Michael Thomas Harbuck

Lindenstrasse 20
18190 Gross Luesewitz
mobile Telefon:   01577/2894879	 	       

Education

1986-1990	Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida - Diploma
1994		Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida
1997 		Albert-Ludwigs University:  Theology, German
1998-2000 	Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg:, German, Philosophie
2006-2007 	Air Orlando Flight Training School - Private Pilot Training 
2007-2008	Seminole Commnity College, Lake Mary, Florida, Chemistry
2008  		Techskills Linux+ Certification Program, Maitland, Florida

Computer Experience
1983 		First Computer Commodore VIC-20. Learned BASIC from periodicals
1987		Began to learn DOS and installation/configuration of Windows 2.0
1990		Upgrade to Windows 3.1
1995		First Windows 95 system, learned registry administration, networking, et cetera.
1996		Obtained Compaq Portable with a 386 at 25MHz.  Learned to configure.
1997		First Laptop, AST with a 486 at 33MHz, with a coprocessor.
			Self Taught C++ and Pascal with help of tutor programs at the University 			
			of Heidelberg.  GPI and Developent of educational software.
1997		First Linux install on AST laptop.  No frame buffer for the display.  Learned 			
		commands and file system.  
1997		Purchased RedHat 5.0 and learned to configure and compile.
1999		Obtained and  learned SuSE  Linux while in Germany.
2000		Purchased first UNIX machine IBM B50 powerPC server.  Learned serial 			
		terminal Management.  Learned AIX installation, Storage management 			
		and config.  Raid and SCSI storage management.
2001		Purchased, repaired and reconditioned, an IBM powerseries 820 UNIX/AIX 			
		Laptop.  Learned MySQL DB configure with Webpage integration for 			
		intranet website.
		Website development using SAMBA and OpenSource software.
2002		Began intensive repair and reconditioning of recycled systems.  Association with 
			Austrian non-profit for computers to third world countries.
2003 		Learned VBS for Microsoft, and shell programming for UNIX/Linux
2008		Interest in AS/400 system and integration with Storage Area Networks, and Pearl 
			Programming
		CompTIA – Linux+ certification – September 22, 2008

Software proficiency
Linux - RedHat, SuSE variants
Linux – Debian variants
Linux – non graphical distributions.  
Minix, et cetera
IBM AIX 3.5 
IBM AIX 4.1
IBM AIX 5L

Microsoft Windows 3.1,95,98,2000, XP, Server 2000, NT4.0
Microsoft Utilities for UNIX version 2.0, 3.0
Hyper Text Mark-up Language

Software Familiarity
IBM Lotus Notes Server/Client
IBM Lotus Unified Messaging
IBM Smartsuite
IBM DB2
IBM Diagnostic Utilities for RS/6000
Adobe Framemaker for UNIX
RasMol Molecular viewer for UNIX/Linux
OpenSource Database MySQL
Opensouce PHP programming language
Hewlet Packard HPUX UNIX 
Silicon Graphics SGI Solaris 9.0 (x86)
SAMBA opensource Windows Connectivity for LINUX
APACHE Web server Linux based
C++ Programming language
Pearl programming language

Other Skills
Student Pilot with 32 Hours.  Florida Drivers Licence Class E.  Class III Amateur Radio Licence, call sign: KI4JBA. I currently refurbish IBM Blade, RS/6000, and POWER Servers. Computer Repair.  Computer System Analysis.  

Hobby and Free-time
I enjoy riding my bicycle, reading, writing, hiking, swimming, hunting waterfowl and playing musical instruments.