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Technician and General Manager

1999-Present        Friendly ‘Puters, LLC           Bloomington, Eagan, Hastings, MN

·         Provide technical assistance via telephone
·         Assemble new PC’s and install OS’s
·         Provided “in-home” repair service to any PC owner
·         Design and build networks for personal and business use
·         Designed security for International Market Square Internet service
·         Diagnose and repair PC’s and all Operating Systems
·         TCP/IP configurations
·         Security, firewalls

1982–2003                TNT Productions                        Minneapolis, MN
Professional DJ

*     Owned and operated professional portable DJ show
*     Designed and constructed all sound and lighting equipment
*     Wrote, recorded, produced, and engineered all advertising 
*     Played on 1696 stages in 16 states, nearly 1000 weddings

Professional Driver
1994 – 1996                  Professional Driver         United States of America

Fast Food Manager
1982–1994                    Fast Food                                  Anywhere, USA

*     Of these 13 years, 10 were in management
*    Area Manager @ Taco Johns (8 locations) General Manager @ Hardee’s and Godfather’s Pizza (in 3 locations); Assistant Manager @ Rocky Rococo’s; Pizza Hut
*    All locations increased sales and/or profit margins under my guidance

Aerographer’s Mate; Second Class Petty Officer
1987 – 1991                      Enlisted with the US Navy

·         Consistent 4.0 evaluations
·         98% accurate with 48 hour forecast my last year
·         97% accuracy with observations over the four year enlistment
·         Command Physical Readiness Petty Officer
·         Command OPARS Petty Officer
·         Quality Control Petty Officer
·         Pilot weather briefer

Education  
1981                       Southland High School                         Adams, MN

*   High School Graduate 

1982 - 1983              Rochester Community College          Rochester, MN

·         Liberal Arts Program
·         Dean’s List fall, 1982

 1987                      Community College of the Air Force

·         Studied weather observations and forecasting
·         Finished 2nd in my class

1988-1990                Mountain View Community College              Dallas, TX

·         GPA 4.0
·         Studied guitar, piano, and theory of music

 1999-2002                Dakota County Technical College          Rosemount, MN

·         GPA 3.3
·         AAS degree in computer networking
·         President’s list Spring 2000 and Spring 2001
*        Computer Networking Degree
·         Graduated May, 2002, with 100 semester credits
·         Overall GPA 3.15
·         Computer hardware and software
·         Cisco hardware networking, and subnetworking
·         Windows Operating Systems, DOS and UNIX
·         Microsoft Office Software Suite (including Access)
·         Data Communications and Help Desk Solutions
·         Windows NT and 2000 network environments
·         Novell Networking
·         Security

 2003 – 2005         Metro State University                                St Paul, MN

·         Continued study of Information Technologies
·         Multiple disciplines of writing courses
·         B.A. Technical Communications and Art spring 2005
·         GPA 3.2
 
Interests: Traveling, writing, music, reading.