Workstation Support

• Jan 2022 - Present

• Level III help desk • Maintain lab and classroom workstations and peripherals • Build and deploy workstation images • Endpoint management using Active Directory, Quest KACE, and Sassafras Keyserver tools • Plan and implement annual hardware and software upgrades • Cloud license and user administration for IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, and ESRI products • Level III help desk • Maintain lab and classroom workstations and peripherals • Build and deploy workstation images • Endpoint management using Active Directory, Quest KACE, and Sassafras Keyserver tools • Plan and implement annual hardware and software upgrades • Cloud license and user administration for IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, and ESRI products

Student, self-employed, other

• Aug 2015 - Dec 2021

• Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with emphasis on GIS training and natural resources conservation/restoration • Iowa River Restoration Toolbox Training Level I • ATTRA membership • Center for Rural Livehoods (Aprovecho) Natural Building Semester 2017 • Designed, planted, and lived on a small forest garden installation. • Comics, collectible games, and vintage bicycle sales. • Briefly tried working for the Forest Service at $27k/year and quit almost immediately. • UPS Preload Package Handler I set out to find a way to live and make a living constructively within the constraints of what is realistically possible and morally acceptable given growing climate instability and the need to degrow economies, regrow local first institutions, and eliminate fossil fuel use. However, without debt-free land and a home this approach proved to be too fragile, and I wasn't able to accomplish any of my ecological or social goals. Show less

Linux administrator, OpenEdedge administrator and programmer, workstation support

• Nov 2006 - Jan 2015

• Progress OpenEdge ABL application programming • OpenEdge database administration • RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS system administration • Maintained corporate and plant workstations and thin clients • Level I to III help desk ticket resolution • Designed and coded products for line and label printers • Developed databases and applications for asset tracking and data polling • BASH scripting • Implemented code base version control with SVN • Progress OpenEdge ABL application programming • OpenEdge database administration • RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS system administration • Maintained corporate and plant workstations and thin clients • Level I to III help desk ticket resolution • Designed and coded products for line and label printers • Developed databases and applications for asset tracking and data polling • BASH scripting • Implemented code base version control with SVN

AGR/Airborne Linguist

• Jun 2001 - Jun 2005