professional abilities

General professional experience:

  • • Over 10 years overall experience handling client and user contacts in technical and non-technical environments, maintaining good client relationships and running "damage control" when customers have specific problems or emergency needs.
  • • 4+ years (ongoing) managing IT systems and perations for small online retail companies, including:
    • · local network management
    • · custom data scraping and analysis
    • · process design and business automation projects
    • · business network design, installation, and administration
    • · server provisioning, configuration, and management (local and IaaS/PaaS cloud)
    • · online retail platforms and multi-platform inventory and sales aggregation
    • · oversight of personnel and budgeting for inhouse IT support
    • · planning, budgeting, and oversight for design and rollout of new company systems
    • · oversight and project managment for inhouse software development
    • · all the strange IT-ish needs of 21st-century businesses
  • • 2 years of professional experience rebuilding and refurbishing consumer electronics for online resale.
  • • 3 years of professional experience deploying and maintaining long distance (2-8 miles) wifi links for business and residential clients.
  • • 3+ years in a previous career in construction, remodelling, and facilities maintenance.

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    Systems design, deployment and/or upkeep in a wide variety of environments, including:

    • · businesses
    • · warehouses
    • · off-grid sites
    • · construction sites
    • · church and non-profit offices
    • · hospitals (non-PHI equipment)
    • · public libraries (well, once)
    • · radio towers
    • · restaurants
    • · homes


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    General technical areas of competency:

    • · Small-business project and department management in both technical support and software-development projects
    • · Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, and Windows experience
    • · WAN / Long distance wireless systems
    • · Linux shell, ssh, and small Linux/BSD server management
    • · Server and desktop virtualization in both Linux and Windows
    • · Hardware and software knowledge in mobile, PC, and small server environments
    • · Experience in local and cloud server deployment and maintenence
    • · Practical Python, bash, cmd, and Powershell scripting for business (and personal) automation
    • · Local network administration (especially in Ubiquiti and Mikrotik equipment, but also in FreeNAS, Samba, Netgear, DD-WRT, and other standard platforms for network services in small to mid-sized networks)
    • · Basic web-design and management (Apache, Wordpress, cPanel, basic CSS/HTML/Javascript)
    • · RDBMS management and general SQL (SQL Server, MariaDB, MS Access, HeidiSQL, LAMP/LEMP web stacks)
    • · Business data scripting (SQL, Python/Pandas, Powershell, Bash, Google V. API Query)
    • · Network wiring installation, maintenence, and re-organization
    • · Upkeep, evaluation, and phase-out of legacy IT systems
    • · Client/customer interaction and support
    • · Equipment salvage/repurposing
    • · User training and support


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