Curiculum Vitae
Have a look at my resume if you're so inclined. Its a Word doc so be prepared.
Professional & Career
Current Employment
I am currently employed as the Network Administrator for the Department of Surgery at the University of Florida.
Myself and my staff of one full time and one half time support technicians and one database/web developer support around three hundred users and two hundred twenty five workstations.
We run a mix of Windows servers to provide file, print, email, web, mobile messaging and other services.
How I got here
I have an accidental career. My background was not in computer science. I did have a few computer courses while in college but they were incedental to my main course of study.
I took a part time job with the Patient Accounting division of the Dept. of OBGYN at the University of Florida. This job required intense use of Lotus 123 spreadsheets. This work was done on a PC's Limited 286 with 8mb of ram and whopping 250mb of disk space.
I quickly realized that Lotus 123 was not the best format for the data we were processing. So, I learned DBase and ported our data to that. The learning curve for the rest of the staff was too steep so I wound up writing front end interfaces for them. This snowballed into learning Clipper so I could compile the apps to make them more efficient. Then object oriented programming. Then everything started to go Windows so I learned MS Access, Visual Basic and SQL. All this was incidental to my real job which by this time was managing the Medicaid division for the Faculty Group Practice. One day one of the FGP IT managers asked if I wanted to work for him. I did a lateral move from a corner office with windows and supervising 23 people to a cube by myself in the middle of the farm. They taught me MUMPS to do queries against the IDX data and I coded all day. It was like being paid to do crosswords.
Eventually the division I was in began to break up and was to be absorbed by another IT group. A position as Network Administrator with my old department opened up and I applied. I really didn't have the requisite experience but I applied anyway. Tony Chiota, my ex boss was very smart and very good. He and I struck a deal that I would need to prove myself. I would start at a lower salary and at my annual review this would be adjusted. In two years I was above the average salary for my title. Tony got two years of hard work at a bargain price and I received two years of the best hands on training available.
