Michael Fleck
3100 Colanthe Ave, Las Vegas, Nevada 89102
702-870-1074
Sormik@Hotmail.com

11/2006 Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA
9/2006 Microsoft Certified Professional - exam 70-270 Windows XP


Aid to President
2002 - 2006 Dolores Press, Glendale, CA
Company business and financial management including budgeting, planning, accounts payable and accounts receivable.
Project management. Lead project to upgrade company’s mobile c-band uplink by selecting a mobile Ku-band satellite technology and equipment manufacturer. Wrote requirements for and approved proposals for mobile studio components, switcher capabilities, and satellite uplink and dish. Negotiated contract for mobile Ku-band satellite uplink van. Monitored progress, keeping upgrades and revisions to a minimum to stabilize costs and risk. Obtained necessary FCC licensing.
Assisted in total revision of a fixed C-band analog satellite uplink to a new switching facility with both analog C-band and digital Ku-band satellite uplinks. This consisted of a new Ku-band uplink dish, a totally separate Ku-band downlink dish, redundant encoder/up converters/transmitters and decoder/down converters/receivers, and a new video/audio switcher.
System Administrator for intranet and internet sites. Responsible for maintaining Windows 2003 servers and Windows XP clients, maintaining Active Directory users profiles and passwords and applying group policy objects. Administered IIS 6 web server. Maintained system through MOM 2005 operations console and ISA firewall dashboard. Used WSUS to apply software updates and security patches.
Engineer
1/2001 - 2002 Dolores Press, Glendale, CA
System administrator for company intranet and internet websites as above.
Maintained television studio equipment including: 2 recording studios and station master control facility, a mobile studio truck (with recording, playback, camera and production bays,) mobile C-band satellite uplink truck (with a 12‘ dish and redundant 3000 watt Varian klystron HPAs,) and microwave communication equipment from 2 company sites to satellite earth station.
Wrote in VB6 a website to register and logon new users, display available courses, then track and display (with MS Access as the database) the online audio files each user listened to.
Designed and built emergency backup studio control room at the satellite earth station for disaster preparedness.
Complete overhaul and upgrade of Mobile Video Studio truck’s camera and recording suites.

Software Test Engineer
8/2000 - 12/2000 Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Wrote VB6 programs to test data tools in the Visual Studio group. These tools are used in Access, VB, C, Visual InterDev and SQL Server. These programs were batch automation tests to verify the new tools included with Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 were fully functional under a variety of manufacturer's platforms and backward compatible with prior operating system versions.
I left this position after a short stay due to medical problems with family back in Los Angeles.


Senior Programmer/System Admin then Chief Engineer
7/1984 - 6/2000 Dolores Press, Inc, Glendale, CA
Project Management- Researched business development opportunities for the company on the Internet. Led effort to designed and build first website originally featuring streaming video with VDO over four T1 lines (2 Cisco routers) and 200 streaming video feeds. Installed and administered Windows 9X/NT, Real Networks Server and Windows Media Server. The LAN included video editing stations to capture TV video, digitizing and converting to Real Media format, and storing on hard drives. After the video editing the programs could be transferred to the file server for posting on the website.
As Database and Network Administrator, on the LANs: installed and maintained servers, workstations and hubs, configured CISCO routers; on the mainframe: performed numerous SYSGENs for equipment upgrades including CPUs, disk controllers/drives, tape controllers/drives, and local/remote terminal controllers. Supervised all computer operations including data entry, backups and rebuilding the database.
In 1990 became the Chief Engineer overseeing equipment, personnel and operations for the TV studios and satellite uplink in addition to computer responsibilities. This included all the network master control switching equipment, the microwave links to the satellite earth station and the earth station itself. This included all routine maintenance, tuning of klystrons, twt’s, modulator/up converters, and HPA, moving 30’ C-band dish and center box alignment. TV studio equipment initially were composed of discrete analog components but were all upgraded to digital circuitry over the years. I have maintained and installed monitors, cameras, large tape recording drives, video switchers and sound boards.
Project Manager to redesign earth station power center to incorporate emergency diesel generator.
Lead Programmer- developed software for a 250,000 row relational database with tables for name/address, receivables, orders, inventory. Developed both server and client software in-house on an IBM System 370 running OS/VS2 in SVS and TSO. Wrote client in COBOL with CLISTs necessary to run in TSO. Wrote server in COBOL and IBM TCP macro language for process queues, wrote JCL, performed SYSGENs. Wrote embedded encryption modules in IBM assembly code. Later migrated the entire mainframe system to a Windows NT based LAN using a custom implementation of Approach 98 as the database manager.
Created a second database with 7 tables using COBOL on the mainframe and later migrated it to dBase IV for a Windows NT LAN.

Systems Engineer
1/1984 - 7/1984 Northrup ASD, Pico Rivera, CA
Performed systems engineering studies for the Stealth Bomber.

Programmer/Systems Engineer
1/1980 - 12/1983 Lockheed ADP, Burbank, CA
Wrote FORTRAN and performed systems engineering for avionics including: analyzing radar warning systems detection/identification/counter measures against real SAM sites.
Wrote Motorola assembly code for navigation/radar flight plan system to accept user inputs, determine feasibility of radar mapping plan with spherical geometry given radar physical limits and aircraft bank angle, upload flight plan to both onboard systems.
Performed systems engineering on satellite controlled remote (airborne) radio receivers. Attended NSA sponsored cryptography school.
Education
12/1979 Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering Degree