Brandon Tanner

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Updated: Oct 24, 2008


Longview, TX (USA)

OBJECTIVE

To find contract or part-time work that utilizes my full range of talents and skills, and provides a learning experience that can fulfill my appetite for knowledge in computers and/or electronics. Note: At this time I am not available for contract work.

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

EXPERIENCE

March 2008 - Present

General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies

Longview, TX USA

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Sept 2007 - Sept 2008

LeTourneau University: Information Technology

Longview, TX USA

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May 18, 2007 - August 18, 2007

East Asia Opportunities

Singapore, Republic of

Various programming tasks, phpDocumentor, shell scripting and writing lots of documentation.

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May 15, 2001 - July 15, 2006

BEE World - Internet Biblical Seminary

Monument, CO USA & Chiang Mai, Thailand

Responsible for the programming and database structure of the Internet Biblical Seminary. I worked as a php database programmer in creating a full fledged Internet Seminary using JavaScript, PHP 4, XHTML, CSS, and SQL with various database engines. In 2003 I managed the Network in the office, the Servers (both Server 2003 & Linux) and maintained the hardware of building and upgrading the office computers. As of July 2006, The new Internet Biblical Seminary has over 60,000 lines of PHP code and is being developed in over 13 written languages.

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May 2000 - May 2001

Texas A&M University - NPPET Network

Amarillo, TX USA

Responsible for all aspects of building a Linux MySQL Database Server to house weather data from over 15 weather stations across Texas. I assisted in creating a relational database server to accomodate the daily and hourly weather data that was uploaded to the server. I then wrote PHP scripts to query the database and produce graphs in various ways. Being the system administrator was also my job. This was my first job working with Linux (although I had been using Linux for years already), MySQL (relational RDBMS), PHP and Apache. I picked up some generic relational database design skills, expanded my knowledge of SQL and learned the PHP language.

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January 2000 - May 2000

Protronics

Amarillo, TX USA

Worked as a computer hardware tech building new PC's and upgrading old ones. Although the majority of my hardware knowledge came from building and maintaining my own PC's since I got my first computer. This was a part time job for me to learn all that I could from Chad Crooks (owner) who has been in the business of Computer Repair for over 15 years. I am familiar with all types of hardware for PC's and am fluent in x86 architectures.

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June 1, 1998 - September 1, 1998

TI/Micron - TECH Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd

Singapore, Republic of

Worked in the office of TI/Micron's semiconductor plant in Singapore during my junior year in high school at SAS. I created an intranet database with a web frontend to maintain and catalog the internal library of books. This is where I first became interested in database concepts and web based programming with ASP, ODBC and ANSI SQL.

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EDUCATION & INTERESTS

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