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Palm City, Florida

My official job title was Systems analyst, but mainly focused on Server systems administration, and data center hardware systems, maintained 4 data centers stationed around the world that utilized various uses of Vmware products, including ESXI and Vcenter, to deliver full windows AD environment with Citrix delivery of both Xenapp, and Xendesktops. with a VCenter deployment of well over 5,000 VM's. was also responsible for desktop support, but this wasn't my core talents, My core talent was finding a root cause to issues and solving them. Also became responsible for team training for core tools and procedures ranging from Citrix profile management, gpo printer deployments, fail over print services, and other various technologies utilized at several sites.

Portland, Oregon Area

Broadcast Engineer for Koin channel 6. Responsible for On Air systems, Off Air Systems, office equipment and Network systems in a team rich environment of 4 other engineers. Koin 6 is at #25 in the Nielsen Rankings, delivering rich content to the greater northwest. Systems ranging from Windows xp to Windows server 2012. Broadcast equipment such as BlackMagic, Everts, Troll, and many others. On a daily basis i'm maintaining equipment from Live truck systems, HD Field camera systems, robotic studio camera systems, while utilizing my programming talents to provide creative solutions to an ever evolving environment.

As Chief Engineer I was responsible for all broadcast equipment on site, and off site at our Transmitter location in Jacksonville Texas. I Managed Several systems installations including 128x128 Intercom Matrix, 3g SDI HD Video routers, Video Encoding and Decoding Equipment, Satellite Receivers, Video Servers, Microwave Transmitters and Receivers, antennas and Towers up to 1600 feet. I also managed large production projects such as Control Room build outs, Equipment integrations as well as large Broadcast productions such as Parades and other Events. I also acted as Liaison between all of the various departments to organize and facilitate short and long term projects to ensure success.

Waco, Texas Area

KCEN-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Texas including the cities of Waco, Temple and Killeen.I worked as a Systems Administrator and Television Broadcast Engineer, managing a broad range of broadcast equipment including video streaming servers, broadcast equipment, microwave transmitters and all workstations on site.

Vancouver Washington

The Vancouver Clinic is the largest healthcare provider in Vancouver, WA offering a wide variety of services for primary and specialty care.. I worked within a team of twelve IT specialists supporting health care systems for over 1,500 users at five different clinic locations. I performed general and advanced systems management, morning checks, installed and configured new systems hardware and software, datacenter rack management, provided general Epic support, and also managed integration of remote healthcare peripherals into Epic. I also was responsible for Linux Systems management and VMware Systems management.

Systems administrator, phone systems administration, linux server administration including SUN, IBM Enterprise, and Dell.Desktop support services and advanced exchange 2003 administration. Desktop development and server side development. Specializing in Proof of Concept (POC) systems designs. Advanced email routing and internet based presense expeirence.Specialized in Pay Per Click services, and Pay Per Action services,Microsoft Office automation, and intrusion detection systems. Data farming and business reporting systems such as Crystal Enterprise. VMware virturalization specialist, and ESX Datacenter services managment. Server room systems management and design. Expierence with HVAC systems management and design.Advanced knowledge of interactive abilities between Linux and Windows OS's. Advanced experence of systems intergration and migration from one to the other of any type. MAC systems administration expierenced. Fluent in the following programming languages : PHP, VB, TCL/TCLSH , PERL, Flash and Ming, PLSQL, HTML, ActiveX, ASM/MASM w/SoftIce, Bash/Ash, Delphi, old pascal, and basic. Also expierenced with several other API based languages: MIRC, Eggdrop, MS Office VB, Fortran, Foxpro, QuadraPro, Lucent, Toshiba, ActiveVoice, and SMDR.

Systems administration and desktop support for a startup company that provided phone sales services to Toyota and Nissan.Phone systems administration and screen pop services expierence.

Field support for remote networks. Provided extened cat5 cableing technologies to the Mt Hood Oregon Area. Provided desktop and server support for various industries of the area such as auto dealerships, ranches, orchards, and home users.

Toshiba Certified. ATT Trained, and Cat 5 Certified.Provided onsite services for a large variety of customers ranging from car dealerships to hospitals and school district 12.HIPAA compliance expierenced.Greatest personal achievement: I got to RE-wire my own high school, middle school and elementry school that I attended growing up.

Point of Sales POS systems field technician. Sybase database systems management. Installed, managed and configured grocery store based sales systems for large UPC inventories. Specialties include Sybase database migrations, register mechanics, UPC scanner technology, and onsite field technician.

General desktop management for three 20 floor buildings, 1500+ users. Worked as a technician as part of a group of 28 other techs. Windows 3.11, and Windows 95. Responsible for migration of windows 3.11 for workgroups over to windows 95, running under Novel. Specialized in automated system installs.

Systems Administration including ISP based services management for a startup company located in the Gorge.Built, maintained and upgraded server equipment. Ascend trained and certified. Responsible for satellite NEWS group feeds and remote pop dialup sites. Provided additional support to customer support personell when needed. Maintained all onsite workstations, and networking equipment. Most common equipment was Ascend pipline 130's, 110's and ascend gigarouters.

MaxiShip and TeleShip Technician trained and certified by UPS. Worked in a call center taking inbound calls and providing support for UPS shipping systems for several large shippers throughout the United States.

I was last stationed at NAS Jacksonville FL. Responsible for MSDS datasheet database systems and desktop base systems administration and support. I was stationed on the USS Stark for a while, but was transfered due to not being able to adapt to life at sea. I later was honorably discharged due to medical reasons. I recieved a letter of recommendation from my commanding officer for the systems work I did while on base.