Christopher D. Golden
31000 Bexley Drive
Bay Village, Ohio 44140
Phone: 440-263-5278
Email: chris@vtechs.net

QUALIFICATIONS
* Two Years Experience in Cisco Networking
* Advanced Knowledge in Microsoft Office (2000-2007)
* Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (CS, CS2 and CS3)
* Microsoft Windows Experience (all versions)
* Linux Experience (CLI and GUI - GNOME and KDE)
* Mac OS X Experience
* Perl / Python / PHP Experience
* MySQL / PostgreSQL Experience
* HTML / CSS / JavaScript Experience
* Visual Basic .NET Experience


AWARDS
* Placed in top 10 in State for "Web Application Team" at Business Professionals of America (BPA) State Leadership Conference 2007
* Placed 4th in Regionals for "Fundamentals of XHTML" at BPA Regionals Leadership 2007
* Chosen to attend advanced learning at Lakewood High School for course of Cisco Networking


EDUCATION
2003 - 2007     Bay High School
2005 - 2007     Lakewood High School (Cisco Networking)
2007 - Present     Lorain County Community College (Computer Science)


VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
* The Spirit of America Foundation Youth Education (2002-2003)
* Webmaster of North Central Ohio Building Official Association (2002-2005)
* Student Computer Technician, Bay High School for (2003-2006)
* Technical support for Poor Clare's Foundation Event (2007-2009)
* Webmaster of Project HERO (2007-2009)


EMPLOYMENT
2003-Present     Vortex Technology Networks (Owner)
                              - Linux Server Administrator
                                        - Maintain all user accounts
                                        - Regular Maintenance
                              - Web Developer
                                        - PHP, HTML, CSS, Java Script

2005-2009     Thomas & Thomas West Shore Studio, Bay Village Ohio
                              - Graphic Artist
                                        - Color Correction
                                        - Blemish Removal
                                        - Artistic Border and Layout Design
                              - Photographer
                                        - Sport Individual / Team Photographer
                                        - Candid Photographer
                                        - Wedding Photographer
                              - Information Technology
                                        - Manage 7 Windows XP Based Computers, 3 Windows 2000 Based Computers
                                        - Maintain and upgrade all systems
                                        - Maintain file-system architecture of 6TB worth of RAW Images

2009-Present     Hurricane Labs LLC, Independence Ohio
                              - Software Engineer
                                        - Write and maintain software in a variety of languages
                              - Systems and Network Administrator
                                        - Maintain critical systems


WORK SAMPLES
http://bpa2007.vtechs.net/ - "Web Application Team" entry in Ohio BPA State Leadership Conference (Joint work project) (HTML/PHP/MySQL)

http://www.ncoboa.org/ - North Central Ohio Building Official Association (Author of all back-end code on site) (HTML/PHP/MySQL)

http://www.vtechs.net/ - Vortex Technology Network (Author of all back-end code on site) (HTML/PHP/MySQL)

http://www.vstats.net/ - Vortex Stats (Author of all back-end code on site) (HTML/PHP/MySQL)


Cell Location:

Parma, OH, USA

Updated:
02-06-2012 22:42



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