Desktop Support Technician – University of Wisconsin, River Falls Computer Campus, River Falls, WI 01/2003-06/2003
- VHS to Quicktime to iMovie on Mac OS 10.2. tutorial.
- Sample DVD from camcorder footage of the University
- Dreamweaver 4.0 webpage help for students and build a webpage
- MPEG4 AVC DVD paper
- Store maintenance and janitorial work. Restock shelves and convenience machines.
Warehouse and Product Stocker – Circuit City, Woodbury, MN 10/2006-04/2007
I got a hold of the Vice President of Circuit City and got a job in woodbury. Stock items (Bluray, DVDs, CDs, computer hardware, batteries), empty totes, organizing, filling totes in warehouse for a while. They had a WoW guild made up of employees playing World of Warcraft at home. I wasn’t able to add employees to Facebook back then.
Data Entry Technician – PC Network Services, Stillwater, MN 05/2007-03/2008
I was a data entry technician in 2008 at PC Network Services. The CEO was Peter. Peter was an immigrant from Eastern Europe. He liked Soccer. His business closed in the great recession. He hired a company called Genius concultants for his CentOS server. I was reading off the Internet and did it wrong. He didn’t want Fedora Linux or Ubuntu linux to run a LAMP. Installed CentOS 5.0 (functioned well) Installed LAMP web server along with installation
Added categories and products to osCommerce eCommerce website which was online for the remainder until they wen out of business due to CEO decisions in 2008.
Pulatech
After I completed Rasmussen College in March 2015, I knew I wanted to be in Information Technology. In Hudson, I interviewed at Star Tech, Pulatech and had an internship. In Baldwin, I interviewed at Western Wisconsin Health and had a internship. Tiffany Upp at Star Tech interviewed me. Pulatech didn’t keep me employed after 3 months. At Pulatech, it was because a Chinese national went back home with data from Pulatech. I think it was stolen data. Pulatech has Indian developers in India. Pulatech moved to River Falls. Anyhow, Pulatech was owned by Geoffrey Lee, CEO, and he had a Batchlors degree in Economics. Geoffrey helped people through his church and volenteered my internship. Geoffrey liked to say the F bomb through snapchat video. He had two sons working there. One son ended up working at Best Buy Richfield for website programming. The other son is in the US airforce . Geoffreyliked the Minnesota Vikings. For job duties, I installed install Ubuntu Server 14.10.3 Apache, SAMBA server, OpenSSH Server. Then I createdUbuntu administrator accounts, redesign file for Gateway, Domain controller IP Addresses in Ubuntu. Third, I format and Install Windows 10 Enterprise. Fourth, I Format and Install Windows Server 2012 R2. Fifth, I login Ubuntu with Putty Sixth, I Login onto an old WatchGuard firewall through Firefox and print out profile settings for its replacement. Seventh, I had set the group policy drive letter for Netgear ReadyNAS. Eighth, I research how to do local active directory on Amazon web services. Ninth, I fixedand explain Epson workforce printer issues. Tenth, I vacuumed eDell Poweredge 2950 and aircan dust pc motherboards. Eleventh, I build cubical wall for workspaces. Twelth, I drill table into studs onto cubical walls . Thirteenth, I obtain files from password protected workstation from Kali Linux LiveDVD. Fourteenth, I type up an email tutorial for Windows, Android and iPad. Fifteenth, I used SugarCRM Community edition ( customer relationship management (CRM) system). Geoffrey Leegave me tough love for not placing the printer in the right part of the room. I had to move dividers for the tables from another room into the workplace.
Express Employment Services:
Then I went to Express Employment in New Richmond. I took at SAT test, and didn’t do well enough. They had a lot of factory jobs in St. Croix County or truck unloading temporay jobs at $13 hr. They said sometimes they do Information Technology.
Western Wisconsin Health
After 4 months, I was hired at Baldwin Area Medical Center for my second internship. I was a desktop support technician. I had to checking new Hewlett-Packard inkjet Printers via unpacking, print test page from Windows Server 2012 R2 (DHCP IP addresses) running in remote desktop, repacking them, and adding 'ok' label . Printers are sent to the new Baldwin hospital. Two out of the 50 printers did not work properly. Then I had to check pc source labeling in a registry book and then adding the destination to the source label with a sharpie. Checking them off in the register book. These PCs are sent to the room location in the new Baldwin hospital via a vendor. Third, I was adding printer ip address to Windows Server 2012 R2 and then typing name into printer settings. Forth, I was labeling RJ-45 cable boxes 1,3,6,10 for 1,3,6,10 feet cable. Fifth, I was addingnetwork hp printers to Windows 7, add printer as a local printer, and check off on list on a paper. Delete the unneeded network printer from printer and devices in Windows 7. Shut down printers and store printers back in a box. Write and search out pcs to add destination sticker onto the pcs such as Tinys, laptops and towers located throughout old hospital. Add network printers and add again as local printers in old hospital rooms.
Write labels for all the handheld scanners in the old hospital and then search out and place the label onto the scanners.
Write labels for all the handheld scanners in the old hospital and then search out and place the label onto the scanners.
Write labels for the most of the monitors than placed onto the monitors throughout the old hospital.
Alphabetize tiny pcs in boxes, because they were unsorted in the old hospital. Used Microsoft Excel 2010 to create a xlsx map chart containing PCs, printer and access point destinations in new hospital. I unpacked printers onto shelves in the new hospital. Unpacked LED monitors, tiny pcs, keyboards, clamps and made a neat workstation space. Then I used Putty and Telnet in a remote desktop session to access a Cisco switch to change ports for the VLAN in the new Baldwin hospital. Only one computer could access the Cisco catalyst 2960 switch and had to use remote desktop (old hospital pc).Write labels for the most of the monitors, pcs, scanners. I was kinda confused when I added tags to monitors and screens around the hospital.
My Three Best Buy Interviews
I bombed three Best Buy interviews at Oakdale. They were playing Daft Punk over the speaker. Discovery album during my first one and Random Access Memories during my last job. One job was for A+ technician. Other jobs were CSR. My time at Circuit City didn’t help me land the job. I think he told me I should work at a Best Buy warehouse first and then inter to CSR afterwards ultimately became my job at Laptop Chips in Roberts. I gave him my Youtube on the resume. I had my instagram and my college transcripts. I passed the CSR test three times.
WalMart CSR Tests
I passed Walmart CSR test twice in my life. Its kinda easy after you find out you do Absolutely Sure or Absolutely Not on all the answers with no Maybes Yes or Maybe No on multiple choice. I been the Walmart 100 times. I know their store is disorganized and they have rotating Management rotates. The only way to go to another Walmart is if you want to be in Management. After holiday and Circuit City, I ultimately decided Information Technology and no CSR.
Turnkey and Three Square Market interview.
This job was in River Falls, Wisconsin. I had a interview for phone customer service with Cindy Remington to sell money to vending machines in prisons. Three Square Market in River Fallswas in the news for microchipping people in their arm for life like chipping dogs. The unconstitutionality debate of chipping people like in Minority Report (2002 movie) got on Hannity on Fox News Channel. There was also a Network Administration job there that I filled out the application six times for. I only had phone interviews.
Computer Concierge interview
Computer Concierge was in downtown Hudson. I had an interview with Padraic Morton for a A+ technician in Hudson, Wisconsin. Padraic was gay. Padraic needed help with computer repair. I also tried to get into Digital Garage in Hudson for a interview. We met at a Starbucks for the interview. No luck. He found someone bettter, but Computer Concierge went bankrupt in 2018. The company was small. They had a business to repair Ipad and iphone screens.
Laptop Chips.
From August 2017 to February 2019 I was at Laptop Chips.
Search database printer using a Virtual private network of Best Buy. Unpack printers and configuring new Gateway, IP Address, Netmask, and host name on the printer. The label printed from the Laptop Chips Database. Placing labels from database onto the printers. Repacking Lexmark printers in boxes and placed in new stack.
Scanning Cisco switch + switch module and Cisco gateway serial numbers in Laptop Chips database and sorting them into boxes or stacks .
Testing used Lenovo monitors' LCD screens using Microsoft Paint, printing a shipping label from the Laptop Chips database, repacking monitors into boxes with bubble rap plus foam, and taping box up to be sent back to the Fortune 100 company.
Print out labels from Laptop Chips Internet database for monitors and printer.
Rap units of 8 motherboards into bubble rap and package three units in a cardboard box
Clean cash registers and bubble rap them in cardboard box
Using the google server bios, deactivating file system encryption, getting into raid configuration to reformat 8 hard drives in the raid 0.
Using air compressor to spray debris from a used keyboard so back to brand new. Also tested keyboards and cleaned them.
Deleting Cisco IOS, NVRAM, and other files off used switches and routers through Putty and the IOS terminal.
Clean up and print test page for used Zebra LP-2844Z using Microsoft Word
some pallet jack and dolly experience moving boxes on pallets
recycling gaylord cardboard.
In admin mode in laptop chips database, changing label data
Organizing mice, different types of cables, power supplies to be recycled
Organize 1000s of "pricer" price tags into boxes.
replace batteries for 100s of bar code scanners.
Dismantled the RAM, battery, heat sinks, CPU,; motherboard from several HP Proliant BL460 & Cisco UCS-B250 & HP Proliant DL380 servers ; reassembled the case.
printed label & stacked IBM receipt printers in gaylord
sort end-of-life Cisco AIR-CAP3602I-A-K9 in gaylords
printed label and stacked IBM receipt printers recycling gaylord cardboard.
Scanning Cisco switch + switch module and Cisco gateway serial numbers in Laptop Chips database and sorting them into boxes or stacks .
Testing used Lenovo monitors' LCD screens using Microsoft Paint, printing a shipping label from the Laptop Chips database, repacking monitors into boxes with bubble rap plus foam, and taping box up to be sent back to the Fortune 100 company.
Print out labels from Laptop Chips Internet database for monitors and printer.
Rap units of 8 motherboards into bubble rap and package three units in a cardboard box
Clean cash registers and bubble rap them in cardboard box
Using the google server bios, deactivating file system encryption, getting into raid configuration to reformat 8 hard drives in the raid 0.
Using air compressor to spray debris from a used keyboard so back to brand new. Also tested keyboards and cleaned them.
Deleting Cisco IOS, NVRAM, and other files off used switches and routers through Putty and the IOS terminal.
Clean up and print test page for used Zebra LP-2844Z using Microsoft Word
some pallet jack and dolly experience moving boxes on pallets
recycling gaylord cardboard.
In admin mode in laptop chips database, changing label data
Organizing mice, different types of cables, power supplies to be recycled
Organize 1000s of "pricer" price tags into boxes.
replace batteries for 100s of bar code scanners.
Dismantled the RAM, battery, heat sinks, CPU,; motherboard from several HP Proliant BL460 & Cisco UCS-B250 & HP Proliant DL380 servers ; reassembled the case.
printed label & stacked IBM receipt printers in gaylord
sort end-of-life Cisco AIR-CAP3602I-A-K9 in gaylords
printed label and stacked IBM receipt printers recycling gaylord cardboard.
In admin mode in laptop chips database, changing label data
Organizing mice, different types of cables, power supplies, keyboards, mice to be recycled
wrapping computer hardware on pallet with plastic wrap
adding stickers to boxes and moving pallets with a pallet jack from one side of the warehouse to the other.
Get rented out warehouse ready for its last day of rent. Lease on warehouse ended. New warehouse in Baldwin, Wisconsin somewhere.
Dave K. was nice. He hunted deer. He had a ATV. He was at Century college for 1 year. Dave prefered no music. He was running a project by Best Buy Aaron Foryste played death metal, and heavy metal in the 2ndwarehouse. Aaron went to the last rock concert in Somerset, Northern Invasion, to tape Tool. Aaron had an associate degree from WITC New Richmond. He was listening to Death (Death Metal) Metallica, Silpknot, Mastadon, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Korn. There was also some gangster rap and death metal channels off Spotify. I got to play my own music of Pandora. They also played Pandora and Tidal stations over the speaker. The employees were sometimes acting like children. The warehouse had boxes, computer hardware, pellot loader, and forklifts. Four of them were forklift qualified. Dave K. was 32. Josh was 34. Josh liked Heavy Metal too. In Roberts, there is nothing good going on. The McDonalds by the Flying J truck stop and the park and ride is a place for drug dealers and shady stuff. The warehouse was cold in the winter. There was no heating. Everybody was on Facebook and Instagram and I added them.
Best Buy Richfield downsized because of the retail apocalypse and I was laid off at 1 year 7 months from working there. It feels I was let go from age discriminationthat starts at 35 years old.
Interview with Fechel Shades with Todd Lochr in New Richmond, WI.
Todd wanted a graphic designer and he did Information Technology. His business was a Lamp Shade business in New Richmond. He wanted me to photograph lap shades and delete the background in Adobe Photoshop. I said I could do that with the Magic Lasso, but he wanted layers. He didn’t think I knew how to use Photoshop. I said I used Paintshop Pro for signatures for videogame message board forums.
2020
Moving to Mankato, Minnesota
