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Pitts, David & O'Brien, Dennis, Korn Shell Programming by Example, Que Publishing, 2001. (ISBN 0-78972-465-0).

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Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed (5th edition), Sams Publishing, 2000. (ISBN 0-67231-985-3).

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Pitts, David; Ball, William; & Goerzen, John, Linux Unleashed (4th edition), Sams Publishing, 1999. (ISBN 0-67231-688-9).

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Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed (4th edition), Sams Publishing, 1999. (ISBN 0-67231-689-7).

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Pitts, David & Ball, William, Red Hat Linux (v. 5.2) Unleashed (3rd edition), Sams Publishing, 1998. (ISBN 0-672-31410-x).

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Ball, William, (Pitts, David, inside cover credit), Using Linux, Que Publishing, 1998. (ISBN 0-78971-623-2).

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Moritsugu, Steve (Pitts, David, inside cover credit), Using Unix (2nd edition), Que Publishing, 1998. (ISBN 0-78971-632-1).

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Pitts, David et.al., Red Hat Linux Unleashed (2nd edition), Sams Publishing, 1997. (ISBN 0-672-31173-9).

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Bowen, Richard; O'Brien, Keven; Haddad, Christopher D.; Westguard, Mark; & Pitts, David, CGI Programming with Perl, Visual Basic & C, Sams Publishing, 1997. (ISBN 1-57521-241-2).

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PROFILE

CORPORATE TECHNICAL MANAGER: Seeking a strategic-level I.T. position, any industry, based on over 20 years of proven expertise with the Internet, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, and wireless communications.

I have over 20 years experience dealing with large distributed environments, resource and project management, staffing and source alternatives, and crisis response and recovery.

I have experience in overseeing and coordinating the support and delivery of highly available global I.T. infrastructure services and software engineering development services. I.T. infrastructure services include but are not limited to WAN, LAN, Data Center Operations, Desktop Support, and Server Administration. In addition, I have been responsible for managing I.T. application support and outsourced IT vendor relationships. I have managed a budget and staff which includes IT operations, hardware, software, and network (data and voice) management and application support engineering services. I have directed a staff of greater than 60 associates.

Levels of responsibility have included personnel management, where I currently manage 13 employees, and have managed as many as 40-60 direct reports; equipment management in excess of $30 million; data management in the terabytes of data; and application service providing to over 1/3 of the nation's high schools (over 6000 of approximately 17,600) as well as some of the biggest names in Collegiate Sports including the University of Kentucky, the University of Texas, Mississippi State, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the South Eastern Conference, Troy State, and Lincoln Financial Sports, just to name a few.

I possess a wide variety of technical expertise including programming, system administration, database design, web development, training, documentation, data warehousing, and facilities planning. I have designed, developed, and managed migration of 32 production support nodes over three 4-hour maintenance windows with a 100% success rate in a true 24/7 healthcare environment.

Vendor negotiations include increased bandwidth limits by 833% while increasing costs by 16% and utilizing cutting-edge technology to replace over $500,000 of recurring cost solutions with one requiring less than $40,000 of one-time costs. Network management with transmissions regularly exceeding 400Mbps and peaks above 1.8Gbps.

The author of 9 technical books, I hold a Bachelor's degree in English/Secondary Education from Asbury College and am currently enrolled in the University of Phoenix maintaining a 4.0 GPA while working on a Master's of Information Systems. Technical server experience includes Microsoft Server (NT, 2000, 2003), Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS/400 and Linux. Software experience includes Apache, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle, and Vignette. Programming languages include PHP, Perl, C, Visual Basic, and shell scripting.

I am ready to relocate and/or travel nationally.