Dennis Coonich

Current

• Desktop Integration Analyst at William Rainey Harper College
• Adjunct Faculty (Java SWING and Java EE Instructor) at William Rainey Harper College
• Owner at The System Werks (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

• Desktop Integration Analyst at William Rainey Harper College
• Client/Server Integration Specialist at William Rainey Harper College
• Oracle Apps DBA at William Rainey Harper College

• Peregrine ServiceCenter GetAnswers Administrator at William Rainey Harper College
• F15 Avionics Journeyman at United States Air Force

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Education

• Community College of the US Air Force
• Community College of the Air Force
• Triton College

• Harper College

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Connections

93 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Dennis Coonich’s Summary

Experienced in complex hardware and software implementations in the civilian and military arenas. Academic bacjground in COBOL, PASCAL, BASIC, C, CPP, JAVA, and J2EE languages. Experienced trainer/educator in the Enterprise Java Technologies. Experienced Avionics (F15 jet Fighter Electronics/Software) technician. Have been Certified to NASA and Navy 2M standards for multilayer circuit board and component repairs. My hobbies are technologies as well as my careers. Focusing on Java, Enterprise Java, Open Source, Web, and Linux technologies but will definitely work in other areas.

Dennis Coonich’s Specialties:

ERP infrastructure implementations. Educator of Enterprise Java technologies. In depth electronic hardware and computer science. Experienced in military Avionics.

Dennis Coonich’s Experience

• Desktop Integration Analyst

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

  Creates, upgrades, maintains campus Windows XP OS. Does same for campus standard and non-standard desktop applications. Utilizes Altiris technology and scripting to build deployment packages and manage desktops. Participates in research for hardware, operating systems, and applications. Contributes to intense documentation, daily near real-time task logging, regular status reports, meetings, and group projects. Have been tasked to be technical lead on projects, worked issues across departments and directly with users or vendors. Works closely with business analysts, developers, and DBAs. Stays abreast of technology changes and maintains an active Microsoft TechNET subscription. Uses knowledge of wired and wireless networking to help ensure desktop and application connectivity.

• Adjunct Faculty (Java SWING and Java EE Instructor)

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  Teaches Java SWING development. Students to build various applications with a completed GUI interface. Teaches Java EE courses ranging from Web Components to Business Components based on IBM Websphere Rational Application Developer, Websphere Application Server, eclipse, tomcat, and JBOSS. Courses cover development and testing of server-side applications using servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, development and testing of Enterprise Java Beans and Websphere Application Server specific extensions. Topics cover Sessions Beans, Architectures, Security, Best practices, debugging, deployment, persistence, inheritance, Message Driven Beans, EJB Clients, Container Services, Timer Services, Web Services, packaging, assembly, transactions, and basic application server administration. Students create database driven web pages and apps using abstract schema's or direct jdbc connectivity. Students create advanced Java EE applications and dynamic web pages rendering various customized reports.

• Owner

  The System Werks (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Maintains, upgrades, repairs, researches, implements, integrates and recovers various Desktop and Server systems and applications. Offers Enterprise Java Developer services. Maintains various websites to showcase IBM based Application Server technologies with real implementations running therein. Does not actively offer hardware based repair or recovery but will consider special scenarios. Primary focus is Linux, Open Source, and Enterprise Java solutions.

• Desktop Integration Analyst

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2008 (9 years )

• Client/Server Integration Specialist

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2006 (7 years )

  Supports Client/Server environments in support of administrative computer systems. Performs programming tasks as needed for system development , implementation, integrations, and security on a variety of platforms ranging from Windows XP, HP Unix, and Linux OS's. Responsible for Graphical User Interface tools and applications. Conducts technology research. Writes system, user and operations documentation. Performs all steps necessary for production turnover. Keeps abreast of server, desktop, applications, networking, and architectural technologies. Trains user's and staff regarding new technologies and procedures. Coordinates, implements, maintains, and programs change management processes. Responsible for technolgy enabling printing of Payroll checks, AP checks, and student confirmation reports. Utilizes UNIX scripting for various applications. Works closely with vendors addressing issues or developing new technology. Works closely with users and writes status reports.

• Oracle Apps DBA

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Trained Oracle Application DBA. Performs patching, cloning, and maintaining of Oracle applications.

• Peregrine ServiceCenter GetAnswers Administrator

  William Rainey Harper College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  Trained Peregrine Service Center implementer, upgrader, administrator, and customizer. Self taught Peregrine Portal implementor and Get-Answers implementor, administrator, and customizer. Trained AssetCenter Administrator. Helped integrate ServiceCenter to AssetCenter using ConnectIT.

• F15 Avionics Journeyman

  United States Air Force

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  December 1989 — 1998 (9 years )

  F15 jet fighter avionics technician. Inspects and maintains electronics and electrical systems that are software driven using automated test stations. Installs software, data, and electronic components. Reads highly complex electronic and electrical wiring diagrams to facilitate troubleshooting. Repairs or replaces defective components and multilayer circuit boards. Certified to Navy 2M and NASA level repair standards. Performs depot level modifications. Works alongside electronics engineers performing modifications or developing changes. Repairs or replaces instruments, such as tachometers, temperature gauges, and altimeters, heads up displays, air data computers, microwave LRUs, and weapons computers. Troubleshoots and repairs 100s aircraft electronics and electrical systems and their related test packages using test equipment to software code errors and/or electronic components. Held SECRET clearance for entire term.

Dennis Coonich’s Education

• Community College of the US Air Force

  1989 — 1999

• Community College of the Air Force

  AAS , Avioncs Technology , 1989 — 1997

  Awarded AAS in Avionics Technology

• Triton College

  1986 — 1988

• Harper College

Additional Information

Dennis Coonich’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Dennis Coonich’s Interests:

Physics, chemistry, computers, electronics, AI, space, software, guitar, synthesizer/keyboards

Dennis Coonich’s Groups:

•    USAFNetwork
•    Community College of the Air Force Alumni
•    NaVOBA [National Veteran-Owned Business Association]
•    William Rainey Harper College

Dennis Coonich’s Contact Settings

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