I was hired through a temp agency and was working as a temp in the file room. I was filing leases and organizing the files until, one day we were putting the file room together and a computer was installed. I found the printer and setup the network printer myself. Then was asked how I knew how to setup the printer, and that is where my work began in the IT field. For Almost two years as a IT Specialist and realized that I needed to have my High School diploma which I received in September 2003. In May 2004, I decided to go to college and received my Associates in Computer Networking at Strayer University.
Not happy with simply having an Associate degree, I did decided to go for my Bachelors in Computer Networking at Strayer University. In June 2009, I had completed my course requirements and graduated, while working for an Architectural firm as an IT System Administrator.
I also started my own side business for fun and turned out to be a Web Design company including web hosting and domain name registration, which I still do. I also received a certificate in 2004 for Web Design. Starting this September 2009, I will begin classes to complete my Masters in Science and Information Technology at UMUC in E-Business.
Associations
Association of Computing Machinery, 2007 – Present
Association of Information Technology Professionals, 2009 - Present
Skills
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, GIMP, MS Office Suite, Thunderbird, Firefox, Internet Explorer, File Maker Pro 10, Imovie, Cisco VPN Client, CSS, HTML/XHTML, PHP, Apache 2.0, Basic Linux/UNIX, Windows Vista/XP/server 2003/2008, Macintosh, NEC Telephone System, Airport Extreme, HP Printers, Konica Copiers, Pro Liant DL380 Servers, just to name a few!