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2006 Status
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NetQA has been selected to
provide principle project management services for the County of
Sacramento, California infrastructure deployment of VOIP
telecommunication services using Cisco’s Enterprise Call Manager
systems, and the decommissioning of legacy GTD 5 telecommunications
switches. The project involves over 8,000 county telecommunications
users, and every municipal agency in the county.
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MRTG
- MRTG ver. 2.12.1 online and porting html.
- Microsoft SharePoint Portal established
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March 2003
- IP Presence services is functional
- Firewall deployed
- Web Server deployed and configured
- MRTG ver. 2.9.21 online and porting html.
- Microsoft Operations Management MOM interlaced.
- Perl Systems deployed
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2003 Cyberkinetics and Orion Systems become
certified development partners.
- Cyberkinetics MCP staff join with Orion MCP staff and become
certified Microsoft Development Partners.
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2002 - 2003 Cyberkinetics and the future
- The drastic downturn in the information technology sector has forced
Cyberkinetics to postpone several R&D projects and reduce venture
capital expenditures.
- Cyberkinetics downsizes to skeleton operating and management teams
to insure current contract maintenance and service levels
- Cyberkinetics and the NetQA division survives.
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2001 Cyberkinetics consults the California State
Franchise Tax Board.
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Provided development of a
performance monitoring strategy for the FTB E-file (electronic tax
filing) system.
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Provided training in general
network, server, and router data modeling techniques.
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Conducted an initial
installation of HP Openview.
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Identified key variables
within the environment for baseline analysis and threshold evaluation.
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Conducted initial configuration of SNMP collection services and
web enabled reporting services on related interfaces of the clustered
server environment.
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Development of the baseline
trend and threshold parameters for key services and components.
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2000 NetQA.net roll out.
- Cyberkinetics rolls out its ecommerce website to support
outsourced network quality assurance and monitoring services.
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1999 - 2000 Cyberkinetics responds to the
California State Department of Health
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Cyberkinetics project management responds to the
deployment of a statewide network to interconnect several Windows and
Novell networks and the intranet services associated within the
infrastructure.
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Coordination efforts among several state and
federal departments on the procedures and methodology of deployment.
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Year 2000 compliance evaluation on legacy
systems and software.
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Participated in the development and negotiation
of the service level agreement process between the IT/IS infrastructure
of the DHS and the federal branch of HCFA.
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Consulted in key operating committee’s
including: the DHS Internet Standards Board that dealt with internet and
intranet development standards and the State Forms Compliance Group
which dealt with standardization issues for the deployment of electronic
forms and information distribution procedures.
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1997 -1998 Cyberkinetics teams with Orion
Systems, Inc.
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Development and deployment
of technical support services to all Orion Systems network customers.
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Development of 24 by 7 voice
response center including POTS, PCS with integrated alphanumeric pagers,
and integrated voicemail. Initial deployment of Remedy Corporation’s
issue-tracking HelpDesk system 3.2. Scheme development based on
workflow. Knowledge base development for integrated helpdesk.
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Orion Systems Remote SNMP
Management Services. Development and deployment of a SNMP remote
monitoring service. The service is a PERL based application, currently
running as a Window NT Service. The service extracts traffic statistics
from Orion’s, Cisco infrastructure of routers and switches, and various
other SNMP compliant devices such as servers, hubs, and power supplies.
The service outputs in real-time as an HTML-based, internet, reporting
application to all Orion Systems network customers.
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Orion Systems IP presence
monitoring and customized notification Services. Development and
deployment of an IP presence monitoring service. The service monitors
the internet for specific IP address’ via several Orion backbone
providers and notifies Orion personnel and Orion clients via email, and
alpha-numeric pager on the perceived status resources from multiple
perspectives on the internet.
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Orion Systems Online
Time-Tracking and Billing Management Services, Development and
deployment of an AS400 intranet application for the purpose of tracking
consultant hourly billings and expenses on a project and client basis.
The application provides accounting and reporting methods to internal
Orion operations. Strategic development.
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Sacramento County of
Public Works - Intranet development Consultation. Consulted a
division of Public Work’s senior management in development of standard
operating procedures (SOP) and policy for an Intranet rollout. Raised
issues to point out necessities of change management utilizing standard
database technology, content controls, and developed a sample SOP guide.
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Oakland Athletics
Baseball Company – Providing network systems development,
integration and technical support. Deployment of Novell and Windows
operating environments. Cisco router maintenance for point-to-point T1,
and internet frame relay. Maintenance of MS Exchange email services.
Application development and analysis.
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1996 - 1997 Cyberkinetics teams with Orion
Systems, Inc. for the California State Department of Corrections
- Cyberkinetics provides development and implementation of a quality
assurance program for the, “Inmate Information Management System,”
software development process.
- Chaired a committee of application architects responsible for the
construction of each module of the application and developed programming
standards and guidelines that were compiled into a publication.
- Conducted enforcement of the standards publication, through a
comprehensive audit.
- Construction of a library of SQL query tools for the purpose of
independent verification and validation.
- Oversaw the construction of a metric monitoring system to monitor
progress within the software development process.
- Conducted reviews and audits, and performed project requirements
analysis.
- Participated in the deployment of Remedy change management systems.
- Performed extensive development with report designer and graphics
designer within the Oracle Designer/Developer 2000 package. Development
of automated scripting services with WinRunner and SQL.
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1996 Envirotech incorporates and becomes
Cyberkinetics, Inc.
- Cyberkinetics established in 1996
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1993 TRW Corporation & California State Department
Justice
In 1994 Envirotech teamed up
with the the TRW Corporation on the State of California, Department of
Justice SAIN project to deliver network training to the managers in the
Bureau of Forensic Services (BFS) on the design, and management of local
and wide area networks. As a relatively new technology within the State
of California, these members needed to be trained on the complexities and
relationships in electronic information, the physical infrastructure of
its delivery and routing (OSI Model), and the management issues arising
from enterprise network expectations and requirements. Building network
policies, streamlining user platforms, and building monitoring systems to
insure performance and security requirements, were the focus of the
three-week course. The four-section course included lectures on policies
and guidelines related to
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Data-centers, physical nodes, and
protocols
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Protocol transfer
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Security & Authentication
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Pro-active systems and services
management concepts
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1993 Centrifuge Research
- 1993 brought Envirotech the opportunity to contribute to Dr. Uwe
Shaflinger's development in centrifuge design at the Institute of
Fluid Dynamics & Heat Transfer at the
Technical University Wien. Envirotech Constructed a digital
image studio to record and track particle behavior during sedimentation
within a centrifuge with a variety of chamber shapes. The studio
included three axis mounted digital cameras, a strobe light, and a
timing mechanism to synchronize chamber location with image plane.
Fascinating research was conducted as different shaped centrifuge
chambers effected multi-shaped particles of different sizes.
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1992 Remote Networking
Services
- In 1992 Envirotech developed remote networking services for
automated core drawing services. Onsite drill tailings and core
samples were observed and noted on an IBM PCJr. The PCJr utilized
a 300 b/s modem to transfer data to a remote AutoCAD system that plotted
and documented the drilling process in real-time.
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1991 Envirotech transition to
Information Systems
- In 1991 Envirotech transitioned to computer based statistical
services, and the generation of graphic models based on data analysis
and presentation. Envirotech was generating the earliest contour
maps with AutoCAD and GIS. Additionally, statistical applications
were utilized for the generation of three-dimensional surfaces and meshs.
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1989 Envirotech Consultants Established
- 1989 a sole proprietorship was started by Stephen Engel, to
meet the needs of short term opportunistic ventures in the environmental
assessment and remediation services for several Sacramento based
geological investigation and engineering companies. Stephen
performed onsite sampling of soil and groundwater at several
contaminated sites in Northern California.
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