Dennis Kennedy

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Windows NT (et al) Network Administration (WAN/LAN), Microsoft SQL Administration and Programming, Visual Basic, Visual C++ (MFC) and Access Programming - Used Visual Basic to connect with Access (ODBC) and Microsoft SQL (VBSQL / DB32) as the Database for Multiple Applications, including NetCheck (Computer, Network, SQL and Virus administration), a Windows NT Memory Analysis Program, a Server Maintenance Program, a Network and SQL Sampling Program and a Heads Up Data Entry WorkFlow and Processing Program (Workflow Optimization and Automation), among others. Corrected errors in the Visual C++ SQL Distributed database custom program. Optimized workflow process, access, network and database as a unit. Reset the entire network of approx. 1700 computers, including WFW and Windows NT Workstations, Servers and PDC/BDC's, both 3.51 and 4.0, DNS, DHCP, WINS, RAS, PPP, SMS, Proxy, SNMP, RAID (Hot-Swap), Trusts, Security, implemented the IBM ADSM backup system, Arcserve backup, set up Netscape and MIIS web servers, did minor server (Tricord) hardware maintenance and set up StorageTek. Set up the file servers. Administered the Distributed SQL Network of 21 Databases across 21 Servers over a WAN (over 500 Gig of imaging data). Wrote additional Visual Basic and Visual C++ Programs to help with this Administration, including NetCheck (device / database administration), Tables (a program to synchronize Every Table, Field and Index on All 21 Servers), as well as others. Established the Backup Routines (Tasks to Dumps), created Devices, Databases and Tables, recreated Indices, wrote SQL Scripts, Stored Procedures and Triggers, optimized Replication, automated periodic 'Resets', created Web Based Reporting, etc. Automated and optimized scheduled events of network and database administration around users. Set up singular-administration capability. Also temporarily led the department, trained employees and documented. While usage increased by a factor of 18, total traffic decreased by a factor of 12, with uptimes of nearly 100%.

�Dennis is our Jack-of - no - make that Master-of-All-Trades... I don�t know how one person can actually know so much.� Ed Sliman �Dennis typically does extremely good work for us and we do rely on his ability to get the job done. I would in the same breath ask him to take a pause occasionally and let us all catch up.� Chuck Siemon Brian said that 'I was right about everything that I warned Kaiser about'. Barry said that 'Nobody can even come close to possibly running a computer system and network like I can do' and 'if I need something, I just write it'. Ron said that 'it is Impossible that the Network and Database can be running that fast', until I showed him the numbers. Others asked me to 'please fix the mainframe, too'. Chuck said, 'NetCheck saved us a lot of money in liscensing' (I wrote NetCheck on my own time and donated a copy of it) and 'the 'HUDE' workflow improvements really sped up Heads-Up-Data-Entry'.