David Arnold's Official Home Page
I currently work as an administrator for various systems of information dissemination for the Division of Information Technology (formerly the Office of Information Technoloty (OIT)) of the University of Maryland (College Park campus). I administrate the Help Desk web site as well as the IT Service Center (FootPrints) incident management system and knowledge base.
Previoously I spent 20 years as the general UNIX consultant for the Office of Information Technology (OIT) Help Desk group (formerly the Academic Information Technology Services (AITS), formerly the Computer Science Center (CSC)). I supported the Solaris and LINUX platforms to various extents. Other specialties include relational databases (Oracle under Solaris and previously, SQL/DS under CMS and Datacom/DB under CICS), mail lists using Majordomo & Listserv software, and general account information (administration & use).
In the past I supported such archaic operating systems such as NeXTStep (v. 0.8 through v. 3.2), DEC Ultrix & OSF, Sun SunOS (prior to Solaris) and IBM VM/CMS. I also used to speak Unisys Exec 8, but that doesn't seem to be much in demand around here these days. (@FLIST me, baby!)
I am a graduate of the University of Maryland College Park campus (1984) with a B.S. degree in Geography (emphasis on Computer Assisted Cartography & Remote Sensing) with a minor in Math & Statistics. I have been involved in computer user support since 1983, first as a student, then full-time starting in 1984.
To see my personal home page as opposed to this rather dry one, try:
If you want to contact me for work-related matters you can best reach
me at:
davida at umd dot
edu
and for personal matters you can best reach me at:
davida at
syrinx dot umd dot edu