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What IT position do you hold?

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Originally posted by: Chadder007
I wish we could get some LCDs in here.....we would but we have so many people that would fuss about "but they have a better monitor". So we don't even bother to order LCDs, and that is the only reason.
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Yeah, there's been some cubicle envy since I installed the new monitors. What's odd is that some of the envious people are using 19" flatscreen trinitrons.
 
System Administrator for a big computer company. I applied for their generic entry level IT guy position, was hired as a Lotus Notes developer, quickly decided that Lotus Notes development sucked, and started hanging out in the server room instead. The rest is history, or a living nightmare, or something 🙂
 
UNIX Sys Admin/Storage Admin

But I tell most of my relatives and neighbors if they as that I'm a "computer guy". Don't feel like breaking down what system administration is or what UNIX is.

Started as a computer operator out of college. Gradually moved my way up the ladder.
 
Systems Network Manager (that's the official title). The job includes running new drops for networking computers, troubleshooting and fixing systems (or calling them in when under warranty), writing accreditation packages, and of course I am also the facility custodian for the office area we occupy. I am about to attend ManTech's advanced ISSO course soon and after that I will complete the MCSE Server 2003 course before I retire in February 2006. I should be able to land a job after all that. Keeping fingers crossed.
 
Computer Programmer. I started as a contractor and was hired into a permanent position (the position was contract to hire).

Dave
 
my job title is "Computer Scientist."
i did well in school & wow'ed during the interviews, i guess.

i design data acquisition systems for the world's most powerful laser.
 
Originally posted by: Spamela
my job title is "Computer Scientist."
i did well in school & wow'ed during the interviews, i guess.

i design data acquisition systems for the world's most powerful laser.
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Where? You sound like a good candidate for an opening I saw here recently. JLAB

 
Co-op student in Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, because I have awesome bowstaff and interviewing skills 🙂
 
Previous Job: Software Developer
Current Job: Computer Systems Analyst (basically IT consulting, we do everything from large systems implementations to strategy planning, etc)

 
Previous Job: Software Test Lead
Current Job: System Specialist- one of my best friends helped me get the job after working for the Collective for 5 years *shudder*
 
Originally posted by: Megatomic
Originally posted by: Spamela
my job title is "Computer Scientist."
i did well in school & wow'ed during the interviews, i guess.

i design data acquisition systems for the world's most powerful laser.
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Where? You sound like a good candidate for an opening I saw here recently. JLAB
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here - i'm going to retire within a few years,
but thanks for the info.
 
Second Level "RX" Support Analyst (We support Walgreens Pharmacy Servers)

I worked as a pharmacy tech for 5 years
I worked in the Help Center for 3 years

I had some programming knowledge from High School and College (C, Fortran, Pascal, Basic)

I learned a Lot on my own since I was about 16 (Assembling and fixing boxes for people, playing with Linux, setting up my own server (webserver, ftpserver, dbserver), set up my own IP masq & firewall via ipchains and later iptables, Learned SQL, PHP, and html)

Then After I got this job, they sent mo to actual SQL and UNIX courses. I picked up a lot more about shell scripting, but the rest of the stuff was pretty remedial IMO. Now I write about 3 times as many korn shell scripts as anyone else in my department.

I've got an interview this Weds for a slightly better position, so hopefully I'll get it and continue wy upward climb.
 
Application Developer...but really more along the lines of a Programmer III with an addition of DBA and Systems Admin due to the fact they outsourced our systems support to a guy that lives 200 miles away and only comes down twice a month maybe...

landed job through a friend
 
"Programmer/Analyst II"
I write PL/SQL packages using the "Web Toolkit" to make dabase-driven web apps for the UC.
As a student I worked for a dept and did a little bit of PHP/MySQL programming. Word travelled up the ladder, so did I.
 
Senior Infrastructure Architect for a big bank. Business people come up with an idea and I figure out how to do it and lead the team of engineers to get it installed and working right. Got the job since I had good people/project management skills, 10+ years of network experience and a broad computing background.

- G
 
Just got my first full time job as a Consultant. From what I hear, it's more of a Software Engineering position than IT, which is good since I have less chance of being outsourced 🙂. I got it through the newspaper, but networking is the most powerful. Through my friends and my dad's friends, I had interviews with several different companies before settling with this one.

On that note, is 50k good for an entry level job?
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
well as of now me and a friend of mine have built computers for friends and i've also cleaned a few up that were loaded with spyware and viruses

is that really something i should put on a resume`?

it wasn't through any kind of company though
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You should put (towards the bottom of the resume, with your other qualifications) that you have _____ years of hands-on experience with workstation assembly and maintanence. It really depends on whether the job you are applying for has anything to do with computer assembly, though.
 
Technical Manager / Network Engineer

I basically work on Dedicated Internet (Frac T1 - OCXX internet connections) and NETVPN customers when the regular folks (NOC) cannot get them fixed. Very interesting work
 
I'm a mid-level network engineer at the largest colo center in Colorado Springs. It doesn't hold a candle to Denver's datacenters, but ours is pretty good. I got here by working up from the bottom -- radioshack, ibm internal support, gateway support, local ISP support -> local ISP network admin, now datacenter. Looking to be the lead network engineer sometime in the next 6-8 months.

I'm kind of diverisified, though, as I have Win2k/3 & *nix administration skills that I've picked up on the way. They're nice resume fillers (and landed me the job I have now), but eventually those will be worked out as the network engineering part becomes more predominant.

randal
 
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