JASON J. HASTON
PO Box 612 — Louisville, CO 80027
home (303) 674-1790 • cell (303) 514-5345
email j@hastonian.com

 

OBJECTIVE:
Administer any system or project with all of my attention and energy. Career focus and goals are in the fields of program management, database applications and software implementation.  Aspirations include designing scientific aerospace systems.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS: Familiar with most software and operating systems; UNIX, Mac, Linux and Windows.
Programming experience with
• databases                                                — Oracle, Ingres, SQL Server, SQL, Forte, Case Tools, entity relationship diagrams
• programming languages          — Java, C++, FORTRAN, IDL, COBOL, learning Visual Basic
• shell scripting                        — bash, nawk, sed, Perl, C, korn, bourne, javascript
• world wide web                       — HTML code, ColdFusion, CGI, backends, graphics
• structural design                     — CAL, SAMCEF, drafting utilities more description
Proficiency in
• operating systems                 — most versions of UNIX, VAX/VMS, MacOS, DOS, Windows XP, Solaris, RedHat and UNICOS
• applications                           — security programs, Adobe, Mac, Microsoft, Lotus, Excel, Corel, more here
• database skills                        — implement, test, document and maintain code on Relational Database Management System
• computational methods         — Solving fluid flow problems, advanced number theory, spatial problems
• engineering tasks                   — analyzing space structure stresses, loads and frequency limits, systems coordination
• hardware configuration          — SUN machines, disk space allocation, GPS equipment, EPROM/PC interface, data processing.

 

CERTIFICATIONS • Solaris Systems Administrator, Backup and Recovery, Security, Ingres — database administrator

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Information Technology Specialist GS-12


United States Department of Interior - Lakewood, CO

(9/8/97 — Present)


Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement, Department of Financial Management / Applications and Systems Branch
• SUN Systems Administrator for FEEBACS automated accounts receivables project. Database Administrator & Lead Programmer for AVS.
Have performed many platform migrations for Applicant Violation System and other financial database systems. Responsible for Solaris security, major code revisions, documentation, data processing, system maintenance.

As a contractor for Vista Computer Services with title of Computer Programmer III

• Database Applications Programmer. Responsible for documentation of the AVS, code migration from Data General platform to SUN Microsystems and data processing. Future tasks include system modernization. Concluded duty as Assistant Project Manager.

 

Research Assistant


National Snow and Ice Data Center  - Boulder, CO

(4/1990 — May 1997)


CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
• Database Applications Programmer. Responsible for completion of the Data Request Tracking System. Project includes design of INGRES-ABF, report-writer language design, data migration and ingest. Integrate NASA data streams with glacier metadata.

Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences department of CU – student with title Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Programmer for Bob Grossman, responsible for processing of experimental air/sea water vapor flux data. PAOS program included submitting batch jobs to the Cray at NCAR.


Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics


• Programmer responsible for NSIDC Data Dictionary & spatial query software determining intersections of map regions.


• UARS/SOLSTICE Project. Assistant Database Administrator on scientific database.
• Duties include operating data processing system (access, insert, archive, promote) for data from CU's Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment instrument on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.


EDUCATION:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado: Bachelors of Science, Degree in Aerospace Engineering, May 1993
• Emphasis on problem solving, space structures and systems design
• courses include Scientific Programming, Flight Mechanics, Computational Analysis of Structures & Fluid Mechanics.



Global Positioning Systems Laboratory

• Conducting research under Dr. Malville and Col. MacDoran in the area of GPS surveying and its use involving Archaeoastronomy. Project consists of public relations, planning, processing, research and hiking to Anasazi Indian ruins.
• Graduation Design Project — Designed Remotely Piloted Vehicle with GPS capability as a business venture.

• studied artificial intelligence and modeling in Computer Science Master’s Program

 

HONORS • Customer Service 99% software reliability — Evergreen Scholarships, BSA — Order of the Arrow • NASA exceptional performance recognition — DOI Gold Star Award
INTERESTS • Australia, baseball, AIAA society, German, camping, painting, diving, travel — winter sports