Professional Objective:
Develop innovative, simple, eloquent solutions.
- Procedures
- Processes
- Systems
- Software
- Equipment
- User interfaces
- Work environment
Skills:
- Identify the underlying causes by seeing beyond the symptoms, to understand the core issues, and aggressively attack the root of the problems in order to reach solutions.
- Original, fresh approach to problems.
- Risk failure and take responsibility for results.
- Ignore “the way we've always done things,” and challenge old, stagnant ideas.
- Work well in teams or alone; excellent team building skills.
- Growing management skills.
- Technology: Linux Admin, Linux Network Admin, HTML, CGI, SQL (MySQL), Perl, Javascript, Ajax, Apache, mod_perl, Samba. Linux and Windows desktops, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, illustration software, limited CAD experience. Windows desktop and server administration.
Professional Experience:
Systems/Network Administrator, Teacher
Valley Christian Academy, Roswell, NM, July 2007 - Present
Summary:
- Administer 2 Windows 2003 Severs
- Administer 25 Windows XP desktops for faculty and student use
- Responsible for network
- Teaching junior high science and high school mathematics
Self Employed
Harris Development, Hagerman, NM, August 1997 - July 2007
Web page Designer/Consultant, Internet programmer, database designer, programmer, systems administrator.
Summary:
- Focus on small businesses to help them grow and expand their customer base and improve customer service.
- Build sites around a user-maintainable model to implement faster and more frequent updates. Leverage technologies to maximize value to the end user.
- Integrate web forms with in-house software to improve customer service and profitability.
- Extend web sites with databases (MySQL), offering greater flexibility, minimize work load for site owners and maximize value to site visitors.
- Consult, build, deploy Linux desktops for small businesses and individuals.
- Train and support users for Linux desktop applications.
- Administer and maintain Linux desktop installations.
- Consult, build, administer and maintain Linux server installations.
- Administer and maintain variety of MySQL server installations and applications.
Process/Operations Engineer
Navajo Refining Company, Artesia, NM, November, 1992 - August, 1997
Duties included:
- Optimizing, trouble-shooting, de-bottlenecking two crude units, two vacuum units
- Unit start-up and optimization of diesel desulfurisation unit and a sulfur recovery, including catalyst performance analysis
- Process operating experience with Utility Facilities, Crude Units, Desulfurization Units, FCC, CCR reformer, and HF Alkylation units
- Performed the bulk of the process/troubleshooting tasks for the remote processing units located at the Lea Refining facility in Lovington, New Mexico
Education:
Continuing pursuit of knowledge and wisdom that can be applied to the solving of problems through books, interaction, and on-line resources. My education is only well begun.
Various courses for job-specific skills and general management completed with certification while employed at Navajo Refining Company.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Texas Tech University, May, 1992
Other Activities:
Interests and hobbies include photography, reading, philosophy, writing and poetry. Active in local Church.