Shaun Benson Email & Phone Number

I have always loved technology for as long as I can remember. I first realized my passion for technology when at a young age I dropped my GAMEBOY into a lake. My parents helped me recover it but not until it had sat fully submerged on the muddy bottom for over 2 hours. Not wanting to lose the progress I had made I asked my mom and dad for "a tiny screwdriver" like I had seen sold at the dollar store for watches. At that age I understood little of what the electronics inside did, all I did know was that I was going to figure it out. While my understanding of electronics, and much more importantly networking, as a whole has increased over the years, I somehow managed to disconnect power, completely dissemble the unit, dry each component separately in their own tub of rice, and then put it back together again. I'm almost as surprised now as I was then when I hit the power button and watched it spring to life. By my own standards as an adult I didn't do anything particularly noteworthy, but as a kid I felt like I was on top of the world. My beginnings may have been humble, but I have forever been curious about how things work ever since. I learn quickly because when I get home after a long shift at the end of the day, I spend every waking minute learning something new. While the chosen media varies, I use the knowledge base at my disposal to learn a new skill or update myself on a new standard on nearly an everyday basis. Sometimes it's watching technical crash course videos on YouTube, pouring through Stack Overflow forums, re-configuring my enterprise level home network/lab, or even soldering a new capacitor onto the motherboard of the Cisco switch that died the night before. I do all these things for the same reason, just like I always have, ever since the day that I hit that power button and watched the screen light up in my hands. I bring experience to the table and am confident in my qualifications. However, what I also bring to the table is the ability and more importantly the willingness to continue to learn, develop, and grow. Anyone in the tech industry knows that our field is so broad that it becomes an impossibility to be an expert on "all things tech" despite the fact that I will attempt to be so for years to come.

Listed skills include Technical Support, Troubleshooting, Networking, Microsoft Exchange, and 16 others.

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  Texas A&M University

  Communication, General