Les Fernandez
Objective:
Database Administrator position utilizing my
recent Oracle training and technical experience with computer programming.
Education:
Skidmore
College, White Plains, NY
Oracle Database Administrator –completed 8/5/2000
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Network Administration
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PL/SQL
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Database Administration
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Backup and Recovery
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Database Tuning
Manhattan
College, Riverdale, NY
Chemical Engineer
– 96 credits completed
Westchester
Community College, Valhalla, NY
A.A.S. Chemistry – with honors
Experience:
Independent Software Developer and
Computer Consultant 1991 – Present
- Developer of software
applications using Fortran and Visual Basic 6
- Setup a computer
program which automatically prepared technical reports on the condition of a
companies chemical systems and provided them with technical recommendations
when necessary. This program was accepted nationally throughout Union Carbide
- Database
to maintain customer sample analysis data and R/D work
- Designed software
to generate product literature, physical property graphs, product labels, and
Material Safety Data Sheets
- Developed a
computer simulation program called “S.O.S.” for the refinery business which was
accepted by the industry
- Developed software
to interface with a programmable logic controller to handle process control
automation
- Custom built software to control 2100 valve
positions at a large oil production facility, which enabled them to control the
flow of product from one tank to another
- Maintenance
of computer systems for clients
- Recommend
upgrades to existing systems
Independent Chemist and Chemical
Engineer 1991 – Present
- Development
and testing of new products
- Analyzed and
monitored refinery samples providing customers with written and graphical
reports
- Technical
assistance for sales people and customers
Union Carbide
1978 - 1991
- Analytical
and technical support for 400+ customers
- Technical
sales
- Research
and Development:
Heat
transfer fluids, Calendar lubricants, Aircraft and runway deicing fluids
Oilfield Chemicals
- Developed
proprietary drilling fluids for the oilfield industry
- Extensive
on-site R/D and training at the drilling sites
- Developed new
analytical techniques for on-site quality control for the drilling industry
- Synthesis
of proprietary structured surfactants
- Flexible
and Rigid foam R/D
Additional Responsibilities include safety coordinator for
emergency search, fire and medical teams
PERSONAL
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Granted
a Patent for a "Multiple Filament Incandescent Lightbulb" #4,287,452
- Currently
developing educational software for college level mathematics
- Designed
a seven foot liquid fuel rocket
- Wrote
study guides for Calculus I, II and Differential Equations
- Developed
and manufactured a safety device called "You're Not Alone"
- Developed
a computer software game (DOS based)
- Developed
a low salt indicator for water softeners
- Developed and
manufactured a device called a “Copper Cell” which was used by a printed
circuit board manufacturer to monitor concentration levels of their copper
sulfate solution tanks
- Involved with one
other individual in developing a new mechanism to potentially cure lupus. Our studies have shown that a one-dose
treatment of this new mechanism appears to have cured lupus in 20 of 20 mice,
which were induced with lupus. Our
interest is to offer this new mechanism for free to any interested party who
promises to study this mechanism more thoroughly
HOBBIES:
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Involved in an international project called
C.A.P. (chess analysis project) which we hope will provide new theory on
understanding how to evaluate chess positions thereby giving us new algorithms
for writing more effective evaluation functions
- Chess,
Mathematics, Sports, Entrepreneuring and Creative thinking