Brandon Tanner
Longview, TX (USA)
OBJECTIVE
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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.
EXPERIENCE
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March 2008 - PresentGeneral Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Longview, TX USA
Position/Title
- Kaizen Agent
Sept 2007 - Sept 2008LeTourneau University: Information Technology Longview, TX USA
Position/Title
- Help Desk Technician
May 18, 2007 - August 18, 2007East Asia Opportunities Singapore, Republic of
Various programming tasks, phpDocumentor, shell scripting and writing lots of
documentation.
Position/Title
- IT Consultant
- PHP Programmer
- Technical Documentor
May 15, 2001 - July 15, 2006BEE 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.
Position/Title
- Web Programmer
- Network Administrator
- Research & Development
- Translation Team Coordinator
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.
Position/Title
- Linux Administrator
- PHP Programmer
- SQL Programmer
January 2000 - May 2000Protronics 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.
Position/Title
- Hardware Technician
June 1, 1998 - September 1, 1998TI/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.
Position/Title
- ASP Programmer
- SQL Programmer
SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS
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- Languages: PHP, C++, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, SQL, ASP, Cold
Fusion 4, VBA, Java and BASH. Experienced with OOP.
- Operating Systems: Linux (12 Years Experience with
Slackware), FreeBSD 5.0, Solaris 10 x86, QNX Neutrino, BeOS, Mac OS 8/9/X,
Windows (All Versions), DOS.
- Systems Administration: Linux, FreeBSD, NT4 Server and
Windows Server 2003 for Intel x86 architectures.
- Network Administration: Apache 1.x/2.x for Linux &
Win32, Active Directory for NT4/2003, dhcpd, MS-FTP, ProFTPd, IIS4/5,
BIND/DNS, NAT (ipchains/iptables) Firewalls, ILS (Netmeeting), Samba &
RDP/Terminal Services.
- Security Administration: Linux Firewalls/NAT with
ipchains/iptables, Nessus/Nmap.
- Other Software: AutoCAD, XFree86, MySQL, Microsoft Office,
OpenOffice, Paint Shop Pro, Various Video Editing.
EDUCATION & INTERESTS
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- Computer Science & Engineering Techology - LeTourneau University (2009)
- Learning different flavors of UNIX, Databases, System and Network Security,
Hardware, Programming, Linux, & Web Technologies. I also play a fair
amount of pocket billiards.
- 12 years working with computers!
References available upon request.