269a Mt Albert Rd Mt Albert Auckland

Phone 620 6836 Mobile 021 850 644 Email [email protected]

Gareth Cronin

Experience	Mar 2000 – Present (10 hours per week) University of Auckland Tuition Fees Administrative Officer § Maintenance of student fees records using UNIX-based records system § Troubleshooting and work-arounds for problems with records § Creation of VBA text-processing routines to convert between various file formats, and uploading of information in ‘pin-stripe’ files to UNIX system § Creation of Access databases to track various transactions, including creation of user-friendly interfaces for non-computer-savvy members of staff § Handling of student and staff enquiries regarding fees Nov 1998 – Mar 1999 and Nov 1999 – Mar 2000 University of Auckland Enrolment Troubleshooter § Collating and reporting of enrolment statistics to departments and faculties § Problem-solving in the UNIX-based student records system: fault-analysis, work-arounds and liaison with Business Analysts and Database Administrators § Running overnight processing batches, and checking logs for problems § Support for other staff members using the student records system § Creation of VBA routines to handle data conversion from file formats used by the University to and from file formats used by Work and Income New Zealand
	Mar 1999 – Nov 1999 (10 hours per week) University of Auckland ID Card Centre Operator § Photographing students and manufacturing cards using digital photo system § Creation and maintenance of a Visual Basic based database for the tracking of lost cards and automatic email notification of the loss to students
	April 1998 – Nov 1998 (10 hours per week) Carmel College – Shakespeare Rd - Milford Network and Desktop Support and Administration § Oversaw and made recommendations on the purchase of 30 new PCs, an NT server, a full-time ISDN connection and a major network upgrade to fully connect a 120 user site § Upgraded, repaired and rebuilt PCs and Macintoshes as was necessary § Installed server-based and Macintosh/PC-based software packages § Administrative duties such as adding/maintenance of users on Windows NT 4.0, Novell Netware 3.1 and Macintosh AppleShare servers § Cabling of various new CAT-5 network connections, installation of hubs, jack-points etc § Maintained two labs of 30 PCs each and one lab of 30 Macintoshes § Ran seminars to train staff in Microsoft Applications: Windows 95/98, Word, Access, Excel etc § Wrote and implemented a Java Servlet based ‘whiteboard’ for student bulletins, and an interactive hyperlink page for staff to add links for students to follow
	August 1994 – July 1998 Music Education Centre – Glenfield - Auckland Teacher of Piano and Clarinet § Taught students ranging in age from 5 years to 50 years in piano and clarinet in one-to-one lessons both at private studios and at primary schools § As a contractor, kept own accounts, carried out debt-collection and maintained business relationships with up to 65 students and student’s parents at a time § Arranged staff social functions
Education	1998–Present University of Auckland § Bachelor of Science, Computer Science 1998 Auckland University of Technology § Certificate in Computer Systems Administration (with Distinction)
	1989–1993 Whakatane High School § School Certificate and Sixth Form Certificate
Interests	§ Music – I have played keyboards in various cover bands for the last five years, in bars and private functions around Auckland. As a teenager I my income came from playing as a lounge pianist in a restaurant and playing as a member of a trio for business functions and formal dances. As a one-time member of the band, ‘Adrenalin’, I wrote for and played on a CD produced in 1994. I am an avid fan of rock, pop, classical and jazz music § Linux – I am a member of the New Zealand Linux Users group and run a Linux server for myself and my flatmates, used as a gateway/proxy-server/file-server/print-server, mail server etc, mainly through a suite of shell scripts and Java programs that I have developed § Food – I am a keen home chef, and enjoy ethnic and continental cooking, I am a big fan of fine wines, boutique beers and gourmet coffee

Career Focus

I am particularly interested in distributed systems and distributed technologies such as RMI and DCOM. I am also interested in data warehousing and mining, and database design in general. I enjoy programming in Java, Delphi and Visual Basic, and I have spent a lot of time working with OLE Automation of Office objects, and database programming with JDBC. I intend to do an undergraduate project involving the development of visual database components for Java and JDBC. I enjoy working with UNIX operating systems, and would like to exploit Java’s potential as an integration tool between various platforms, operating systems and interfaces. I am a Linux and Open-Source enthusiast and advocate, and would like to see Linux and GPL software employed in many more commercial applications.

Referees

Alma Kelleher Manager of Admissions and Enrolment University of Auckland Ph 373 7599 x Bruce Rattray Manager of Tuition Fees University of Auckland Ph 373 7599 x6896

University of Auckland Results

Student: Gareth George Cronin

Student Id: 6162385

Entrance qualification: 1998 Special Admission Page 1 of 1

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Paper Title Status Points

1998 Full time in one semester

Bachelor of Science (Enrolled)

415101SC Principles of Programming PASS A 2.0

445102SC Mathematics 2 PASS A+ 2.0

475101SC Introduction to Statistics PASS A+ 2.0

1999 Full time

Bachelor of Science (Enrolled)

260102SC Reo Tiimata - Koorero:First Oral PASS A+ 2.0

415105SC Principles of Computer Science PASS A 2.0

445151FC Mathematics 3 PASS B 2.0

445162FC Intro to Applied & Computational Maths PASS A 2.0

475255SC Introduction to Operations Research PASS A 2.0

616101FC Microeconomics PASS B 2.0

2000 Full time

Bachelor of Science (Enrolled)

260203SC Reo Timata Korero: Oral 3 Enrolled

415210FT Computer Systems Enrolled

415220FT Algorithms and Data Structures Enrolled

415230FC Software Design and Construction Enrolled

415280FC Applications Programming Enrolled

415340SC Operating Systems Enrolled

415370SC Graphics & Graphical User Interface Prog Enrolled

636222SC Database Management Systems Enrolled

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