IT solutions
Starting in the late 1980's, I used my curiosity about computers to design and develop database systems for a relative's position as director of Who's Who in PhotoJournalism and Database and Spreadsheet systems to manage P&L and handle quotes and billing for family's construction company and a hair salon, including handling the taxes automatically, which you would use a program like quicken for today to make the accountant's life easy.
Not an official position, but as a geek using BBS' and many types of computers since 1980, Started as the Chief Technology Officer for a Mom and Pop Print and copy shop, The Printing Press, and helped them move from 2 Macs and a segregated Xenix based Customer management system and everything done with actual print, copy and paste (glue) to a fully digital; networked system utilizing PCs, Macs, and the Xenix network so that the company could work with customers on any layout system such as CorelDraw on the PC and finish on the Macs. This seems quaint today, but in the early 90s this was a leap. By the time I left for Bradley University, we had been able to disassemble the photo processing chemical system.
At Bradley University, In the Electrical and Electronics Discipline, utilizing the Unix networking including building our own free-hosted websites written by hand as well as using the system for compiling and testing various types of code including Assembly, C and C++
At LR Nelson, I became best friends and/or a nightmare to the IT department. In the early days of the internet I was networking our entire Electronics Manufacturing facility on my own and making many challenging requests from the IT department causing them to have to up their game tremendously to help develop a number of ISO-quality automated processes and procedures rather than being stuck with simple spreadsheets and documents, as well as a cat and mouse game of what to let me get away with and what to try to lock me out from. At LR Nelson our team developed internet connected products using the Palm Pilot and early Windows Phones (pre-android or iOs) and demoed some of the first internet-connected irrigation controllers before there was such a thing.
At Signature Control Systems, I was the IT coordinator for the 100,000sq ft Peoria, IL facility to our Irvine-based home office. I transferred all IP from the LR Nelson acquisition to the new system and setup all local servers from simple file-sharing to internal use Wikis and portals. I am an administrator for all Peoria-needed systems and product features such as Verizon and GSM provisioning. I configured and deployed all PCs on all desktops throughout the plant, configured all the routing and built all the networking closets, sometimes using off-the-shelf racks and sometimes custom-building the racks and shelves. I ran all cabling done after the initial installation and setup the internal Wifi network. As PCs aged, we transitioned many PCs to multiple flavors of Linux to maintain security of the network and upgraded all eligible PCs to Win10. Just as at LR Nelson, I was instrumental in specifying features, testing, troubleshooting and using the internal and external websites and testing on iOS, Android, Windows and Linux.
Not an official position, but as a geek using BBS' and many types of computers since 1980, Started as the Chief Technology Officer for a Mom and Pop Print and copy shop, The Printing Press, and helped them move from 2 Macs and a segregated Xenix based Customer management system and everything done with actual print, copy and paste (glue) to a fully digital; networked system utilizing PCs, Macs, and the Xenix network so that the company could work with customers on any layout system such as CorelDraw on the PC and finish on the Macs. This seems quaint today, but in the early 90s this was a leap. By the time I left for Bradley University, we had been able to disassemble the photo processing chemical system.
At Bradley University, In the Electrical and Electronics Discipline, utilizing the Unix networking including building our own free-hosted websites written by hand as well as using the system for compiling and testing various types of code including Assembly, C and C++
At LR Nelson, I became best friends and/or a nightmare to the IT department. In the early days of the internet I was networking our entire Electronics Manufacturing facility on my own and making many challenging requests from the IT department causing them to have to up their game tremendously to help develop a number of ISO-quality automated processes and procedures rather than being stuck with simple spreadsheets and documents, as well as a cat and mouse game of what to let me get away with and what to try to lock me out from. At LR Nelson our team developed internet connected products using the Palm Pilot and early Windows Phones (pre-android or iOs) and demoed some of the first internet-connected irrigation controllers before there was such a thing.
At Signature Control Systems, I was the IT coordinator for the 100,000sq ft Peoria, IL facility to our Irvine-based home office. I transferred all IP from the LR Nelson acquisition to the new system and setup all local servers from simple file-sharing to internal use Wikis and portals. I am an administrator for all Peoria-needed systems and product features such as Verizon and GSM provisioning. I configured and deployed all PCs on all desktops throughout the plant, configured all the routing and built all the networking closets, sometimes using off-the-shelf racks and sometimes custom-building the racks and shelves. I ran all cabling done after the initial installation and setup the internal Wifi network. As PCs aged, we transitioned many PCs to multiple flavors of Linux to maintain security of the network and upgraded all eligible PCs to Win10. Just as at LR Nelson, I was instrumental in specifying features, testing, troubleshooting and using the internal and external websites and testing on iOS, Android, Windows and Linux.
