TONY  SCOTT  PARRISH

Coordinator, IT Services
Division of Research and Graduate College
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991

Phone: (561) 297-4116 -- Fax: (561) 297-2319
Internet E-Mail: tparrish@fau.edu 
My Home page: http://www.fau.edu/~tparrish

EDUCATION

M. S., Management Information Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, December 1999.

B. S., Finance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, August 1990.

HONOR SOCIETIES
Member of Beta Gamma Sigma

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PHP4 IIS ASP VISUAL BASIC ORACLE WINDOWS 7 JAVA MS OFFICE 2010
MySQL UNIX C/C++  DREAMWEAVER COBOL II  DB2 UDB PL/SQL  PHOTOSHOP CS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2011 - Present: Coordinator, IT Services, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Responsible for the system administration of the Division of Research and Graduate College using Omni Update Content Management system. I provide Website administration and customer support for Division of Research and Graduate College.  I prepare Manage Reports for the Graduate Admission department staff as required. Additionally, I conduct System Backup and Recovery of client systems and serve as backup Banner Security officer.

November 2006 - October 2011: Systems Administrator, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Unix system administrator responsible for Blackboard Academic Suite, Talisma CRM and Operational Data Store administration. My major duties include system monitoring, application upgrades, system patches and hotfix changes as required. As part of Systems and Operations, I am responsible for the performance and reliability of my assigned applications to ensure a reliable system; analyze implications of proposed changes in the infrastructure and application and propose remedies and schedules as necessary; support production, quality assurance and development instance of the full system.

March 2004 - November 2006: Database Administrator, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Oracle DBA responsible for maintaining Oracle development, staging, and production databases on Sun Solaris Unix systems and provide support for MS SQL systems. My daily tasks include system monitoring, application upgrades, system patches and hotfix changes, performance metrics, performance tuning, schema management, and backup/recovery.
Maintain the Blackboard Academic Suite, Operational Data Store (Sungard Higher Education),WebFOCUS, and fsaATLAS (web-based foreign student case management tool).

July 2000 - March 2004: University Webmaster, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Coordinate Web site development, Database Programming and Web Interfaces, Search Engines, Technical Design,
Server Accounts (New Requests, Password Changes, Terminations). Deployed Real-Time Internet Webcasts.

January 2000 - July 2000: Systems Analyst, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Coordinate, design and develop client/server database applications and Web enabled solutions.

June 1998 - Dec. 1999: Senior Computer Programmer Analyst, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Designed and developed several Access database applications to automate workflow processes. Coordinated Y2K modifications to university mainframe programs such as salary, student data course files, and faculty appointments.

September 1997 - January 1998: Computer Lab Manager, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL.
Managed sixteen people on two campuses and coordinated the implementation of video teleconferencing systems.

July 1996 - August 1997: Computer Audit Analyst, Office of the Comptroller, Tallahassee, FL.
Maintained SAMAS miscellaneous deduction accounts, reengineered an existing electronic Report Distribution System to eliminate paper reports, and developed an on-line tax reporting procedure for the Bureau of State Payrolls.

June 1990 - July 1996: Financial Examiner/Analyst, Office of the Comptroller, West Palm Beach, FL.
Designed and developed a database application to track investigative documents for case reports. Received a meritorious award and demonstrated the application at an annual broker/dealer conference in Ft. Lauderdale.