Resume for Richard N. Holstein

RICHARD N. HOLSTEIN
RichieNH@alumni.brandeis.edu

33 Ministerial Branch, Bedford, NH 03110-5725
603-472-2526 (H)
603-714-5405 (C)

Software engineering / Quality assurance

Customer satisfaction oriented. Proven writer and communicator. Heedful of software discipline and industry standards. Known for sharing information and mentoring. Both problem focused and corporate attentive. Committed to learning and furthering job skills.

Areas of Expertise	Tools	Languages & Protocols
code design, development, debug, delivery structured code review test automation, design & deployment published author tech writer user & OS interoperability hardware / software configuration UNIX system administration OpenVMS system management trade show & customer presentations operating system support & development OpenVMS internals device drivers	MS Word MS Excel OpenOffice Paint Shop Pro WordToWeb HTML Validator TextPad 1stPage QArun Netscape/Mozilla Internet Explorer Opera	HTML & DHTML JavaScript CSS Tcl Expect CGI Korn Shell VMS DCL MACRO-32 Java C Perl et al.

Key Accomplishments

Earned bonus and promotion for web-based QA test integration, control, and reporting project, increasing test efficiency threefold.
Drove OpenVMS and UNIX interoperability project, leading to multiple publications, marketing plans, trade show presentations, and third party software support.
Automated the merge of three major VMS development streams: the modularized exec, clusters, and regular development.
Wrote the first SCSI device driver to ship with VMS.

Professional Experience

Access3000, Inc.

Consultant (2005 - current)

Contracted services in storage management, system administration, hardware management, software engineering, and support.

Eastern Mountain Sports

Retail (2004 - current)

Specialty provider of outdoor clothing and equipment.

ARkival Technology Corporation

Research assistant (2004 - 2005)

Researched e-mail verification software. Provided recommendations for federal National Archive report.

En Gannim LLC

Landscape worker (2002 - 2005)

Tended lawns, cleared land, cleared snow and ice.

Town of Bedford

Contractor (2002 - 2003)

Converted town Zoning Ordinance from Adobe Pagemaker to Microsoft Word to HTML.

Books Are Fun

Retail (2003)

Book and gift sales, set up for traveling book fair.

Compaq Computer Corporation
(formerly Digital Equipment Corporation)

Systems/Software Engineer,
UNIX Quality Management
(1995 - 2001)

Senior technical lead for test automation.

Led project for web application to schedule, initiate, monitor, and log software events.
Increased QA efficiency by reducing overhead when filing reports.
Produced web interface to enable compatibility within UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows, Netscape, Internet Explorer.
Performed release & cluster testing, developed & maintained software, managed lab, wrote documentation, led code reviews.
Automated timely management summaries of tested hardware and software.
Received special award for work qualifying third-party hardware.
Highly valued as mentor for other employees.

Additional Professional Experience

Software Principal Engineer, UNIX Software Group, Digital
Software Principal Engineer, OpenVMS Supporting Engineering & Development groups, Digital
Senior Software Engineer, VMS Test System Development Group, Digital
Software Engineer I, Internal Software Support Group, Digital
Programmer, Harvard Business School

Volunteer Activities

Bedford Cross-Country Ski Club

Bedford, NH (1997 - present)

President, vice-president, trip leader, trail worker. Successfully wrote request for National Recreational Trails Fund grant. Orchestrator of major fundraising effort. Creator and maintainer of club website, bxcsc.home.comcast.net. Creator of software to score ski races.

Appalachian Mountain Club

Boston, MA (1983 - present)

NH Chapter and Trails Committee trip leader. Family Hiking Group coordinator. Creator of software to gather family data for membership and of online club schedule.

Beaver Brook Association

Hollis, NH (1993 - present)

Trail maintainer and documenter. Fall Festival helper.

Wellness Center of Spitbrook

Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH (1992 - 1999)

Secretary and member of "board of directors" for small business to manage in-house fitness facility. Awarded bonus for exceeding job definition.

Education

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

B.A. with honors, Mathematics, 1972

Publications

UNIX for OpenVMS Users, Third Edition

Digital Press, 2003 (second edition, 1998)
with Joseph McMullen and Philip E. Bourne

"Commuting between OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1"

in Digital Systems Journal, vol. 15, no. 6, November/December 1993