About Me

Site Information:

This site is hosted on a Joyent Accelerator system, using Apache 2  and  Citydesk to provide the engine for this site; I provide the gas to keep it going.

Military History:

• Enlisted into the Army on June 3, 1975. Attended Basic Training and Infantry Advanced Individual Training at Ft. Polk, LA.
• Promoted to SSG after five years and eight months from the secondary zone.
• Attended Warrant Officer Candidate School and the Warrant Officer Aviation Course June 1981 to May 1982.
• Retired from the Army as a CW3 on June 30, 1995 (20 years and 28 days).
• Qualified in the UH-1 (Huey), OH-58A/C and JOH-58C (Jetranger), UH-60 and EH-60 (Blackhawk) with 2,450 Flight Hours (Senior Aviator). Hours: 1,782 (Pilot-in-Command) 736 (Night Vision Goggles) 76 (Weather) 418 (Mountainous Terrain above 5,000 Feet) 82 (Deck Landings - Ship).
• 9 Years experience as an Aviation Safety Officer.
• 10 Months as the Property Book Officer of the 128th Aviation Company.
• Served in Desert Shield/Storm 1991-1992 (236th Medical Company). Flew 67 combat Medevac missions at night (NVG) and day.
• 6 months as Assistant Battalion S-4 and 12 months as the S-4 (Logistical Officer) of an Aviation Regiment. (2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Brigade)
• 5 months as an Automation Integration Officer.

Education:

• Graduated Twin Falls Senior High (Twin Falls, ID) 1975.
• Accumulated over 100 credit hours of college level credit from various University Extension Programs, CLEP and ACE (for job experience credit).
• Attended and continue to attend many technical courses provided by computer industry vendors.

Technical Skills:

• System Administrator on Windows 2000 servers in a Windows 2000/2003 domain.
• System support for Windows 2000/XP Professional workstations, both laptop (mobile) and desktop.
• System Administrator on various Linux servers under various distributions (Redhat/Fedora/Debian).
• E-Mail systems: Sendmail, Qmailm Postfix, Lotus Notes 6,7,8 and Exchange Server (Outlook Support).
• Web Servers: Apache, Aolserver, Zope, and Internet Information Server.
• Internet server applications/frameworks: OpenACS, MovableType, Drupal, Textpattern, WordPress, Plone, and Sharepoint 2004/2007/2010.

Buisness Skills:

• Staffing (Hiring, Position Classification, Retention and accomplishing Hiring Goals)
• Budget Forcasting and Execution
• Developing business Dashboards reflecting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Excel, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius.
• Conducting analysis and studies for recommendations to senior leadership in regard to various business issues.

December 19, 2010 - Still updating this page, check back later for completed entry...