Tim Johnson

Houston, TX

currently: Job hunting

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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

A start-up company looking for a go-to IT support guy who can learn anything he needs to tackle any problem that comes up and make it go right.

Posted @ 05:10PM, December 26, 2007 by Tim Johnson | Permalink
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Work history

Freedom Technology Group April 2006 to September 2007
Support Analyst

How would you describe your time at Freedom Technology Group?

??? Provide remote support for a group of radiology offices in central Florida. This included setting up and maintaining Sonicwall VPN tunnels between offices and mobile to office connections; supporting MS Office and Outlook, XP and Win 2000 workstations, Win 2003 servers, Active directory, group policies, DNS and WINS.... read more
state farm September 1998 to May 2004
Technical Analyst

How would you describe your time at state farm?

*Troubleshot and oversaw the team troubleshooting of issues involving individual and multiple workstations and servers as third level support, covering a very large scale WAN. This covered IBM, HP and Compaq servers, workstations and printers.
*Conducted extensive research on some recurring
and long term workstation, server and network issues implementing short and long term solutions.
*Authored many technical reports, procedures and solutions for 1st and 2nd level helpdesk and the ticketing solution database.
*Supported rollout of NT 4.0, then later Win2000 and XP to nationwide network of agent offices with 17k servers and 54k workstations.
*Project lead for migrating a file replication system from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 on all 17k agency servers, utilizing the Robocopy utility.
*Created State Farm Intranet web page: Troubleshooting Methodology. A guideline for a more disciplined troubleshooting approach ??? made available to all levels of helpdesk support within State Farm.
... read more
Electronic Search May 1994 to September 1998
IS Analyst

How would you describe your time at Electronic Search?

*Responsible for planning and support of company software and hardware, including Servers and Workstations, LAN, Applications, Database, Phone Systems, Fax and Copy machines, Printers and Scanners.
*Set up and maintained NT 4.0 domain with Exchange, Proxy, Database and File servers.
*Managed
the help desk function, web/database development, and a small recruiting candidate research team.... read more

Education

Erie Community College August 1978 to May 1980
Communications Equipment Repair

How would you describe your time at Erie Community College?

Learned to repair electronic, video and broadcast equipment.

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