BRIAN A. BEACH
4022 Longwood Drive
Knoxville, TN 37918
(865) 219-7281
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
7/99 - Present SNMP RESEARCH, INC. Knoxville, TN
Product/Project Manager (5/01 - Present)
- Managed all stages of product lifecycle for network management products and new releases
- Responsible for drafting, editing, and implementing product design documents
- Investigated competitive products and coordinated with upper management on future directions
- Composed and delivered technical presentations and tutorials for HP OpenView Forum conferences
- Principal architect for MIBGuide product suite
- Crafted technical flow diagrams to aid engineering staff
- Worked with third party vendors to enhance product lines
- Coordinated with multiple engineering teams to ensure on-time release dates
Software Engineer (7/99 - Present)
- Oversaw design of MIBGuide MIB compiler
- Principal engineer on Service Monitor agent enhancement for management of network services
- Ported software to multiple UNIX and Windows based operating systems
- Worked with HP OpenView NNM to provide SNMPv3 security plug-in and config tools
- Designed graphical interfaces for end user products
- Performed general bug fixes and code enhancements on many standard products
- Trained customers on using our development tools and end user software
- Provided consulting work for large Telco implementing legacy management proxy
Pre-Sales Engineer (7/99 - Present)
- Lead technical liaison to sales department
- Developed sales proposals and license agreements for small and large scale projects
- Researched and produced competitive analysis documents
- Negotiated and closed major accounts
- Database Administrator for sales department CRM software
- Sales funnel management and forecasting
2/94 - 7/99 OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY Oak Ridge, TN
Systems Analyst - Environmental Science GIS Division (5/98 - 7/99)
- Developed programs and scripts to automate common GIS commands
- Created a program for performing atmospheric correction on multi-temporal
satellite images (abstract presented at ASPRS conference in Portland, OR)
- Performed general system administration support
- Designed and implemented web pages for various departments
- Collected GPS points and computed differential post-processing
GIS Technician - Environmental Science GIS Division (10/95 - 1/97)
- Designed and built GIS database from disparate sources for the BMAP program
- Provided data conversions between different software/hardware systems
- Created, edited and managed GIS maps, coverages, and metadata
- Created aquatic habitat models for 3-D visualization project
- Determined watershed boundaries and waterflow for the Oak Ridge area
Laboratory and Field Technician - Bioindicators Program (2/94 - 5/98)
- Conceived, designed and developed award winning Bioindicators web page
- Conducted age and growth studies to evaluate the effects of contaminants on fish populations
- Performed computer support and backups
- Designed, developed and edited databases and models for data interpretation
- Assisted in field sampling and organized eight years of past sampling data
COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages: C, C++, Java, UNIX shell scripts, VisualBasic, Avenue, flex, yacc
Hardware: UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX, SunOS, Unixware, FreeBSD),
Windows (NT, XP, 2000, 2003 Server), VAX , DOS, MacOS, VxWorks, OSE
Network related: SNMP management tools (HPOV NNM, OVPI, Tivoli NetView,
EnterPol), SNMP agent configuration and extension, Cisco router
configuration using CLI, network security protocols, web-enabled
management (HTTP/XML), legacy management, Ipv4/v6, ssh
Internet: HTML, XML, CGI, JavaScript, ASP, Front Page
GIS related: Arc/Info (Arc, Info, Arcedit, Arcplot, Arctools, Grid, AML),
ArcView and Avenue, ERDAS IMAGINE, MapInfo, ENVI
Other: MS Office, ACT!, MS Access, Adobe(Photoshop, Illustrator, Reader), WordPerfect, F-Prot;
EDUCATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Knoxville, TN
- M.S. Computer Science, May 1999, 3.8 GPA
- B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Minor in Forestry, May 1995, 3.5 GPA
OTHER WORK
1/97 - 5/98 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Knoxville, TN
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Department of Computer Science
- Lead teaching assistant for C programming class
- Lectured for lab of 30+ students
- Miscellaneous duties supporting class lecture
8/92 - 12/93 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOOD SERVICES Knoxville, TN
Student Supervisor
- Supervised 15-20 workers per night
- Coordinated different duties for the students according to their experience
- Trained students in all operations and troubleshooting
HONORS Award of Achievement for On-Line Competition: Atlanta Chapter of the
Society of Technical Communications, Xi Sigma Pi Honor Society, Gamma
Beta Phi Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society, Dean's list
PUBLICATIONS Robert Washington-Allen, Tom VanNiel, Brian Beach,
Paul Schwartz, and R.D. Ramsey. "An algorithm for relative atmospheric
correction of Landsat timeseries"
K. Callahan, E. Rodemaker, Robert Washington-Allen, Tom VanNiel,
R.D. Ramsey, Brian Beach, and Paul Schwartz. "Applied relative
atmospheric correction across a military moisture gradient"
REFERENCES
Available upon request