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DANIEL HINOJOSA

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Daniel@RNDH.Org

OBJECTIVE: Technical Support Manager

QUALIFICATIONS: Excellent background in technical support management, technical customer support, and support documentation. Systems experience on Sun Solaris and HP UNIX servers and workstations. Extensive background with software development environments. Bilingual - Fluent in Spanish - speak, read, write. Outstanding depth in:

  • Building support organizations, Agilent and Manage.Com.
  • Re-energizing support organization, ScImage, Inc.
  • Customer support, support processes, and support performance that delight customers.
  • Team building for successful teams and highly dynamic environments.

    KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

  • Designed and implemented support programs for global 24x7 coverage with existing resources.
  • Delivered 20% productivity increase by instituting a cross departmental program for collection and use of quality metrics to guide continual improvement of development and production processes.
  • Facilitated 80% improvement in software development cycle.
  • Received multiple STAR awards, stock grants, for excellent performance and cross team contribution.
  • Pioneered utilization of the Internet for support solutions at Hewlett Packard.
  • Realized $430k savings per year for EDA software development team.

    SKILLS:
    Management: People, multiple projects, schedules, contracts, vendors.
    Technical Support: Trouble-shooting, O.S. configurations, software, hardware, network, in-person, phone, email, web.
    Web Servers / Application Servers: Apache, Netscape Enterprise, iPlanet, Apache Tomcat 3.x, BEA Weblogic 6.1 / 7.0, JRun 3.1 Professional.
    Databases: Oracle 8i, Sybase 11 / 12, MS SQL 7.0, Access, Informix.
    Presentations: Users, executives, trade shows, training, classroom, one-on-one, teleconference, WebEx.
    Communication: Inter-personal, phone, trade-shows, training, technical customer support.
    Systems Administration: HP-UX - 9.X / 10.20, Solaris - 2.6 / 7 / 8, kernel performance tuning, networking.
    Networking: SNMP, DNS, NFS, Samba, LDAP, TCP/IP, X.25, ISDN, GateD, Tibco Products: Hawk 3.x / 4.x, Rendezvous 6.x, PortalBuilder 3.x.
    Microsoft Products: Windows NT 4.0/2000/95/98, Office Products - MS Word 2000, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Visio, MS Access, Outlook 98/2000, Outlook Express, I.E. 4.x/5.x/6.x.
    Languages: Java troubleshooting, XML, HTML.
    Miscellaneous Software: JDK, Java Development Kit, JRE, Java Runtime Environment, Kana, DeskTop, Scopus, TeamShare, DreamWeaver, Adobe PhotoShop 5.x, Adobe Acrobat 5.x, Netscape 4.7x.

     

    EXPERIENCE:
    Manager, Client Services
    ScImage, Inc., Los Altos, CA 2003 - 2004
  • Notably increased customer satisfaction in 8 months.
  • Improved team morale in 6 months.
  • Excellent success in meeting customer commitment.

    Customer Support Representative - Temp / Contract
    Homestead Technologies, Inc., Menlo Park, CA 2002

  • Resolved 100% of incoming calls with available resources.
  • 100% success at meeting customer satisfaction metrics.
  • Successful contributions to process improvements for whole team.

    Technical Support Manager
    Manage.Com, San Jose, CA 2000 - 2002

  • Designed and implemented support programs for global 24x7 coverage with existing resources.
  • Managed successful timely resolution of escalations by providing cross-functional leadership and leading technical, management, and support resources through the escalation process.
  • Guide continual improvement of software development and support by supplying roadmap of metrics for collection and monitoring to executive management.

    R&D Program Manager
    Agilent Technologies Company, Palo Alto, CA 1999 - 2000
    Engineering Services team provided central support for corporate Supply Chain solutions.

  • Delivered 20% productivity increase by instituting a cross departmental program for collection and use of quality metrics to guide continual improvement of development and production processes.
  • Facilitate teamwork environment by creating peer recognition program for department.
  • Facilitated 100% support coverage for global customers in a 24x7 environment.

    Technical Consultant
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Mountain View, CA 1998 - 1999

  • Co-authored a re-write of the HP-UX Kernel Tuning and Performance Guide providing customers an authoritative guide for tuning HP-UX systems.
  • Partnered with Synopsys to provide solutions in a growing HP-UX development environment.

    Productivity Engineer
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA 1995 - 1998

  • Received retention stock grant for excellent sustained performance across multiple teams.
  • Received STAR award, a stock grant, for successful completion of IT needs analysis project.
  • Realized $430 K savings for one year due to compute architecture and process improvements.
  • 80% improvement in software development cycle by delivery of new development environment.
  • Facilitated 100% successful corporate systems security audit utilizing web based documents.
  • Improve by 75% turnaround time for user technology requests by creating web forms.
  • Delivered 99% scheduled uptime of systems in local data center for software development team.

    IT Soultions Specialist / DNS Master
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Santa Clara, CA 1992 - 1995

  • Supplied 95% scheduled uptime of 33 UNIX client servers, 300 clients.
  • Provided 98% scheduled uptime of 15 production UNIX servers across four sites in the bay area.
  • 100% completion of DNS infrastructure upgrade project by successful project management.
  • 35% improvement in network utilization by architecture of client/server infrastructure.
  • Mentored new systems administrators.
  • Developed guidelines for managing systems in a production environment.
  • Served as technical lead escalations providing focal point for technical contact by management.

    Response Center Network Support Engineer
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Mountain View, CA 1991-1992

  • Delivered 98% USENET server uptime for RC engineer use.
  • Received STAR award, stock grant, for providing rapid response to security breach by a user.
  • Provided networking support for DNS, gated, ISDN, X.25, X.400, TCP/IP.
  • Championed usage of Internet to deliver patches to customers.

    Response Center EECAD Support Engineer
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Mountain View, CA 1989-1991

  • Pioneered electronic submission of trouble calls via the Internet within the Response Center.
  • Recreated user environments on lab equipment duplicating hardware, software, and kernel configurations.

    CAD Printed Circuit Board Designer
    Hewlett-Packard Company, San Diego, California 1988 - 1989
    Printed Circuit Board Engineer
    Kaypro Company, Solana Beach, CA 1984 - 1988
    Held several positions
    Hewlett-Packard Company, San Diego, CA 1981 - 1983

    EDUCATION
    De Anza College Currently enrolled
    Palomar College, San Marcos, CA. Electronic Technicians Certificate
    Inter-Personal communications, UCSD Extension, San Diego CA
    Leadership Management, UCSD Extension, San Diego, CA

    PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
    USENIX Association (since 1994)
    USENIX Systems Administrators Guild (SAGE)(since 1994)

 

 

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