Tom Higgins Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, South Dakota

Making bad things better and good things great.

Aberdeen, South Dakotah

• WSMF is an owner operated projects based technology effort to work on Open Source/Creative Commons focused works.
• PiFold - Jan 2016 - Present - An implementation of the Anyfesto project using a Raspberry Pi Zero with a limitation on the form factor such that it fits inside a standard sized wallet..
• Anyfesto - May 2014 - Present - A Raspberry Pi / CHIP based captive portal local content server with a wide range of services including FM broadcasting, file server, media streaming, p2p communications, voip and more..
• Chumote - Apr 2012 - Sept 2012 - Application to control much of the functionality of a Chumby device via any web browser. https://github.com/tomhiggins/chumote
• WSMF Historic Broadcast Podcasts - Mar 2001 - Present - Development of an evolving code base to distribute historic broadcasts to subscribers. Currently managing over 20 genre specific podcasts and the back end to.
• Countermoves - 2000 - 2005 - Countermoves was a print and play games magazine aimed at open game development. Each issue had various games, design notes and articles all published under a CC license such that anyone.

Aberdeen, South Dakota

Massively Multi Issue Real Time Retail Problem Solver (MMrtRPS) for an ongoing multi billion dollar consumer/product distribution organization.

Creation and Administration of Intranet and Internet Database Driven Web Based Applications for the Department of the Interior (DOI) which included...* 2002-2004: Transition of mainframe timber sales accounting systemsto a web based solution using only Open Source applications and custom code.* 2000-2004: Transition of legacy document management systems.

* Administered a 150 user Novell 3.12/Novell 4.1/Windows 95/AppleTalk LAN* Managed a two person tech support staff for PC,Mac, and Network support.* Managed a six person customer support staff for product support.* Intranet/Internet mail administrator utilizing MS Mail clients on both Mac and Windows environments, SMTP Gateway, MS Mail Server and Lotus.

* Administrated a 200-user Novell Netware LAN spanning 17 locations.* Intranet/Internet mail administrator utilizing Lotus CC:Mail clients, SMTP Gateway, Lotus CC:Mail Server and Lotus Notes.* Implemented the migration of marketing publications and insurance inquires into a Internet-based system utilizing Netscape's Browser over the World Wide Web.*.

* Maintained a large Internet Service Provider with a user base of over 2,000. The ISP started as the Mindvox BBS.* Administration of several Sun OS and NEXT servers.* Setup a local Microsoft NT server with several clients. * Setup and maintained all financial information including day-to-day transactions.* Designed and implemented a customer support.

* Designed and implemented a local area network connecting employees in five geographical locations using Novell, Windows for Workgroups, and remote dial-up clients. * Setup and maintained a networked real estate management system,Skyline Management, that serviced over 50 properties in the tri-state area over both LAN and dial-up networking. * Installed.

* Managed the production and distribution of course ware materials * Tested and maintained training room PC and Apple based systems over multiple locations * Evaluated new software and networking technologies* Drank way more coffee than I ought to have

* Maintained a sales based transaction system.

Computer Science

High School, Information Technology

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