You gave this guy some ideal suggests, those builds are nice and all, but do you really think that noob should use this as his first char? I'm not sure that every experienced FO player will be able to easily level up this build as his first char after wipe (So I think the stats suggested by strike are quite ok, because they can lead to something). I think that topic starter should give up sniper idea till the time when he will get some in game experience. I personally planed myself few standard starting builds for the beginning of next session. One smg burster/farmer/miner/lock picker/crafter and etc. Then of course one more char with bg for PvE farming (can be good in PvP too if I find implants before leveling him) and then EW cripler, SG sniper and others for PvP.
So to sum up what I mean-I think that it would be much more interesting, easier, faster and profitable to begin with universal char. I can send one interesting build in pm if someone is interested.