Christian E. Stalberg: Telecomputing Resume

Christian E. Stalberg's Telecomputing Resume

Overview	Twenty-five years computer and telecommunication technologies experience with varied and extensive business requirements understanding spanning both public and private sector organizations. Considerable hands-on technical skill set lends strength to leadership abilities. Technology and business competencies include: Internet, Extranets, and Intranets; e-commerce; web publishing; security; technology and knowledge management; enterprise resource and strategic planning; disaster recovery; systems integration; system administration (UNIX); LAN/WAN networking; human factors engineering; software development; smart cards; wireless (WAP, GSM, CDMA, satellite); GPS; project administration and management; technology assessment; business requirements analysis; business, contract, and grants administration; technical writing; capability, proof-of-concept and feasibility studies; and, documentation and training. Proven excellence in both written and verbal communication.

Experience	January 2003 - April 2006 NC Office of Information Technology Services, Raleigh, NC
	Team Leader, Web Services
	Responsible for managing ITS's web products, including determining technical requirements for the web infrastructure; technical and operational strategy; managing technical equipment, staff, and support; establishing technical standards; and representing the Office's interagency efforts involving web-based technology. Responsible for establishing Office wide public affairs policies, strategies, and guidelines, which may affect the Web.

	February 2002 - January 2003 NC Office of Information Technology Services, Raleigh, NC
	Unix Systems Administrator
	Perform local and remote systems administration of Sun Solaris servers. Responsibilities included Perl and UNIX shell scripting, installation and maintenance of server applications, libraries and tools, including Bind(DNS), sendmail, Netscape iPlanet and Apache web servers, Majordomo, Majorcool, Perl, and procmail.

	December '99 - June 2001 Acterna, Research Triangle Park, NC
	Project Manager
	E-Commerce
	Project lead for Acterna's (formerly Wavetek Wandel Goltermann) entry into e-commerce. E-commerce requirements included secure on-line purchases of software and hardware products by customers in the United States. Worked closely with Cybersource for payment processing and digital delivery of software.
	Web Publishing
	Project lead for development of Acterna's website. Acterna was formed by the merger of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann (Research Triangle Park, NC) and TTC (Germantown, MD). Web publishing requirements included supporting the distributed authoring activities of 40 sales offices worldwide and the integration and conversion of approximately 10,000 web pages from the two former companies. Worked closely with Ogilvy Interactive, New York, NY.

	April '99 - June '99 F1 Consulting, Raleigh, NC
	Web Project Manager
	Project lead to completely reconstitute the North Carolina Community Colleges System's use of the World Wide Web for information collection and dissemination to and from its constituents, including students, college administrators, and state and federal agencies. Tasks included: performed business requirements analysis via eight focus groups and on on-line survey; recommending search engine for web site; developing an agency-wide web authoring, publishing and maintenance strategy; developing web publishing and site management policies and procedures; upgrading web server software to support Microsoft Front Page Server Extensions; development of Front Page 2000 training curriculum; and team-teaching Front Page 2000 class.

	January '99 - April '99 J & T Professional Associates, Tampa, FL
	Internet Technology Consultant
	Prepared strategic technology and business plan for ALERTAR, a network for humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness, response, recovery & mitigation serving the Caribbean and Central and South America sponsored by the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA), a joint project between USF & Tulane Universities. The technology assessment included wireline and wireless for operations throughout the hemisphere under varying telecomm infrastructure and regulatory conditions. Co-authored original proposal for CDMHA's funding submitted to the US Department of Defense.

	May '98 - December '98 Nortel Networks, Research Triangle Park, NC
	Intranet Consultant
	Conducted a comprehensive study of Nortel's use of Intranet technology within their Signaling Solutions Group division (Ottawa and Research Triangle Park), including focus groups, interviews, online surveys, and web servers analysis. Implementation of study recommendations followed which included consolidating multiple web servers, deploying web maintenance tools, and redesigning Web-accessible content for various departments including marketing, documentation, software design and test, and business development.

	June 1995 - September 2000 VAR.CODE, Research Triangle Park, NC
	UNIX Systems and Network Administrator
	Perform local and remote UNIX administration of Internet servers running PC-UNIX, SGI Irix and Sun Solaris OS for an Internet consulting, server hosting, and applications design and development company with over 200 public and private sector customers in a dozen countries. Tasks include HTML coding, Perl and UNIX scripting, TCP/IP LAN management, and on-line graphics production.
	Installed and maintained server applications, including Bind(DNS), sendmail, Netscape Enterprise and Apache web servers, Netscape Messaging server, SSL, GNU C compiler, miniSQL and MySQL databases, Perl, tcl, and associated libraries. Designed, developed and maintained various web applications including database-driven, secure transaction websites for corporate clients. Installed LAN (cabling and hub) for shared Internet T-1 connectivity amongst two servers and multiple workstations.

	1982 - 1995 d.b.a. Christian E. Stalberg various locations
	Independent Consultant
	State of Florida - provided technical assistance to Governor's Community Redevelopment Task Force on the design and development of a management information system in Microsoft Access for tracking $22 million in HUD funds for post-disaster redevelopment projects. JMS North America - served as field project manager for JMS North America's evaluation of Nextel Communication's ESMR (wireless) greater Los Angeles network for MCI Communications Corporation. Pan American Health Organization - conducted electronic mail feasibility study for the organization's day-to-day operations in the western hemisphere. Conducted user training for PAHO staff in Lima, Peru on use of international packet switching networks to access MEDLINE. Union of International Associations - evaluated international computer communication network services for use by the UIA, Brussels, Belgium. Apple Computer Corporation - performed strategic assessment of emerging technologies (electronic performance support systems) for Apple's Advanced Technology Group.

	1991 - 1994 Federal Emergency Management Agency, various locations
	Disaster Assistance Employee/Hazard Mitigation Specialist
	On-call hazard mitigation assignments for Regions IX (Atlanta) and IX (San Francisco).
	Co-authored Standard Operating Procedures manual for hazard mitigation programs. Reviewed design of federal hazard mitigation programs database (Automated Disaster Assistance Management System) in Advanced Revelation. Conducted field surveys and wrote Hazard Mitigation Survey Team reports for Typhoons Axel and Zelda (Marshall Islands and Micronesia, respectively), Hurricane Emily (North Carolina), severe ice storms (Mississippi), and tornadoes (Alabama).

	1992-1993 David M. Griffith and Associates Ltd., LA & FL
	Project Manager
	Provided technical assistance to various government clients in Louisiana and Florida following Hurricane Andrew through a nationwide disaster grants management practice based in Northbrook, Illinois. Served as lead advisor to the Florida Governor's Authorized Representative regarding Hurricane Andrew recovery.
	Provided technical assistance on design and development of the state's management information systems in Microsoft Access for federal disaster assistance funds allocation. Developed technical specifications for a disaster claims RDMS in Oracle for the South Florida Water Management District. Revised State of Florida, Department of Community Affairs, Division of Emergency Management's Administrative Plan for the Public Assistance program. Assisted in the design and implementation of a business process reorganization of the Governor's Hurricane Andrew Recovery Office in Dade County.

	1990 - 1992 Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Sacramento, CA
	Special Consultant/Hazard Mitigation Specialist
	Administration and management of federal hazard mitigation programs, including planning (Section 409) and grant program (Section 404) for six California disasters, including the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989), Santa Barbara fire (1990), Oakland fire (1991), Southern California flood (1992), Cape Mendocino earthquake (1992), and Landers/Big Bear earthquake. Considerable contact with participating agencies, including federal, state and local government and private non-profit organizations.
	Developed RDMS in Advanced Revelation for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) applicant, project, and funds tracking. Conducted feasibility study and developed technical specifications for an agency-wide emergency management geographic information system (GIS). Design, development, implementation, administration and management of $42 million HMGP, including: application and assurance documents; processing and project ranking procedures; risk/benefit analyses for determining project cost-effectiveness; scoring mechanism for project selection; environmental regulations compliance; and specification of program tracking criteria for data processing.

	1991 Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Sacramento, CA
	Fire Prevention Analyst
	Development of fire prevention programs and policy, as well as analysis of fire safe practices and enforcement in an agency responsible for 35 million acres of wildland. Considerable contact with county governments regarding the manner in which they address fire hazards within their jurisdiction through their general plans and ordinances.
	Developed support, both within and outside of agency, to amend Assembly Bill 429 which created a Geographic Information Systems Task Force for purposes of setting standards and coordinating GIS use among state agencies. Edited "A Survey of California County Land-Use Planning Considerations for Fire Protection in the Wildland/Urban Interface/Intermix" published October, 1991. Served as personal assistant to the Incident Commander for the Oakland fire, advising in the areas of finance, data processing, damage surveying, geographical information systems, and inter-agency relations as the point-of-contact with Oakland City, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES).

	1987-1990 Diversified Network Applications, Santa Rosa, CA
	Director of Technology Operations
	Designed, programmed, and supervised operation and maintenance of public WAN-accessible (Tymnet) services, including e-mail, bulletin board, and computer conferencing for clients in the U.S. and abroad. Authored user manuals for client subnetworks. Provided user training and support. Defined product and service capabilities (technical specifications), evaluated vendors, developed product and service documentation, designed and programmed software applications.
	Designed and simulated a home health care field communications system which used smart cards, modems, and palmtop computers. Negotiated a VAR agreement with McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Group and British Telecomm. Programmed and installed a voice mail system for both internal company communications and automated telephone attendance.

	1984-1987 Farallones Institute, Occidental, CA
	Executive Director, EcoNet Project
	Responsible for all administrative, managerial, and operational functions of an international, electronic computer communications network. Wrote funding proposals, Board reports, financial budgets, PR materials. Developed the premier, international network for non-governmental and non-profit organizations. Designed and programmed the EcoNet user interface, which received excellent reviews in the trade press. Planned and implemented a marketing and public relations campaign which increased the user base to over 300 users. Managed a full-time staff of three and two part-time interns.

Education	2005 ITIL Fundamentals, EXIN, Raleigh, NC
	2005 Java Programing Essentials, Global Knowledge, Arlington, VA
	2005 Mastering Web Databases, Global Knowledge, Cary, NC
	1992 Zadek, San Francisco, CA One week intensive course in Advanced Revelation development
	1989 International Exchange Association, Colorado Springs, CO Leadership Training
	1988 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA B.A., Environmental Studies and Planning
	1984 North American Students for Cooperation, Berkeley, CA Board Training

Miscellaneous	Advanced Class FCC Amateur Radio License N6DJR
	Planning Council member for International Informatics Access which held two conferences, 1987 (Dallas) and 1993 (Budapest).
	Participant in think tank at Apple Computer in 1985 entitled "Low-Cost Information Sharing: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going". Other attendees included Stewart Brand, Jacque Vallee and Lee Felsenstein.
	Presenter at numerous telecommunications conferences, including FIDOCON, Pacific Telecommunications Council, Caribbean Telecommunications Council, International Informatics Access, and The International Emergency Management and Engineering Society.
	Publications include "The Intelligent City and Emergency Management in the 21st Century", Proceedings: The International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, April 18- 21, 1994; "Digital Telematics: Present and Future", Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1987); "Field Communication Systems: Considerations for Developing Countries", Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1990); "The Internet: Is it a Replicable Technological and Social Phenomenon for Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States?", Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1994).

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