John Spitkovsky

Co-founded this successful business to support Enterprise-class IT Operational Environments for our customers.  Offering technical expertise across a diverse set of technologies to leverage growth and goals into the next stages of Operational Excellence, MS Consulting Services continues to provide cost-effective services to move customers toward business objectives.

• Provide Continuity Assurance Program for Enterprise.  This program engages a senior-level engineer on a part-time basis, retaining 24x7 coverage, protects intellectual capital from leaving with key employees, and saves roughly 66% off the cost of an additional FTE to accomplish the same goals.
• Bring experiences with best practices at hundreds of customers to bear as options for existing customers.
• Protect VAX and Alpha legacy environments by implementing emulators.  This modernizes hardware, reduces points-of-failure, and lowers operational costs, typically resulting in paybacks well under 24 months.
• Leveraging multi-vendor skills, guide customers through migrations to alternate and/or updated infrastructures.
• Support cloud infrastructures by establishing and leveraging partnerships with cloud platform providers and infrastructure vendors such as Red Hat to provide appropriate on-premise/off-premise mix for individual customer needs.

Taught evening courses in the Computer Science curriculum.

Provided Technical Sales Support to an end-user division of Arrow Electronics selling Sun, DEC, and HP Enterprise Products to customers.

• 1 of 6 Engineers nationally that provided pre and post-sales technical requirement delivery.
• Provide post-sales project management for customer projects.
  
  • Trained and certified with HP Openview Family Product Line
  • Sun Competency 2000 certified
• Technically train, educate and support five salespeople to meet an annual $12 million budget.
• Technically train, educate and support new and existing customers as the need arose.
• Deliver presentations nationally in major venues to support organizational sales objectives.
• Acted as Interim Branch Manager to gracefully shut down Chicago office when Arrow divested from the end-user business.

Supported the technology needs for the Investment Consulting and Analytics department as well as the Harris Investment Management department.

• Performed responsibilities outlined in 'Consultant' heading below in an ongoing basis.

Successfully completed projects at various customer environments.

• Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, IL (August, 1991 - March, 1992)

  • Installed, managed and maintained a twisted-pair Ethernet network consisting of VAXes and PCs networked via Digital Equipment's Pathworks network operating system.
    
  • Managed all programming personnel.
    
  • Programmed new and existing financial applications.
    

  Arrow Electronics, MTI Systems Division, Itasca, IL (July, 1991)

  • Along with a sales support engineer, installed a twisted-pair Ethernet based VAX and PC network supporting one department of Harris Trust & Savings Bank and Harris Investment Management.

  Charles Industries, Rolling Meadows, IL (March, 1991)

  • Led the design, planning and implementation of the multi-vendor network at the new Charles Industries facility in Rolling Meadows

Provided technical expertise in various multi-vendor functions of increasing responsibility.  Work ranged from Systems Administration to Systems Programming, Applications Programming, Project Management and Group Leadership as required.

• Switching System Division, 1990-1991
  • VAX/VMS System Analyst / Engineering Security Officer
    • Provided system-level programming as needed.
    • Provided user support, project leadership, PCSA (now Pathworks) network support, and SNA gateway support.
    • Provided System Management, Network Management and administrative duties.
    • Investigated and coordinated computer-related security issues both on-site and as connected to our LAN/WAN
• Wescom Telephone Products Division 1984-1990
  • VAX/VMS Systems Administrator, 1987-1990
    • System managed a VAX Cluster. This included software installation, system tuning, implementation of system security, product evaluations, coordination of field service, user training, and implementation of network features, as well as day-to-day user assistance and administration.
    • Provided programming expertise writing system utilities, helping users with difficult software problems, administered the PCSA (now Pathworks) personal computer network as required, and wrote/modified application software as required.
• DAISY System Administrator, 1986-1987
  • System managed twenty-two networked CAE stations for circuit design and simulation.
  • Solely responsible for user assistance and education, software installation and maintenance, investigation, purchase, and implementation of new hardware and software products, and coordination of any needed paperwork, including negotiation of a sizable maintenance contract.
• Cooperative Education Student / Intern, 1984-1986
  • Performed miscellaneous jobs in the Computer Services Department.  This included system programming, system management, hardware installation, operational tasks, and documentation.

- GPA: 3.909- Specialization in Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing- Publications: Spitkovsky, J. & Evens, M. (1993). Negative Acknowledgements in Natural Language Tutoring. Proceedings of MAICSS '93, Chesterton, Indiana, April 18-19. 41-45.

- GPA: 3.492, in Major: 3.9