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Fio’s LFWork

So, some of you may know, I’m looking for a job. I’ve had a lot of people ask what I do, exactly, so I thought I’d do a bit of a blurb here. If anyone knows of any potential leads, go ahead and email me at fiordhraoi at gmail. You know the rest, just trying to avoid lots of spiderbot spam. I will craft puns for you as a reward if something pans out.

Basically, I’m looking for an IT job. I’ve got about five full years of field experience including end-user support, Windows server/domain administration, LAN network administration, and WAN/NOC administration. I’ve got my CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate). I don’t have an MCSE yet, but I could easily pass the three mandatory tests, I just haven’t had a chance to get into the two elective ones yet. I’m very good with network architecture and design, anything from a small doctors office to the WAN connections for a large multistate corporation (for example, in one of my previous jobs, I handled about 40% of the T1 cutovers when CVS redid their infrastructure).

If you want an illustrious example of my work, when Bob Ballard went back to the Titanic, I was the onsite (and only) network guy for the event at the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Ballard’s home university. We (I) took the satellite feed and fed it into an H.323 video/audio unit, and rebroadcast over Internet2 to 60 Rhode Island schools and libraries. Every show, we’d have a session where once Dr. Ballard had made his satellite broadcast, we’d pull up one of the schools in the conference and give the students an opportunity to speak with one of the Marine archaeologists we had on site, letting them ask questions and get immediate feedback from a real expert. I also was responsible for our end of the live conference with Dr. Ballard for our VIP event, when the Governor and a number of notable state figures were present. And the Governor TOTALLY broke the wireless headset by pulling it too hard, so I had to do a quick patch job. Total panic moment. Oh, and by the way, I was given a weeks notice that we were doing this, and three actual days to set up. The auditorium I was using was equipped with ONE ethernet jack, and a sound system from 1978. That’s it. I work well under pressure.

So enough of tooting my own horn. Here are some reasons you SHOULDN’T hire me.

I’ve got a small amount of unix/linux experience, and Apache experience, but I’m definately not up to par to be a Unix/Linux server admin. Likewise, I know some HTML/Java/PHP/SQL, but if those are going to be the main focus of the job, then I’m not your man. Programming is the same thing - I know enough about programming to understand what is reasonable and what is a pipe dream, and to maybe be able to point out where something is breaking. But if the program itself needs fixing, I’m not the guy to do it. Figure my programming level is about equal to someone who’s done a semester each of a few different languages, and has no practical experience there.

So, let me know if you think you know a place I could fit in. We’re willing to move as long as the pay is worth it (median salary for someone of my experience, cross country, is about $65k, with a low of about $50k and a high of about $80k). Of course, all of that depends on the cost of living of the area, etc. If the job is right nearby and I don’t have to move, I’m certainly willing to take a lower paying job just to make ends meet, or if the prospect of rapid advancement is there, to stick with. I’d prefer to move somewhere near where we have family or friends, so the hotspots right now are most anywhere in New England, Philly, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Florida, and Seattle. It’ll be easier to convince us to go there.

Thanks for your help, all!

Cay Edit:
I can be convinced to go anywhere at this point. Pay no attention to Picky Poop Pants. ;P