PotD – Fellow Grinch
December 31st, 2008 ryan
Not Pictured: 6″ of red ribbon consumed in the making of this fine portrait.
Beware of This and That
PotD – Assault
December 30th, 2008 ryan
PotD – Missile Base
December 28th, 2008 ryan
PotD – Uterus
December 19th, 2008 ryan
PotD – Sad Frog
December 17th, 2008 ryan
PotD – Tension
December 12th, 2008 ryan
We’ve been here before, only now my ropes are leaf-stained and sandbags frozen.
Here we go SLASH Who you know
December 10th, 2008 ryanSerious decisions are made on paper. It’s forever been the way I think critically, memorize, or take notes. As my favorite notebook appears to have fled production lines (no more wire bound graph paper!?) the crippling potential energy buzzing in my massive PRO/CON list of future options has gone white hot and a choice had to be made. Some smarm-ridden feedback and several cups of coffee later things have been simplified.
Seattle bitches.
Stating ambitions in a public forum is folly, especially given the lack of concrete plans thus far, but what the hell – it’ll provide the much needed motivation to NOT SUCK and get my shiz together. In Oct of 2006 plans were set in motion to head out that way but shifted Chicago-ward, 2 years later I’m done with this town and anxious for change.
My scant time on this earth has proven the power of who-you-know, hence the garbled word whoring. Previous job hunting was spent with a singular focus in a desired field. The jobs are there but not where I want them, so I’m ready to go back to tech support goon. Allow me to bullet my strengths alongside my partially-redacted RESUME.
Background – Military
- 3 years NetAdmin in the USMC split between normal civilian devices (2003 server, Cisco, XP) and all sorts of proprietary communications gear.
- All areas covered from digging ditches to server configuration to cabling to user support to hardware.
- Ran dual 24-hour help desks while managing a 7 man data shop for a total of 15 months in Iraq. Lots of mobile site support, field expedient troubleshooting.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, like answering to a fucking Colonel each week.
Background – Real World
- 2 years as sole IT Support in a law firm environment.
- Services were hosted/managed offsite so domain management was light, adding machines/accounts and modifying as necessary.
- Managed PBX/AUDIX for 30 users
- Gobs of user support with MS Office, XP, Blackberry/WinMobile, Citrix, Summation.
- Worked with vendors for anything IT related; supplies, new gear, software, AV, server room needs.
Weaknesses
- No college (1.5 years but pff)
- No certs (CCNA is likely up first once I get settled)
- No real formal training to fall back on, everything I learned was on-the-job training and trial by fire. So I have 5 years professional experience but no real server/cisco training, which makes technical interviews a real bitch.
While here’s hoping one of my DoD related contractor jobs will pan out I’m not holding my breath. It’s pretty easy to land a job in some outsourcing IT firm but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to throw up a digital flare here.
If you are in bed with sweet hookups and watch to share the love:
ryan atovitch autolyticzombie.com
You will have my gratitude, like the sloppy makeout kind.
Here we go.