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My experience: I have over 10 years' experience in the IT Contracting field, learning a little bit about a vast array of technologies. I am a jack-of-all-trades, but my core talent is in the diagnostic process. I began as an arcade technician at 16 (fixing arcade machines, not handing out prizes) and from there went into retail PC repair for several years before moving into IT contracting. My Contracting work ranged from re-organizing server farms and running network cable to staffing corporate and public helpdesks to planning and installing small- to medium-sized business networks. I also operated my own Internet Cafe for a short period. What I'm looking for: People in an office bring me problems and I fix them. I hate to use something another poster said, but he said it so succinctly. I'm a troubleshooter by nature, always looking for ways to fix problems and make systems run more efficiently. I am able to leverage my wide range of experience to find unique solutions to problems. What I'm NOT looking for: Angry customers and anything that involves me lying or selling to customers. My weak point has always been my honesty, and that includes with customers. When placed in a position to make a sale to a customer, I would prefer to find them exactly what they need and within their budget. I do not do unnecessary upsells. This doesn't mean that I will cheap out on a customer either, but I have a code of ethics that I follow that will not allow me to lie to a customer. Where I live: College Station, TX and I hate it. Where I'm looking: Any major city in any decently liberal/progressive state, preferably along the West Coast. When I can start: As soon as I can get a flight. Requirements: $25-30k/year with health benefits. Can be reached via:gmail: sa.tarrasque
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stubblyhead posted:My company is hiring! Come and work with us! I tossed you a resume via email, I would love to help you get that bonus. Also, I feel it prudent to make a general post that I am a Job Seeker. I'm currently living in College Station, TX, but am open to relocation, though a local or mostly-telecommute job would be preferable. I have broad experience with many different aspects of IT, from troubleshooting PC's and networks to providing remote support and troubleshooting. Most of my experience is with PC's (Windows & Linux), but I do have some light Mac experience as well. I have built networks from the ground up, including laying and terminating the cables and building and configuring the workstations and servers. I have mild experience with scripting/programming, and can write "Hello World" programs in at least 5 languages (this is to say, I am familiar with the needs and capabilities of programming, though I am by no means a programmer myself). I've not been employed in IT recently due to several family emergencies culminating in me moving in with my grandmother to keep an eye on her health in a town with no good IT prospects, so I spent a year taking classes and working part time. My grandmother is now in better health and I am ready to move on to making some money and expanding my education. Organic Lube User fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Mar 15, 2012 |
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Job Seeker Location: Denver and surrounding cities.* Area of Expertise: IT Support Experience: I am an A+ certified IT professional with over 15 years of customer service and troubleshooting experience. I've worked in many environments from mom n' pop computer stores (where I got my start) to working in Healthcare IT and remote administration. I've been troubleshooting Windows problems since 3.1, and I've done a fair share of tinkering with Linux. My background in IT contracting has provided me with a wide variety of on-the-job experiences. I'm currently working at an internal helpdesk on the overnight shift, taking calls from our international locations and managing any outages that occur. It's a good job, but it lacks room for growth. Looking for: Primarily looking for work that offers the option for remote work, such as remote system administration with a Managed Service Provider. I've done that work before and would like to get back into it. I would also do well in a deskside support role, and I'm open to internal helpdesk work that could lead to other opportunities within the company. I'm fine with phone work, but after many years of it, I'm eager to move on to something that doesn't involve taking calls all day. Contact: Email "tarrasque.sa@gmail.com" (swap the parts of the username before and after the dot for the real address) or via PM. *NOTE: I currently live in Minneapolis, and I am planning on trying to move to Colorado around when my lease expires here, at the end of May, give or take a week or two. My mother just retired to the Denver area and I'd like to live closer to her now, which is why I am looking to move. I am tentatively planning a trip to Denver around the end of April in case in-person interviews are necessary. Also, I'd like to not set foot in Colorado Springs, if at all possible. I hear only bad things about that area. Organic Lube User fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Welp, got laid off and unemployment is being lovely, and things are getting pretty desperate, so here's my shot: My current role: I was just laid off two months ago from working in the warehouse and doing deliveries for a marijuana edibles company that I was with for over 4 years. The industry is in a major downswing and is jettisoning employees. I was responsible for delivering product to dispensaries, tracking warehouse inventory, approving and picking orders, and producing spreadsheets designed to help with the backend work of all of that. I personally implemented changes to our order picking processes that allowed us to go from being able to assemble a puny 50 skus per employee per day, to each employee being able to handle 300 packages per day. However, this is not the industry I started out in, and I don't feel like I want to stay in it, so I'm looking to return to IT work. My experience: I started doing break/fix work in the mid 90s at mom-n-pop computer stores, which is the work I truly love doing. I was even in talks at one point to buy the business from one of my employers, but research revealed some shady accounting practices and I pulled out of the deal. Then I started doing more corporate and commercial deskside support, which evolved into help desk roles and eventually a couple of incident management roles, which i also enjoyed. However, some health emergencies in my family resulted in my having to leave the most recent incident management position, which is when I decided to give the cannabis industry a shot. My intent was to find a growing company and try to work my way into being their IT specialist, but in practice, every cannabis company is using managed service providers and could care less about handling IT in-house. I found an inventory management role that allowed me to still use a lot of my IT expertise to improve the efficiency of the position; I created spreadsheet dashboards to help upper management visualize the daily state of the company's inventory across several grow locations, implemented a web server to run an e-learning site (Moodle) to introduce training modules to new hires and reduce onboarding time and increase employee reliability. But, as I mentioned, I am not really looking to remain in this industry any longer. I feel like I need to return to my roots, even if that means having to suck it up and do entry level phone support jobs starting back out. I've got all sorts of remote work experience, starting from when I implemented VNC across a college campus back in 2001. I've dabbled in some form of remote access technology throughout my IT career. I've also done light web design, run my own web and mail server, and been a general jack-of-all-trades. Education I did a year of college just over 10 years ago and did great, but was again derailed by having to move away to care for a sick relative. So just High School Diploma for now. What I'm looking for: Ideally I'd like to be in a role which can be done remotely, as I'm a dad now and being able to work from home would be amazing for my family. So I'm fine with help desk work or any administrative work if it enables that. Otherwise I'm open to anything in the Denver, CO area. I love building, fixing, and upgrading computers, and I can run network cable as well. MSP work would be fine as well. What I'm NOT looking for: End user phone support. I feel like my days of talking to the average person on the street about their tech problems are over and done. I wanna help coworkers. Where I live: Denver, CO. Not really open to relocating, but I'll happily work remotely. When I can start: Yesterday. Requirements: $45k, benefits. Can be reached: Private message or reply.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Is there an advice thread for resume help type crap? Here ya go! There are probably a couple other threads that might be helpful in BFC beyond that one, as well, such as the Career Advice thread.
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Hotel Kpro posted:I can DM some stuff, though it would be with a large hospital group Whereabouts in the mountains? Is it a hospital group that recently split? If so, is it the Catholic side or nah?
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Hotel Kpro posted:St Anthony's Lakewood, St Anthony North, St Elizabeth, and Longmont. I didn't just fix a laptop for you a couple days ago did I? I was just out in Longmont. They got a nice museum in that hospital  Anyway, even knowing that healthcare IT is one of the circles of Hell, I'm interested if there are computer toucher positions open in any of those locations. Organic Lube User fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Hotel Kpro posted:That may have been with our local IT guy Mike. I've been showing up there every day for a few weeks now but haven't talked to him much and don't know how often local positions like that open up. Most of what's open in Colorado is remote or some kind of remote with paid travel to the various hospitals that you may be covering. I'm definitely open to that. I don't mind local travel, this is a beautiful state to drive through.
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Hotel Kpro posted:Hopefully you get something. I know things have been rough for IT lately I applied for two spots as well. I'm already spending most of my day driving from hospital to hospital fixing crap, may as well work directly for them (and get benefits). There's one place that has their maintenance guys doing their IT work. I felt so bad for the workers, they were just completely out of their element. They had to call me after I left cause they had no idea what to do with a bitlocker screen on a couple of their rolling charting machines. Letting an AI overhaul my resume seems to have kicked some things into gear, I've gotten a couple of nibbles from other places (but nothing from St. Anthony yet), which is way better than the one callback I got from several hundred applications previously.
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