOL, Pascal, and Basic programming
	languages, advanced biology, genetics, and astronomy.

	Honors included President's Honor Roll, Phi Beta Kappa,
	Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key National Honor Society, Phi	
	Alpha Theta Historical Honor Society, and Cum Laude 
	graduation.