Phillip L Erasmus
		P.O. Box 782569
		Sandton 2146
		South Africa

		027 (011) 881-5911 (Day)
		027 (011) 643-6441 (Evening)
		Cis No. 100075,340

Personal Data

		First names: Phillippus Lodewikus
		Date of Birth: 21 October 1951
		Marital status: Divorced
		Health: Excellent

Professional Goal

		After completing my CNE examinations in January 1994, to re-locate to the
		United States of America and utilize my problem-solving skills and extensive
		experience with computers and networking in a challenging environment, offering
		opportunities for growth and advancement.

Employment

	1977-1993 (Current)
		ICL Computers SA (LTD)
		P.O. Box 784612
		Sandton 2146
		South Africa

		I was employed by ICL, in 1977, as a computer engineer. I have, through the
		years, worked myself up to the current position as a 2nd Line National Support
		Consultant. My duties, in the last 4 years in this position, have been to
		provide support to Field Engineers when they were unable to rectify a problem
		at a customer site. This is achieved either by telephone or assisting the
		Engineer on site. Problems could turn out to be computer hardware failures; 
		software corruptions; incorrect setting up of operating systems, networks or
		packages; or environmental issues (static discharge, earth potential differences
		on LANs, power dips/surges, faulty cabling, etc.). I also supply direct
		consultation to customers experiencing difficulties with various software
		packages. Another duty of mine, is to evaluate various OEM products'
		intergration with ICL's hardware on different operating platforms, for ICL's
		Sales/Marketing departments. It is required that I should keep up to the
		latest development in the combat of computer viruses. I also had to set up
		and maintain a data base on one of our Netware file servers, for field engineers
		country-wide to log into and get the latest information on hardware 
		modifications, software updates and virus information. I have done numerous
		in-house and external courses while with ICL, and also rely very much on
		self development to keep up to date with the latest market trends. Further duties
		included project management of major customer's LAN/WAN installations, and
		training courses given to Field Engineers in various aspects of hardware,
		software and operating systems. I am busy writing for my CNE certificate and
		should complete the final examination during January 1994. Hopefully, I will be
		able to complete my ECNE examinations 2 months later.

	1974-1977
		IBM SA (Pty) Ltd
		Kruis Street
		Johannesburg

		I was employed by IBM as a Customer Service Engineer in it's Office Product
		division. This involved in-house training on an ongoing basis on their various
		office products. My duties were to look after the repairs and maintenance of
		an area of about 450 machines. I left IBM when it decided to pull out of 
		South Africa due to political reasons.

	1970-1974
		SA Post and Telecommunications Dept.
		Marshall Street
		Johannesburg

		After completing high school, I joined this company to further my studies
		in the field of telecommunications. This entailed six months of college alter-
		nating with six months of practical field work for a total of 3 years, after
		which I qualified as a telecommunications technician. I was trained and got
		experience in various fields of telecommunications, including automatic
		telephone exchanges, 1st generation electronics and logic circuits.

Technical Background

	Hardware
		ISA, EISA and IBM MCA systems
		LAN cable planning and installations (Thick and Thin Ethernet, 10BASE-T, etc)
		Environmental studies (Mains stability, electro-static problems, lightning
					protection, UPS and CVT sizing and installations, etc.)
		Tape Drives (from Mainframe drives to back-up catridge units - including
				adjustments)
		Disk Drives (head alignment and skew adjustments on floppy drives and the
 		             older hard disk drives)
		MFM, IDE and SCSI Controller card installation and trouble shooting
		Printers (Various types of dot matrix and laser printers including Epson, HP,
			  Okidata, Panasonic, Mannesman Tally, etc.)
		Modems (Installation and setting up of asynchronous/synchronous communi-
			  cations)
		Card/Badge Readers (The complete installation of these readers via a multi-
			  plex modem wide area network to a dual computer setup)
		Multi Media Installations (CD-Rom, Sound Blaster, Tape Backups)
		Data Scope fault tracing on asynchronous/synchronous devices (all RS232/422)

	Operating Systems
		DOS 3.21 to 6.2
		MS OS/2 1.2/1.3
		IBM OS/2 2.0/2.1
		MS Windows 3.0/3.1/NT
		Netware 2.15/2.2/3.11/4.0
		MS Lan Manager 2.0 to 2.2
		OS/2 Netware Requester
		Netware Communications Manager
		DR-DOS

	Software
		MS Word for Windows 2.0/6.0
		MS Publisher 1.0/2.0
		MS Access Database
		Lotus 2.2/2.4/3.1
		Lotus Organizer
		WordPerfect 5.1/5.2
		Corel Graphics
		Harvard Graphics
		Ventura Publisher
		Professional Write and Professional Write + for Windows
		PC Tools
		Various Asynchronous Communication packages
		Norton Commander/Utilities
		PC File V7.0 Data Base
	Also experienced in numerous other packages, of which there are too many to mention.

Other Interests

		I am currently the secretary of The Alfa Romeo Club of South Africa.