Russ Billard

3561 Dutch Village Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3N 2S9 (902)457-0292

EXPERIENCE

1996-1996 (TERM)
Transport Canada
Queens Square, Dartmouth, NS
Technical & Network Systems Analyst
Duties included:

hardware / software trouble shooting;
maintaining WFW 3.11 and WinNT Netbeui / TCP/IP based LAN system;
installation of MS and Government based applications to the end users and networked drives on server;
installation and setup of MS Mail / Remote Access; and
software research and interacting with suppliers to provide required hardware upgrades to systems

1995-1996
AmeriData Canada Inc.
Maritime Center, Halifax, NS
MS Windows / WinNT Systems Analyst

configured local area networks on WFW 3.11 / Win95 / WinNT platforms in many government and commercial environments across Nova Scotia. Clients included the Canadian Coast Guard, Historic Properties, and Parks Canada - Citadel Hill.

1994-1995
Cellar Computers
1540 Granville Street
Halifax, NS
Computer Store Manager

managed the downtown location of Cellar Computers;
responsible for new computer sales and system upgrades;
on-site and telephone hardware and software troubleshooting; and
nightly bank deposits.

1995-1995
Cybernet Communications Systems
Oxford Street
Halifax, NS
HTML Code Writer / Webmaster

Created HTML code for advertising on the World Wide Web which is accessible throughout the Internet.

1991-1994
Practical Business Software Inc.
63 Tacoma Drive, Suite 801
Dartmouth, NS
Micro Computer Programmer

created Novell based network accounting and service station monitoring systems; and
telephone and on-site hardware and software troubleshooting

EDUCATION

Career Development Institute
1801 Hollis Street, Suite 1510
Halifax, NS
Micro Computer Specialist
1991
This nine months course consisted of programming MS-DOS based systems.

Honors Diploma, 96% overall average

J. L. Ilsley High School
Halifax, NS
1981-1984
SPECIAL SKILLS

Proficiency in the following Applications and Operating Systems

APPLICATION

MS Excell 5.0	MS Word 6.0	MS Access 2.0
MS Visual Basic 4.0	MS Foxpro 2.6	MS Mail
MS Publisher 3.0	MS Powerpoint 2.0	MS PDS 7.0
Corel Office Suite	Corel Draw 6.0	Novell 4.1
TCP/IP	HTML Publishing	Clipper 5.3
Turbo C++	Dbase	Lotus 123 3.0
COBOL	ORACLE	Accpac / Simply Accounting
Assembly	Winsock Apps

OPERATING SYSTEMS

MS-DOS 3.3 - 7.0	Linux	Unix
Windows 3.0	Windows For Workgoups 3.11	Windows 95
Windows NT 4.0	OS/2 Warp 3.0	Macintosh / Apple 7.0

SKILLS, HOBBIES and INTERESTS

Scouts Canada - Leader Building Model Cars Computer Programming Internet Activities Creating personal world wide web pages for friends Running home networked based computer systems J.L. Ilsley Computer Club - President

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To apply my skills as a specialist and team player in many different fields of computing. I like to do things that are computer related and welcome the opportunity to share these skills with others.

References available upon request