Resume
Personal Data:
Name:
Ron Barak
Residence:
Haifa, Israel
Place of Birth:
Israel
Tel:
+972-4-8665651
Marital Status:
Single
Mobile:
+972-54-4838645
E-mail:
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[email protected] Professional Data:
November 2004 – Present:
Unix Automatisation Engineer
Comverse
Project to automate manual installation, checking, and customisation procedures of Comverse’s MDG system (on Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VxWorks); creation of scripts to produce automatic XML system’s descriptions; creation of scripts for automatic Oracle Database installation. In consequence, time to configure a MDG system is shortened by ~80%.
February 2004 – November 2004:
Unix System Administrator
Freelancer
Unix System Administration (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux).
Shell scripts writing.
PERL application writing.
HP-UX Operating System and application related problem analysis.
HP-UX Performance analysis.
Ignite/UX advice.
November 1998 – February 2004:
HP System Engineer - Intel Israel Site
Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd.
· System managed 400 HP-UX (PA-RISC) and HP-Itanium machines.
· Supported 2000 Intel engineers with HP-UX, performance and optimization issues.
· Wrote system enhancement tools and scripts in c-shell, PERL, POSIX-shell, and C.
· Created automated Ignite application which saves 90% of manual installation time.
· Actively participated in Intel’s HP-SET, a corporate-wide group of HP-UX administrators.
March 1998 –
November 1998:
System Manager - Cellular Software Engineering
Motorola Israel Ltd.
Managed two sites serving 80 development engineers on Sun's Solaris, SunOS, SGI, and Tandem, NCD X-terminals, and NT and Win95/3.11 PCs.
Ensured smooth operation and general maintenance of sites' hardware and software.
Implemented new features on networked systems, including: backup systems, monitoring, capacity planning, and bottlenecks elimination.
Designed future expansion of the system, assuring data protection and integrity.
System administration of two test laboratories.
Maintenance of the sites' Web Sites.
September 1996 –
March 1998:
System Manager
Vsoft Ltd.
Managed four company sites consisting of Sun Solaris, Digital Unix, Windows NT, Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 machines.
Implemented new features on the TCP/IP network systems.
Designed future of the system, assuring computer data protection and integrity.
Designed and maintained connection to the Internet.
Purchased computing and communications equipment and facilitated its assimilation.
April 1996 –
September 1996
System Engineer
UDI
Provided system level support at customers' sites.
Established Unix sites, installed software and hardware, educated customers on Unix.
Gave help and counselling to customers in design, definition and assimilation of systems.
Provided networking support and assistance services, defined communication networks, helped in definition and carrying-out of communication conversion projects.
Supported customers' IBM RS6000 machines.
Gave demonstrations and conducted benchmarking.
Supported UDI’s marketing group.
1990-1996:
Associate Programmer
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Managed UNECA's connection at Addis Ababa to the Internet.
Managed Unix machines and the Reality system (Magic based).
Participated in management of PADISnet, an African e-mail network.
Wrote application programs in C/C++ and Paradox applications in PAL.
Trouble-shoot and solved hardware and software problems.
Created study material and taught WordPerfect advance features.
1989-1990:
System Manager - Support Department
Intel Israel design Centre
Served as System Manager for Intel design centre: managed NFS network of 200 Sun and DEC workstations as well as 15 DEC super-minis, running SunOS and Ultrix, and two VAX super-minis running VAX/VMS.
Performed general duties of system management (with other four system managers).
Managed all printing support (both daily operations and writing enhancement utilities).
Enhancing inter-workstations communications application (netbatch).
Managed connection to Internet.
1988-1989:
Testing Laboratory Manager
Adacom Technologies.
Under the supervision of the R&D department chief, established and managed testing laboratory.
Developed all testing procedures in hardware and software, and implemented execution.
Supervised three full time workers and nine part-time (students) employees.
1988-1990:
Scientific/technical Translator, Hebrew/English/Hebrew, Hever Hametargemim.
1988:
English Teacher, Dong-A Languages School - Seoul, S.Korea.
1983-1987:
Computer Operator, Support Department, Intel Israel
Army Service: 1979-1982:
Sergeant First Class, Israeli De