Curriculum Vitae
(Slightly ostentatious way of saying "Resume")

Far be it from me to refrain from taking an opportunity to tootle my own horn, as it were. This, however, won't be an official resume or C.V., just a brief outline. If you would like to inquire further, please feel free to email me.

In the United States Air Force, I started out in 1980 as a mainframe computer operator. This toe-hold into the IT world I parleyed into several other jobs, like:
=> Systems Analyst
=> Small Computer Project Officer
=> Mainframe Programmer
=> Systems Administrator
=> Data Base Manager
=> and, lest it be forgotten, Aircraft Load Planner. Those big suckers have to balance.

Circle K Convenience Stores hired me to be a Programmer/Analyst. Again, not content to stay in my cubicle and color inside the lines, I ended up being
=> Security Officer
=> Business Analyst
=> Network Administrator

Fleeing the parched deserts of Arizona, I ended up in Conway, South Carolina, working for Pelican Lumber. I was the:
=> IT Manager
=> Network Administrator
=> Data Base Administrator
=> Systems Programmer
=> Security Manager
=> and in charge of the Cheese Whiz.

Nowadays, I am gainfully employed by Seaside Properties, managers of several resorts in Myrle Beach SC. We do have nice rooms and accomodations, yes we do. Here,.I am the Director of Technology, which pretty much includes all the above titles, plus a few more. Plus installing Internet in all the rooms, and extending Wi-Fi to over 700 rooms, a project I'm still plugging away at.

Operating Systems I've Known and Loved:
Windows (from 3.1 through Server 2003), Linux (Red Hat on the server and Ubuntu on the desktop/kiosk, for the most part.. I really like Linux!), AIX, OS/2 (which never did get the press it deserved-it was far better than *any* Windows of its' time), Netware (I know, it isn't really an OS, but it sells like one), a little bit of VMS, and Sperry/Unisys Exec-8 (mainframe) and Burroughs MCP. Oh, and DOS, CP/M, Xenix, and a few dashes of other obscurities, like DEC PDP11 and OS400. Egad, all that makes me feel old!

Languages de la Computer:
Started, as did Bill Gates, with BASIC. I've probably coded a bazillion lines of BASIC back in the day, but then I grew up into COBOL. That was worth another twelve bazillion lines, mainly because Commodore Hopper did not beleive in using one word when 47 lines in 3 paragraphs would do the same thing. Let's see.. Oh yes, C and C++, dabbled a bit in C#. There was MAPPER, wrote some apps which might still be in use with MAPPER (I have heard that Her Ladyship, Kim Kommando, was also a MAPPER coder back in the day. Huh. I guess she got RID of it all. She'd get that joke...) What else, what else... REXX, that was fun, back in the OS/2 days. Scripts, of course, KSH/BASH/SH, all the Linux favorite toys. Some Perl, some PHP.

SQL says it's a language, maybe it is. Either way, I've done a lot of Cursoring (and cursing) in/at/with SQL, both on the coding side, and as a DBA/DBM. Mainly Microsoft Sql Server, DB/2 on AIX, MySql, some PostGre.

Networking -- I go back to Arpanet days. Unlike Al Gore, I did not invent the Internet. Also unlike Al, I have an understanding of what a LAN is, a WAN, a VPN, what's the difference between Layer 1 and 2 and 3, when to route or bridge or gateway, and I look forward to IPv6 for some masochistic reason. Shoot, I remember having serial long-haul conections concentrated at a bank of T-Mux boxes, and having the connections drop when it rained, because the paper or gutta-percha insulation would get wet and short out. I much much prefer TCP/IP, even if IPv4 does fill up. Which I doubt will happen soon, blessed be the NAT. When it does, I'm all for IPV6... not like I have a choice...

There's more, but that's enough for now. Suffice to say, experience-wise, I am an old road apple on the information superhighway. I'm not that old, chronologically, but I have gained experience beyond my years, I beleive. And I am also a nice guy.

If you need more info about yours truly, like if you have an obscene amount of cash you wish to exchange for top-notch IT experience, shoot me an email.