I am an IT professional who has been working in IT since 1995, since I came back to St. Louis, MO from Denver, CO. There I took part in President Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps National Service program, in which 18-24 year olds spend 10 months doing Peace Corps type work for their home town. Our sponsors love the work we do, and we love doing it.
While there, I volunteered as an assistant network administrator on the Novell LAN that was setup.
When I came back, I worked as a temporary employee at various clients working for various agencies. The main skills I had were networking and MS Office suite which I learned by playing around with the computers that I've had since the Apple II and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego first came out on 5 1/4 disks. I do not allow games on my computers, since MS Office and now website programming tools are my games - they are how I relax from stress - I teach myself a new feature.
In 1998, I took classes from CBIL towards MCSE on Windows NT 4.0. I then got a position working for AT&T as a database programmer using MS Access, then deployed Windows 95 PCs for Cardinal Glennon Childrens Hospital, then went back to AT&T after my boss got promoted - I got his position. I was a DBA on MS Access and MS SQL Server, tier 1 and 2 support for the Windows NT LAN, programming VBA in MS Office and interacting with Oracle client, and near the end ported some of my VBA scripts to Perl. One of the scripts produces two widely read (including the Network Vice President) web pages.
After that, I wasn't sure which of my skills I wanted to pursue. I have since taken off a couple of months to figure out what I want to do most, and the result was that I love programming the most. So I am looking for a programming position. I have tried and failed to create GUI web pages, and, although I have written code in C/C++ derivatives, I have never writen in C/C++ directly. I would prefer to have a position utilizing current knowledge that will train me on more.
I have setup an IIS Server with SQL Server and CGI capable web server for myself to play on and setup this website to show what I have done. I would prefer to work in the web arena scripting in CGI or ASP (not the GUI front-end but rather the script that interfaces with the database and returns the "next page") as by my estimation this is where the future will be. My sister says that the name for what I want is to be a "web-plumber", although when I queried several job search engines, all the "web plumbers" seem to be not in St. Louis. I am willing to move if given a good enough offer and I would ideally and will in the future be moving back to Denver, CO. I can easily travel back to Denver for an interview.
Please see my résumé here, and contact me here if you are interested. Thanks.
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