System Administrator at EDS
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
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- System Administrator at Healthcare Group at EDS
- Past
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- Information Specialist in Business Intelligence at EDS
- Infrastructure Specialist - ITAD at EDS
- Infrastructure Analyst - E2E at EDS
- Technical Help Desk at Decision Consultants - EDS-EHD
- Programmer at Tejas Information Systems
- Computer Operator at DPMI
- Education
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- Continuing Education
- Southern Methodist University
- The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
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Dale Conkel’s Summary
My main strength is successfully troubleshooting virtually any application problem even without in-depth knowledge of the product. I have led infrastructure projects from start to finish. I enjoy a challenge more than anything and easily learn new applications and systems.
I have worked on both the Infrastructure and the Information (application) side of EDS and understand several different OS platforms and applications. I consider myself to be a system integrator.
I never say "it can't be done". My motto is "given enough time and money virtually anything can be accomplished".
Dale Conkel’s Specialties:
Specialize in troubleshooting Business Objects 6.5, Windows 2003, and IIS 6.0 problems. Have programmed in several languages. Created and maintained web sites.
Developed software in PL/B, Basic, and Assembly Language. Started with EDS after working on a Technical help desk supporting Oracle Financial software, where I learned Oracle SQL, MS-Access, and Visual Basic.
Dale Conkel’s Experience
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System Administrator
Healthcare Group at EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (9 months)
I function as an Infrastructure Specialist and support Windows 2003, security administration, T-Shooting, ESX 3.5 VMWare, Netbackup 6.0 and Patch Management on 130+ VMWare virtual servers and 15 physical servers for Health and Human Services of Kentucky . My group is called Healthcare Infrastructure Team (HCIT) supports H&HS accounts in over 22 states. It's made up of Unix and Windows SA's, Network and DBA's and Application Specific personnel. The HCIT is part of the greater EDS Healthcare group.
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Information Specialist in Business Intelligence
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 7 months)
Supporting multiple server farm environment that provides a web front end to 1,500 user community that run Business Intelligence reports against an Oracle back-end.
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Infrastructure Specialist - ITAD
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 2 months)
Integrated Technical Architecture & Design (ITAD)
Responsible for 7-Insight Business Objects support and developing new Retail Info System functionality using batch & PERL scripts and Remoteware object scripts. Responsible for supporting Field Office Home Page 9 terminal servers farm running Citrix. Multiple NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 related projects and troubleshooting various Windows 2000 Active Directory problems. -
Infrastructure Analyst - E2E
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 1 month)
Responsible for delivery of Retail Information System mission critical files from EDS Host Operations to over 5,000 7-Eleven stores. Supported NT Server in each store location. This entails scheduling of jobs via Connect:Remote Server, CA Unicenter, and batch file jobs. Experience includes troubleshooting network connectivity, NT Server Operating System, and Host Server functions.
My responsibilities include being a major contributer to the End to End group intranet web pages that include processes & troubleshooting documentation. Also, responsible for training new personnel to be analyst engineers. Provide on-call service around the clock to end to end analyst. -
Technical Help Desk
Decision Consultants - EDS-EHD
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — August 1997 (8 months)
Responsibilities included assisting over 500 users in Oracle Financials usage for 7-Eleven Corp. Also, included simple troubleshooting tasks to determine database problems. Experience includes writing SQL scripts in Oracle and utilizing MS-Access and visual Basic to access Oracle databases.
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Successfully developed specific SQL scripts for the 7-Eleven users to gather important financial data in formats requested. In same way used MS-Access to provide customized reports to customer's management. -
Programmer
Tejas Information Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — November 1989 (11 months)
Programmer of Databus (Datapoint) software, tester, helpdesk
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Computer Operator
DPMI
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1986 — December 1988 (3 years)
Provided data operator services which include running backups and reports and creating mass mailings for billing system. Also programmed in Databus PL/B for Datapoint server.
Dale Conkel’s Education
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Continuing Education
Windows 2000 & 2003 server 2003 — 2007
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in June 2003
210 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional - Mar 10, 2003
215 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server - June 2003
Jan 2007 - Completed MCSE course curriculum for Windows 2003 server training using CBT -
Southern Methodist University
MCP, MCSE, NT 4.0 - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, 1998 — 1999
058 Networking Essentials - June 15, 1998
073 Implementing & Supporting NT 4.0 Workstation - Jul 20, 1998
067 Implementing & Supporting NT Server 4.0 - Oct 16, 1998
068 Implementing & Supporting NT Server 4.0 in Enterprise
Nov 10, 1998
059 Internetworking with Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Dec. 8, 1998
077 Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Internet Information Server
3.0 and Index Server - Jan 19, 1999 -
The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
Bachelors, Management - Data Processing, 1981 — 1986
Additional Information
Dale Conkel’s Websites:
Dale Conkel’s Interests:
Creating webpages for fun.
Dale Conkel’s Groups:
Business Objects User Group - Dallas
EDS Christian Fellowship - 2007 to Present
EDS Utility & Grid Computing Community
EDS Thought Leaders Community
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EDS Employees, Past and Present
Dale Conkel’s Honors:
12/15/2000 I received the 7-Eleven Service Excellence Award for exceptional support of the 7-Eleven client in regard to the DSS mission critical process refinements.
06/12/2002 Received the 7-Eleven "Unsung Hero Award" for superior customer service
Patents
· - Enterprise Replication Alert & Repair - U.S. Patent No. 7,278,065 issued on Oct. 2, 2007
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