Roll CALL! in No, I Will Not Fix Your #@$!! Computer http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14614651 en Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:10 EDT Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:10 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20926464 PFz2 : I have been retired several years but during my working life I started in IT as a programmer, then a DBA. I have worked for several companies, an Asst. VP of World Wide Technology Services for major financial institution, the DOD, and several insurance companies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20926464 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:59:34 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20833779 Epikos : I'm a Technical Support Representative with Netflix. I support our Instant Watch, Netflix Set Top Box by Roku, and our newly announced partnership with Microsoft to bring streaming video to the xBox 360.

In the past I provided onsite helpdesk support at Intel supporting the laptops and desktops used by microprocessor design engineers. After that I was hired as a Data Center Technician. I supported 6 data centers and 50k + servers.
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I'm a long time anon - just recently signed up a real account.

I've been using computers for the last 30 years or so. Starting back in the Commodore Pet and TI 99/4 days.

The first PC I purchased was a Vic-20 with a tape drive. I remember waiting 30 minutes to load Frogger... :D

Anyway, I've long been in the computer field, as a consultant, a PC tech, and as an IT contractor. I've worked for government, local biz, individuals, you name it.

Currently, I'm the IT manager (of myself - the whole IT department!) for a smallish mental health non-profit in Los Lunas, New Mexico. Naturally, I do everything under the sun: servers, PCs, printers, web site, etc.

I have to commute and the pay isn't that great, but its a nice easy and relaxing job. Plus I have my own office. And I'm in charge. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20563810 Fri, 30 May 2008 13:28:06 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20505310 kes601 : I'm new to the forum as well. I am the technology director at an independent school in Virginia Beach.

My primary background is in multimedia and design, however am also responsible for the networking/server aspect at the school. I am not an expert in this part of the field and most things I know are self taught.

I have 2 help desk staff that work for me, which is a help, but they are not networking people either.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20505310 Mon, 19 May 2008 09:22:35 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20332324 Gumbot : Hello:

I am new to this forum. I work at Leadertechusa.com.
We are a Computer Components Vendor. www.leadertechusa.com

I am a Technical Sales Manager. Been in Technical Sales for over 10 years. Many of my client visit your forum.

My email address: removed by a moderator.

Hope to be a valuable contributor to your forum in the future.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20332324 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:50:02 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20331878 WaukMan : Hi,

Actually I am a software developer by trade, but, I am also the entire (volunteer) IT staff for a small non profit organization. We have about 8 paid staff members, 8 volunteers and 14 computers. When I started we had:

6 computers running windows 98
all staff shared a single dial up line for internet access
each dept had a single general email box
no individual email address
no shared files (except by email) or by floppy
not all computers had up to date virus software
a mix and match of office software

Now:
14 computers
XP Pro on all equipment
All computers running common office suite
SBS2003 for domain login
ethernet across the building
high speed access to the outside world
individual email address for all staff (paid/volunteer)
shared date stored on the server and accessable by all
Backups maintained at the server
Now running centralized virus software

Setting up the main server was the biggest challenge as I had not done that previously.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20331878 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:01:57 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20316106 cow116 : I'm currently the admin of a small non for profit( ok seriously its 2 websites i host to get my resume out and for my lil bro's xbox live tournaments) I'm currently in the process of getting my BS in IT Networking and my CCNA.

The network is all Cisco except the gateway router which is a dlink. The core is built on top of a cisco 3640 and 7505 routers, 2924, 2916 and 1924 switches and 2 dell poweredge 2400s. Inventory and "help desk" functions are taken care of by the Spiceworks suite while I use The Dude network management and mapping software to keep track of bandwidth usage and link states between the switches and routers.

I've been doing this for close to 4 years at my father's house and before this I was doing local work from my mom's house. Removal of spyware to total rebuilds from scratch.

First time I ever got to look inside a computer was when I was 8 and my father let me "help" him install our first internal ISA V.92 9600 baud modem in our Micron dekstop(all scsi)

for those interested you can visit »cowkilla.dyndns.org/grambonet to see the layout prior to my acquisition of the 7505
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said by jaywid See Profile :

Hello all,

I work for a small Canuck IT company supporting small and medium businesses in a range of industries. How's that for vague?
It could have been "Works for a small northern North American IT company supporting misc small companies :P.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20292748 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:40:00 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20292285 jaywid : Hello all,

I work for a small Canuck IT company supporting small and medium businesses in a range of industries. How's that for vague?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20292285 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:33:37 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20192835 fatmanskinny : I do Desktop / Network Support for a huge internet company. I have been in this line of work for about 3 years.

I am working on starting a part-time IT support business and will eventually go full-time as a business owner.
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I graduated from college in 06 with a website programming degree(wasn't graphic design but weird degree called Internet computing) and wound up working for my fathers company as the computer tech(mainly for work experience). I took a Comptia A+(601, 602) training course for hardware knowledge and might go for the cert soon. Also training in MCSE a bit.

I currently work with windows 2003 server, windows XP/2000 computers and manage all IT related issues including an Avaya IP phone-system. Now that I have some experience in working field I am looking to expand my skills and am looking for a new job(yes people in my company know this and have been very supportive) but I am unsure of what I want to do. I thought of working for IT contractors but I am unsure of what companies to apply to. I have been in contact with alot of IT recruiters that seem to be a waste of time but I am still working with them.

Anyway nice to meet you all.
Jay]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20059510 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:39:25 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19851062 DigitalXeron : System Operator for a local School board and an owner of a small, private research organization.
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I am being cross trained in a department called CTSData who deals with Verizon, Cogent, and the Cisco AS5300 for connection problems with the Frame Relay.
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I run a company that could best be described as "outsourced I.T". I work primarily with mortgage lenders/brokers. The corporations tend to span several states, but via smaller branch offices of 5-20 employees. Rather than employing an IT department of their own, they contract with us. It's a step above just replacing parts and per job orders, we act as an internal IT department - making software recommendations, establishing protocols, etc.

I have the good fortune to be able to do 80% or more of my work from home, but I have physical offices in 2 states, and on-call staff in 13.
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I jumped in to computer support during NT 4.0 and windows 3.1 days.

Currently a Server Engineer in charge of 42 IBM blade servers that boot off a approx. 75tb san (which is almost out of space :). Also assist the other 2 engineers here with our Citrix farm publishing apps for our ASP. Our mainstay is Litigation support and Electronic Data Discovery. We are currently owned by a Storage Services company that builds storage are networks.

We are currently doing server consolidation from over 162 different servers down to about a 100. More IBM blades please. We have satellite operations in Eden Prairie,MN, Vancouver,WA, Ventura,CA, White Plains NY , Texas and India.

Can't really tell much more than that due to sensitivity of the data we host.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18712608 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:52:50 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18587752 wave_sailor : Work in NJ for a large multinational distribution (manufacturing located in Asia).

Web System Analyst = WebSphere Admin under Windows and RedHat, SQL 2000/2005 DBA, IIS Admin (content delivery servers), of course RedHat (everything including installs) and Windows Admin (someone else does installs). Also, create countless SQL DTS, ftp, vbscript all colminating into batch jobs and even shell scripts. Instructor (mostly RedHat) to boss so I when I am out he doesn't call. We have about 50 prod and dev servers. 10 or so SQL Servers in that mix.

Lastly, that four letter word, keeping documentation up to date.

About seven years or so in this position, previously I was in document imaging system design, testing, training, rollout and support for three years.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18587752 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:51:56 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18528374 redhatnation :
said by dbmaven See Profile :

Welcome and Sign In, please.

Tell us where you work, and if you don't want to be precise about a company name you can more generically describe the industry.
a large Network Service Provider

said by dbmaven See Profile :

Tell us what role you play in the business/corporate/enterprise I/T landscape - everyone from programmers to system Architects (and everyone in between) is welcome here.
Technically, I am a "Unix Administrator" but I see more Linux, Networking, and Datacenter/PoP work. Background is in Unix, Linux, IP networking and data communications. Am a fiber-optic junkie. Anything involving fiber = me in a toy store.

Currently work in a PoP where there are racks and racks of DWDM, CWDM, Long Haul, ADMs, ONS 15454's, Junipers, and other assorted fiber goodness. It's like Christmas every day I come to work.

said by dbmaven See Profile :

Tell us how long you've been doing this work.
*sniff*

14 years now. Damn. Every single day is a new learning experience.

said by dbmaven See Profile :

Add anything else you think is relevant!
I love talking shop with everybody. Live in Va. Work in WDC. Am a huge, HUGE, HUGE Dallas Cowboy fan.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18528374 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:25:59 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18487590 nixen : I work for a small consulting company (I was first paid employee) that you've likely not heard of unless you're in the Intel community. This past week I "celebrated" my third anniversary with them.

I'm a "Senior Principal Consultant". This means I do everything form implementation, to assessment, planning and architecture tasks. My work is predominantly post-sales, but with ocassional pre-sales work thrown in. I specialize in data availabilty (e.g., clustering technologies) and protection (primarily replication technologies with some archival technologies thrown in).

When doing implementation work, I work almost exclusively with UNIX-based systems: predominantly Solaris and AIX with a smattering of HP/UX and Linux. Assessment, planning and architecture tasks run the gamut as I have to be familiar with all sorts of hosts - from PCs to mainframes - networking and storage. I travel all across the country and spend >80% of my time on the road.

Prior to my current job, I spent 5 years as an "operations engineer" (basically, a glorified senior UNIX SA position) for a global webhosting provider. Two jobs prior to that were with a storage vendor and a UNIX hardware manufacturer. Been doing the UNIX thing as a hobby since 1989 and as a primary occupation since 1995.
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I run a small computer consulting company in northern nj(bergen county). I also perform IT duties for my local law enforcement agency.

I have been doing this for about 5 years now. I feel that I still have much to learn.

But I am making some money and making good friends in the process so I will not complain much.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18311203 Thu, 10 May 2007 08:40:15 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18272829 GhostReaper : I am a Information Systems Technician and a Network Diagnostucs Technician here... I do work for a small privately owned Network owned by a close friend and have been in the biz about 11 yrs... ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18272829 Thu, 03 May 2007 00:05:26 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18205227 BosstonesOwn : Because my previous jobs were all security based and they were tight wads about everything, I never posted.

I work at Sun , Level 2 back line engineer , I fix the problems most of the people can't get repaired , well before we send em to the bug team if I can't fix em.

I support Solaris / Linux / Windows on x64 and high availability Servers E10k 15k 25ks, the heavy iron ;).

I have been known to roam over into clustering and help out as a Level 2 Engineer.

I know NAS , HA servers , (Global) clustering and touch oracle.

I am currently considering opening my own pc business.

An odd fact, I use open solaris @ home and enjoy it , I hate SUNRAYS ! ;) I don't like my "manager" but love the people in this company.

I have been in IT for 9 years and have done major work with telcos , banks , and retailers.

Here we support all the people who use sun , the largest database I have helped save was a 12 terragig (spelling ?) database that was clustered and mirrored on over 50 nodes. Was a huge task and a team of 4 were involved walking them threw the steps to get all the nodes up without reiniting the disks.
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I started in IT in 1965 with an IBM 1401, programming in machine language and then Autocoder. I never could figure out how to get it to divide! I migrated in college to an IBM 1620 and then a 360/65, the largest computer in Connecticut at the time. (256K main memory and 1 MEG additional core memory ... you could peer through the glass and see the actual CORES!!!)

I migrated up through various IBM O/S's including VM/370 ... some of my code made it into various productions versions of VM/370. IBM was willing to incorporate customer's "enhancements" back then. IBM actually distributed the SOURCE with the O/S then which made enhancements lots of fun.

We transitioned off the mainframe in the mid 80's or so onto Novell network systems. That was a really, really fun time.

Currently I'm working in an aerospace company doing infrastructure support. Our platforms are all Solaris running Apache, Sun LDAP Enterprise Directory, MySQL, Embedded Perl. Most of our apps are home-grown in Perl.

I consider myself an advanced Perl programmer but can "speak" many other languages. Does anyone here remember APL, PL/1, REXX, or (very obscure!) Speakeasy!? At one time or another I was pretty good at all of them.

Bill W
Western Connecticut
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said by AR See Profile :

I'd guess Terabytes.

That's the kind of storage arrays that are ordered at the telcos where I have worked.
The question is, how many TB's ...

I just finished building a large Oracle installation late last year that's got over 70 TB of data in the online database, and another 65 in archives. There's another 100 TB of disk allocated because we're growing at a raw data rate of 60-75% yearly. We're handling roughly 135,000 transactions per second through this thing ... it's got some serious horsepower.

All on HP-UX. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18013044 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:01:45 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18012656 AR : I'd guess Terabytes.

That's the kind of storage arrays that are ordered at the telcos where I have worked.
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said by dbmaven See Profile :

Welcome one and all.

I'm a consultant, currently specializing in VLDBs in the Data Warehousing/Data Mart space. Doing a lot of work currently in the pharmaceutical industry, but have done consumer products (my original background) and finance as well.
How big are some of those VLDB's? Just out of curiosity ....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18012022 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:45:52 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18009810 Packeteers : I've been the IT Director for the past 20 years at a large construction company with a dozen servers, over 200 workstations, 100 printers, with a dozen satellite branch and job sight offices around the NY, NJ, CT, PA area that are VPN connected to our main office, some with localized file servers and backup. a few employees help me out part time away from their normal duties, and some of the technical work is outsourced and redundantly supported in case I'm not local or readily available.
I've done everything and all self taught; negotiate, buy, setup, service, support of computer, notebook, server, printer, plotter, barcode systems, bulk label maker, programming specs, equipment maintenance and repair, application & utility software, database maintenance, backup both on and offsight, catastrophe planning, help desk, Internet connectivity, firewall, router, VPN, building security system, copier, scanner, fax, phone systems, pager, cellular, PDA, still cameras, electronic & digital testing equipment, test result processing, equipment leasing, fixed asset management, outsource management, cost accounting, whenever, wherever, whatever my company needs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18009810 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:20:48 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18007812 spike852 : Signing in as a database programmer and occasional software help desk operator for a Fortune 500 insurance company.
And yes, even though I am not part of the I/T department of my company, I get a fairly consistent stream of people asking me to come to their desks or listen to their incoherent problem explanations over the phone and fix their #@$!! computers.
Eh, I do what I can...
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I am responsible for day-to-day operation of our companies PC's. I ensure the PC's are working for our employees to do their work. If not, I fix them.

I aspire to move up to a system administration position one day. Either working with our Novell servers or our Microsoft servers.

On a more personal note. After a good month of studying, I passed the Netware Administration exam on Monday making me a brand spanking new CNA. :)
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Production Systems Engineer II
Current Responsibilities:
2000 and 2003 Server
Red Hat Linux E4
Several Production Related Apps

Exp with Exchange 5.5. ,Citrix Metaframe XP, RightFax, Track IT, Terminal Services, Windows XP Pro, 2000 server 2003 server, Red Hat Linux, Some SQL administration.
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We provide a POS system and reservation software for a lot of courses all across the country. Although I don't have any official certs (I could easily load up on the basics), I feel a little over-qualified sometimes. The work is challenging sometimes, which I love. Only major complaints I have are a few select incompetent co-workers, who spread their work onto us. I've learned a lot more as far as the server end goes, I've been to our colo facility and worked on our 4 cages, and helped alot of people in the office. I've also done some phone system setup. I'm up for my first 6 month review, and salary is my number one concern.

I'll be taking some cert tests soon for backup, sometimes I feel like I'm spinning my wheels here when I could be doing alot more work for a lot more pay.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17855784 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:24:16 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17795693 legendNYC : These days I am an Automation Specialist for a government agency in New York City: Lotus Notes Administrator; Web Site Administrator; and Technology, Development and Support Services. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17795693 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:25:31 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17721581 jschwar : I just found this forum. I'm a Systems Engineer for a large retail company in Illinois. I've been with them since '87, except for a layoff - now I'm back. I'm a programmer in various languages and am learning a few more now on the PC. Started out working on the mainframe, but now I'm learning JAVA, ASP, etc.

Man, is this a blast! I wouldn't trade my job with anyone! I just love working with computers.


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said by ahejnas See Profile :

I also work on VLDB's. I fix all of DBMaven's dbmaven gets to find and fix all my bugs. That keeps me him plenty busy.
Fixed it for you! :p
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I've been in the IT business for about 10 years now. I've worked majorly contracts up until the last 4 years and I still do contract work on the side. I started out just doing large installs of workstations and servers then moved into support. I'm primarily a MS, Avaya and Cisco guy.

My current assignment (because I chose to accept it :p ) is a permanent position, Manager of Infrastructure and Development. This company has about 5000+ people, 200+ sites and they are spread all over the world. I'm told that my job roll will include developing new networks, and redesigning old networks to conform to company standards. Honestly it's a dream job for me because of hours and salary.

I also currently have support contracts for very small companies (7 people or less) and help them move forward with technology. It seems that I have a niche in the IT field with my experience in Microsoft Small Business Server (2000 & 2003)

My education consists of my 10 years in the field, vendor classes, some trade school. I have yet to achieve any certifications though I've finished all the courses for MCSA, Security+, Net+ & A+.

Because I get spread pretty thin, I tend to just read, and I don't post that often.
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I work in the higher ed., and my shop supports an academic unit of approximately 1000 users in a mostly MS environment (AD/Exch 2003). I've been there for ~3.5 years now, and my job responsibilities include Group Policies (my how we've learned), application deployment, app servers, and labs. At this point, I do very little direct user support, and with our new hire, I hope to focus my energy on GP/app deployment, and I'm looking forward to our SMS installation within the next month or so (I have my fingers crossed). I usually dabble in whater the boss is up to as well, so my role roams across the board...

In my prior life I worked for EDS supporting GM and then the State of Michigan, with very little college education. I'm currently in Calc II and Physics I (in my free time, right?) while pursuing my BS in CS.
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My actual title is site support manager. My direct supervisor is about 125 miles away.

I have 2 contractors that work for me, a cable tech, and a desktop support tech.

I support about 60 users, 20 sales reps, the rest are a director and a VP, then the others are in production.

I handle everything, desktop support, printers, a few servers, phones, and a few other toys. Because my site has the production department, I get to play with cool toys like AVID, media sphere, seachange (which is my major duty as I have to cover about 12 sites)

I have a great stable situation here, but there is not much challange or chance for advancement unless I want to relocate.

I have been here about 4 years now. I also do some consulting on the side, and have a few regular clients.

Plusses of my job, I can pretty much set my own schedule. I have an actuall office (with a door!!!) in a very very private part of the building. I have a company car. There are some days I don't even need to go into the office.

My two contractors usually handling the small fires that happen on the day to day, and I do the budgeting, installing new equipment, and take care of the phones and servers. I did have a 3rd shift backup tape operator but that position is no longer.

I love my job, but I am always looking for the "next thing"
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Now I'm a project manager with an outsourcing company and while the change from "doer" to "manager" is challenging, I really enjoy the work.
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I'm a retired IBM senior SE and marketing specialist, systems planning specialist for a fortune 100 Pharmaceutical distribution services company and IT manager for a medium sized retail chain.

Now I'm a freelancer who works part time to keep active in a career I love with great people I like and respect - not to getting a few bucks for travel, toys and good scotch. :D

My present roles are to consult, assist and support a select group of great customers in planning, implementing and maintaining their IS implementations. I also do a bit of volunteer (and occasional paid) grunt work to assist private and public sector entities in infrastructure protection and response to threats.

I also lurk and post regularly in the security, digital imaging, weather, NYC, UK, Southeast and midwest forums.

For those considering a consulting career, I highly recommend Steve See Profile's excellent article, So You Want to be a Consultant?.

EG
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I'm a Sr. UNIX System Admin for a specialized group of research scientists at Harvard Medical School. Our group also supports research at a number of other affiliated universities around the country. The research is performed on UNIX platforms, and I mostly support Linux, OS X and IRIX. Most of my time is spent managing about 50 high-end workstations, three local clusters, a few dozen servers and a multi-terabyte backup server.

I'm a proponent of open source technologies and have successfully replaced several proprietary systems in our network with open source (or at least open standard) solutions.

Nice to meet you folks.
Ian
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We support over 250 nursing facilities all connected back to our datacenter via partial or full T1s. All workstations at facilities and most at corporate access computing resources via Citrix.
Also perform printer setups, file backup and restores, tape rotations, cabling, server installs....just whatever needs to be done.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16739334 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:10:52 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16712161 elboricua :
said by flywifiguy See Profile :

I work for a company who operates nuclear power plants.
Do you work in Sector 7G? :D Excellent :p
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the job. Definitely going to broaden my horizons in the sysadmin side of things eventually.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16550567 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:22 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16549956 dibbers : At my "day" job I'm a network administrator at a large fortune 100 chemical company.

At this particular site we have about 30 servers, 600 XP workstations, 150 HP printers, and 900 users.

My personal business is a small pediatric clinic with 1 server, 13 XP workstations, and 20 users.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16549956 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:06:57 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16515975 SSX4life : I am a student worker for my college here in Wisconsin (UWM). I'm 23 years old and have been working with pc's since I was 15 years old. I help manage the network and mainly student side problems here .(virus's, spyware, etc.)

I'm also the network admin for my fathers lutheran high school in Lansing IL. I adminster 30 lab comptuers that currently run K12LTSP (terminal services), as well as roughly 30 faculty and staff pc's on the side (windows based).

I wish everything ran on linux at my dad's school! Since moving their lab from windows to Linux I have had ZERO down time and no problems or headaches due to virus / worms / etc.

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said by port9 See Profile :

I work tech support at WorldSpice Technologies a local ISP in Memphis ... We sell Tech Support and resell bellsouth DSL and T1 and a few t3 and still have like 600 dial up users we also do Guest Velocity at hotels around the country
Ive been into netwokring for about 5 years Im 19 and going to college to get my ASS of IT Communications and then prolly on to bigger and better things
While in college, don't forget to take an English course or two. :)
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Ive been into netwokring for about 5 years Im 19 and going to college to get my ASS of IT Communications and then prolly on to bigger and better things ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16509159 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:11:06 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16491854 72276539 : Well, the old becomes new again. Going to work for a wireless company in the NOC, lost my job on Monday and thank god my former boss was looking to hire. Back to handling trouble tickets, monitoring, network wiring, T1 wiring, etc.
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Hey guys, have been reading here for a while and just recently started posting stuff. I have been working with computers since I was about 10 years old or so. I'm 21 and up until this job I have never had an "official" job (by official I mean one with taxes taken out and the like). The most I did was lawn maintenance for my grandparents and a select few others.

I've gotten my hands dirty in pretty much everything from a Commodore 64, to DOS, Win 3.1 and NT 3.51 up to XP/2003. I haven't played with Vista yet, primarily becuase my dad has yet to be able to get it to load on his computer but then he was trying Beta 1, maybe Beta 2 will have more luck. I've also been into unix, linux, Solaris, and Cisco routers. I've got access to a lot of older routers and Sun equipment (2514, AS2511-RJ, uBR904, 2611, AS5200, 7507, SPARC 4/5, Ultra 1, Ultra 2) to play with. I actually prefer the hardware aspect of computers more than administration, and I can not stand programming.

I'm the IT dept. for a very small company (8 employees and I don't even know how many contractors), owned by a friend I have known for years at my church. I got involved with them one night becuase he asked me if I could help spec out their first server (they had a colocated box for years but that was about it). He is no clouch when it comes to using computers so he is my backup now if I an unavailable. I actually ended up specing out the entire server room for them.

Did some "consulting" for them for about a month and he and I determined what fit their needs right then and planning for the long run. After it was determined what they need he mentioned that they would need someone to run all of it and wanted to know if I knew anyone that could do it. I was 19 at the time (21 now), had never had an "official" job in my life and actually needed one. Naturally I said yes, and he was actually expecting and hoping it would be me.

I manage 6 servers, about 10 desktops, a few laptops and even a few think clients (newer ones run XP Embedded). And I am working on setting up VPN tunnels to 6 of the employees houses (they all work from home and connet through Citrix/TS). Almost all of our servers, desktops and laptops are Dell; there is one server that was built by me. The thin clients are either Wyse or HP (I like the HP's muuch better than the Wyse ones. I've got a HotBrink VPN 800/2 firewall protecting everything. We just recently moved into a new suite (actually took two suites and cut a case opening between them). At our old suite we had a total of 6 network jacks, at the new suite I ran 20 plus 16 phone. It took myself and another employee a day just to pull all the lines. Then it took me another two days to terminate them all. I ran my own phone lines becuase I want to upgrade to a VoIP PBX (probably asterisk) in the near future plus the existing stuff was a complete mess. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16432393 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:51:47 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16424584 FiL : FiL.dUb'z, at your service!

Regular ole Tech dealing with private residences and small business'.

Have bee a pc ethusiast for over 15 years, but have been repairing rigs for 5 years. Had a boatload of odd jobs before finding my ow little niche.

Love PC's, trying to learn Mac's and Im about to make the jump towards Linux, prolly Ubuntu. Im a sucker for anything free. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16424584 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:13:34 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16381535 MrFixIT : I am the IT department for a small company. Onsite I have two SBS servers, 8 desktop computers, 4 laptops and 3 Windows Mobile phones. Offsite I support ~25 laptops, several desktops and a 4 others server class comuters that never touch any sort of network. OS's vary from MSDos 6.11 to Vista on the laptop/desktop side and SBS2003, a customized version of Sun Unix and W2K Advanced Server on the server side. I have Exchange setup for internal mail & it forwards to a smarthost for external.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16381535 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:16 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16379905 Sysadmin : You know, I read the forum name how many times and never took a second to look at what it was about until now.

I'm the IT department for one of the top Electrical Construction companies in California. I have 15 servers and 135 computers under watchful eye along with 21 Windows Mobile phones. I've been the Systems Administrator here for over 10 years now. Before that at my last job I was a CAD Drafter and part time IT guy.

Servers include 2 DC's Exchange 2003, Intellisync, MS-SQL 2000. Firewall is a couple SonicWALL 3060's.

I also consult for a local company (owned by my brother-in-law) running a SBS server.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16379905 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:00:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16315059 DANNY_BOY : i must have gone and join here thinking it was for people like me but i see alot if not all you people are techs. im just a retired limo driver. so i want bore you people with stupid questions. anyways very nice site thanks again
:D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16315059 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:58:19 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16304718 bakalao2k : I can't believe I've been overlooking this forum all this time too.

I have over six years of systems support experience in a multi-user environment. In respect to Windows, I consider my skillset to be more of a Senior Level Desktop Support person to a Junior Level Windows Administrator. I have some experience with managing Layer 2 switches in the workplace. I took a CCNA course last year, but I didn't take the test.

I'm a Systems Administrator for a firm that trades options and futures in the Chicago loop. In my current position, I get to work in a UNIX shell environment to monitor most of our servers that are running .nix operating systems (UNIX, Solaris, Linux). I really want to be a Windows/UNIX Administrator for a small/medium size company one day. A larger shop would have you specialize in one area.
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Before this I was a Level II Technician at Intermediate Unit 28 for a year and a half. Did some tech support but mostly database programming for our special education child tracking system.

Also have been doing consulting and tech support for people in the area for about 5 years.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16269559 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:17:20 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16268642 Maxwell76 : Can't believe I've been overlooking this forum all this time.

Anyway, I'm a level I IT Associate for a county government organization. The department in which I work provides services for the community: parks/recreation, senior centers, community centers, etc.

I'm part of a team of three providing IT Support to the entire department- which has locations spread throughout the county. Our PC hardware consist of Dell GX270, 280s, and recently 620s. We also have a few legacy Gateways and E-series machines in the mix.

I started out as a contractor installing Dell PCs for the various departments in the county. I was eventually hired on as an IT Associate this past spring.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16268642 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:54:34 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16226913 spamd : Just stumbled into this forum...

Network Admin, Systems Admin, Help Desk, and everything else in between. I work at a manufacturing company. More specifically a metal lithographer, meaning we put text/graphics on metal like those pepper McCormick tins, Duracell batteries, AOL CD tins, those big film tins for the movie industry, we do alot more too many to name. But I can guarantee you that every one in the U.S. has touched our product or will at some point in their life.

I support 2 sites with about 500 employees combined of which about 200 pc users. We run an old AS/400 Data 3 ERP system which is around 12-15yrs old. Lotus Notes/Domino 6.5 upgrading to 7 very soon. 10 Windows 2003 servers 1 linux server doing various rolls (domain controllers A/D, file, print, intranet, application servers). 3com NBX vcx 5000 VoIP. The entire switch network is 3com. Brand-spank-in-new Cisco routers for internet and a dedicated point-to-point to our other facility. Certified in Watchguard firewalls, we run X1000, x700 and an SSL VPN gateway from Watchguard. One Apple xServe for our Art Dept supporting 5 Apple workstations all G5's. Support for engineering applications such as Pro/E Wildfire and Autodesk 2006/7.

Current project is installing a BES 4.1 (blackberry enterprise server) for 25 users spread through out the country.

Been in this business for 7yrs, working with computers for 25yrs.
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I'm a senior system administrator for a large fortune-50 company. My primary responsibilities this days are in the HP-UX realm (everything from rx1600's to fully-loaded Superdomes), and that includes servers, storage, SAN and networking.

Main expertise is in highly-available systems and disaster recovery. In previous roles, I've done everything from Sun systems (E10k's my forte) to Banyan VINES. Love what I do for a living.

Got any ??'s or !!'s about Sun or HP hardware, I'm happy to help. Sad to report, I'm not well-versed in IBM gear, but I can always ask some co-workers.

And as I tell my wife ....

"I'll mop the floor, I'll do the dishes, I'll even clean the bathroom.... but I don't do Windows!!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16216800 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:18:52 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16214481 kenjamin : I am an applications systems engineer with a major financial company in IA. I am in a group that supports 3rd party applications that our business uses to perform day2day functions.

The main app that I support is IBM's DB2 Content Manager and Kofax Ascent Capture. I have been working here for 2 years and see our group getting bigger and bigger.
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(Tier IV? - see »www.upsite.com/TUIpages/whitepap···ers.html )

My primary skills besides project management are electrical engineering & network architecture. I also have a lot of experience at communications systems engineering & microwave theory. I have a BSEE and am a licensed PE. I have been building mission critical facilities since 1985, and working in the computer & electronics field since 1981. (Yeah, old. I remember the days of keypunch machines). In the past I have been:

Computer Programmer
Electro-mechanical Assembler
Field Installer & Lead Field Installer
Electrician
Systems Technician & Sr. Systems Technician
Engineer, Systems Engineer, Sr. Systems Engineer
Chief Technical Architect
Project Manager & Project Engineer

Kind of a jack of all trades.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16182589 Sat, 27 May 2006 12:03:39 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16168348 ke4pym : I am a System Engineer for a large hospital system. I manage our intra and internet web hosting. On average, our intranet is serving around 3 million page hits a day and we host about 300 medical related domains.

I do everything from manage hardware recommendations to installs to day-to-day ops to working with other groups for SAN connectivity, network connectivity, etc.

I also wear 38 other hats of responsiblity around here. Everything from the mundane dept PC upgrade (just got done giving all of our developers dual Samsung 21" panels to work on as well as new high end PCs) to helping out with a BGP IP block request from ARIN to writing specs for application installs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16168348 Thu, 25 May 2006 09:37:44 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16036407 Dead Newbie : I am a Senior Systems Administrator and Deputy Team lead at a Government Facility. I also do private consulting as my side job. (Mainly small network design and security infrastructure)

I've been in the IT field for about 7 years now (was US Army Artillery before). In that 7 years I've moved from Desktop Support to where I am now through hard work and a reputation of being able figure out anything IT. (It comes from being on a computer ever since I was 5 and being a natural geek)

This past year I finally got around to getting my MCSE, just to keep the HR people happy.

The only problem I have now is it seems I don't have quite enough years in the industry to advance my career any further. It doesn't matter that I have a documented track record of delivering on any project handed to me and grasping all things IT. People see 7 years on the resume and assume the worst.

On the bright side, every year will make it easier.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16036407 Fri, 05 May 2006 11:37:57 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15963454 richk_1957 : Well, been working with electronics in general for the past 20 years. Started out in IT as a Unisys A-6 operator [with a little hardware maintenance on the side] Went and got my Novell CNE back in '92 [Novell was big back then] and started as a LAN admin in a trade organization in Manhattan in '93. Turned a 1 Novell server system into a 3 [with a little stint as a Unix admin on a RISC box - nobody knew anything, so it fell on me] until we brought NT in and I learned Crystal Reports. Since 2000 my job has been A. Backup Admin [have used ArcServe & changed to Backup Exec] B. Crystal Report writer C. Help Desk.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15963454 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:20:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15961377 Nhbass : "Computer Specialist" for a large univeristy in New England. Mostly classroom setups, fire fighting, and troubleshooting for the administrative branch (no student support). Biggest project so far is to inventory, barcode, and enter into a database all the IT euiptment currently in circulation using Vitrual Asset Manager.

Tinkerer since 1994, full time IT since 2001. I've taught classes, been a teaching assistant, a tech for a small PC store, and worked for myself.

Current certs are MCP, MCDST, NET+ and A+. Working towards my MCSA, then MCSE.
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I'm a high school student (studying computers, networking, and electronics) and I do computer work for people on the side. I specialize in voice/data/video cabling, networks, and computer repair. I'm also the family computer whiz. I help out a lot at school as well. I worked for my school's technology department 2 summers ago, and I help our network admin with various projects.
Jeff]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15681975 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:06:43 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15657501 jasonfen : I am the typical "Everything Man" for a small staffing firm. Been here 5 years. Ready to move on.

Only about 60 users. 4 offices. I get to build/fix/break 6 or so servers. LAN/WAN, VPN, SQL, etc.

In addition to staffing, we also run litigation support. So we get all the boxes of evidence that we have to code/scan/print. We get some interesting stuff to say the least. That along with 2GB PSTs of email for electronic discover make for a few headaches.

I started out 20 or so years ago messing with computers. Never occured to me that I could get paid for what I enjoy.

I've worked on big ugly IBM water-cooled mainframes. I spent 3 years in England supporting various Air Force and Navy bases. I've worked at or contracted for several large law firms in the Dallas area.

I moved back and was pinned down by my now wife. We are expecting our first addition to the family in April.

I've been a member here for a long time. The help and information I have gotten here has been invaluable.

Good to know there are other "nerds" like me.
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Barb]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15615803 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:21:09 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15526762 koitsu : I work at Tellme Networks. Sorry, our website is fairly outdated -- but what we do isn't. We do... well... it's hard to explain. :-) The best way to describe it is that we provide the technology and framework that allows companies like SBC, Merrill Lynch, Verizon Directory Assistance, and Fidelity to create and develop interactive telephone applications using voice recognition. The next time you call FedEx... well, that's us! :D

Professionally I'm a UNIX Systems Administrator, but I've been doing NOC work for the past 2-3 years; finding a great place to work + decent pay ($70K is fine by me!) + good job location is very hard to come by these days, so I have no problem doing "dirtier" work than I prefer. NOC work gets old real quick, though...

I started doing UNIX "stuffs" back in 1991, volunteering 5 hours a day of my time (for about 4 years) to a project Oregon State University called CSOS (Computer Science Outreach Services). I did this concurrently while attending high school (for the record: I never graduated).

I've worked professionally since 1995. I've worked for small ISPs (Bendnet, MediaCity), medium-sized web/hosting/ISP outfits (Verity, Best Internet/Verio), and even gone so far to work at a large corporation (Microsoft).

Anything else that's relevant? Hmmm... well, if there's anything I've learned from working in this industry, it's that I hate computers. Good SAs will know exactly what I mean...
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I'm actually fresh out of college, and in my 4th week of working for them. So far, I've had a blast.
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Then spent 5 1/2 years at my previous employer as a switch technician(terminated due to buyout of division) It included:

Working with various long haul carriers on origination, termination and provisioning issues.
After hours support for various IT systems directly related to the business.
Supported conferance calling bridge.
Worked with Harris 20/20 and Excel switches, SS7, PRI and inband trunks.
Configured, troubleshoot Cisco 5300's for VOIP termination. In that vein also worked on our 7200's during outages.
Various wiring tasks, primarily cross connects on the DSX panels.
Maintained TDM Avaya PBX.

Now I'm a Customer Support Analyst for a small telecom vendor:

Phone and internet support for various customers.
Testing applications, creating and modifying the current test plan.
Installing OSes, configuring for our applications then testing.
After hours support for all customers.
Installation of new systems.
Still workin with the Harris 20/20 and Excel, also have the Taqua to learn.
Screen logs, determine where the problem is and refer it in the proper direction.

So really its a jack of all trades type deal.
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"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter, Boxer "I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15482089 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:09:02 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15452170 drjp81 : Programmer Analyst and Level 2 Tech support.
Windows security and Datawarehouse Specialist.
PC Based hardware, Microsoft platform, Oracle/PL-SQL, Visual studio6 - .net 2005.

I currently work for a non-profit Org that makes programs to help follow up on the children in the juvie system as well as child abuse cases.

JP
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Cheers!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15452170 Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:10:34 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15431754 eSteve : Wow... all these years on DSLR and I'm still finding new (to me) forums.

I work for a Gov't Contractor, presently a newbie Systems Architect... I'm learning Unix and Oracle as fast I can cram it down my throat.

For the past 9 years I was a road warrior systems engineer... deploying and configuring DEC (HP-Compaq) Alpha Enterprise Servers and Storage, Network Hardware (Cisco mostly) and some Wintel servers as well, mostly for the Military Health System.

I guess I'm one of those Swiss Army type guys who has his hands into a little bit of everything at any given moment.
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"... we’ve got a fever and the only prescription is scotch, red meat and lumberjacks." - Zack Attack ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15431754 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:58:18 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421585 devnullgt : THe newer ones might...but the one I have to work with is an old skool terminal. You can administer the callpilot voicemail stuff over a gui, but not the pbx itself.
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said by elias See Profile :

Don't the newer NorTels have a web-based GUI now?

-- Elias
The operative word there is "newer" - the phone switches we have are ancient (with no thoughts or money set aside to replace them until they break - which reminds me, where did I leave that hammer? :D).
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421162 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:42:56 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421007 elias : Don't the newer NorTels have a web-based GUI now?

-- Elias]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15421007 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:02:30 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15420853 onebadmofo : Sounds like job sercurity to me, bro.
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So I might bouce a few ideas off a couple of you guys/gals once in a while (especially when it comes to programming on a Nortel telephone system - those suck when it comes to ease of use in programming - NEC and Intertel are much easier).
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15416273 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:58:10 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15416153 fegul : Wow, you have a lot on your plate! :o]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15416153 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:42:15 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15415315 acehyde : Hello everybody!

I work in Birmingham, Alabama with a Wholesale Appliance Parts/HVAC distributor. I am the only one in our IT department.

I am in charge of all of our workstations (approx 80), both servers (Windows 2k and Unixware 7.1.1), our WAN (Frame connections between 12 locations), the LAN at each location (13), the telephones and telephone switches at each location (mismash of Nortel, NEC, ATT, and Intertel), and the cell phones for all salesmen and upper management (Blackberries presently, but with the shake-up at RIM we may be migrating to something new). All software installs and updates are also my responsibility. Website development and updates. Email config (using POP mail at the moment, hope to migrate to something a bit easier to configure and manage at some point).

Think that covers it, but I have been known to handle other responsibilities as they arise.
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15415315 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:43:36 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406798 xengineer : Hi All,

I am currently working for the state government doing end user education and some support of a database application. I also have a small part-time computer repair business for small offices and the public. Prior to that I was an engineering design verifcation consultant working mostly on Internet backbone swtiches, and for years before that a DV engineer at IBM on their mainframe systems.

I am also the family & friends computer repair guy. I am lucky in that for the must part once I clean up their machines for free they follow (mostly) my recommendations many of which I have honed from all of you. So thanks !!

-Kevin
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AMD 2500 ASUS A7N8X DELUXE eVGA G-Force 4 MX440 3 x 256 Meg Crucial 120G WD HD ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15406798 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:37:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358154 Enlightener : Greetings All

I guess I've been a sysadmin before I ever knew what one was. Starting back in the early 80's to the mid 90's I was a Sysop of a FidoNet backbone. Then on to client/server Unix/Windows SysAdmin work. From there I crossed over to development and I cross back and forth over the line from time to time.

My last IT position was with a Fortune 100 company in Houston, TX where I was assigned to the Enterprise Engineering Team. While I did my MCSE back in the NT 4 days, these days I focus primarily on application integration and deployment. This means I'm really heavy into technologies like Windows Installer/InstallShield, SMS 2003, Active Directory, GPO, RIS/ADS, Scripting, VB/C++/C#/.Net. I managed the application deployments for a multi domain AD forest that included over 18,000 computer objects.

These days I'm working for a small company on the development side again. It's funny because the IT shop here is very territorial and isn't interested in any help that I can give them. No biggie though. I've been on both sides of the fence multiple times and I understand the cultural differences.

So if anyone ever wants any assistance on the topics I brought up, just shoot me a PM.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15358154 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:50:10 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15265155 devnullgt : Hi everyone, new to the forum

I work in Bala Cynwyd, PA, which is right outside of Philadelphia doing corporate IT work for a communications company. Since I once admitted to knowing a thing or two about a thing or two...I was pretty much made the corporate "all things computer" guy.

So basically, I am now responsible for Sysadmin work, all Cisco networking stuff, all the *nix server stuff, Lotus Notes admin and development, web development....the list goes on.
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My Pictures: EmpX Photography]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15265155 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:07:38 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15243801 dibbers : I'm a senior voice & data LAN administrator at a fortune 100 chemical company. The site I'm at has about 900 users, 600 computers, 60 Cisco switches, and our own PBX.

I've been at this particular place just over 10 years but have been working in IT for about 15 years.

Also, my wife owns a small pediatric clinic where I'm the CIO and run the 13 PC's and W2K3 server for about 15 employees.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15243801 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:47:59 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15207214 Boricua65 : My office title (classification) is Information Systems Technician. I work for the State of California with five (almost six) years in my current position. Prior to this position, I was adept at learning software without taking any classes. Upon encouragement from co-workers (in the previous department), I took IT classes in the community college. I took an exam for the position I'm in now, interviewed, and landed this job. Not only on the job, but outside the job, have I done tech support. My knowledge encompasses knowing how to set up a wired and wireless network, build and re-build computers, troubleshoot hardware/software.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15207214 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:01:41 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15197918 Bryon : I just found this forum and thought I'd add to it.

I work in the Tech Systems department at a small, independent school (preK - 12) in Indianapolis.
3 of us for approx. 600 machines (mix of MacOS9, OSX, and XP)and an estimated 150 applications between instructional and business functions ranging from "Word Munchers" to Oracle. We have a very weak professional development program for staff and faculty, so that adds to our burden.

I started in early 1980's with Burroughs, promoted Desktop Publishing solutions as they came along, spent a decade as an Apple SE for a reseller, and am in 8th year working at school. My daughter is in the class of 2018, so I'm planning on staying here a while...
regards, Bryon
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No man is an island, though you could strive to be a peninsula...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15197918 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 10:47:22 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15197627 JollyStomper : I work for a small (but quickly growing) healthcare company providing end-user support for almost 2000 users across the southeast, midwest and southwest. Mainly help desk stuff, but can get pulled off from time to time to assist in other projects. Just moved to my current location and started this new gig back in October. Before that, I was in tech support/call center hell down in Florida. Worked there in many roles/many contracts for over four years. THAT job was strictly stepping-stone stuff, and I learned a ton there.
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"As I was sayin' buster, this planet ain't big enough for the two of us so... OFF YA GO!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15197627 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:22:18 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15151902 jpg366 : I'm in an operations project management postion for a manufacturing company. Spent 10 years in IT operations, about the time PCs became useful office and engineering tools. Involved in a couple of company-wide projects to make IT tools more productive (managed and used better) and spend a lot of time translating between the IT and business speaking populations.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15151902 Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:10:59 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134513 jtk7 : Like the filters? No... but the acronym has the right amount of letters...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134513 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:32:17 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134059 MystBlade : HEPA?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134059 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:34:12 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134043 jtk7 : I work for a non-profit... don't wanna say much more, but I support a ~30 person division involved in publishing a journal. My job entails software support and updates, preparing graphics for publication, dealing with printers, and most recently, the launch of a new website, which has put me into contact with the public and opened my eyes to how generally incompetent they all are. :)

My original job kind of evolved into this...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15134043 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:30:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15125192 pcgirl : Better late than never I suppose!

I'm a level 2 PC/network technician for a large courthouse in my area. We have three servers all running Win2K advanced server. We've got about 250 workstations running a mixture of WinXP Pro and Win2k Pro (mostly XP).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15125192 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:56:52 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15077089 Scummer : I'm a contractor right now with a big manufacturing company.
I do mostly Unix (HP/UX, AIX, some Solaris, FreeBSD at home) but I've also worked for 3 years as an Oracle DBA (7,8,9, RAC, Parallel server).
Day to day I and 3 other coworkers keep about 100 HP/UX servers running. From rp2405 over 8400's up to Superdomes. About 20 of them are on a SAN with about 15TB of STK disk and Brocade silkworm switches but we are migrating right now to a 20TB Hitachi HDS and Cisco MDS9000 for our coming SAP implementation.
I do all the Legato Networker Troubleshooting and have setup 2 backup servers for backing up 150 clients including Exchange clusters (what a pain in the butt), win2003 fileservers (slow slow slow) and mostly hp/ux boxes.

Besides the SAN, unix, backup stuff I do all the perl and most of the shell scripting and take care of our VMware ESX servers, which we run windows servers inside the virtual machines.

Started with an 8088 about 20 years ago and liked computers from that point on.

Thomas]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15077089 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:36:43 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15040513 longstreet : Been into computers since age 5 . ..

Learned the Internet at 11 . .

Learned networking and IT in the Navy

Still learning to be a developer 3+ years

The old : U.S. Navy, IT2(SW)
Information System Administrator

I can't comment too much as most was classfied, lots of crypto, communication equipment, etc. Deployed during OEF, locked space with armed guard. I got to play with all the cool stuff you can't buy at Radio Shack

The new :
Fortune 500 company, work with 20~30 applications, 10,000+ end users. Aspiring developer, B.S. will be done in Computer Science in 12 months. Lots of Web, migrating all of our old COM over to .Net

»www.neumont.edu

Studio 6, .net 03, .net 05
Sql2000, Sql2005, DB2

C++/C#]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15040513 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:47:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15039246 Racoon777 : I just joined this forum (website) and just getting "my feet wet" -- Not a good idea, if you are working on a computer. ;)

I own and run a small computer repair service in Nevada. I deal with the end user and small business person..

Just hanging in here to learn some things..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15039246 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:31:04 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15020327 MystBlade : JB

Government

Enterprise IT

I am in charge of:
Tivoli storage Manager (Our enterprise backup solution)
SMS (Our enterprise remote control and package deployment method)
Websphere Application Servers (all Applications that are built with Java)
DB2 Admin duties
Globalscape EFT (Our Enterprise FTP Solution)
RS/6000 AIX Servers (only 2 left)
Active Directory Services

Its alot for just one person but I can handle it.
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Our group supports 330+/- Windows 2K3/2000/NT servers and the number seems to be going up every day.

I've been in IT for a little over 9 years now. I started out doing pc and printer setup and troubleshooting and over the years have moved up to server administration.

I'm a little discouraged with the "Industry" at this time... I think I'm in a bit of a rut. I'm usually more creative in my roles but feel a little oppressed at my current company.

Well, enough of that...

Sorry I'm late to roll-call but I only noticed this forum today. I usually stick to my favorite forums (which this has been added to).

Take care and I hope to be of some help here in the future. :)
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The only difference between people with tattoos and people without is that the people with tattoos don't mind that the people without don't have any.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15015518 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:46:55 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14999524 MattUK : Director in a Private Limited Company here in the UK that does PC Repair and Website Design. We started the company earlier this year, and have had great success. I also maintain the company website and customer-login facility.

Apart from that I'm a party animal :D
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»forum.gladiator-antivirus.com /// Gladiator Security Forum Admin // »www.kleendesigns.co.uk/blog]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14999524 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:12:20 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14986610 Ctrl Alt Del : I probably don't fit correctly into this forum but I lurk regardless.

I am a student at Virginia Tech pursuing a BS in Computer Engineering. I'm currently in my sophomore year. So far I've had a full year of excruciating C++ that I've enjoyed for the most part, started doing PIC assembly, built a 4-bit CPU that performs 6 micro operations, and all the Professionalism stuff along the way.

When I graduate, I hope to work for a company like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Currently applying for Internships.
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less talk, more music]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14986610 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:32:13 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14985825 kwitko : Late to the party. I work for a small metal manufacturing company in Maspeth, NY.

I, like many others here, am an IT department of 1. Zong, I'm right there with you. Pretty much anything that has an IC is under my control.

I manage 40 PCs, 7 network printers, 2 file servers, 1 mail server, 2 ERP systems (we're in the process of migrating to a new one that goes live on 1/3), 1 proxy server, firewall, backups, VPN & remote access, document management, 2 fax machines, 1 photocopier, 1 phone system, the burglar and fire alarms, 1 CCTV camera system with DVR, 3 scanners, internet access, and all consumables for the printers, copier, and faxes. Oh, and the water filter for the kitchen sink. I used to handle the thermostat but those duties are now handled by the VP.

I also maintain our websites and hack everything for our new ERP system.

I fix all the home PCs brought in by our employees and recommend purchases for them.

In spite of all this, I couldn't be happier working there.
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"Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule." -- David Guaspari ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14985825 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:36:59 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14985248 zong : Hey all!

I am the IT Manager (read: Manager, Sysadmin, HelpDesk, Monkey / Grunt, Cabler) at a mid-sized law firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I manage 80 desktops in Toronto (plus the lawyers home networks and desktops, of course!), 14 printers, three Netware servers (one 5.0, two 6.0), a GroupWise 6.5 system a BorderManager firewall and a couple Win32 servers (Citrix, RightFax, SAV). I also have had the "honour" of managing the PBX phone and voicemail system, the four fax machines, the four Xerox DocuCentre devices and recently I even got the job of managing the thermostats and heating zones. Yay!

Let me tell you - I don't envy building maintenance guys. ;)

I also have an office in Vancouver, BC with a few remote users there. With them being in a timezone with a three hour offset from ours makes things fun.

I prefer the outdoors to stuffy cubes, and am waiting for the day when I retire so I can open up my own hunting and fishing lodge so far from technology that I doubt I will even have a phone or electricity ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14985248 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:15:12 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14954766 roc5955 : Hi,
My name is Rocco Rizzo. I work for Dutchess County in Poughkeepsie, NY. My formal title is "Microcomputer / Network Support Specialist." My informal title is "if it's on a PC, YOU own it."
This job is really a hobby that went bad.
I have been in my current position for some 15 yrs now. I saw the PC XTs, PS2s, and 486s come and go. I even saw a couple or three S390s come and go. Not to mention the old RISC box that just takes up space any more.
Originally I designed our first LAN, to deal with 30 people in the IT shop. It was Token Ring 16/4 and Netware 2. That was about 10 or so years ago. Within the past 5-6 yrs, we have built a WAN with over 1700 workstations and about an equal number of Microsoft Servers. I think we even have an MS server that serves toilet paper.
Our shop is a small programming / support house for the County. It started out many years ago, with COBOL, and hasn't moved on much, had it not been for >gak Visual Basic. I am not a programmer, I am a tech, and builder. But I am expected to handle every computer problem under the sun, and then some.
We jumpped off of the IBM ship, to get onto the MS ship oh about 5 or 6 yrs ago. At that time I was frantically building a WAN with stone knives and bear skins.
Finally, we got some help. The PC Orphans, as I call my group have grown from 2, when I started in 1991 to 8 today.
So I troubleshoot the WAN, PCs, and users. It pays the bills, has benefits and a pension, and isn't moving to China soon.

I am responsible for everything and nothing. It seems that management calls on me when things go wrong, not when they are starting something new. On every occasion that I was asked to work on some project, my input was rejected by management, because the words were not the words that they wanted to hear. When the brown noses in the group took over the projects, they worked for a while, and when they broke, management called on me to fix them. I was then given broad latitude to do whatever I saw fit to allieviate the problem, within reason.
Now a days, I generally wait around for work, whatever it is. Last week I had to extract and dispose of vermon from a PC, because it was below the other people in the group, and my manager has it in for me.
I can't quit the place, Civil Slavery you know. We have to be bought and sold. So I am here for the duration. What the heck, I only have 12 yrs to go.

I still like to play at home with my little network. It keeps me off the streets. Since I am single, I have the luxury of being able to have my network where I want it, and as big or as small as I want it. Right now there is one Suse 9.0 server, 3 workstations. 1 XP Pro, 1 Win2K Pro, and one SUSE 9.0. I have an old HP Laserjet 5P, and a Deskjet 890 printer hooked up as well. I get my service from Time Warner. I got Road Runner about 3 minutes after the trucks left my road, in their final testing.

I come here to read the news, and figure I can help out most Windoze users. I still am no Linux whiz. The Suse box is just a big fileshare machine.
Not sure what else you would like to know about me, other than I used to be the Pres. of the Hudson Valley PC Users Club in the 90s for a couple of years, and helped to run a couple or 3 BBSes before that. All told, I have been messing with PCs for about 25 yrs now. I guess I am a lifer.
Thanks for the space, I hope I can be an asset, though occasionally, I tend to lose the "et" from it.

TTFN, HAGD, CUL8R, YMMV, LSMFT

Rocco Rizzo
Rosendale, NY]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14954766 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:23:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14936496 heels_fan : I am the Broadband Support technician for a Small Cable company offering cable/internet services.

I do everything from phone tech support with our customers to trouble shooting low RF signals out in the field to running ant-virus/anti-spyware apps on customers computers who are complaining about slow internet speeds.

I also handle all headend activities including satellite receivers, cherry pickers, QAM, MODS/DMODS. I also deal with the DBDS/DNCS and provisioning all Digital Cable boxes/Digital Video Recorders,and cable modems.
Right now we are in the planning stages of VoD and HD
We use SA equipment.
I work with our backbone providers, AT&T and Nuvox Communications in keeping our DS3 (running BGP) circuit maintained.
I am also in charge of equipment/inventory control.
I am the Voice over IP phone administrator for our 102 phone office.
And in my spare time, I run a video camera for our small, in house video, production department.

The different types of OSes we use are: Red Hat, Fedora, SCO, Sun, Windows Server, and all the Cisco IOS you could handle.
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I'm THE entire IT department for a small business in the NYC nightlife industry. For as small a business as we are, I have a pretty robust network and a lot of computers and other assorted stuff to work on.

We have 4 Windows 2k3 servers. 2 of them domain controllers one of which is also an oracle DB server for our time clock system, 1 exchange server, 1 sharepoint server, 1 "maintenance" server that runs the AV, Backups, logging etc. 1 1.6TB NAS server (got it for only 2k!) 2 HP servers that run the MICROS POS system made up of about 30 POS terminals. I actually learned how to program and repair the entire system over the last 2 years.

Been in IT only 5 years. I actually graduated with a degree in civil engineering...computers were just my passion, I guess I lucked out.

And I'm lucky with my network. Entire building is run with double home run cat 6 cable, and all the PCs run Windows XP. We also have a few Mac OSX clients, and I'm toying with getting VMware running on one of the server so I can run a linux server.

I have to admit, I love my job! :)
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I've been working with computers since the days of the Apple ][. I am currently MCSE and RHCT certified, and have been meaning to take the CCNA test for while now.

P.S. I will fix your computer... for $100/hr.   ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14858109 Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:39:11 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14856998 wilbilt : I am the lone tech support person for a small NorCal K-8 school district. My responsibilities are diverse.

Everything from supporting 450+ student workstations to pulling cable, E-rate applications, SIS administration, SIF implementation, IP video, etc. 1300 disrespectful students and 70+ neurotic teachers add to the fun.

Thankfully, LAN/WAN administration is supported by the county office of ed.

I have been a self-educated Mac tech for about 10 years. I'm doing the same with Windows. It is amazing what one can learn out of necessity. Electrical and cabling skills have been in the family bloodline for generations.

I spent about 20 years as an automotive suspension/alignment tech. The IT support thing was supposed to be my low-stress second career. I have just about reached the saturation point. :huh:
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Rural users don't need broadband. We're just a bunch of hicks on Welfare. How about outsourcing your call centers to us?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14856998 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:39:11 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14852287 army dude : I started out with a company that had a contract with the Army to run their network at an Orlando, Fl location. I started on the help desk, with 4 of us supporting about 1000 users. The Orlando site has around 90 servers, mostly Windows, some Unix. I had moved up to tier-2, desk side tech support at the Orlando site when this job I have now became available here at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville AL.

It is a remote extension of the Orlando network, 10 servers, including 1 DC and 1 Exchange server. About 70 users, some mobile with laptops, a few with BlackBerrys, also. Dial-up radius server (cisco AS5300), three buildings connected together with MM fiber, cisco 3550 switches, a couple old 2900 XL switches, a Symantec 5400 series SGS firewall appliance.

Doesn't sound like much, but I am the only IT guy here, so between help desk calls from the customers, maintaining the servers and switches and firewall, and the dial-up equipment, along with all the normal duties, (software deployments, security scans and patches, etc.) it keeps me busy. Plus, I am on call 24/7, but I rarely get weekend or after hours calls.

The only time it seems to be overwhelming is new computer time. We upgrade the fleet about once every three years, and I have to create an image for each platform (desktop and laptop) and then image and deploy around 70 laptops and desktops (new monitors, too) by myself. That usually takes about three long weeks. The worst part is carting each machine to it's cubicle from the staging area. Keep in mind I'll still be answering help desk calls while this is going on. (damn the cell phone!)

I look forward to new server time, that is actually fun time. I am told that the next server upgrade here, I will be getting blade servers and a new enclosure. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14852287 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:54:04 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14852127 kraughl : I am currently Technical Services Manager for a small startup. We provide full IT solutions to small business using remote administration technologies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14852127 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:29:26 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14851088 PrinzII : I have been doing Help Desk/Tech Support for over 5 years and want to get more into the Network Administration and Management side of things.

Most recently, I held a position as a Technical Support Supervisor for a non-profit firm in Chicago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14851088 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:43:56 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14846002 AMD Phreak : I work as a sysadmin/helpdesk/network engineer/cable monkey/fixmypccuzitsbroke! for a company in the North West. The company deals with two-way radios for things like fire,ems,police as well as E911 solutions.

There is also a WISP side of the house which is where I spend most of my time. I have 32 Windows boxes under my care at our main office and branch office, which consist of mixed 95,98,NT,XP,2003 as well as around 10 (last count, changes daily these days) Linux machines, ranging from servers to desktops. This doesnt include the countless numbers of customers networks and PC's that I take care of, as well as our own WISP network which is built using Motorola gear.

My office changes daily it seems. One hour i might be in a data center, the next I might be on a mountain top replacing an AP or some other kind of equipment.

I also maintain a large wifi network for a local county agency, which frequently involves going to the top of 100'+ towers to replace dead wifi gear and what not.

This is a new position for me. Prior I ran my own consulting company on with my brother. We did essentially the same work as far as pc work is concerned, so its just a side step in the field. I currently have a AAS in Comp. & Electronics Engineering, and am less than a year out on my BS in InfoSec. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14846002 Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:26:50 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14826877 Fobulous : I work as a Network Engineer for a web development company that builds websites for car dealerships here in the US and Canada and elsewhere in the world.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -Abraham Lincoln ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14826877 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:44:29 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14824809 onebadmofo :
said by vic102482 See Profile :

IT is all that I know. My true love is finance though.:) Hopefully I will be able to combine the two some day.
Well if you want you can help me out financially and still work IT. ;)
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Anywho....I'm in the IT Department (3 of us-there's me, Network Admin, and the Systems Analyst) at a Mental Health and Retardation organization.(yeah I know it's a little ironic for me to have the tard as an avatar) Been here for 10 months now which is exactly the amount of time of my being in this profession. I was in the Army(Cavalry Scout) before this and always held a job in the hard labor industry (everything from warehouse to construction). So yeah I am a noob with a capital "N". So I don't know all the lingo and I don't know most of what everyone knows here at DSLR.

But the environment is very relaxed and there is plenty of time for me to learn more of what I need to know. I man the help desk here getting calls from about 190 employees and participate with keeping the network up and running. I'm pretty good at what I do but I still need to learn the very, very technical side of it. I can wait to know more.
Hopefully I can find the time to get my Bachelors in the near future.
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@Vic Hey when you figure out how to combine them tell me please :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14812125 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:20:58 EDT Re: Roll CALL! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14811422 vic102482 : I work for funky monkeys in Wash DC.:)

I do a little bit of everything in there.:(

Ive been working on this kind of stuff for about 8 years now, doesnt seem like much, but I am 23 years old, so IT is all that I know. My true love is finance though.:) Hopefully I will be able to combine the two some day.
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