Experience

WRS Materials

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Technician

  • Feb 2011 - Present

  Data Integrity and Disaster recover, Help Desk, Network Administration

• Desktop Support Technician, Network Admin

  • 2005 - Present

  Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Integrity SpecialistPerformed daily database backup, regular device backup and data collection from measuring devices. Site wide desktop, application, printer and Lan\Wan support. Administered many in-house developed/customized applications using VB6 knowledge. Assisted in component diagnosis of robotic systems for measuring, handling, and sorting wafers.Accomplishments: • Developed and deployed an in-house calendar sharing solution for upper management that circumvented us not having an Exchange Server onsite.• The company president showed me an error message on his laptop from the SMART HD utility. I imaged his drive using Ghost, and while preparing to replace his old drive, it failed. Due to my proactive action, I saved all of his data and rebuilt his system quickly without any data loss. • Prepared the company’s legacy equipment for disposal. Researched what could be recycled and what could be sold. The result was a liability of asset disposal turned into a revenue generating process.• Upgraded and migrated all 75 user accounts from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003 which included all messages, calendars, and other data. Trained all users on use of Outlook. Show less



New Horizons Computer Learning Center

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Graduate

  • May 2009 - Present

  I have graduated from the IT Support Specialist program working toward my MCTS Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration, MCITP Enterprise Support Technician, MCTS Windows Vista Configuration, Cisco’s CCENT, CompTIA A+, and IC3 certifications. I have graduated from the IT Support Specialist program working toward my MCTS Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration, MCITP Enterprise Support Technician, MCTS Windows Vista Configuration, Cisco’s CCENT, CompTIA A+, and IC3 certifications.


Purewafer
• South Africa
• IT Technician \ Network Administrator

  • Jul 2006 - Present


KMHD 89.1 FM - Portland's Jazz Radio

• Volunteer On Air Announcer

  • 1986 - Mar 2013

  I was a volunteer at KMHD but was dropped. Performing backstage production work at many of the myriad of Jazz Festivals during the summer months in the Portland Metro area is especially apealing to me, and offers oppertunities to engage with the performing artists regularly. I was a volunteer at KMHD but was dropped. Performing backstage production work at many of the myriad of Jazz Festivals during the summer months in the Portland Metro area is especially apealing to me, and offers oppertunities to engage with the performing artists regularly.



BLT Technologies, WorldCom, MCI

• POS Admin

  • 1998 - 2006

  Data Technician Maintained, updated, and configured the CPDI prepaid phone card POS system for domestic and global accounts. Delivered 24-hour support for the activation process encompassing connectivity and functionality. Diagnosed and repaired T3 level telephony issues by identifying circuit outages and opening tickets. Monitored Oracle and D-Base relational database operations on a Unix mainframe Accomplishments: • Implemented a system to give a second out of state location access to our data using a Citrix Client / Serve architecture achieving call center functionality. • Developed, deployed, and maintained MCI Prepaid phone card platform for our top two clients: Costco (domestically), and Western Union (globally) • Researched, purchased, and implemented the first ever help desk ticket tracking system for the IT Department • Helped to deploy a Bar Code strategy to help automate the distribution warehouse processes, including just in time inventory supply, and warehouse inventory levels. Show less



Multnomah County Juvenile and Adult Community Corrections

• Data Technician

  • 1997 - 1998

  Data Technician Built 7 NT 4.0 BDC and one PDC servers that used Raid for fault tolerance. Configured Cisco routers to connect them to a dedicated city wide secure WAN. LAN administration including creating user accounts, shares, and policies, as well as performing backups and providing security. Delivered AS\400 mainframe connectivity using workstation VT100 terminal emulation using SNA server, routers, and router configuration. Accomplishments: • Project managed the setup of a user training lab containing 20 client workstations by converting existing legacy equipment. Provided classroom training support for migrating end-users to new systems. • Built, installed, and configured several offsite Win NT 4.0 BDC servers used to implement Microsoft PC architecture for the county to facilitate an Office Suite inter-office, virtual VT100 dumb terminal solution, department wide. Show less